A.M. News Links: Obama rips government's "cozy relationship" with oil industry

Video: Watch 11-year-old world fire-knife champion perform

APPresident Barack Obama, standing with Interior Secretary Ken Salazar, center, and Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, delivers remarks in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington Friday following his closed meeting with his Cabinet and other senior administration officials on the ongoing effort to stop the BP oil spill.
President says he'll end a practice that allows companies to drill offshore without properly assessing potential threats to protected sea life. (Wall Street Journal)

» The Thai military declares a neighborhood of Bangkok a “live-fire zone” and says it is calling in reinforcements (New York Times)

» Schwarzenegger calls for cutting welfare-to-work, other programs in bleak California budget (San Jose Mercury News)

» New York City is cracking down on taxi drivers who overcharge customers (New York Post)

» A sheriff's deputy in Washington state, who was believed to have shot his mother-and father-in-law on Friday evening, was found dead by a SWAT team early this morning. (Seattle Times)

» Preston Weber, an 11-year-old from Florida, wins his age division at the World Fire-Knife Championships in Hawaii. He said he learned about the activity after watching videos on YouTube. (Honolulu Star Bulletin)