A Kansas man says he's the 'mystery plumber' who influenced the BP containment cap design that stopped the Gulf oil spill leak. BP says Joe Caldart's sketch may have been one of many it's used.
President Obama's election spread a balm on America's racial divides. But judging by the flap between the NAACP and the ‘tea party’ movement, its effects were short-lived.
As the White House begins to enact the new national health care law, the biggest insurers are promoting plans with lower premiums that allow fewer doctors and hospitals.
Every oil spill is different, but the thread that unites some major ones is a growing scientific awareness of the persistent damage that spills can do.
Officials extended a test of BP’s blown-out well for an additional 24 hours, after two days of testing showed no signs of damage in the 13,000-foot-deep hole in the Gulf of Mexico.
AP - Scientists got an extra day to evaluate whether the giant cork bottling BP's busted well in the Gulf of Mexico will hold, while officials overseeing the disaster pondered their next step.
AP - U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton has arrived in Pakistan at the start of a tour of South Asia aimed at refining the goals of the nearly 9-year-old war in Afghanistan.
AP - Federal authorities arrested a fugitive alleged drug kingpin Saturday after a decade-long chase through the Caribbean marked by his narrow escapes and public taunting that he paid off police to remain free.
Yuan Qingpeng says the Chinese who have become rich under the economic reform movement in China are worried. They're worried their spoiled kids won't know how to hang on to the loot. "Their ability to endure hardship and put things into practice is less than the first generation," Yuan says of the children of the rags-to-riches pioneers who have transformed China's once-moribund business landscape. That's where his Beijing Business Management Scientific Research Institute comes in. The institute is among several that offer training courses to groom heirs of the super-rich, known here as the "wealthy second generation," in the ways of their class.
Alleged drug kingpin Jose David Figueroa-Agosto, described as the most-wanted fugitive in the Caribbean, was arrested Saturday in San Juan, Puerto Rico, according to the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration.
A man was killed Saturday during a confrontation with Bay Area Rapid Transit officers and Oakland police. It comes more than a week after an ex-BART officer was convicted in a 2009 fatal shooting.
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