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BP started to implement a "top kill" procedure on Wednesday, with the hopes that it would stop thousands of barrels of oil from leaking into the Gulf of Mexico. The procedure involves pumping thousands of pounds of heavy drilling mud and cement into pipes deep underwater.

North Korea declared it would sever all ties with South Korea today.

The energy giant says Transocean, Halliburton and Cameron International were involved.

President Barack Obama wants Congress to pass legislation that would require lawmakers to vote on spending bill cuts if the president finds  pork barrel spending in a bill.

South Korea made the move following a suspected North Korean torpedo attack that killed 46 people.

The report relies on South Korean forensic evidence that the torpedo which sank the Cheonan was North Korean.

A Picasso was among the works stolen from the Paris Museum of Modern Art.

BP says it is removing 210,000 leaking gallons of oil per day, but some is still escaping.

The Senate will begin its Judiciary Committee Supreme Court Justice confirmation hearings for U.S. Solicitor General Elena Kagan on June 28.

One American contractor, nine service members and 10 others are dead following an attack on the Bagram Air Base 30 miles north of Kabul, Afghanistan.

Leaders gave up when armored vehicles rammed through barricades and soldiers opened fire.

The biggest upset was in Pennsylvania, where Sen. Arlen Specter lost to Rep. Joe Sestak.

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Voters cast ballots in primary elections in Pennsylvania, Arkansas and Kentucky today.

The Thai government rejected requests for talks today from anti-government red-shirt protestors.

The car bomb targeted a military convoy today. Six NATO service members are among those dead.

BP has stopped some of the oil from leaking, but is it too late to stop the ooze from reaching the Atlantic Ocean?