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Saturday, October 31, 2026Oct 31

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OIL SPILL

A mile-long tube operating in the Gulf of Mexico for about a week has siphoned off more than half a million gallons of oil in the past week, but it began sucking up oil at a slower rate over the weekend. Even at its best the effort did not capture all the oil leaking, and the next attempt to stanch the flow won’t be put into action until at least Tuesday.