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• Gulf leak eclipses Exxon Valdez as worst US spill (AP)
• NC Sen. Helms sought FBI favor, called in agents (AP)
• US predicts up to 7 major Atlantic hurricanes (AP)
• NY man's kidney transplant gave him woman's cancer (AP)
• Woman says she fell asleep, woke up alone on plane (AP)
• New, giant sea oil plume seen in Gulf (AP)
• NH church at center of 1997 teen rape case (AP)
• Palin makes good on fence threat (AP)
• Questions raised about 'Ardi' as man's ancestor (AP)
• Justice Souter may be retired, but he still works (AP)
• APNewsBreak: Army changes enlistment procedure (AP)
• Some oil spill events from Thursday, May 27, 2010 (AP)
• Workers on doomed rig: Corners cut to save money (AP)
• Fence isn't a cure-all for America's porous border (AP)
• Oldest Medal of Honor recipient from WWII dies (AP)
• Report: Race a factor in police `friendly fire' (AP)
• Groups protest Israel denying US student's entry (AP)
• Report: Percentage of high-poverty schools rises (AP)
• Adventurer quits his job to walk across the U.S. (AP)

Gulf leak eclipses Exxon Valdez as worst US spill (AP) Posted: 27 May 2010 05:51 PM PDT AP - As BP labored for a second day Thursday to choke off the leak at the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico, dire new government estimates showed the disaster has easily eclipsed the Exxon Valdez as the biggest oil spill in U.S. history.

NC Sen. Helms sought FBI favor, called in agents (AP) Posted: 27 May 2010 04:31 PM PDT AP - U.S. Senator Jesse Helms curried favor with the FBI and director J. Edgar Hoover before starting his 30-year political life as a conservative icon, then occasionally called on the bureau for information and investigations, newly released records showed.

US predicts up to 7 major Atlantic hurricanes (AP) Posted: 27 May 2010 02:59 PM PDT AP - The Atlantic hurricane season could be the busiest since 2005, when Katrina and Rita caused massive destruction along the same part of the Gulf Coast now struggling with the largest offshore oil spill in U.S. history, government scientists said Thursday.

NY man's kidney transplant gave him woman's cancer (AP) Posted: 27 May 2010 03:01 PM PDT AP - The scenario was unique, as far as doctors could tell: A man had gotten a transplanted kidney from a woman who had uterine cancer and didn't know it.

Woman says she fell asleep, woke up alone on plane (AP) Posted: 27 May 2010 03:44 PM PDT AP - A Michigan woman who fell asleep on a United Express flight to Philadelphia says she woke up and was shocked to find she was alone on the plane.

New, giant sea oil plume seen in Gulf (AP) Posted: 27 May 2010 01:42 PM PDT AP - Marine scientists have discovered a massive new plume of what they believe to be oil deep beneath the Gulf of Mexico, stretching 22 miles (35 kilometers) from the leaking wellhead northeast toward Mobile Bay, Alabama.

NH church at center of 1997 teen rape case (AP) Posted: 27 May 2010 05:33 PM PDT AP - Tina Anderson was a scared 15-year-old when she was summoned by church leaders to stand before her congregation and apologize for getting pregnant out of wedlock.

Palin makes good on fence threat (AP) Posted: 27 May 2010 05:40 PM PDT AP - Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin is making good on a threat to build a fence around her Wasilla home to keep her new neighbor — an author who is writing a book about her — from peering in.

Questions raised about 'Ardi' as man's ancestor (AP) Posted: 27 May 2010 11:38 AM PDT AP - Last fall, a fossil skeleton named "Ardi" shook up the field of human evolution. Now, some scientists are raising doubts about what exactly the creature from Ethiopia was and what kind of landscape it inhabited.

Justice Souter may be retired, but he still works (AP) Posted: 27 May 2010 05:38 PM PDT AP - Justice David Souter ever so politely interrupts an attorney making a complicated legal argument.

APNewsBreak: Army changes enlistment procedure (AP) Posted: 27 May 2010 02:08 PM PDT AP - The Army is instituting a new procedure for checking the backgrounds of enlistees who claim to have a military record after a report that a reservist apparently faked a background as a Marine to enter the service.

Some oil spill events from Thursday, May 27, 2010 (AP) Posted: 27 May 2010 04:17 PM PDT AP - A summary of events on Thursday, May 27, Day 36 of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill that began with the April 20 explosion and fire on the drilling rig Deepwater Horizon, owned by Transocean Ltd. and leased by BP PLC, which is in charge of cleanup and containment. The blast killed 11 workers. Since then, oil has been pouring into the Gulf from a blown-out undersea well at a rate of at least 210,000 gallons per day.

Workers on doomed rig: Corners cut to save money (AP) Posted: 27 May 2010 04:40 PM PDT AP - Two workers injured when an oil rig exploded in the Gulf of Mexico told Congress on Thursday that the companies in charge of the doomed drilling operation cut corners and neglected maintenance in a race toward higher profits.

Fence isn't a cure-all for America's porous border (AP) Posted: 27 May 2010 03:39 PM PDT AP - The fence rises from the rock and hardscrabble of the desert floor, a formidable 15-foot-high curtain of corrugated metal that stretches into the mirage of heat and distance. Newer sections feature 20-foot high steel columns, deeply planted, narrowly spaced, so no human slips between.

Oldest Medal of Honor recipient from WWII dies (AP) Posted: 27 May 2010 04:06 PM PDT AP - Retired Navy Lt. John Finn, the oldest Medal of Honor recipient from World War II, died Thursday at a nursing home for veterans in Southern California. He was 100.

Report: Race a factor in police `friendly fire' (AP) Posted: 27 May 2010 01:57 PM PDT AP - A panel convened after two officer-on-officer shootings said police departments must confront both overt and unconscious racial bias among officers to reduce the risk of one officer harming another during "friendly fire."

Groups protest Israel denying US student's entry (AP) Posted: 27 May 2010 08:59 AM PDT AP - Israel has denied entry to a Detroit university student of Palestinian descent traveling there for a study-abroad program. Arab-American and civil rights groups plan to protest the decision Thursday.

Report: Percentage of high-poverty schools rises (AP) Posted: 27 May 2010 10:15 AM PDT AP - The percentage of public schools where more than three quarters of students are eligible for free or reduced price lunch — a key indicator of poverty — has increased in the past decade, and children at these schools are less likely to attend college or be taught by teachers with advanced degrees.

Adventurer quits his job to walk across the U.S. (AP) Posted: 27 May 2010 06:10 AM PDT AP - In these uncertain times, most of us cling to the things that make us feel secure. Those who have jobs give thanks. We hug our children a little tighter. We wait â€" and hope â€" for better times.

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