Oil reached the coastline late Thursday near the mouth of the Mississippi River in the southern state of Louisiana.

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A Yemeni deputy prime minister said Thursday that the twenty-three year old Nigerian met last year in Yemen with Anwar al-Awlaki.

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The National Weather Service said there were ten reports of tornadoes across the central and southern Plains states last Thursday.

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The Commerce Department reported Thursday that the building of new homes fell in March to the second-lowest level on record.

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And,in another development, the Senate voted Thursday to permit final debate and a vote on a financial reform bill.

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On Thursday JPMorgan Chase reported more than two billion dollars in profit for the first three months of this year.

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But the Lakers' Kobe Bryant scored twenty-six points in game six to force a game seven in Los Angeles last Thursday.

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He warned about the deepening recession in a speech in Virginia on Thursday, less than 2 weeks before he takes office.

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President Obama called President Dmitri Medvedev on Thursday to tell him that American firefighting equipment is on the way.

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President Obama will return to Illinois to celebrate Abraham Lincoln's two hundredth birthday at a big dinner in Springfield this Thursday.

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The United Nations temporarily suspended aid operations in Gaza Thursday after Israeli fire killed the driver of an aid truck.

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On Thursday, the chief executive officer of BP faced hours of intense questioning at a House of Representatives hearing.

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Czech Prime Minister Jan Fischer said the president informed him early Thursday, and that the Czech Republic " acknowledges this decision."

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On Thursday the president noted estimates that nearly six million more have joined the uninsured since the recession intensified last September.

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