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May 29, 2010
• Stopping the Oil Gusher; President Obama Facing Criticism About Handling of Oil Spill; A Conversation with CNN's Founder
• BP Sham, Workers' Accusations; Oil Spill Solutions
• Awaiting "Top Kill" Results; Spewing Oil, Venting Blame


May 28, 2010
• Top Kill Maneuver: 'Some Success,' No Solution; Critics Say President Obama Not Doing Enough Regarding Oil Spill; Oil Workers Getting Sick
• Boat Captain: Fishing at a Halt in the Gulf; Business Owners: BP Not Paying Enough for Lost Work; Oil Spill Killing Wildlife
• President Obama Assessing Damage on Gulf Coast; Top Kill Details are Stock Market Sensitive; Sisters in Service; Plane Snooze Leads to Lawsuit; More Changes at Facebook; Managing Your Money; Job Offer for Rep. Sestak
• President Obama Travels to Gulf; Demanding BP Pay Up; Job Offer for Joe Sestak; Interval Training Cuts Down on Time, Increases Calorie Burn
• Obama Heads to Gulf to Assess Damage Being Done, Assure Action Being Taken; Congress Taking Action to Repeal "Don't Ask, Don't Tell"; Gunman Storm 2 Mosques in Pakistan; Father of BP Oil Rig Blast Victim Discusses Son's Life, Congressional Testimony on Accident
• Touring Louisiana's Damage; Building Walls of Sand; Legal Claims Adding Up; South Korea Seeks Support from China; iPad Goes Global With Worldwide Launch Today; Gunmen Attack Mosques in Pakistan; ; Sex and the (Other) City


May 27, 2010
• 24 Hours of Top Kill; Making Surfboards Out of Dust; South Korea's Show of Force; 2010 Geography Bee Champion; New Life For Things You Toss; Obama's Oil Comments; How Deep is Deepwater?
• Barack Obama Addresses Gulf Oil Spill
• How Much Oil Has Spilled From Disaster?; Critics of Oil Cleanup: Call in the Military; Oil Coats Wildlife; Update on Government Response to Gulf Oil Crisis; Top Kill Maneuver Under Way
• Awaiting Word on Top Kill; Minerals Management Service Director Fired; Violence Eases in Jamaica's Capital
• Assessing the Oil Threat as it Affects Animals, Environment; Obama to Announce New Oil Drilling Safety Regulations; Scientists Announce New Higher Rate of Oil Spilling Into Gulf; House Committee Looking Into Recalls of McNeil OTC Medicines
• Awaiting Top Kill Results; Stew of Oil in Gulf and Dead Wildlife; Workers Getting Sick from Spill; Reputed Drug Lord Still at Large; Spill Felt Far Inland at Restaurants; Jokes Gush at BP's Expense; Tracking Illegal Immigrants & Crime; Star Swallowing Planet


May 26, 2010
• Feds OK Attempt to Plug Oil Leak; Debt & Recovery; 'Top Kill' Operation Begins
• BP Prepares to Try Another Technique to Stop Leak; How Much will Oil Leak Cleanup Cost; Jamaican Police Search for Alleged Kingpin; Policing Mexican Border; Tylenol Recall
• The View From the Gulf of Mexico; BP Deciding on Top Kill Maneuver; High Anxiety on Korean Peninsula; Learning from Valdez Spill; Charting the Spread of the Spill; Coast Guard Greenlights Top Kill; Boycotts Target BP; Web Privacy and Time Wasters
• BP Deciding on 'Top Kill' Maneuver; How 'Top Kill' is Supposed to Work; Final Space Flight for Atlantis
• BP Prepares For Top Kill; Anger Swells in Gulf Region; Doctors Continue Work in Haiti
• BP CEO Says Spill Caused by Series of Failures; Top Kill Challenges; FDA Investigating Tylenol Recalls; Old Memo Suggests BP Cheaped Out on Safety; Troops-to-Border Plan Gets Pushback; Oil Could Spoil Gulf for Years


