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The Development Driller III rig used to drill the relief well Photo: Derick E. Hingle/Bloomberg via Getty Images After a weekend of final sealing and testing, the federal government on Sunday declared the Macondo oil well officially dead. The announcement came nearly five months after the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded in the Gulf of Mexico, setting off the largest offshore oil spill in U.S. history. The well-kill is an end to one chapter of the Deepwater Horizon story, but other chapters are just beginning. Here a roundup of stories to watch:The Legal Battle | Just last week, Judge Carl Barbier held the first hearing in what likely to be a years-long legal fight for the more than 300 lawsuits already filed against BP and others likely to c
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When Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated on April 4, 1968, Robert F. Kennedy was campaigning in the Midwest. Kennedy broke the news to a shocked crowd in Indianapolis that evening and offered compelling words of solace, noting that he, too, had a lost his brother to an assassins bullet.The following day, Kennedy came to Cleveland. He cancelled every other campaign event that day, but kept an appointment at the City Club of Cleveland. There, he delivered not a standard stump speech, but a meditation that mourned King, embraced his message of non-violence and challenged America
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