Associate Press: Federal authorities have asked an appeals court to reinstate a moratorium on deepwater drilling declared after BP’s oil well blew out in the Gulf of Mexico. In a filing late Tuesday in the U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals, the government challenged a federal judge’s finding the Interior Department did not offer clear reasons for the six-month moratorium. A lawsuit against the moratorium was filed by Hornbeck Offshore, an oil field service company that claims it would have …