May 25, 2010
• BP Pays $27 Million to Gulf Coast Workers; BP May Cut off Video Feed; Inner-City Boarding School; National Missing Children's Day: How to Protect Our Kids; Obama in San Francisco, Friday Back to Gulf; Facebook Changes Privacy Settings
• BP to Try Top Kill Method to Stop Leak; Gulf Fishermen Fear the Worst; Stocks Take Another Dip; Small Plane Crashes Outside Toronto; Troops Clashing With Supporters of Alleged Kingpin in Jamaica; Parliament Formally Opened; Violence and Rubber Bullets in Haiti at Demonstration; Pentagon Investigating Behavior of 10 U.S. Soldiers in Afghanistan
• Stocks in Tailspin; Outrage Along Gulf Coast; Suing BP Over Oily Gulf; Tourism Ad Sparks Anger; Government's Response to Oil Leak
• Gulf Gusher: Day 36; Fishermen Frustrated With Oil Cleanup Progress; President Obama & Small Business; Change of Command at U.S. Coast Guard; Drake University's Women's Basketball Coach Making a Difference for Children in Haiti
• Life After the Spill; BP Cuts Checks for Lost Wages; Is the School Your Diploma is From Worth the Debt to Get it?; Pigging Out in America: The Role of Restaurants in the Fattening of Americans
• New Green Auto Jobs for Detroit; Former Detroit Mayor Faces Prison Time; DOW Drops at Open; Students Wear KKK Robes at School; Options to Stop the Oil Flow


May 24, 2010
• 35 Days & Still Gushing; U.S. History Textbook War; Drug Related Violence in Jamaica; Sitting Down With Dr. Maya Angelou; Facebook Admits to Mistakes; Bittersweet Birthday Wishes to AOL
• AOL Celebrates 25th Birthday; Update on Gulf Oil Spill; Homeowners Walking Away from Mortgages
• The Oil Beneath the Surface; Facebook's New Privacy Controls; Survivor Recalls Air India Crash
• Upbeat Picture of Economy; BP 'Best Suited' to Handle Oil Disaster; Sarah Ferguson in Tabloid Sting; Lindsey Lohan's Day in Court
• Tensions Rising Between North and South Korea; Gun Battles Take Over the Streets in Jamaica; BP Hoping to Smother Gushing Oil Spill; Two American Tourists Kidnapped in Yemen
• Close-up View of Gulf Contamination; U.S. Backs South Korea; $700,000 Plus to Meet Prince Andrew ;Search For Recorder in India Air Crash; BP Readies "Top Kill" Plan; Arizona Cracks Down on Teacher Accents; Hoops Help Haitians be Kids Again


May 23, 2010
• BP Preparing to Attempt "Top Kill" on Well; Investigating the Air India Crash; Korean Peninsula Tensions; American-born Muslim Cleric Warns Future Attacks Against American Citizens; Royal Sales Pitch; Extreme Bullying & Kid Violence; Key Week in Oil Leak Battle; Helping the Autistic to Communicate
• Key Week in Oil Leak Battle; U.S. Faces New Terror Threat; Helping the Autistic Communicate; L.A. School Enjoys Success; Rash of Extreme Bullying and Kid Violence
• Political Pressure Builds Over Oil Spill; Air India Crash Survivor Tells Her Story; Radical Cleric Threatens Violence; CNN Viewers Offer Oil Leak Fix Ideas; Sarah Ferguson Caught on Tape Asking for Bribe; Cyclist Landis Admits Drug Use
• Panama City's New Airport; Abu Dhabi Group Helps With BP Spill; Al Awlaki Speaks in Video; President Obama to Dine With Senate Republicans; Fearless Felix to Jump From the Stratosphere; Will "Lost" Finale Answer All the Questions?
• Obama Administration Expresses Frustration and Anger over BP Oil Spill; Update on BP's Latest Fix-It Plan; New Study Links Pesticides and ADHD in Children; Scientists Create First Synthetic Cell; Sarah Ferguson Bribery Caught on Tape
• Gulf Oil Spill Continues Worsening; Ken Salazar Speaks About the Gulf Oil Crisis; Infighting Among Civil Rights Group


May 22, 2010
• 158 Dead in India Crash; Major Cities Battle Jump in Murders; BP Readying Next Attempt to Seal the Leak
• Insurgents Attack Afghanistan NATO Base; Obama Demands Answers Over Oil Leak; India Crash Kills 158; Tea Party Looks to June 8
• President Obama Creating Bipartisan Commission to Investigate Oil Leak; 158 Feared Dead in India Plane Crash; Insurgents Attack NATO Base in Southern Afghanistan; Moms Return From Iran Without Loved Ones; Newest Info on the Gulf Oil Spill Clean Up
• Air India Crash; Post Partum Depression in Fathers
• Oil Spill in the Gulf of Mexico; Plane Crash in Southern India; Mothers Visit Tehran, President Obama Team Investigates Oil Leak; Hawaii Special Election; Rolling Stones Reissue Album
• Plane Crash in India Kills Over 150; Oil Spill in Gulf Continues Unstopped; Financial Expert Gives Advice; Solar Energy Providing Jobs in New Mexico
• President's West Point Commencement Speech; India Jetliner Crash; Gulf of Mexico Filling Up; Extreme Skydiver; Supreme Court Ruling; Guy Gets Job With $6 Google Campaign; Rand Paul Taking Heat
• Tough Fight in Afghanistan; President Obama at West Point; Air India Crash; Texas Textbook Controversy
• Oil Spill Continues to Leak in Gulf of Mexico; Over 150 People Feared Dead in Plane Crash in India; President to Speak at West Point Graduation


