Week of May 24 through May 30, 2010

WSJ Photo Blog: Pictures for the Day - May 27, 2010

On Doomed Rig, 'Nobody in Charge'

Obama Gives Commanders Wide Berth for Secret Warfare

CNBC's Jim Cramer's Assertion That There Is No Shadow Inventory Shot To Hell: Report Estimates That Foreclosure Pipeline Includes 8 Million Homes

Tanning Beds Triple Melanoma Risk: Skin Cancer Risk Even Higher for Frequent Users of High-Pressure Tanning Beds

Apple IPad Draws Lines in Sydney, Tokyo as Global Sales Start

Privacy groups assail Facebook changes

Drivers may enjoy lower prices at the pump through June

Say good-bye to Ford's Mercury brand

Artest hits buzzer-beater to give Lakers 3-2 series lead on Suns

Oxford's All Souls University ends "one word exam"

Forty dead after 'sabotage' derails Indian train

House votes to end ‘don't ask, don't tell' policy

‘Top Kill’ Effort Resumes After Delay

Obama Oil Spill Press Conference: Government In Charge Of Oil Disaster Response

Top BP official on oil rig takes the fifth; another says too sick to testify

WSJ Photo Blog: Photos for the Day - May 26, 2010

New King of Technology: Apple Overtakes Microsoft

Why buying a home today makes little financial sense. 3 reasons why taking on a mortgage in today’s market is deep in speculation

The Corporate Stranglehold: How BP Will Make out Like Bandits from Its Massive, Still Gushing Oil Disaster

Gulf hotels desperately applying positive spin by promotions and cutting rates

Senator Bill Nelson (D-FL) says President Obama should send in the military if BP cannot stop the leak today

James Carville Slams Obama on Oil Spill Response

Twitter's fake BP spokesman too slick for the oil company

BP Says It Began `Top Kill' Plug of Oil Leak

WSJ Photo Blog: Photos for the Day - May 25, 2010

5 reasons why California will face another lost decade in housing – 493,000 real estate agents and brokers for 219,000 homes listed on the MLS. 7 percent of 90+ day late loans in California have no foreclosure filed. State budget depended on real estate bubble jobs for revenues.

Top GOP recruit Vaughn Ward loses in Idaho primary

Jamaica police gain hold on drug lord's stronghold

Fort Wainwright Soldier Investigated Over Facebook Video of Iraqi Children

Washington Post: One false move in Europe could set off global chain reaction

Metaphor Explodes/Sinks In The Gulf of Reaganomixico

Cross Your Fingers, Gulf States, Today's The Day BP Tries The "Top Kill" Fix To End Underwater Oil Gusher

The Big Picture Blog: "Oil Reaches Louisiana Shores"

Rep. Alan Grayson Introduces the "War Is Making You Poor" Act

Tulsa Man Arrested On Complaints Of Knowingly Spreading HIV And Hepatitis C

Wall Street Corruption: Are People Losing Faith in the Financial System

And Now, Shadow Inventory Is Coming Back To Smack The Condo Market

Slipknot bass player found dead in Iowa hotel room


WSJ Photo Journal: Pictures for the Day - May 24, 2010

Crude Falls Below $69 In Asia On Dollar Strength

The bigtime plagiarizing Tea Party candidate from Idaho

Fighting rages in Jamaica

House Republicans to open new online forum where they will solicit ideas from the public to set policy

Global stock markets see sharp falls

James Kunstler: "Out Of Darkness"

Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal tells Obama and BP to stop the spill or get out of his way

Patience runs thin as BP preps untested "Top Kill" maneuver for Wednesday to cap oil leak

Breaking: Is The Deepwater Horizon Gusher Growing Larger? Was There An Underwater Explosion This Past Sunday? Top Kill Strategy By BP Delayed!

