The Obama administration wants the chairman of BP to meet with the president and senior White House officials June 16 to discuss the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, including the company's financial liability and clean up efforts. In a letter Thursday to BP board chairman Carl-Henric Svanberg in London, Coast Guard Adm. Thad Allen, the national incident commander on the scene, said "BP is financially responsible for all costs associated with the response to the spill," including stopping the leak, protecting the shoreline, as well as supporting "long term recovery efforts to ensure that all ...
Interior Secretary Ken Salazar will not run for Colorado governor and threw his support behind Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper, The Denver Post is reporting. Salazar's announcement followed a decision by Democratic Gov. Bill Ritter not to seek a second term in order to devote more time to his family. Salazar, a former state attorney general and U.S. senator, told the Post Thursday he made the decision late Wednesday night, and informed President Barack Obama that he would remain in the cabinet. "Colorado needs a strong, experienced leader with optimism and new ideas for carrying our state ...
The late Sen. Edward Kennedy expressed remorse over the death of Mary Jo Kopechne, said he accepted the findings of the Warren Commission, and told Bill Clinton he would stand by him after the former president confessed to his affair with Monica Lewinsky, according to Kennedy's soon-to-be released memoir. The New York Times obtained a copy of the 532-page book, "True Compass," scheduled to be published Sept. 14. In it, Kennedy, who died Aug. 25 at age 77, talked about his battle against the brain cancer that claimed his life and his "self-destructive drinking." Among other issues cited by ...
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