May 21, 2010
• Investors Look for Answers; American History, Texas-Style; Two Iranians Released in Iraq; Tough Talk: What to Do About North Korea?; Abundantharvest.org Unites Gardeners and Food Charities
• Investors Look for Answers on Global Markets; Scramble for New Oil Clean-up Method; Wall Street Reform: The Small Print
• Changing How Wall Street Works; Defusing the Oil; BP to Change Chemical Plan; Storing All Your Digital Photos; Arizona's Ethnic Studies Ban; The Help Desk; Hot on the Internet
• Changing How Wall Street Works; Risking Deportation for a Cause; Nashville Cleaning up From Historic Floods
• BP Ordered to Change Dispersant; Oil Spill's Deep Impact on Environment, World; Website Helps Track Those Who Lie About Military Service
• Fears Climb, Stocks Fall; BP Ordered to Change Chemical Plan; New Terror Threat against U.S.; China Tries to Cool Real Estate Frenzy; Gulf Fishermen Getting Sick; Tracking Fish in Oil Gusher; More Rain for Nashville; Texas to Vote on Curriculum Changes


May 20, 2010
• BP Leak Bigger Than Feared; 'Chalk Talk'; Go to Prison, Go Green; Tragic Discovery After Turkey Mine Blast; White House Talks Oil; Crude Disaster, Crude Solution
• Dow Plunges due to European Economy; Terror Threat at Home; Job Markets Still Volatile; Masked Thief Steals Five Masterpieces from Paris Museum; Wall Street Reform Fails in the Senate; Plane Uses 70% Less Fuel; Cyclist Landis: I Cheated
• Board Battles Over Textbooks; Illegal Immigrants and Crime; New Strategy in Drug Fight; Depression Threatens Black Youth; Cost of Immigration; Al Qaeda Leader Talks; Hot on the Web
• Oil Slick Spreads to the Marshes; Wall Street Slide; Mexican President Calderon on Arizona Immigration Law; A Well-Known Writer Calls for Parents to Take and Leave Their Kids at the park This Weekend
• Mexican President Calderon Calls Arizona Immigration Law 'Discriminatory'; Detained Hikers Reunite with Their Moms in Iran
• Reunion in Tehran; North Korea Sunk South Korea Warship?; Patrolling Beaches for Oil; Thousands Protest in Athens; Most Competitive Nations; Pakistan Blocks Facebook; A Soldier's Story


May 19, 2010
• Being Your Own Boss; Voters Still Want Change; Changing the Lesson Plan in Texas
• Report From Inside Bangkok; Understanding Recent Supreme Court Rulings; Green Buildings Around the World; Primaries Reveal Voters Want Change; Hot Issues Facing U.S. & Mexico; Stocks Struggle as Euro Flounders
• U.S. and Mexican Leaders Talk Immigration & Drugs; Struggle Under Way in Thailand; U.S. and Mexican Presidents Speak in Rose Garden; Praying the Oil Away; Dow Drops
• Mexico's Leader at White House; Primary Day of Discontent; Oil Leak Spreads Disaster
• Mexican President in Washington for Drug War Talks; Rolling Stones Album Still Rocking Hard; Elena Kagan Meets and Greets on Capitol Hill; Crackdown in Bangkok
• Mexican President Visits the White House


May 18, 2010
• New Blood vs. Old Guard; College or Retirement?; Richard Blumenthal News Conference
• Primary Races to Shape November Elections; Senate Candidate Under Fire for Claims of Military Service; New Regs to Make Credit Scores More Available; Study: High Level of BPA in Some Canned Goods
• Showdown in Arkansas; Divided Republicans in Kentucky; Oil Leak Hearing; Fighting Drug Cartels
• Primary Day in Three Key States; Black Farmers Demand Justice; Where the Oil Might Go
• Mark Souder Resigns; Primary Elections; The Voters Vs. Washington; No Violence in Thailand Protest
• The Voters vs. Washington; Suicide Car Bombing in Kabul; Plug Coming for Gulf Oil Gusher; The Voters Vs. Washington; A Soldier's Story; FDA Expands Kids' Meds Probe


