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Engineers prepare 50,000 pounds of mud and a fleet of robotic subs in first maneuver to outright stop the flow of leaking oil a mile below surface.

Federal regulators responsible for oversight of drilling in the Gulf of Mexico allowed industry officials several years ago to fill in their own inspection reports in pencil -- and then turned them over to the regulators, who traced over them in pen before submitting the reports to the agency, according to an inspector general's report to be released this week.

One month in, neither the oil spill or the blame game show any signs of letting up.

She accuses him of a slow response and says it may be linked to companies' campaign support.

A top US official says BP may be "pushed" aside if it fails to perform in the Gulf of Mexico oil clean-up.

The gooey oil washing into the maze of marshes along the Gulf Coast could prove impossible to remove, leaving a toxic stew lethal to fish and wildlife, government officials and independent scientists said. Officials are considering some ...

Oil giant BP conceded Thursday that the Gulf of Mexico oil leak is larger than it originally estimated, adding more worry as portions of the ...

Federal officials said Sunday that engineers have succeeded in vacuuming up some of the oil that has been leaking from the Deepwater Horizon's drilling well, the first progress in containing the BP spill since the Horizon exploded and sank last month.

After a setback Saturday in its tube strategy to slow the flow of oil in the Gulf, BP is giving it another shot on Sunday.

The Obama administration warned BP in a strongly worded letter Saturday that the federal government expects the oil giant -- and not taxpayers -- to pay all damages associated with the ongoing Gulf of Mexico oil leak, even if they exceed the $75-million liability cap under federal law.