Oil Spill. Oil sheens began lapping the shores of Louisiana's barrier islands on Thursday as emergency crews moved a 78-ton dome into place in the Gulf of Mexico in hopes of lowering it over a runaway oil well 5,000 feet below the water's surface.
Immigration. A coalition of civil rights and labor groups said Thursday that it has organized a national boycott of Arizona in the wake of the state's new law targeting illegal immigrants.
British Election. David Cameron has reached out to the Liberal Democrats in an effort to form a government -- after the U.K. general election resulted in a hung parliament.
Quote of the Day. “Most everybody recalls that the atomic bomb was made by the Manhattan Project. They’re the people that made the atomic bomb. We had nothing to do with the making -- we were merely the delivery boys, so to speak.” Dutch Van Kirk, the last surviving member of the Enola Gay crew that dropped the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima, speaking in Columbus, GA. (McClatchy News)
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