Gulf Residents Grow Desperate in BP Claim Wait | BP Oil
Money, Patience Wearing Thin for Tens of Thousands Whose Claims Oil Company Hasn’t Decided to Pay
Accompanied with Admiral Thad Allen and U.S. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar, CBS News’ Katie Couric journeyed to the site of the British Petroleum oil leak which officials say may soon be capped.
By an overwhelming majority, the French National Assembly has banned the wearing of burqas (face-covering veils) in public. Christina Ruffini reports.
A new CBS poll shows voters are frustrated with the economy and President Obama’s handling of it. Tara Mergener reports.
In a statement, former Vice President Dick Cheney said he had been experiencing increasing congestive heart failure and after consultations with his doctors, he had received an implantable pump to improve heart function. He said the operation went well and he is recuperating.
Source:Cheney Recuperating from Heart Surgery for Implantable Pump
Republican Sharron Angle says her campaign to unseat Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid in Nevada is “a calling” from God and that her faith is helping her endure a fiercely competitive race in which Democrats have depicted her as a conservative extremist.
Serving as a summer retreat for Rockefellers, Vanderbilts and Morgans, this town and the surrounding area have long been known as a place where well-heeled and well-known visitors could beat the heat — and have their privacy respected.
AP – Italy’s economy undersecretary has quit after being implicated in an alleged influence-peddling investigation in the third such resignation to rock Premier Silvio Berlusconi’s government in as many months.
Politico – Softer recruits from the “millenial” generation require a drastically revamped routine.
AP – The White House asserted Wednesday that the $862 billion stimulus law has been even better for the economically-struggling country than previously advertised.
Source:New WH report claims more jobs from stimulus bill
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