Jul 13 Oil Spill, Day 84: The Cap Comes Down By Chris Amico BP locked down its new sealing cap -- "the 3 ram stack" -- around 7 p.m. CST last night and a new container ship connected to the ruptured Deepwater Horizon well an hour later, raising hopes that more oil --… Continue reading
Jul 13 Tuesday: BP Tests New Cap; Cuba Frees 7 Political Prisoners; Steinbrenner Dies By Tom LeGro BP on Tuesday will begin testing the new, tight-fitting cap on top of the leaking well in the Gulf of Mexico to see if it will hold and stop oil from spilling for the first time in nearly… Continue reading
Jul 12 Oil Spill Update: Anticipation Grows That New Efforts Will Stem Flow By Chris Amico Oil flowed nearly-unabated from the Deepwater Horizon's well Sunday as BP worked to replace its containment dome that had helped funnel oil to a container ship on the surface for more than a month. That new dome could let BP… Continue reading
Jul 12 Watch BP Works to Install New Cap on Broken Oil Well The Obama administration is pushing for a revised offshore drilling moratorium as a new containment cap is installed on a leaking oil well in the Gulf. Continue watching
Jul 09 Oil Spill Takes Emotional Toll on Gulf Residents By Betty Ann Bowser Citing the "unprecedented" nature of the BP oil spill disaster, federal and state medical officials expressed concern Friday about what they see as mounting mental health issues that people in the Gulf states are facing. Public health… Continue reading
Jul 09 Oil Spill Update, Day 80: BP Readies New Top Hat By Chris Amico BP is hoping a window of calm weather will give it time to swap out containment domes over the ruptured Deepwater Horizon well in the Gulf of Mexico. According to The Washington Post: The company plans to change… Continue reading
Jul 09 Friday: U.S., Russia Swap Spies; BP Devises Backup Plan for Well Unidentified officials stand near the planes at Vienna airport presumed to be carrying the spies being swapped by the United States and Russia. Photo by Dieter Nagl/AFP/Getty Images. The United States and Russia completed the largest spy swap since… Continue reading
Jul 08 Solar Power Takes to the Skies With 26-Hour Flight By Lauren Knapp An experimental plane powered only by solar energy completed 26 hours of non-stop flying over Switzerland Thursday. The Rundown took a look at the feat and asked for some reactions to the Solar Impulse test flight from around… Continue reading
Jul 08 Watch Scientists Turn to Microscopic Bacteria for Help With Spreading Oil As the large amounts of oil continue to foul the Gulf of Mexico, scientists have begun using microbes to help clean affected marshlands. Tom Bearden reports. Continue watching
Jul 08 Thursday: Reports of Possible Spy Swap; Terror Arrests in Norway A Russian officer guards an entrance to Lefortovo prison in Moscow on Thursday. Photo by Alexey Sazonov/AFP/Getty Images. Armored vehicles arrived Thursday morning at a Moscow prison in preparation for what could be the largest spy swap with the… Continue reading