BP CEO Tony Hayward says nifty new containment cap captures 10,000 barrels a day from oily Gulf gusher, and experts say company bigwigs are unlikely to face jail time ...
White House press icon Helen Thomas apologizes for saying Jews should "get the hell out of Palestine" and "go back home to Poland, Germany, America and everywhere else" ...
Concerned Women for America evaluates 45,000 pages of documents on Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan in 45 minutes ...
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton sends Queen Elizabeth II birthday greetings when it's not her birthday ...
Senator Evan Bayh (D-Indiana) says he's uncomfortable watching Sandra Bullock kiss Scarlett Johansson ...
Greek stage actor and acting coach Andréas Voutsinas dies in Athens ...
Judge bans allegedly corrupt former Governor Rod Blagojevich (D-Illinois) from tweeting in the courtroom ...
Senator Chuck Schumer (D-New York) calls for US State Department to investigate al-Qaeda ties to Gaza flotilla ...
You can live in the apartment President Obama lived in when he was a nobody, for $1900 per month ...
Rig workers say British Petroleum ordered unprecedented safety shortcuts before explosion, and BP asks Twitter parody to declare that it's not real, as oil from gusher reaches beaches in Alabama, Florida ...
Richard Feynman advises Stephen Wolfram: "Find a way to do your research with as little contact with non-technical people as possible, with one exception, fall madly in love!" ...
Mexican President Felipe Calderón demands an investigation after US Border Patrol shoots and kills 14-year-old on Mexican side of the border ...
British Petroleum and government keep blocking reporters and local officials from access, and nobody can say with certainty how much oil is spewing from crippled rig — but it's plenty more than BP has acknowledged ...
University of Southern California forfeits 2005 national championship season over payments to Reggie Bush ...
Locals devise their own contraptions for protection from BP's Gulf gusher, as President Obama invites company execs to a meeting at the White House next Wednesday ...
Fox's Glenn Beck warns that the Obama administration seeks to eliminate ten percent of the US population, "because that's what anarchists, Marxists, communists, revolutionaries, Maoists do" ...
In BP's emergency plan, they get rapid-response equipment for oil gusher from Japanese home shopping site, and fix every leak within one day ...
Pentagon investigators race to find Wikileaks publisher Julian Assange before classified cables go on-line ...
Singer, songwriter, and sausage-maker Jimmy Dean dies from natural causes at his farm near Richmond, Virginia ...