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 NEW ORLEANS — BP finally gained control over one of America's biggest environmental catastrophes by placing a carefully fitted cap over a runaway geyser that has been gushing crude into the Gulf of Mexico since early spring. Engineers, politicians and Gulf residents will watch anxiously over the next day and a half to see if it holds.
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The Virginia man who warned on a radical Islamic website that the creators of the cartoon series "South Park" will be targeted for death for their caricature of the Prophet Muhammad has been arrested on charges that he provided material support to the terrorist organization Al-Shabab, federal officials said Wednesday. July 22, 2010 |
 WASHINGTON — After nearly a decade of rapid increases in military spending, the Pentagon is facing intensifying political and economic pressures to restrain its budget, setting up the first serious debate since the terrorist attacks of 2001 about the size and cost of the armed services.
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 (CNN) -- A whistle-blower website has published what it says are more than 90,000 United States military and diplomatic reports about Afghanistan filed between 2004 and January of this year.
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Airplane Crash in Pakistan Kills All 152 People on Board, Including 2 Americans
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 BEIJING — Rescuers armed with little more than shovels searched on Monday for hundreds of people after a torrent of mud engulfed a northwestern Chinese town, tearing down homes, filling the streets with sludge and killing at least 127.
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 (CNN) -- Authorities have "pulled out all the stops" to find the last of three escaped Arizona convicts and his suspected accomplice Tuesday, and believe the couple may be in western Montana or southwestern Canada, a federal law enforcement official said.
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 WASHINGTON — A rapidly expanding illegal immigration enforcement program has led to the deportation of 47,000 people over 18 months when the Homeland Security Department was sifting through millions of fingerprints taken at local jail bookings.
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 WASHINGTON—The Pentagon voiced alarm over China's military buildup, saying it was expanding its advantage over Taiwan and investing heavily in ballistic and cruise missile capabilities that could one day pose a challenge to U.S. dominance in the western Pacific.
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 McKinney, TEXAS — A 29-year-old man towed a trailer full of explosives into a suburban Dallas police station's parking lot on Tuesday, then set fire to his pickup truck and began shooting at the building in an apparent attempt to lure people outside to kill them, authorities said.
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Safety concerns earlier raised about runway where Chinese passenger jet crashed, killing 42
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 Nahuala, Guatemala (CNN) -- Officials say about 40 people were buried in two landslides here. Four of them were Carlos Coti's family members.
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 NEW ORLEANS-- Oil giant BP PLC said in an internal report released Wednesday before a key piece of evidence has been analyzed that multiple companies
September 8, 2010 and work teams contributed to the massive Gulf of Mexico spill that fouled waters and shorelines for months. |
More than 27,000 abandoned oil and gas wells lurk in the hard rock beneath the Gulf of Mexico, an environmental minefield that has been ignored for decades. No one -- not industry, not government -- is checking to see if they are leaking, an Associated Press investigation shows.
VIENNA — The biggest spy swap since the end of the Cold War was completed Friday as Russia and the United States exchanged a total of 14 agents.
KAMPALA, Uganda — An al-Qaida-linked Somali militant group claimed responsibility Monday for twin bombings in Uganda that killed 74 people watching the World Cup final on TV, saying the militants would carry out attacks "against our enemy" wherever they are.
ALBUQUERQUE -- A gunman opened fire at a fiber-optics company Monday, killing two people and wounding four before turning the gun on himself.
(CNN) -- Eighteen people were killed and 57 others are missing as Tropical Storm Conson moved over the Philippines, the country's National Disaster Coordinating Council reported Wednesday.
(CNN) -- An explosion and fire at a U.S. Steel plant in Clairton, Pennsylvania, Wednesday injured at least 15 people, an Allegheny County Emergency Management spokesman told CNN.
CALCUTTA, India — A speeding express train plowed into a stationary passenger train in eastern India on Monday, killing 61 people in a crash so powerful it sent the roof of one car flying onto an overpass. Officials said they could not rule out sabotage.
