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Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy by Mike Memoli A recent poll showed many Americans are uncertain of his faith, but President Obama said in an interview Sunday that he can't worry about dispelling......

Updated by Mike Memoli Seven weeks after the initial rig explosion at BP's Deepwater Horizon rig, President Obama has reportedly asked for a meeting with the company's top executive. Obama told NBC News this week that he had not yet......

President Obama's address, as prepared for delivery, is available after the jump.......

by Mike Memoli The final piece in a choreographed three-day series of events intended to showcase President Obama's handling of the Gulf oil crisis is now underway, as BP executives finally sit down with senior White House officials to discuss......

DEAR READERS: If you're thinking about giving your favorite new college grad a memorable book as a graduation gift, I recommend the just-published "Making a Difference: Stories of Vision and Courage from America's Leaders" by Capt. Chesley "Sully"...

"It has become conventional wisdom that the BP-funded response to the spill was a chaotic and mismanaged affair, driven by corporate avarice, lacking in urgency, and at times willfully negligent of the problem's scope … The evidence for this is...

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is the nation's lead science agency in handling oil spills. On the one-year anniversary of the BP oil spill, NOAA Administrator Jane Lubchenco talked to Orlando Sentinel columnist Mike Thomas about the...

BP resumed work Friday on the drilling operation meant to spell the ultimate end of its notorious gulf well as it continued to scale back its massive cleanup operation. “We’re far from finished,” said Doug Suttles, the company’s outgoing cleanup.....

A complete sealing of the BP oil well is not likely to occur until sometime after Labor Day, the federal government’s spill response chief said Thursday. The delay is necessary because federal officials are requiring that BP engineers take new,......

The company that owned the Deepwater Horizon oil rig that exploded in the Gulf of Mexico is accusing BP of withholding what it describes as critical evidence needed to investigate the cause of worst maritime oil spill in history, according......

Engineers will conduct more tests on BP's troubled oil well before deciding how to proceed with a plan to kill it for good, a government officials said Wednesday. Thad Allen, the federal spill response chief, told reporters that crews planned......

BP engineers flushed crystalline gas and water formations, known as methane hydrates, out of a damaged blowout preventer atop their capped Gulf of Mexico oil well Monday, thus freeing blocked rams on the structure. The successful operation means that...