Posts Tagged ‘rule’

New guidelines could rule out many oil claims (AP)

A slick of oil floats near a boat off Grand Isle, Louisiana June 9, 2010. Americans are almost equally divided on whether the Obama Administration should lift the moratorium on offshore oil drilling and on the possibility of BP returning to explore in the area of its massive spill, according to a new Gallup poll. REUTERS/Lee Celano/FilesAP – A flower shop in Florida that saw a drop-off in weddings this summer is probably out of luck. So is a restaurant in Idaho that had to switch seafood suppliers. A hardware store on the Mississippi coast may be left out, too.


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Thais rule to extradite Russian arms suspect to US (AP)

Viktor Bout, a suspected Russian arms dealer, speaks with reporters from inside the court cell at the criminal court in Bangkok, Thailand Friday, Aug. 20, 2010. An appeals court in Thailand began delivering a final verdict Friday on a U.S. request to extradite suspected arms smuggler Bout, the elusive Russian businessman dubbed 'The Merchant of Death.' (AP Photo/Apichart Weerawong) **THAILAND OUT**AP – A Thai appeals court ruled Friday to extradite suspected Russian arms smuggler Viktor Bout to the United States, effectively ending a more than decade-long chase for the man dubbed “The Merchant of Death.”


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Judge to rule on stay Thursday in Prop. 8 case (AP)

Proposition 8 opponent Jana Barber holds a sign during a rally to celebrate the ruling to overturn Proposition 8 August 4, in San Francisco, California. California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger weighed into the same-sex marriage legal battle Friday, filing a motion demanding gays and lesbians be allowed to resume tying the knot immediately.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Justin Sullivan)AP – The federal judge who overturned California’s same-sex marriage ban is set to rule Thursday on whether gay marriages should resume immediately in the state or await an appeals court’s input.


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Judge to rule on stay Thursday in Prop. 8 case (AP)

Proposition 8 opponent Jana Barber holds a sign during a rally to celebrate the ruling to overturn Proposition 8 August 4, in San Francisco, California. California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger weighed into the same-sex marriage legal battle Friday, filing a motion demanding gays and lesbians be allowed to resume tying the knot immediately.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Justin Sullivan)AP – The federal judge who overturned California’s same-sex marriage ban is set to rule Thursday on whether gay marriages should resume immediately in the state or await an appeals court’s input.


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AP IMPACT: Rule change helped BP on Gulf project (AP)

AP – A rule change two years ago by the federal agency that regulates offshore oil rigs allowed BP to avoid filing a plan specifically for handling a major spill from an uncontrolled blowout at its Deepwater Horizon project — exactly the kind of disaster now unfolding in the Gulf of Mexico.

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Kyrgyz opposition says it will rule for 6 months (AP)

Protesters pose in Kyrgyz President Kurmanbek Bakiyev's cabinet room inside Kyrgyz government headquarters on central square in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, Thursday, April 8, 2010. An opposition coalition in Kyrgyzstan said it has formed an interim government that will rule the turbulent Central Asian nation for six months. Opposition leader Roza Otunbayeva said Thursday she will head the government that dissolved the parliament and will take up legislative duties.(AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)AP – Consolidating their victory after a bloody uprising, opposition leaders declared Thursday they would hold power in Kyrgyzstan for six months and assured the U.S. it can keep a strategic air base here — at least for now.


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Obama’s health insurance rule — it was a GOP idea (AP)

Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney speaks with Elizabeth Brackett at the Chase Auditorium in Chicago, in this photo taken Wednesday, March 24, 2010. None of the potential 2012 Republican presidential candidates has been more aggressive than Romney in criticizing the new health care overhaul. Then again, none shares his vulnerability on the issue. The new law bears striking similarities to one the former Massachusetts governor signed in 2006, and that's creating an uncomfortable straddle for Romney as his party makes attacking 'Obamacare' its primary message this midterm year. (AP Photo/Charles Cherney)AP – Republicans were for President Barack Obama’s requirement that Americans get health insurance before they were against it. The obligation in the new health care law is a Republican idea that’s been around at least two decades. It was once trumpeted as an alternative to Bill and Hillary Clinton’s failed health care overhaul in the 1990s. These days, Republicans call it government overreach.


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