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  • Lea Bessinger and her son Josh Bessinger look through the rubble of her tornado-ravaged home Tuesday, May 21, 2013, in Moore, Okla. A huge tornado roared through the Oklahoma City suburb Monday, flattening an entire neighborhoods and destroying an elementary school with a direct blow as children and teachers huddled against winds.
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  • A tent is erected near the scene of an attack in Woolwich southeast London Wednesday, May, 22, 2013. British officials said one person has died and at least two people have been wounded in an attack in southeast London. Scotland Yard said officers responded to reports of an assault Wednesday afternoon in the London neighbourhood of Woolwich. London Ambulance service said one man was found dead at the scene and two other men were taken to the hospital, with one in serious condition. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant)
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  • A British official says a violent attack near a London barracks is being investigated as a possible terrorist act.
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  • The Oklahoma medical examiner's office says it has positively identified 23 of 24 people killed in the tornado.
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  • Rep. Anthony Weiner, D-N.Y.
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  • IRS official Lois Lerner is sworn in on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, May 22, 2013, before the House Oversight Committee hearing to investigate the extra scrutiny IRS gave to Tea Party and other conservative groups that applied for tax-exempt status. Lerner told the committee she did nothing wrong and then invoked her constitutional right to not answer lawmakers questions. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
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  • Report: FBI agent fatally shoots Tsarnaev associate
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  • Lea Bessinger and her son Josh Bessinger look through the rubble of her tornado-ravaged home Tuesday, May 21, 2013, in Moore, Okla. A huge tornado roared through the Oklahoma City suburb Monday, flattening an entire neighborhoods and destroying an elementary school with a direct blow as children and teachers huddled against winds.
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  • Rep. Anthony Weiner, D-N.Y.
  • Anthony Weiner's run for a renaissance is officially on.
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  • The Internal Revenue Service official at the center of the storm over the agency's targeting of conservative groups has told Congress she did nothing wrong.
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  • Report: FBI agent fatally shoots Tsarnaev associate
  • According to ABC News, an FBI agent was conducting an interview with an associate of the Boston Marathon Bombing suspects when he felt threatened and opened fire, killing the man.
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  • Boy Scouts
  • The Boy Scouts of America will convene a two-day meeting of 1,400 local leaders to consider changing its long-standing ban on openly gay boys in the scouting movement.
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  • Some 1,500 visitors were cleared out of Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris after a man put a letter on the altar of the 850-year-old monument Tuesday, pulled out a gun and shot himself in the head.
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  • Pope Francis' fascination with the devil took on remarkable new twists Tuesday, with a well-known exorcist insisting Francis helped "liberate" a Mexican man possessed by four different demons despite the Vatican's insistence that no such papal exorcism took place.
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  • Regular train service is returning to Connecticut, five days after a derailment injured scores of commuters and damaged tracks.
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  • Oklahoma tornado
  • Dozens of people were killed by a devastating tornado that flattened homes and businesses in the state.
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  • In this image made from video provided by APTN, Pope Francis lays his hands on the head of a young man on Sunday, May 19, 2013, after celebrating Mass in St. Peters Square. The young man heaved deeply a half-dozen times, convulsed and shook, and then slumped in his wheelchair as Francis prayed over him. The television station of the Italian bishops conference said it had surveyed exorcists, who agreed Francis either performed an exorcism or a prayer to free the man from the devil. The Vatican was more cautious Tuesday, saying Francis didnt intend to perform any exorcism. But as he often does for the sick or suffering, he simply intended to pray for someone. (AP Photo/APTN)
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  • Members of the LGBT community and their supporters gather to speak out after a string a bias attacks, including the fatal shooting of 32-year old Mark Carson on Saturday, during a rally in New Yorks Greenwich Village, Monday, May 20, 2013. A spate of hate-fueled attacks on gay men in New York, including a killing last week on a busy street in one of Manhattans most gay-friendly neighborhoods, has prompted outcry and soul-searching about enduring bias after gay-rights advances in recent years. (AP Photo/Jason DeCrow)
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  • Jodi Arias
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  • Oklahoma tornado
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  • Oklahoma tornado
  • Helmeted rescue workers raced Tuesday to complete the search for survivors and the dead.
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  • Oklahoma tornado
  • With the deadly tornadoes in the Oklahoma region, we've got information about how you can help.
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  • Oklahoma City tornado
  • Monday's powerful tornado in suburban Oklahoma City loosely followed the path of a killer twister that slammed the region in May 1999.
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  • Country music performer Toby Keith says he grew up in the area near Oklahoma City that was hit by a devastating tornado.
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  • Oklahoma tornado
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  • Oklahoma City tornado
  • The National Weather Service says the tornado that hit Moore, Okla., was a top-of-the-scale EF-5 twister with winds of at least 200 mph.
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  • Jodi Arias
  • Jodi Arias asked jurors Tuesday to give her life in prison, saying she "lacked perspective" when she told a local reporter in an interview that she preferred execution to spending the rest of her days in jail.
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  • An emergency official says Oklahoma has reinforced tornado shelters in hundreds of schools across the state, but the two that were hit by this week's storms in suburban Oklahoma City did not have them.
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  • An official says toxicology tests on the Newtown school shooter's body did not turn up any alcohol, illegal drugs or prescription medication.
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  • Newly released police records show that Utah officials believe Josh Powell likely killed his wife and that his brother, Michael Powell, helped dispose of the body.
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  • A foster mother faces 100 days in prison after acknowledging she spanked a 4-year-old girl with a wooden spoon.
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  • President Barack Obama pledged urgent government help for Oklahoma Tuesday in the wake of "one of the most destructive" storms in the nation's history.
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  • Oklahoma tornado
  • The state medical examiner's office has revised the death toll from a tornado in an Oklahoma City suburb to 24 people.
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