Politics Aug 02 White House Releases an Inside View of the Debt Negotiations The White House released 20 photos Tuesday of the closed-door negotiations with Congressional leaders over the debt deal. President Obama signed the Budget Control Act of 2011 on Aug. 2.
World Mar 14 Explore Tsunami’s Aftermath in Japan Google Earth has published updated satellite images that show earthquake and tsunami damage in Japan. Explore these images and view related video and photos. Several of these images require the Google Earth plugin for your Web…
World Mar 11 View Live Aftershock Activity in Japan Aftershocks continue to rock cities across Japan after an 8.9-magnitude struck off the country's east coast. To see a live view of seismic activity in the region we created a Google Earth map, overlaid with…
Economy Sep 24 Art Collection Could Prove Shrewd Investment for Lehman Brothers Lehman Brother's extensive and diverse art collection is being auctioned off to help pay back creditors. Art world dealers suspect when the final bids are accepted for the world-renowned collection, the art could be worth $10 million.
World Sep 10 9 Years of ‘Unbuilding’ the World Trade Center in New York Sept. 11, 2010, marks nine years since terror attacks struck the Pentagon, Shanksville, Pa., and the twin towers of the World Trade Center in New York. This collection of aerial and satellite photos, taken from 1954 to 2009, reveal both…
Economy Aug 17 China’s War on Illegal Buildings In an effort to rid the country of unsafe, illegal and aging structures, the Chinese Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development plans to demolish more than half of the country’s residential buildings in the next 20 years. Illegal structures…
Science Jul 27 Coast Guard Photos of Newest Oil Leak Earlier Tuesday, a barge collided with an abandoned oil well in Barataria Bay, La., just north of an area already hit by oil from the Deepwater Horizon leak. The 20-foot gusher of oil and natural gas is…
Science Jul 16 Watch the Oil Leak Stop in High Speed In real time, it was difficult to see the exact moment that oil stopped flowing from BP's broken wellhead in the Gulf. So we built this time lapse video -- compressing three hours of our live stream into a…
Economy Nov 25 Jobs Claims Down, Hopeful Economic News on America’s Heaviest Travel Day The number of people seeking unemployment insurance for the first time fell to its lowest point since September 2008, the Labor Department reported Wednesday.
Health Oct 08 How Much Will the H1N1 Flu Cost the U.S.? Distribution centers around the country began receiving shipments of the much anticipated H1N1 flu vaccine this week. Those costs, as well as the economic blow of closed schools and lost productivity, could set back the fragile U.S. economy.