(CNN) -- U.S. National Guard forces will begin deploying along the U.S. border with Mexico in August and will be fully trained and deployed by the end of the month, government officials announced Monday.
ROSTOV-ON-DON, Russia — Two carloads of assailants attacked a hydroelectric station in southern Russia early Wednesday, killing two workers and setting off bombs.
ISLAMABAD — A passenger jet crashed into the hills surrounding Pakistan's capital amid poor weather Wednesday, killing all 152 people on board and blazing a path of devastation strewn with body parts and twisted metal wreckage.
Phoenix, Arizona (CNN) -- Parts of an Arizona immigration law take effect Thursday after a federal judge blocked several of its most controversial aspects.
As government prepares for debate in the fall over the fiscal year 2011 defense budget, some observers believe that a Washington tradition – an annual budget slugfest over the Air Force’s hefty C-17 Globemaster III strategic airlifter – won’t happen this year.
KABUL, Afghanistan — Three U.S. service members were killed in blasts in Afghanistan, bringing the toll for July to at least 63 and making it the deadliest month for American forces in the nearly 9-year-war.
(CNN) -- Authorities are searching for two of three convicted killers who escaped from an Arizona prison, corrections officials said early Monday.
KARACHI, Pakistan — At least 45 people were killed overnight in Pakistan's commercial hub of Karachi after a member of the dominant political party in the city was shot dead, police said on Tuesday.
Federal prosecutors in Chicago, Illinois, have charged a man with trying to provide support for two terrorist organizations – al Qaeda and al Shabaab. There was also an additional charge that was related to weapons of mass destruction, according to a number of different reports.
JACKSON, Miss. -- This heat wave isn't just stifling -- it's deadly.
FLINT, Mich. — A man suspected in a series of stabbings in Virginia and Michigan that resulted in at least 20 attacks and five deaths was arrested at the Atlanta airport as he tried to board a plane bound for Israel.
MOSCOW — Russia said on Friday it will begin loading nuclear fuel into the reactor of Iran's first atomic power station in about one week, an irreversible step marking the start-up of the Bushehr plant after nearly 40 years of delays.
LUCERNE VALLEY, California -- The crowd at the off-road race could almost touch the trucks as they hurtled and bounced over the desert sand. They were close enough for one mistake to end eight lives.
GHAZI AIR BASE, Pakistan (AP) — The world ramped up assistance to flood-ravaged Pakistan on Thursday three weeks after the crisis began, and U.S. Sen. John Kerry said Washington did not want Islamist extremists to come out of the disaster stronger.
Escaped inmate John McCluskey and his fiancée-cousin Casslyn Welch were captured Thursday at a northeast Arizona campground after an alert forest ranger spotted the couple, along with their stolen vehicle hidden in the trees.
MOGADISHU, Somalia -- A suicide bomber and gunmen wearing military uniforms attacked a hotel near Somalia's presidential palace Monday, sparking a running gun battle with security forces. At least 32 people were killed, including six Somali parliamentarians.
The Pakistani Taliban are planning to attack foreigners assisting in the aftermath of devastating floods in the country, a senior U.S. official warned Wednesday.
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BRATISLAVA, Slovakia -- A gunman has killed six people and injured at least 14 others in suburban Bratislava, the Slovak news agency reported Monday.
Dutch investigators on Tuesday questioned two Detroit-area men arrested at Amsterdam's airport after U.S. authorities found suspicious items in their checked luggage, including a cell phone taped to a Pepto-Bismol bottle and a knife and box cutter.
MIAMI — A 70-year-old scientist sparked a bomb scare at Miami airport Thursday night when screeners found a metal canister in his luggage that looked like a pipe bomb, a government official said. MIAMI — A 70-year-old scientist sparked a bomb scare at Miami airport Thursday night when screeners found a metal canister in his luggage that looked like a pipe bomb, a government official said.