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Committee nears final big immigration decisions
View Photo Associated Press/J. Scott Applewhite - Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., right, confers with the committee's ranking Republican, Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, on Capitol Hill ...
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The school started coming apart Trapped students had nowhere to hide
By Mike Brunker, Investigations Editor, NBC News When the sirens began blaring and teachers at Plaza Towers Elementary School in Moore, Okla., heard that a monstrous tornado was roaring toward their 57-year-old school and its youngest students, there was nowhere to hide.They crouched in hallways and bathrooms, waiting, hoping and praying. Then "the school started coming apart," one ...
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Senate set to grill IRS officials as White House seeks to clarify timeline
Follow @mpoindc As the White House works to contain the political fallout over its knowledge that the IRS had targeted conservative groups applying for nonprofit status, the outgoing agency chief and IRS inspector general will join former Commissioner Douglas Shulman in an appearance Tuesday before the Senate Finance Committee.Republicans hope the hearing – along with a separate hearing ...
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Family of dead American condemns Singapore inquiry
(16 mins ago) The family of a US scientist found hanged in Singapore last year walked out of a coroner's inquiry into their son's death today, saying they had ';lost faith'' in the proceedings. ';The prosecution brings forth witnesses at the last minute and we have no chance to question it. Basically we actually have lost faith in the process,'' Rick ...
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Customs officers seize elephant meat dead primate in Los Angeles
This photo released by U.S. Customs & Border Protection, shows elephant meat, one of several contraband items seized by the agency at Los Angeles International Airport between May 6 and ...
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Many children among 91 feared dead in tornado-hit Oklahoma
MOORE, Oklahoma (Reuters) - At least 91 people, including 20 children, were feared killed when a 2 mile wide tornado tore through an Oklahoma City suburb, trapping victims beneath the rubble as one elementary school took a direct hit and another was ...
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MoyersWinship Corporate Greed Is Poisoning America — Literally
noted , "Inspections are virtually non-existent; regulatory agencies don't talk to each other; and there's no such thing as a buffer zone when it comes to constructing plants and storage facilities in populated areas." For years, the Fertilizer Institute, described as "the nation's leading lobbying organization of the chemical and agricultural industries," ...
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FBI Agents fell to deaths training off Va. coast during maritime counterterrorism exercise
NORFOLK, Va. - Two FBI agents who died while training off the Virginia Beach coast fell to their deaths when a helicopter had trouble during a "maritime counterterrorism exercise," an agency spokeswoman said Monday night. Special Agents Christopher Lorek and Stephen Shaw were killed when they fell into the water Friday. Both were members of the bureau's elite hostage rescue team, ...
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Mammoth Okla. twister kills at least 51 including 20 kids
OKLAHOMA CITY The Oklahoma state medical examiner's office says 20 children are among the dead in the tornado that ripped through Oklahoma City suburbs. The twister killed at least 51 people, and officials fear the death toll will rise. Medical examiner spokeswoman Amy Elliott confirmed the children's deaths Monday night. The tornado made a direct hit on an elementary school in Moore, ...
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In an instant everythings gone
>Are you experiencing severe weather in your area? Send photos and videos to CNN iReport. But please remember to stay safe. For local coverage of Monday's devastating storms in Oklahoma, go to these CNN affiliates: KFOR, KOCO, KOKH, KOKI. Moore, Oklahoma (CNN) -- Clinging to the hope of finding more survivors, rescue workers raced overnight scouring mountains of rubble where houses and ...
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NHL Detroit Red Wings down Chicago Blackhawks for 2-1 lead
NHL Western Conference semi-final series with a 3-1 win over the Chicago Blackhawks in Game 3 on Monday. After squaring the best-of-seven series in Chicago on Saturday, the Red Wings maintained the momentum on home ice to beat the top-seeded Blackhawks and move ahead 2-1 in the series. Game 4 is on Thursday, again in Detroit. Red Wings goaltender Jimmy Howard weathered an early storm, making ...
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Okla. mayor says city already at work on recovery
MOORE, Okla. -; Glenn Lewis was the mayor of Moore, Okla., when the strongest tornado on record whipped the city in 1999, and he says the most recent storm won't deter the community from ...
