NY Times By KIM SEVERSON and JOHN SCHWARTZ GREENSBORO, N.C. — When former Senator John Edwards, a man who reached for the presidency while scrambling to hide a pregnant mistress, heard on Thursday that a federal jury would not convict him on t… more »

HAMMOND, La. - BP said Saturday it was confident its latest experiment using a mile-long pipe would capture much of the oil flowing into the Gulf of Mexico, even as the company disclosed yet another setback in the environmental disaster. Engineers hit a… more »