Incoming BP CEO Bob Dudley is expected to discuss the oil giant's long-term recovery efforts in the Gulf of Mexico during a news conference in Mississippi on Friday.

James Lee Witt, director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency during the Clinton administration, will join Dudley at the event in Biloxi, Mississippi. Witt, who was appointed in June to conduct an independent review, will advise Dudley on the company's response to the oil disaster.

Retired Coast Guard Adm. Thad Allen, the man overseeing Washington's response to the oil spill, will provide his own update Friday on operations taking place in the Gulf. He'll give his briefing at Tyndall Air Force Base in Florida.

Allen met with coastal parish officials Thursday to discuss the next steps in the cleanup efforts now that the oil has stopped flowing in the Gulf and what will happen when the well is permanently sealed.

A House investigative panel filed 13 charges of ethical wrongdoing against Rep. Charles Rangel, D-N.Y. Among them are allegations that Rangel:  --Improperly used official stationery and congressional staff to solicit donations for a New York college center named after him.

--Accepted favors and benefits from donors to the Rangel Center that could be construed as influencing his congressional actions. --Improperly used the congressional free mail privilege to send solicitations for the Rangel Center in violation of postal laws and congressional rules. --Engaged in a pattern of submitting financial disclosure statements that were incomplete and inaccurate.

--Failed to report rental income from his unit in the Punta Cana resort in the Dominican Republic on his federal tax returns from 1998 through 2006. --Used a rent-subsidized apartment in New York as a campaign office when the lease required that the apartment be only for living space.

Nevada Senate candidate Sharron Angle backed away Tuesday from remarks in which she referred to the Second Amendment right to bear arms and the need to "take ... out" Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid.

Angle, in her first extended Nevada interview since winning the June 8 primary, said she was speaking broadly about the Constitution and her words about the Democratic leader were "a little strong."

The Republican nominee stopped short of an apology but said she no longer uses that phrase. "I meant take him out of office, and taking him out of office is a little different," Angle said. "I changed my rhetoric." Angle's interview on Nevada's KVBC's news interview program "Face to Face with Jon Ralston" came after several weeks in which she's rarely talked with reporters.

Architects of President Obama's 2008 victory are braced for potentially sizable Democratic losses in November's midterm elections. But they say voters' unease about a GOP takeover will help their party maintain congressional majorities.