uspost 08:43 pm | The Vermilion Oil rig 380 has exploded 90 miles south of Vermillion Bay in the Gulf of Mexico. As recently reported on CNN, the 13 people that were on the rig are accounted for. One has been taken to the hospital. Most of the workers are wearing “Gumby” immersion suits…

uspost 06:09 am | Foot-fault call gets Roddick off his game in his 3-6, 7-5, 6-3, 7-6 (4) second-round loss. Those rackets became unnecessary because the ninth-seeded Roddick was unaggressive with his tennis but not with his emotions and he left the U.S. Open as a second-round upset loser to 44th-ranked Janko Tipsarevic, 3-6,…

uspost 06:03 pm | An expedition surveying the wreck of the Titanic is showing off some crisp images of the world’s most famous shipwreck, but officials said on Sunday they were headed back to shore. The team of scientists have been using a pair of robots to take thousands of photographs and hours of…

uspost 02:43 pm | Congressional opponents, stubborn diplomats or wary heads of state, beware: The new Oval Office sofas look so comfy, you just might be lulled into a few reckless compromises. Every president eventually puts his own mark on the Oval Office, decoratively speaking, and the White House unveiled the Obama makeover on…

uspost 01:34 pm | Powerful Hurricane Earl wheeled toward the East Coast, driving the first tourists Wednesday from North Carolina vacation islands and threatening damaging winds and waves up the Atlantic seaboard over Labor Day weekend. Visitors were taking ferries off Ocracoke Island and told to leave neighboring Cape Hatteras in North Carolina’s Outer…

uspost 12:43 pm | The 65-year-old ex-smoker has a tumor in his throat and will undergo radiation and chemotherapy in a series of treatments expected to last eight weeks. Douglas is likely to make a full recovery, says Dr. Robert Haddad, an oncologist at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston who is not involved in…