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Environmental damages remain issue after BP deal

AP - U.S. News - Thu, 2025-05-22 23:16
NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- BP's settlement with plaintiffs suing the company over the 2010 oil spill disaster in the Gulf of Mexico may address harm to individuals and businesses, but there is nothing in it that compensates the public for damage to its natural resources and environment, the Justice Department said Saturday....
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Environmental damages remain issue after BP deal

AP - U.S. News - Thu, 2025-05-22 23:16
NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- BP's settlement with plaintiffs suing the company over the 2010 oil spill disaster in the Gulf of Mexico may address harm to individuals and businesses, but there is nothing in it that compensates the public for damage to its natural resources and environment, the Justice Department said Saturday....
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Environmental damages remain issue after BP deal

AP - U.S. News - Thu, 2025-05-22 23:16
NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- BP's settlement with plaintiffs suing the company over the 2010 oil spill disaster in the Gulf of Mexico may address harm to individuals and businesses, but there is nothing in it that compensates the public for damage to its natural resources and environment, the Justice Department said Saturday....
Categories: Associated Press, News, US

Environmental damages remain issue after BP deal

AP - U.S. News - Thu, 2025-05-22 23:16
NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- BP's settlement with plaintiffs suing the company over the 2010 oil spill disaster in the Gulf of Mexico may address harm to individuals and businesses, but there is nothing in it that compensates the public for damage to its natural resources and environment, the Justice Department said Saturday....
Categories: Associated Press, News, US

Poland suffers deadly train crash

BBC - News - Thu, 2025-05-22 23:16
Two trains collide on the Warsaw-Krakow mainline in southern Poland, leaving 16 people dead and about 58 injured, local officials say.
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Ballymena face ejection from cup

BBC - News - Thu, 2025-05-22 23:16
Ballymena United are likely to be thrown out of the Irish Cup amid eligibility doubts over striker Alan Davidson.
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'We're sort of a tornado magnet'

CNN - Top Stories - Thu, 2025-05-22 23:16
In 1974, a series of powerful tornadoes whipped through Alabama and devastated a small town called Harvest.
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Obama calls on lawmakers to end gridlock

AP - Politics - Thu, 2025-05-22 23:16
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama is calling on Congress to end partisan gridlock and pass proposals he says would put Americans back to work....

Obama to campaign in Iowa, promote energy plan

AP - Politics - Thu, 2025-05-22 23:16
SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) -- As President Barack Obama readies for a return to the Iowa State Fairgrounds, his campaign is reminding voters that it was in that same spot where Republican rival Mitt Romney declared last year that "corporations are people."...

Obama signs bill reauthorizing Export-Import Bank

AP - Politics - Thu, 2025-05-22 23:16
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama has signed legislation that renews the charter of the Export-Import Bank for three years and increases the bank's lending cap to $140 billion from the current $100 billion. The bank is the government's vehicle for promoting U.S. export sales....

Muslim Brotherhood forms political party in Libya

AP - World News - Thu, 2025-05-22 23:16
TRIPOLI, Libya (AP) -- The Muslim Brotherhood in Libya announced on Saturday that it has formed a political party after six decades in the shadows of dictator Moammar Gadhafi's regime....

Libya bans religious political parties

AP - World News - Thu, 2025-05-22 23:16
TRIPOLI, Libya (AP) -- Libya's ruling National Transitional Council issued a new law Wednesday that bans parties based on religious principles, the council spokesman said. The surprise move was denounced by Islamists organizing to compete in upcoming elections....

Muslim Brotherhood forms political party in Libya

AP - World News - Thu, 2025-05-22 23:16
TRIPOLI, Libya (AP) -- The Muslim Brotherhood in Libya announced on Saturday that it has formed a political party after six decades in the shadows of dictator Moammar Gadhafi's regime....

Libyan militia takes control of Tripoli airport

AP - World News - Thu, 2025-05-22 23:16
TRIPOLI, Libya (AP) -- A group of disgruntled militiamen took over the country's main airport on Monday, storming it with heavy machine guns and armored vehicles and forcing airport authorities to divert flights, a security official said....

House fire in northeast Ohio kills 4; no survivors

AP - U.S. News - Thu, 2025-05-22 23:16
WARREN, Ohio (AP) -- A man, woman and two girls died Saturday in a house fire in northeast Ohio, fire officials said....
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House fire in northeast Ohio kills 4; no survivors

AP - U.S. News - Thu, 2025-05-22 23:16
WARREN, Ohio (AP) -- A man, woman and two girls died Saturday in a house fire in northeast Ohio, fire officials said....
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AP Sources: CIA-led force may speed Afghan exit

AP - U.S. News - Thu, 2025-05-22 23:16
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Top Pentagon officials are considering putting elite special operations troops under CIA control in Afghanistan after 2014, just as they were during last year's raid on Osama bin Laden's compound in Pakistan, sources told The Associated Press....
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Iran trumps Palestinians as top US-Israel issue

AP - U.S. News - Thu, 2025-05-22 23:16
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Peace talks with the Palestinians dominated President Barack Obama's meeting last year with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu but will barely warrant a mention at their White House session Monday or in speeches to a powerful pro-Israeli lobby. Iran is now the issue commanding urgent attention....
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Arrests in Greek antiquities ring

BBC - News - Thu, 2025-05-22 23:16
Police in northern and central Greece arrest 35 people suspected of smuggling antiquities and recover thousands of artefacts.
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