Tony Hayward, the boyish corporate face of the BP oil spill disaster, is on his way out as head of the international energy giant and will step down sometime before Oct. 1, a London newspaper reports. The oil company denied it. Hayward, the BP CEO, has taken the brunt of the criticism for the company’s [...]
The unemployment rate dropped from May to June in 39 states, but joblessness increased in five states, including Louisiana — still suffering from the BP oil spill — and in Nevada, where Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is in a tough fight for re-election. Nevada, in fact, had the highest unemployment in the nation, 14.2 [...]
On Tuesday, recently elected British Prime Minister David Cameron arrived at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. for his first White House tete-a-tete with President Barack Obama. While such potentially divisive topics as the BP oil spill and the Lockerbie bomber were on tap, the two leaders spent much of their joint press conference reaffirming the “special relationship” [...]
Tuesday, July 20, is set aside to revisit the “special relationship” between the U.S. and the U.K. — a friendship that’s come under strain of late following the BP oil spill and its resulting tensions between Brits and their Yankee counterparts over cleanup and recovery. The prez will try to diffuse the drama in his [...]
Broadway is coming to the White House! First Lady Michelle Obama, back from her long weekend with her family in Maine, has her busiest week yet since moving in the White House, with public events on four days, including a dance clinic with the cast of the hit “Hairspray,” a visit to the Oriole’s baseball [...]
Although the BP oil spill may soon be stopped for good, there is no gush of relief and jubilation in southeast Louisiana. Months if not years of expensive and arduous cleanup remain to be done, and no one knows when, if ever, the commercial-fishing economy will return to pre-spill levels. The entire populace — every [...]
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