BP has agreed to pay a settlement in the billions of dollars for the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill, the AP reports. Two BP employees face manslaughter charges over the Deepwater Horizon rig explosion. And the source tells the AP that BP will plead guilty to obstruction for lying to Congress over the amount of oil being spilled.
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