Arizona Appeals Immigration Ruling
Protests, arrests, legal appeal greet day law had been scheduled to take effect.
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Will the ethics case of Charlie Rangel hurt the Dems as ethics violations hurt the GOP in 2006?
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Adm. Mike Mullen said WikiLeaks' founder may already have blood on his hands.
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Oil burns at the Ixtoc 1 offshore drilling rig in December 1979. The rig dumped 140 million gallons of crude oil into the Gulf of Mexico and covered about 170 miles of the South Texas coast, including Galveston.
Island's Recovery May Set Example For Gulf Residents
()Galveston, Texas, has endured oil spills and hurricanes. It took 10 months to cap the ruptured well that caused the Ixtoc oil spill in 1979. The aftermath of the spill was compounded by hurricanes and more oil. Decades later, residents have mostly forgotten the trauma and continue to recover, one disaster at a time.
