A deal to buy California and settle the Texas boundary line--Slidell worked as an ambassador to Mexico to offer $25 million for California and agreement to set the boundary line of Texas at the Rio Grande.
Slidell brought this deal to Mexico partly because Texas was a free independent state that wanted to be annexed by the US but had not settled their southern border. The US wanted the boundary settled before annexing Texas. Also the wanted the California region to expand land holdings. Mexico rejected the offer.
In the aftermath of the event in 2010, regarding the Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill The United States Department of Justice filed a lawsuit against the Oil Industry Company, BP, and its associates for violations under the Clean Water Act in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Lousiana - court that took the case to be heard, although BP and its associates intially wanted it to be heard at Houston.
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The 2016 average of 18.6 births per 1,000 total population equates to approximately 4.3 births per second or about 256 births per minute for the world.
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