A cap has been placed on top of the leaky Gulf oil well, but BP says it may take 24 hours to know if it worked.

East Coast: Jealous of all that free oil Louisiana is getting? No worries! The National Center for Atmospheric Research says that the huge oil slick from the Deepwater Horizon catastrophe could hit the East Coast in a matter of weeks.

President Obama has bailed on his Australia/Indonesia trip, thanks to the BP oil spill.

Avatar and Titanic director James Cameron is shocked that the "morons" at BP rejected his offer to show them how to solve the oil spill. He directed a movie about a maritime crisis, once, why wouldn't they want his wisdom?

After yesterday's robotic buzz saw failure, and America's reluctance to use nukes on the well, BP is turning to a huge pair of shears to cut the leaky pipe in the Gulf. December isn't too far off, right? [AP, pic]

Yesterday, we shared a photo of the BP station on Houston Street, the sign for which had been vandalized to look like it was dripping with oil. Today, it was cleaned up—by a company called "Restore America." [via]

Shepard Smith has long been known for his brutally honest on-air comments. Sometimes he's right, and sometimes he's wrong. Today, when Smith angrily blasted BP CEO Tony Hayward for saying, "I want my life back," he was right. Video inside.

The oil leak in the Gulf could continue until Christmas, some analysts are now suggesting.

The first step of BP's latest attempt to stop their oil leak has succeeded.

Tonight, The Daily Show returned from a two-week hiatus. Naturally, Jon Stewart opened with a focus on the disastrous BP oil spill. Unexpectedly, however, Stewart spent several minutes criticizing President Obama for his apparent unfocused and lazy response. Video inside.

Well, as the failure of "top kill" showed, BP is utterly useless when it comes to cleaning up their oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. So the feds have called in someone else: Avatar director James Cameron. Wait, what?

Federal authorities are opening criminal and civil investigations into the oil spill.

Anne Womack-Kolton is either the best PR person in the biz, or an evil demon. (Both?) Having served as the Cheney-monster's press secretary during the 2004 election, Womack-Kolton has been tapped by the petrol concern to spin their mess. She-Devil!!!!

[BP's gigantic sign on Houston Street has been slimed. And yes, that really is how much gas costs in New York. Image via Johan Lammers' Twitter and Runnin Scared.]

Oil spilling BP's share price has fallen 17% on London's FTSE 100 index, its lowest point in over a year.

So, "top kill," BP's last-ditch effort to seal up their oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico, has failed. Now that our best chance for stopping the leak didn't work, what's next? And what sexy nickname will it have?

In light of recent failures by BP to stop their oil leak, perhaps it's time to get aggressive. In this archival footage, the Soviets used a nuke to stop a leaking gas well. We're so screwed.

BP are allegedly still keeping some journalists from reporting the oil spill. One photographer described access as "slowly being strangled off," and others have been threatened with arrest. Pilots with journalists on board are sometimes barred from flying low. [AP]

The top kill has failed. Now BP is so desperate that they put a hotline on their website where you can call in and offer ideas. We called it and a nice woman answered. We gave her some ideas. Listen!

Officials from Jefferson Parish, Louisiana have told Yahoo News and local NBC affiliate WDSU that BP bused in hundreds of temporary workers to make it look like they were doing more than they were for oil-slicked local beaches.