Tests beginning Wednesday night will determine whether BP can shut the well entirely. The watchword of the latest effort to stem the Gulf oil spill gusher is patience.
A white House report released Wednesday said the stimulus plan has saved or created as many as 3.6 million jobs. But polls show Americans are skeptical.
An investigation is focusing on a series of fund-raisers last December, in the days immediately before the House’s initial adoption of a financial overhaul.
AP - BP allayed last-minute government fears of making the disaster worse and started trying to slowly choke off the flow of oil into the Gulf of Mexico Wednesday, in the hope of finally stopping the leak.
AP - Facing criticism from House Democrats, President Barack Obama promised their leaders Wednesday night that he'll actively support their agenda and Democratic lawmakers as they head into tough midterm elections this fall, according to a congressional leadership aide.
AP - American forces suffered a deadly 24 hours in Afghanistan, with eight troops killed in attacks including an audacious Taliban raid on a police compound in the key southern city of Kandahar, officials said Wednesday.
The mammoth battle for Kandahar will test soldiers' basic fighting skills by combining tactics learned from the trenches in World War I, the close-quarter fighting of World War II, the jungle-like conditions in Vietnam and the urban warfare of Iraq.
The CIA has lost one of its most valued former spies. Iranian nuclear scientist Shahram Amiri, who defected to the US, is now on his way back home to Tehran after a very messy and public re-defection. ABC News obtained exclusive photos of Amiri leaving Washington's Dulles International Airport late Tuesday night on a commercial flight to Doha, Qatar, en route to Iran.
In an effort to make children safer while they sleep, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission has voted in favor of new proposed mandatory standards for cribs.
The U.S. government has told BP to proceed with an "integrity" test on its crippled Gulf of Mexico oil well, and BP has begun some initial moves in that direction.
Six months after a devastating quake struck Haiti, most governments that promised money to help with rebuilding have delivered no funds, a CNN investigation found.
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