Science May 12 White House Seeks to Raise Oil Companies’ Liability Cap With costs mounting in the effort to contain the Gulf Coast oil leak, the Obama administration said Wednesday it will move to raise the cap on damages that the government can collect from oil companies during a spill. Administration officials…
Science May 11 Tuesday: Oil Rig Companies to Face Questioning; Karzai Visits White House Two oil booms surround one of the New Harbor Islands in the Gulf of Mexico. Photo by Mark Ralston/AFP/Getty Images. Executives from the three companies tied to the Gulf Coast oil spill head to Capitol Hill on Tuesday. Lawmakers from…
Arts May 10 Obama’s Second Supreme Court Nominee: Who is Elena Kagan? _pap_embed_custom('news01s3f54qe9c',482,304,""); President Obama has nominated U.S. Solicitor General Elena Kagan to become the 112th justice on the Supreme Court. During an East Room ceremony on Monday, President Obama described Kagan "as one of the nation's foremost legal minds," and called…
Politics May 10 Monday: Obama to Pick Kagan for Supreme Court; Setbacks in Gulf Spill Former Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, left, gets the attention of Solicitor General Elena Kagan at a 2009 forum at Georgetown University Law Center. Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images. President Barack Obama on Monday is expected to nominate…
Science Apr 29 White House Promises Aggressive Response to Gulf Oil Spill A boat makes its way through a vast oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico on April 28. (Photo by Chris Graythen/Getty Images). More images below. As a massive oil slick in the Gulf of Mexico creeps to within a…
Politics Apr 15 Thursday: Tax Day; Obama to Outline Space Plan; Benjamin Hooks Dies at 85 Felipe Castro advertises tax preparation services in Miami. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images.) It's April 15, which means, of course, it's tax day. The Big Money marks the occasion with a look at the five worst parts of…
Arts Apr 14 Conversation: Pulitzer Prize Winners in Drama, Tom Kitt and Brian Yorkey of ‘Next to Normal’ Bipolar disorder and the emotional toll mental illness takes on a family are not standard fare for Broadway musicals, let alone Broadway hits. But that is the subject of "Next to Normal" which has managed to draw both commercial and…
Arts Apr 09 Conversation: Musician Brad Mehldau On his latest album, pianist Brad Mehldau takes listeners on a journey where each track become like stops on a road trip. A mix of jazz, classical and pop, the double-disc release, "Highway Rider," was a collaboration with producer Jon…