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Powerful thunderstorms rumble through hard-hit Midwest
EDMOND, Okla. A powerful storm system rumbled through the Plains and upper Midwest on Sunday, spawning tornadoes that damaged homes and buildings near Oklahoma City and put the Tulsa area on high-alert. There were no immediate reports of injuries caused by any of the tornadoes that touched down in Oklahoma and Kansas, including one that hit the Oklahoma City suburb of Edmond before moving ...
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10 Things to Know for Monday
Your daily look at late-breaking news, upcoming events and the stories that will be talked about Friday: 1. OBAMA OFFERS STARK VIEW, AND ENCOURAGING WORDS, FOR BLACK GRADS As an African-American man, he tells Morehouse's Class of '13, 'I might have been in prison. I might have been unemployed. I might not have been able to support a family. And that motivates me.' 2. ...
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Krauthammer White House should try telling the truth
The original CIA draft included four paragraphs on the involvement of al-Qaeda-affiliated terrorists and on the dangerous security situation in Benghazi. These paragraphs were stricken after strenuous State Department objections mediated by the White House. All that was left was the fable of the spontaneous ...
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Duck duck goose annual North American head count has begun
Murray Gillespie, a waterfowl biologist with Enviorment Canada and the Canadian Wildlife Service and his summer student Michele Chupik survey duck populations on a wetland east of Calgary on May 11, 2013. (Chris Bolin for The Globe and ...
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Elite FBI agents killed in training accident off beach in Virginia
United States Two FBI agents from the elite Hostage Rescue Team have been killed in a training accident.The Federal Bureau of Investigation says they died off a beach in Virginia.US media reports say the accident involved a ...
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Investigation continues into train collision
connecticut . shocked passengers making their way to safety just moments after impact. nbc news has not authenticated the video. today crews separated more than a dozen rail cars at the collision site and heavily damaged train cars were moved. a slow tow to a nearby railyard. the ntsb is focusing on two sections of track with signs of possible fractures. they were sent to the agency's lab ...
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Fla. town waits for Powerball winner
Residents of Zephyrhills, Fla., where the winning ticket for the $590 million jackpot was sold, are anxiously awaiting to find out who the big winner is. NBC's Kerry Sanders ...
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Obama gets personal addressing grads
At his commencement address at Morehouse College, President Barack Obama tied Dr. Martin Luther King's journey to his own struggles, NBC's Lester Holt ...
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Return of the typewriter
royal standard . and the oiled glikens dp duerfer. these remarkables stood no chance against the digital exchange. or did they? at the mesa typewriter exchange is noticing a trend dplp now people using typewriters are dampb group and they love their typewriters. in the last few years i've had more and more interest from younger ...
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Human brains are wired to make music-color connections
When listening to music, human brains are wired to make music-color connections depending on how the melodies make people feel, U.S. researchers say. Vision scientist Stephen Palmer of the University of California, Berkeley, and colleagues found people in both the United States and Mexico linked the same pieces of classical orchestral music with the same colors suggesting humans share a common ...
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Officials warn of commuter chaos from Connecticut derailment
Passengers wait to be picked-up after two commuter trains collided in Bridgeport, Connecticut causing one to derail injuring numerous passengers, May 17, ...
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Russia Expels Former American Embassy Official
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Shooting of armed intruder hostage haunts New York police officer
NEW YORK -- The police officer who accidentally killed a Long Island college student along with an armed intruder faced perhaps the most harrowing decision of a law enforcement career: choosing the split-second moment when the risk is so high that you must act to save a ...
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Video Lucky lotto How a $4.8 million winning ticket saved a family
A multi-million dollar payout from a winning lottery ticket saved a home from foreclosure in Chicago, and the family swears it's all because of their own guardian angel. Dean Reynolds ...
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Video Long Island college student accidentally killed by police
Instead of celebrating graduation day, students at Hofstra University on Long Island are mourning a classmate accidentally killed by a police during a confrontation with an armed suspect. Terrell Brown ...
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Video Train collision will cause major headache for commuters
Crews are just starting to rebuild hundreds of track south of New Haven, Conn., after a train collision Friday night sent 72 people to the hospital. The missing track will cause an ugly commute for thousands. Don Dahler ...
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Video Senior White House We only learned of IRS probe this month
President Obama's senior adviser, Dan Pfieffer, told "Face the Nation" the White House had only heard of the IRS probe this month -- but that has done nothing to quite conservative critics. Sharyl Attkisson ...
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MLB Colorado 5 San Francisco 0
Juan Nicasio tossed six shutout innings Sunday and Colorado caught San Francisco atop the National League West with a 5-0 win over the Giants. Nicasio (4-1) broke a personal three-start winless streak, taming the Giants on three hits. The right-hander walked one and struck out five in the ...
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White House says not involved in IRS scandal
The White House on Tuesday said it is not involved in the scandal that engulfed the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), as the agency's head tried to explain the situation. White House Spokesman Jay Carney made the announcement during his regular briefing, saying "I am certainly not aware and am confident that no one here was involved in this." Carney said Obama is awaiting a report ...
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Americas Cup Changes Are Sought After Death of Sailor
More than a week after the death of British sailor Andrew Simpson in a training accident, none of the four ...
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Weeklong traffic mess possible after CT derailment
Traffic in southwest Connecticut could be a mess for as much as a week until service is restored to the commuter rail line affected by a derailment that injured scores of passengers, Gov. Dannel P. Malloy warned ...
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AP PHOTOS College commencements across nation
First lady Michelle Obama has some advice for some Tennessee high school graduates: Strike your own path in college and life and work to overcome inevitable failures with determination and ...
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Venezuela in rare diplomatic overture to America
CARACAS - Venezuela on Sunday made a rare diplomatic overture to the United States, suggesting it could be time for better ties."We are going to remain open to normalizing relations with the United States," Foreign Minister Elias Jaua said on Televen television Sunday."The first thing would be to resume diplomatic representation at the highest level," he said.The ...
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Count your blessings a religious America
An unforgettable scene in the kids movie Madagascar 2 has King Julian, "Lord of the Lemurs," reclining with his friends at the luxury end of a rickety old plane watching newsreels of aircraft crashes while the penguins dubiously take the controls.When Melman, the giraffe, walks to the front and pokes his head through the curtain dividing 'cattle class' from the elites, Julian ...
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Millions in the path of severe weather
oklahoma , including this one we saw a bit earlier in edmond. this has been a topsy-turvy weekend for a lot of paeople in the country's midsection and this weather is on the move. tonight ...
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