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  • Crews Dig Through Night After Deadly Okla. Twister

    21 May 2013, 6:25 am by: NOMAAN MERCHANT, TIM TALLEY

    Spotlights bore down on massive piles of shredded cinder block, insulation and metal as crews worked through the night early Tuesday lifting bricks and parts of collapsed walls where a monstrous tornado barreled through the Oklahoma City suburbs, demolishing…
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  • 51 Killed In Oklahoma Tornado; Death Toll To Rise

    20 May 2013, 8:25 pm by: Tim Talley

    Updated 9:17pm ET MOORE, Okla. (AP) -- A monstrous tornado at least a half-mile wide roared through the Oklahoma City suburbs Monday, flattening entire neighborhoods and destroying an elementary school with a direct blow as children and teachers huddled…
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  • Panel: Apple Uses Firms Outside U.S. To Avoid Taxes

    20 May 2013, 6:40 pm by: MARCY GORDON

    WASHINGTON (AP) -- Apple Inc. employs a group of affiliate companies located outside the United States to avoid paying billions of dollars in U.S. income taxes, a Senate investigation has found. The world's most valuable company is holding overseas…
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  • Obama Cites Myanmar Reforms During Leader's Visit

    20 May 2013, 6:37 pm by: MATTHEW PENNINGTON & NEDRA PICKLER

    WASHINGTON (AP) -- In a long-awaited White House visit, President Barack Obama on Monday told Myanmar's president that he appreciates the Asian leader's efforts to lead the country in "a long and sometimes difficult, but ultimately correct, path to…
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  • DOJ Report: US Attorney Leaked Memo To 'Undermine' Fast And Furious Whistleblower

    20 May 2013, 6:29 pm by: Hunter Walker

    In a scathing new report, the Department of Justice's Office of the Inspector General accused onetime Arizona U.S. Attorney Dennis K. Burke of leaking confidential documents to a reporter in a politically-motivated attempt to "undermine" a whistleblower who…
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  • Tornado Churns Through Oklahoma City Suburbs

    20 May 2013, 4:51 pm by: SEAN MURPHY

    OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) -- A mile-wide tornado churned through the Oklahoma City suburbs, destroying homes for the second day in a row Monday, as part of a severe weather outbreak that was expected to spread in other parts of the...    
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  • Secret Service Looking Into Radio Host's Graphic Violent Comments About Obama, Hillary Clinton

    20 May 2013, 3:16 pm by: Brian Beutler

    The Secret Service is following up on recent comments by right wing radio host Pete Santilli, who claimed to want to shoot former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in the vagina and see President Obama tried and shot for treason.    
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  • Tunisian Feminist Arrested for Alleged Provocation

    20 May 2013, 3:07 pm by: BOUAZZA BEN BOUAZZA

    TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) -- An outspoken Tunisian feminist who scandalized the country by posting topless photos of herself online has been arrested and may be charged for conducting "provocative acts" at a religious center where police prevented hardline Islamists…
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  • Myanmar Leader Making Landmark White House Visit

    20 May 2013, 1:02 pm by: MATTHEW PENNINGTON

    WASHINGTON (AP) -- Former general Thein Sein on Monday becomes the first Myanmar president to be welcomed to the White House in almost 47 years, crowning a dramatic diplomatic rehabilitation for his nation after years of international isolation. But…
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  • Second Person Killed By Oklahoma Tornado In Leveled Mobile Home Park

    20 May 2013, 11:22 am by: SEAN MURPHY

    SHAWNEE, Okla. (AP) -- Oklahoma's state medical examiner's office says a second person was killed by a tornado that leveled a central Oklahoma mobile home park....    
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  • Poll Shows Obama's Approval Inching Up Despite Scandals

    20 May 2013, 10:03 am by: Tom Kludt

    A recent string of scandals have threatened to beset President Barack Obama's second term, but the latest CNN/ORC International poll released Sunday found that he has yet to pay a price in his approval rating for them.    
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  • Hofstra University Student Shot, Killed By Cop In Split-Second Decision

    20 May 2013, 9:30 am by: VERENA DOBNIK

    NEW YORK (AP) -- The college student was being held in a headlock by a masked intruder with a loaded gun to her head, police said. Then the gunman took aim at an officer....    
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  • Buying Tumblr, Mayer Promises 'Not To Screw It Up,' Will Let It Run Independently

