Jeremy Pelofsky
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Al-Qaeda ‘planned to target oil tankers’
US officials say al-Qaeda had plans to hijack or sink oil tankers in order to prompt a spike in prices and trigger an economic crisis in the West.
Criminal probe of Gulf oil spill seen inevitable
With a BP well spilling oil into the Gulf of Mexico for a fifth week and President Barack Obama under pressure to act, legal experts say it is only a matter of time before his…
Second big snowstorm slams US East Coast
The second major snowstorm in less than a week slammed the US East Coast from Washington to New York on Tuesday, forcing the United Nations to close.
BAE reaches $450m settlement with US, Britain
BAE Systems will pay about $450-million in fines in the United States and Britain, settling long-running corruption investigations.
Obama presses security overhaul, Nigerian indicted
US President Barack Obama is "not patient" and is demanding immediate changes in airline security, the top US military officer said on Wednesday.