Walmart to sell Apple's 16GB iPhone 3GS for $97

Cheap, ultra-pure heroin kills instantly

Arizona cracks down on teachers with heavy accents

Padded Pensions Add to New York Fiscal Woes

Workers In Venezuela On Alert After Chavez Warning

Week of May 17 through May 24, 2010

Chris Matthews Tells Leno: 'The President Scares Me,' Limbaugh 'A Joke' (VIDEO)

James Carville Takes On Obama On Oil Spill: He's 'Risking Everything' With 'Go Along With BP Strategy'

WSJ Photo Journal: Pictures of the Day - May 19, 2010

Rand Paul becomes only the 3rd guest in 45 years to chicken out of an appearance on Meet the Press

Mars Rover Sets Endurance Record

The Tea Party's Long-Term Damage to the Republican Party

Paul Krugman: Lost Decade Looming?

Mish: Social Unrest Spreads to Slovenia and Spain; Images Around the Globe; US Not Immune to Protests

BP Oil Spill: spill volume incorrect, live webcam

Time Magazine: Will the Oil Spill Kill The Louisiana Bayou?

Furious Louisiana officials accuse BP of destroying fragile marshes

Grand Isle Louisiana Beach Closed After Thick Oil Washes Ashore

HuffPost: 195 photos of the Louisiana Oil Spill 2010: Gulf of Mexico leak reaches land

BP's "top kill" method to stanch the spill could also break it wide open.

Car Absorbs CO2; Spews Oxygen

The New Yorker Magazine: "What Did Jesus Do?"

Scientists Create Synthetic Organism

Pakistan blocks YouTube a day after shutdown of Facebook over Muhammad issue

Rodent scurries by as Obama lauds Wall Street vote

Toyota and Tesla Partnering to Make Electric Cars

'Tea party' candidate, Rand Paul, faces civil rights controversy

Senate passes financial regulation bill

Intelligence director leaves after feuding with White House

Google TV aims to bring order to programming chaos

Beverly Hills judge rips Lindsay Lohan for failing to appear in court

Sick Fishermen and Oily Smells on the Gulf Coast

Watchworld: CBS Releases Extended Video With Mike Williams, Head Electronics Tech On Board Deepwater Horizon Rig

Oil fouls Louisiana, BP scrambles to contain spill

Miss USA Rima Fakih: 'I didn't do anything wrong'

Oil Spill Has Florida Worried About Hit to Tourism

Coast Guard: Key West tar balls not from BP spill

Rand Paul defends country club celebration

One in 7 U.S. homeowners paying late or in foreclosure

Soaring Short Sales Could Reduce 'Shadow Inventory' Backlog

Google unveils Web app store for games

Taliban insurgents attack Bagram airbase in Afghanistan

Gold, Silver & SP500 Trading Charts & Video

How's the Economy doing? Watch commodities like oil and copper

Financial Sense: A Review of Gold Prices

NASA's Aqua Satellite Sees Tropical Storm 1B Form in Bay of Bengal

The invasive plant which contributes to global warming

Jagger credits Stones' success to luck, hard work, fans

Jim Cramer's latest Mad Money recap: "How To Cut Through Market Gloom"

Panera's New Business Plan: Pay What You Want

Early Wednesday Morning: Overseas Asian Stocks Fall as Germany Restricts Short Sales, Oil Drops

GOP Blocks Three Key Anti-Wall Street Amendments

The Big Picture Blog: First of the Last Space Shuttles

New deep-sea cables needed to protect global economy

Thai army advances on Bangkok protest site

Specter loses in Pennsylvania, Paul wins in Ky.

