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A boat captain, and later the Coast Guard, helped rescue a crew of 13 workers after an oil platform caught fire in the Gulf of Mexico.

The president did not offer specifics, though he has said repeatedly that he wants to extend middle class tax cuts and promote new investment in clean energy.

The latest update on Hurricane Earl’s progress toward the United States.

Sheriff Joe Arpaio of Maricopa County has refused to turn over documents concerning the treatment of Hispanics.

Not surprisingly in a state with 12 percent unemployment, jobs and the economy were major topics, but class and other social issues were also touched on.

Could the bubble be on the way out? In the near future, students may take their tests on computers.

The annual Kaiser survey of employer health benefits shows employers managed to keep costs down, but employees’ premiums went up.

The explosion touched off flurries of conflicting reports about sightings of oil slicks in the water.

A rescue operation has begun, with initial reports suggesting that all 13 crew members were in the water, the Coast Guard said on Thursday.

Migrants are apparently dying at the hands of a drug gang seeking money or possibly recruits, officials said, though no nobody knows for sure.

A move of some of 186 chimpanzees to a research center in Texas has spurred outrage among animal rights advocates, primate experts and politicians.

Relations are, at best, awkward between President Obama and George W. Bush.

The State Senate rejected a bill seeking to ban plastic shopping bags after a debate over whether the state was going too far in trying to regulate personal choice.

The decline in 2009, to about 11.1 million, was the first clear drop in two decades, according to a report based on census data.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel and President Mahmoud Abbas of the Palestinian Authority appeared together with President Obama.

In an address from the Oval Office, President Obama said that the nation had met its responsibility to Iraq and would now turn to domestic concerns.