Oil nears Fla. beaches as BP tries risky cap move (AP)

June 2nd, 2010

Memorial crosses symbolizing what is lost due to the Deepwater Horizon oil rig explosion and oil spill stand in the front yard of a house in Grand Isle, La., Tuesday, June 1, 2010. 'This is breaking people,' property owner Patrick Shay, not pictured, said of the spill's effect on Grand Isle residents. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)AP - The BP oil slick drifted within striking distance of the Florida Panhandle’s white sand beaches for the first time, raising the stakes another notch as submersible robots made another risky attempt to control the underwater Gulf of Mexico gusher.


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BP tries again to curb oil spill as stock falls anew (Reuters)

June 2nd, 2010

Technicians use a robotic arm at the site of the Deepwater Horizon oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico in this video grab taken from a BP live video feed June 1, 2010. REUTERS/BP/HandoutReuters - BP Plc forged ahead with its latest effort to curb the flow of oil spewing into the Gulf of Mexico as the British energy giant’s shares fell anew on Wednesday and the U.S. government launched criminal and civil probes into the disaster.


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BP tries again to curb oil spill, stock falls anew (Reuters)

June 2nd, 2010

A substance is seen smeared on the sign of a BP gas station along Houston Street in New York June 1, 2010. REUTERS/Shannon StapletonReuters - BP Plc forged ahead with its latest effort to curb the flow of oil spewing into the Gulf of Mexico as the British energy giant’s shares fell anew on Wednesday and the U.S. government launched criminal and civil probes into the disaster.


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Victoria Principal donates to oil-spill cleanup (AP)

June 2nd, 2010

A Hermit crab is covered from globs of oil that washed up along the Gulf of Mexico coastline of Dauphin Island, Ala. on Tuesday, June 1, 2010. Red-brown oil is making its first appearance on the Alabama island near the mouth of Mobile Bay, three weeks after tar balls were found there. The national incident commander overseeing the response to the spill, on Tuesday described the spill as a series of patches rather than one continuous slick. Donald Williamson, director of the state Department of Public Health, said Alabama officials believe the oil at Dauphin Island is one of those patches. (AP Photo/Press-Register, John David Mercer)AP - As oil continues to pour into the Gulf of Mexico, Victoria Principal has stepped up with a $200,000 donation to help clean things up.


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Russian Soyuz returns from space station mission (Reuters)

June 2nd, 2010

Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronaut Soichi Noguchi smiles near fresh tomatoes floating freely in the Unity node of the International Space Station in this photo provided by NASA and taken May 16, 2010. REUTERS/NASA/HandoutReuters - A Russian Soyuz spacecraft containing an international trio of astronauts who oversaw the final assembly stage of a $100 billion space station landed safely on Kazakhstan’s steppe on Wednesday.


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The nation’s weather (AP)

June 2nd, 2010

AP - Severe weather was forecast to continue developing along a warm front tracking through the Midwest on Wednesday.

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Russian Soyuz Spacecraft Lands Safely with Station Crew (SPACE.com)

June 2nd, 2010

SPACE.com - A
Russian Soyuz spacecraft landed safely in Kazakhstan late Tuesday to return a
cosmonaut and two astronauts back home from the International Space Station
after nearly six months in space.

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Crews probe Guatemala sinkhole as neighbors flee (AP)

June 2nd, 2010

A sinkhole created by tropical storm Agatha covers a street intersection in dowtown of Guatemala City on Sunday, May 30, 2010. Torrential rains brought by the first tropical storm of the 2010 season pounded Central America and southern Mexico, triggering deadly landslides.(AP Photo/STR)AP - A cavernous and almost perfectly round sinkhole swallowed an entire intersection in Guatemala City during a tropical storm, spooking people in the neighborhood but exciting geologists.


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Military to Adopt NFL’s Instant Replay Technology (LiveScience.com)

June 2nd, 2010

LiveScience.com - The same video technology the NFL uses for instant replay during
football games could soon help monitor battlefields in Afghanistan.

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Long-Necked Dinosaurs Held Heads High (LiveScience.com)

June 2nd, 2010

LiveScience.com - The long necks of the largest dinosaurs that ever lived
might have been raised high after all, a new study now suggests.

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US presses Beijing on clean-energy market access (AP)

May 21st, 2010

U.S. Commerce Secretary Gary Locke, center, attends the ribbon-cutting ceremony for the United Family New Hope Oncology Center in Beijing, China, Friday, May 21, 2010. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)AP - Commerce Secretary Gary Locke pressed Beijing on Friday to give U.S. clean energy companies greater access to its market to help combat climate change.


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