Bid to lift liability cap in spill is blocked by Republicans in Senate; Obama:"This maneuver threatens to leave taxpayers, rather than the oil companies, on the hook for future disasters like the BP oil spill"

Latest standings for Major League Baseball

SEC Proposes 10% Circuit Breaker

WSJ Photo Blog: Pictures for the Day - May 18, 2010

Researchers ponder oldest sex toy ever found

John Travolta's Dogs Killed at Bangor, Maine, Airport

Abstinence for you, mistress for me

Pfizer Eyes Cutting 6,000 Jobs, or 18% of Manufacturing Workforce

Times Sq. Bomb Suspect Had Other NYC Targets

A Canadian doctor who has treated Tiger Woods and other elite athletes has been charged with supplying illegal drugs

Primaries test incumbents' durability, tea party

Nouriel Roubini: How to Break Up the Banks, Stop Massive Bonuses, and Rein in Wall Street Greed

Hero or Vigilante? Man Could Land in Prison for Fatally Shooting Alleged Abuser

Researchers: Unlikely Keys tar balls stem from Gulf oil spill?



The Big Picture Blog: Disaster Unfolds Slowly In The Gulf of Mexico

Brit Hume of Fox News asks "Where's The Oil?"

Turtle deaths running high since oil spill: expert

Director of federal drilling safety oversight in Gulf calls it quits

Tar balls found off Key West

CNN: Government extends fishing ban to over 19% of the Gulf over which it has jurisdiction, 45,728 square miles

Loop current is now drawing BP oil spill to the Florida Keys; Toxicologist: “We could be getting to the point that puts coral over the edge”; Masters: "a major ecological disaster ... cannot be ruled out."


Yet another "Family Values" GOPer quits Congress over affair

Capital invests in capital; the environment is never a consideration

Teacher questioned after using Obama assassination as example in geometry class

5 American soldiers, 12 civilians killed by Afghan suicide bomber

California budget and housing are interlinked – California home sales spike but prices remain near the trough. Why California housing values cannot increase without income and employment growth.

Demographics and the end of the saviour state

The Big Picture Blog: Animals In The News

Youtube celebrates 5th birthday; gets 2 Billion views daily

Iceland volcano ash cloud: When will Eyjafjallajökull eruption stop?

GM swings to first quarterly profit in years

Chrysler repays $1.9 billion in federal debt

Paul predicts Ky. win; Foe slams overconfidence

Specter, Pa. primary foe spar over tenure, trust

Housing market diagnosis: Bipolar


Big Picture Blog: Vietnam 35 Years Later

Rolling Stone Magazine: "Rove Rides Again"

Nothing’s Really Been Fixed — 5 Ways the Financial Insanity Will Continue

Fleck:In Europe, recklessness wins again

Miss USA stripping scandal: How shocking!

Fired RI teachers approve deal to get jobs back

Noriel Roubini: USA faces inflation or default


WSJ Photo Journal: Photos for the Day - May 17, 2010

Accuweather: Oil slick weather and tropical concerns this week

Cheap as coal by 2025? US could become leader in desert solar, says IEA

Panasonic to mass produce next-generation solar cells from FY 2012

Jim Kunstler: "Something Happened"

Watchworld: CBS' 60 Minutes: "Deepwater Horizon's Blowout" ...Parts 1 & 2 . . . Plus 7 Extra Parts

Watchworld: raw footage of growing oil spill

Scientists say oil has entered Loop Current and poses grave threat to mangroves and coral reefs

Lawyers lining up for class-action suits over oil spill

Hot dogs, bacon put your heart at risk: study

US President Barack Obama to set up oil spill panel

May 11 - May 18, 2010

Why Google Is Still a Growth Story

BP’s next plan: Cap oil gusher with ‘top hat’


WSJ: Pictures for the Day - May 10, 2010

Halliburton points finger at BP and Transocean, Transocean points finger at BP, BP points finger at Transocean

Furloughs about to hit home for Staten Island workers

U.S. lost in Afghan vote

National Democrats pull out of Hawaii

Doug Noland: “There Is No Concern For Short-Term Funding Issues”

Blog site shows what is happening where with Deep Horizon oil spill

Packet of nuts a day 'can reduce cholesterol levels'

Severe storm kills at least 5 in Oklahoma

Real estate's new problem: Not enough homes

A "Lost Decade" Ahead For U.S. Housing Market

Did a Big Bet Help Trigger 'Black Swan' Stock Swoon?