May 17, 2010
• Locking Horns Over Oil Leak; 'Chalk Talk'; Turning Print Into Profit
• Will Primaries Shake up Washington?; Euro Hits 4-Year Low; Iran Makes Nuke Deal with Turkey
• Possible ADHD-Pesticide Link; Business Hoping Tourism Will Pick up on Gulf Coast; Cost of the War on Drugs
• Gushing Oil Now Being Siphoned; Iran Works Out Nuclear Swap Deal With Turkey; Politicians Face Irate Voters
• A Soldier's Story; Gulf Oil Spill Crisis; Shahzad Emails Talk of Fighting Back for Muslim World; Jump in Drug-Resistant Staph Infections
• Gulf Oil Spill Crisis; No Court Appearance for Shahzad; Iran Has Nuclear Deal; Teachers Can Have Jobs Back; Paying Off Debt; Showdown in Bangkok


May 16, 2010
• A Positive Step in the Gulf; New Information on Times Square Bombing Suspect; Incumbents Face Tuesday Test; Lenny Kravitz Talks About Benefit Concert for the Gulf
• Oil Still Flowing into the Gulf of Mexico; Incumbents Face Tuesday Test; Getting Parents Involved in Children's Education
• 'A Positive Step' in the Gulf; Bangkok Erupting in Violence; Incumbents Face Tuesday Test; What's Behind the Big Republican Comeback; What the Future Holds for Lebron James; More Storms May be Headed to Tennessee; Ash Cloud from Iceland Closes Airports
• Key Primaries Ahead; Gulf Aid Concert; Music City Keep on Playin'; Eternal Reef; Al Qaeda in America; Back in College at 84
• Glimmer of Hope in the Gulf; Primary Week for Several States
• Living With Bad Credit; Unemployment Workers Learn Truck Driving; Gulf Fisherman Struggle With BP Work; Making That Old Cell Phone Safe to Discard; Burial at Sea in a Living Reef


May 15, 2010
• BP Tries New Tactics for Mitigating Disaster; State Department Warns Americans to Stay Away From Thailand; Immigration Controversy: Should Non-Citizen Students be Deported?
• Capping the Gulf Oil Gusher; Bangkok in Chaos; First Gay Bishop Ordained; Playboy's New Dimension
• BP Claims Cleanup Progress, Digital Age Distractions
• Battling the Gulf Oil Leak; Thailand Protests; Severe Weather Threatens Tennessee With Rains And Flash Flooding. BP And Coast Guard Add Underwater Dispersements At The Source Of The Oil Leak
• BP Tries New Tactics for Mitigating Disaster; Eight Killed Today in Bangkok Streets
• New Tactics for Oil Spill; Chemical Dispersants Toxicity; Tennessee Severe Weather
• Press Conference is Held to Explain Progress Being Made in Attempts to Stop Oil Spill in Gulf of Mexico
• President Obama Honors Fallen Police; Damage Control in the Gulf; Costliest Colleges May Not Be Best Colleges
• Oil Leak Continues Unabated in Gulf of Mexico; Tourist Businesses on the Gulf Coast Feeling Economic Hit; New Controversial Arizona Law Bans Ethnic Studies Classes in Public Schools; Disabled Veteran Teaches Other Disabled People to Surf.


May 14, 2010
• Long-Term Effects of Oil Leak; Last Flight of Atlantis
• How Can Oil Leak be Stopped?; Who Bankrolled Times Square Plot?; New Fears of Instability in Europe; Atlantis to Make Final Trip to Final Frontier
• BP Trying More Options; Boycotting Arizona: The Economic Impact; President Obama Discusses Oil Spill Cleanup
• Stopping the Gusher of Oil; Team From Abu Dhabi Heads to Gulf of Mexico; Oliver Stone Revisits 'Wall Street'; Make Cars a No-Text Zone; Senate Panel Passes Flood Aid
• Keeping Oil off the Gulf Coast; Countdown for Shuttle Programs; Peanut Allergies Soar; Expelled in 1960, Diplomas in 2010; Hearse Stolen With Body Inside
• Times Square Bomb Arrests; Plugging the Massive Oil Spill; Stocks Set to Fall ;Senate Panel Passes Flood Aid; Four Killed in Thailand; Bullies Killed Gay Teen; Rising Rate of Birth Defects in Fallujah


May 13, 2010
• FBI Raids Across Northeast in Bomb Probe; Saving Computers and the Planet; President Obama's Town Hall From Buffalo


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