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CNN) — A piece of ice four times the size of Manhattan island has broken away from an ice shelf in Greenland, according to scientists in the U.S. The 260 square-kilometer (100 square miles) ice island separated from the Petermann Glacier in northern Greenland early on Thursday, researchers based at the University of Delaware said. […]
Wyclef Jean’s decision to run for president of Haiti hasn’t exactly opened floodgates of support, but then again, he didn’t expect that to happen. Sean Penn has already offered his thoughts on whether or not the Haitian-born musician should make moves to lead the devastated nation, and now Pras, who once performed alongside Jean and […]
Via: WRAL In the end, it was a crush of mud that finally plugged the blown-out well in the Gulf of Mexico, three months after the offshore drilling rig explosion that unleashed a gusher of oil and a summer of misery along the Gulf Coast.
Via: WRAL.com Yesterday BP announced that the mud it had forced down a blown-out well was holding back the flow of crude into the Gulf of Mexico… The next step for BP would be to decide whether to cement the well. The static kill procedure, also known as bullheading, involves pumping mud to the ruptured […]
Via: WRAL.com The 3rd named storm of the Atlantic Hurricane season formed overnight (tropical storm Colin)… Early forecasts put the storm on a track off the U.S. Atlantic seaboard rather than into the Gulf of Mexico… The National Hurricane Center in Miami says the storm has maximum sustained winds near 40 mph…
Via: WRAL.com Today officials in the Gulf of Mexico are engineering a plan to shove mud and cement into the blown-out oil well to stop the oil leak permanently. For the last 2 weeks a cap has been the only thing keeping the oil from spilling into the gulf. The new plan is called “static […]
(CNN) — A federal appeals court has denied Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer’s request for an expedited hearing on the state’s controversial immigration law. Instead, the case has been scheduled for a hearing during the first week in November. Brewer had wanted public oral arguments in the case for mid-September. The Justice Department had urged a […]
Hip-Hop star Wyclef Jean will announce his bid for the President of Haiti, a source has confirmed with AllHipHop.com exclusively. Sources close to Wyclef confirmed with AllHipHop.com that the rapper will announce his bid for the country’s highest office next Thursday, on August 5th. The 37-year-old was born in Haiti, but immigrated to the United […]
Via: WRAL.com WRAL is reporting that July has become the deadliest month of the Afghan war. The death toll for July stands at 63… In December President Barack Obama ordered 30,000 reinforcements to Afghanistan. American troops have been in Afghanistan fore nearly nine years.
Via:WRAL.com An expert on marine sciences and coastal circulation says it’s unlikely oil from BP’s massive spill in the Gulf of Mexico will reach the East Coast. Experts say the chances are low in part because the well is capped for now… This is the exact oppisite of what scientist were saying two months ago. […]
New York City agreed on Tuesday to pay more than $7 million to settle a federal lawsuit filed by the family and two friends of Sean Bell, a 23-year-old black man fatally shot by the police in 2006, on what would have been his wedding day. The decision came after two days of intense negotiations […]
Meet Torrie Lynn Emery, 23, of Pontiac Michigan. This lovely young woman posed for the mugshot above after she was arrested and charged with second-degree murder, assault and child abuse stemming from an incident that started on her facebook page! Remember when that woman was killed after her future ex-husband noticed she’d changed her facebook […]
