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Deepwater Horizon trial resumes

? FLOW: Oil flows out of the top of the transition spool, which was placed into the gushing wellhead to house the new containment cap, at the site of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico in July 2010. The federal trial over the BP oil spill resumed yesterday with a focus on the company's response to the disaster, with millions of dollars at stake as the two sides argue over how much oil spewed into the Gulf of Mexico