1. A Christian charity group says it now believes non-local fighters killed 10 members of its medical team last week in Afghanistan. Originally the charity suspected robbers despite a Taliban claim of responsibility. The attack killed six Americans,...
1. Authorities are trying to find out if overcast skies, rain and gusty winds played a role in a crash claimed the lives of former Senator Ted Stevens and four others. And one rescue worker says fishing waders warmed the surviving passengers, helped...
1. Crews have stopped drilling the relief well that's intended to permanently plug BP's broken Gulf oil well. That because a strengthening tropical depression is bearing down on the site. Crews have about 15 feet left to drill, but officials say the...
1. Former Senate Ted Stevens and at least 4 others have been killed in a plane crash near a remote fishing village in Alaska. Former NASA chief Sean O'Keefe and his son were also on the plane but survived the crash. 2. A combative Charles Rangel has...
1. Officials with BP say the blown-out well in the Gulf of Mexico could be permanently sealed this week. Engineers plan to intersect the damaged well with a relief well, possibly in days if not weeks. BP also announced it already has spent more than...
1. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is condemning the slayings of ten medical aid workers in Afghanistan, including six Americans. The ten were gunned down while on a medical mission. The Taliban has claimed credit for the attack. 2. Federal author...
1. Elena Kagan has been sworn in as the 112th justice and fourth woman ever to serve on Supreme Court. Chief Justice John Roberts administered the oath to Kagan. 2. The Taliban is claiming responsibility for the shooting deaths of ten members of a Ch...
1. Elena Kagan has been confirmed as the 112th Supreme Court justice. She is the fourth woman to serve on the highest court. Kagan will replace another liberal justice recently retired John Paul Stevens. 2. Missouri officials are confirming two death...
1. BP officials say they plan to begin forcing cement down the blown-out Gulf oil well today. The company plans to shove cement down from pipes attached to ships a mile above the sea. Yesterday, crews were able to force down the oil with mud. 2. A fe...
1. BP says it has reached the desired outcome from a procedure in which it pumped mud down the throat of the blown-out well that is leaking in the Gulf of Mexico. The company says the mud is holding the oil down. BP has said that this procedure may b...
1. As BP crews get ready to test a plan to plug the top of its busted oil well, a company spokesman says engineers are still trying to figure out exactly how to use a pair of relief wells they're constructing. The wells were once seen as the only sur...
1. The Environmental Protection Agency says BP has cut its use of chemical dispersants in the Gulf of Mexico by nearly three quarters since May. That statement comes a day after Congressman Ed Markey released a letter, saying BP carpet bombed the oce...
1. Fire crews in California are working to stamp out the final smoldering ambers of a wildfire that had threatened thousands of homes. The blaze just north of Los Angeles is now mostly contained. 2. Officials in Pakistan say more than 800 people have...
This is AP news minute. The Environmental Protection Agency says BP has cut its use of chemical dispersants in the Gulf of Mexico by nearly three quarters since May. That statement comes a day after Congressman Ed Markey released a letter saying BP c...
1. In Arizona, arrests of a rally protesting the state's new immigration law. Demonstrators promise non-violence civil disobedience, despite the ruling by a federal judge, blocking the most contentious parts of the measure. 2. There may be a plea dea...