    20 May 2013, 9:01 am by: Zoe Schlanger

    NICHOLAS CARLSON | Business Insider Yahoo just announced that it is buying Tumblr for $1.1 billion. Tumblr CEO David Karp and Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer are taking great pains to assure Tumblr users that they will not "screw up" Tumblr...    
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  • Former "Hero" Cop Who Met Michelle Obama Charged With Raping Two Women At Gunpoint

    20 May 2013, 8:38 am by: RON TODT

    PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- A former Philadelphia police officer once hailed as a hero and given a seat next to the first lady at a speech by President Obama has been arrested and charged with rape and other crimes....    
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  • CT Commuters Face Week Of Major Disruptions After Metro North Collision That Injured 72

    20 May 2013, 8:29 am by: JOHN CHRISTOFFERSEN

    BRIDGEPORT, Conn. (AP) -- Connecticut commuters planned for long, slow trips to and from work Monday following last week's train collision that that injured 72 people and disrupted rail service into New York City....    
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  • CEO Of Associated Press Calls Phone Record Seizure 'Unconstitutional'

    20 May 2013, 8:18 am by: PHILIP ELLIOTT

    WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Associated Press' president and chief executive says the government's secret seizure of two months of reporters' phone records has already had a chilling effect on newsgathering, a week after the subpoenas were revealed…
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  • Yahoo Will Buy Tumblr For $1.1 Billion

    20 May 2013, 8:10 am by: ASSOCIATED PRESS

    SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- Yahoo is buying online blogging forum Tumblr for $1.1 billion as CEO Marissa Mayer tries to rejuvenate an Internet icon that had fallen behind the times....    
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  • Wave Of Car Bombs, Shootings Kills At Least 70 Across Iraq

    20 May 2013, 7:35 am by: SINAN SALAHEDDIN

    Updated 9:44 A.M. E. T. BAGHDAD (AP) -- A wave of car bombs and shootings killed at least 70 people in Shiite and Sunni areas of Iraq on Monday, officials said, escalating fears of a return to widespread sectarian bloodletting...    
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  • More Than 85,000 Vets Sought Treatment For Sex Abuse In 2012 Alone

    20 May 2013, 7:23 am by: KEVIN FREKING

    WASHINGTON (AP) -- More than 85,000 veterans were treated last year for injuries or illness stemming from sexual abuse in the military, and 4,000 sought disability benefits, underscoring the staggering long-term impact of a crisis that has roiled the…
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  • SKorea: NKorea Fires Sixth Projectile Into Waters

    20 May 2013, 7:20 am by: HYUNG-JIN KIM

    North Korea fired short-range projectiles into its own eastern waters Monday for a third straight day, Seoul officials said. The North said it was bolstering deterrence against enemy attack.    
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  • Gay Man Fatally Shot In NYC's West Village, Suspect Charged With Hate Crime Murder

    20 May 2013, 7:00 am by: VERENA DOBNIK

    NEW YORK (AP) -- The man who police say hurled homophobic slurs at a gay man on a Manhattan street before firing a single fatal shot to his head appeared in court Sunday to face a charge of murder as...    
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  • Tornadoes Slam Plains, Midwest; 1 Dead In Okla.

    20 May 2013, 6:19 am by: SEAN MURPHY

    SHAWNEE, Okla. (AP) -- Hearing on the radio that a violent storm was approaching her rural Oklahoma neighborhood, Lindsay Carter took advantage of the advanced warning, gathered her belongings and fled. When she returned, there was little left of the community…
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  • Tea Party Sees IRS Debacle as Chance for Movement's Rebirth

    19 May 2013, 6:55 pm by: THOMAS BEAUMONT

    DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) -- Is the tea party getting its groove back? Shouts of vindication from around the country suggest the movement's leaders certainly think so. They say the IRS acknowledgement that it had targeted their groups for extra...    
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  • Official: 'Amazing' No One Died In Conn. Train Crash

    18 May 2013, 5:58 pm by: JOHN CHRISTOFFERSEN

    FAIRFIELD, Conn. (AP) -- Officials described a devastating scene of shattered cars and other damage where two trains packed with rush-hour commuters collided in Connecticut, saying Saturday it's fortunate that no one was killed and that there weren't even…
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  • Up To 60 Injured After Car Drives Into Virginia Parade

    18 May 2013, 5:51 pm by: DEBRA McCOWN

    DAMASCUS, Va. (AP) -- About 50 to 60 people were injured Saturday when a driver described by witnesses as an elderly man drove his car into a group of hikers marching in a parade in a small Virginia mountain town....    
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