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Easier travel ahead for Conn. commuters
Metro North employees, in orange vests, help transfer westbound commuters at the transportation center in Bridgeport, Ct., to shuttle buses Monday, May 20, 2013. The commuters had arrived from New Haven by train and were being bused to Stamford, Ct., where rail service to New York was available. A train collision on Friday injured 72 people and disrupted rail service into New York City. (AP ...
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Killing of gay man in NYC draws protesters
Pedestrians pass a makeshift memorial for 32-year-old Mark Carson, Monday, May 20, 2013, in New York. Police said Elliot Morales yelled anti-gay slurs before shooting Carson point-blank in the face in Greenwich Village, a neighborhood long known as a bedrock of the gay rights movement. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin ...
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51 killed in Okla. tornado toll expected to rise
MOORE, Okla. -; The Oklahoma Medical Examiner's Office says the official death toll in the aftermath of a massive tornado that slammed the Oklahoma City area remains at 51 but is expected to ...
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Cathie Anderson Fungus killing coffee plantations in Mexico Central America
Coffee lovers probably won't hear much about la roya in the United States, but this fungal disease is decimating thousands of coffee farms across Mexico and Central America.Pete Rogers isn't the average American coffee lover. He travels to Guatemala, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama and other exotic locales to find and purchase green coffee beans for his family's company, Rogers ...
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Lawyers can get prison records for bombing suspect
BOSTON – A judge approved a request Monday by Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's defense attorneys to receive records compiled on him in federal prison. U.S. Magistrate Judge Marianne Bowler said in her order that prison officials should give attorneys the daily activity logs, suicide watch logs, psychology data files, photographs, commissary files they requested, and ...
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American was murdered in Singapore says pathologist
(17 mins ago) An American scientist found hanged in Singapore last year was murdered and his death made to look like a suicide as part of a conspiracy, a US pathologist told an inquiry today. Edward Adelstein, 75, a deputy medical examiner in Missouri, contradicted Singapore police findings that Shane Todd killed himself, but admitted his conclusions were based on pictures of the body and ...
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10th Annual Get Active America program
For this year's 10th Annual Get Active America! program, which runs throughout the month of May, The Corpus Christi Athletic Club is joining with the International Health, Racquet & Sportsclub Association (IHRSA) to help America become physically active and improve their diet. As part of Get Active America! The Corpus Christi Athletic Club will encourage its community to work towards ...
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Leaks turn to deluge for reeling White House
A few hours after that, we were told that everybody at the most senior levels of the White House knew about the report revealing the targeting of conservative groups by the Internal Revenue Service - everybody but the president, who maintains he learned about it from watching TV.By far the most damaging of the stories has to do with the assault on press freedom.In 2009, Fox News reporter James ...
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Feds also spied on Fox News reporter
WASHINGTON - The Obama administration’s snooping scandal mushroomed yesterday when it was revealed that the Justice Department seized a trove of information about Fox News correspondent James Rosen in an effort to aid a leak investigation - including tracking the reporter’s movements in and out of the State Department.The feds gained access to records of Rosen’s use of the ...
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The taxman’s targeting blame the White House
Whether the Obama administration could have stopped the IRS’ targeting of conservative groups.***Jonah Goldberg made an excellent point in "IRS Follows O’s Lead," (PostOpinion, May 17) when he said: "Imagine for a moment if black civil-rights organizations, gay groups or teachers unions were targeted by the IRS." The White House would have started a major ...
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Hathaway lawyer pleads case to keep her out of prison feds want her to serve 12-18 months
Detroit - Former Michigan Supreme Court Justice Diane Hathaway shouldn't spend a day in federal prison, her lawyer said Monday, despite admitting she orchestrated an elaborate two-year scheme to defraud her bank of $600,000 owed on a Grosse Pointe Park home. Defense lawyer Steve Fishman argued the loss was less than $70,000 and urged U.S. District Judge John Corbett O'Meara to keep ...
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How to help OK tornado victims
Rachel Maddow lists ways for viewers to help the people of Moore, Oklahoma deal with the aftermath of a deadly tornado either through the Red Cross or the Regional Food Bank of ...
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Deadly Oklahoma tornado exceptional but all too familiar
Harold Brooks, NOAA research meteorologist with the national severe storms lab, talks with Rachel Maddow about the history of extreme, deadly and damaging tornadoes across the Midwest and 'Tornado Alley' and the science behind forecasting ...
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