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Death toll at least 51 in Oklahoma tornado
Oklahoma medical examiner 's office, said 51 were confirmed dead, up from 37 fatalities reported earlier. The powerful tornado, rated the second highest strength level of EF4 and packing winds of up to 200 miles per hour, touched down at midafternoon and devastated a wide area of the town. (Reporting By Brendan O'Brien; Writing by Greg McCune; Editing by Bill ...
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Rare fox makes comeback on Calif. island
northern Channel Islands , a rugged and wind-swept chain off Southern California, officials said Monday. The population of the fox dropped to an all-time low of just 70 animals ...
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Tornado rated EF4 second strongest level
EF4 tornado can blow away a well-constructed wood or brick home. A final rating will not be known until teams have examined the damage. (Reporting by Greg McCune; Editing by Bill ...
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Euro rebounds yen gains
THE euro has rebounded against the dollar after sharp losses last week, while the yen also pushed higher after Japan's economy minister said it may have fallen far ...
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Euro Outlook and Levels
Euro Outlook and Levels This is an important week for the euro. For the past month, investors have been selling euros and buying dollars on the premise that the Eurozone is in recession, U.S. is in recovery and the ECB is considering more stimulus at a time when the Fed is considering less. All of these assumptions will be tested this week with key event risks on both sides of the Atlantic. For ...
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Huge tornado hits Oklahoma City area
A devastating, mile-wide tornado touched down near Oklahoma City on Monday, decimating homes, businesses and schools in the suburb of Moore. There were no immediate reports of fatalities or injuries, as emergency officials urged people to remain off the roads so rescue workers and first responders could reach people potentially trapped in rubble. "This is war zone terrible," Jon ...
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Doors keyboardist Ray Manzarek dies at 74
View Photo Reuters/Reuters - Riders On The Storm's Ray Manzarek performs during a concert of their European tour which commemorates the 40th anniversary of the band The Doors in Valencia January 14, 2007. ...
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Obama to travel to Africa in late June
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama and his wife, Michelle, will travel to Senegal, South Africa and Tanzania in late June and early July to reinforce U.S. ties with countries in sub-Saharan Africa, the White House said on ...
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More Obama aides knew of IRS audit Obama not told
FILE - In this May 15, 2013 file photo, President Barack Obama speaks in the East Room of the White House in Washington. It might have seemed a no-win situation to the White House: either keep President Barack Obama in the dark about a looming investigation into political targeting by the Internal Revenue Service or blur legal lines by telling him about an independent audit. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn ...
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Britain is booming FTSE reaches 12-year high as record looms
FTSE 100 blue chip index matched levels from September 2000, just before the market's fascination with loss-making technology companies such as lastminute.com came to an abrupt end and the dotcom bubble burst. The closely watched index of the 100 biggest companies traded in London is also within sight of its all time peak of the 6,930 reached on 30 December 1999.The FTSE 100 is nonetheless ...
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Downright chilling targeting of Fox News reporter
decision to target of one of its reporters , James Rosen, in a national security leak investigation. Executive Vice President Michael Clemente portrayed the government's actions as an assault on "what up until now has always been a free press." "We are outraged to learn today that James Rosen was named a criminal co-conspirator for simply doing his job as a reporter," ...
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NYPD to increase presence after bias killing
NEW YORK -; A spate of anti-gay attacks in New York City is prompting police to increase their presence in some gay-friendly neighborhoods heading into what's usually a time for ...
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Senators want fingerprint checks at airports
exit system is long overdue." A full-fledged biometric entry-exit system is favored by many senators but was deemed too expensive and unworkable to include in the bill. Current law already requires such a system to be in place, but the Department of Homeland Security has not implemented it. Instead the bill seeks electronic scanning of photo IDs. Under Hatch's amendment, the ...
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Why an 87-year-old took on Donald Trump Someone had to
View Photo Associated Press/M. Spencer Green, File - FILE - In this May 14, 2013 file photo, Donald Trump arrives at federal court n Chicago to testify at a civil trial where he's accused of enticing investors to ...
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Bomb attacks kill more than 70 across Iraq
View Photo Reuters/Reuters - Residents gather at the site of a car bomb attack at the Kamaliya district in Baghdad May 20, 2013. REUTERS/Mohammed ...
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787s return to skies above the U.S.
its 787s back in the air. The planes are returning after being grounded for four months by the federal government because of smoldering batteries on 787s owned by other airlines. The incidents included an emergency landing of one plane, and a fire on another. The incidents never caused any serious injuries. But the January grounding embarrassed Boeing, which makes the 787, and disrupted ...
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Five die in van crash along Illinois highway
Interstate 70 near Vandalia, about 70 miles east of St. Louis. Zimmerman says many of the victims were ejected from the van. The six others in the 15-passenger van have been hospitalized. Details of their conditions have not been released. Details of what caused the crash or to whom the van belonged are not immediately available. The Associated Press has left messages with Fayette County ...
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U.S. and European Union Set to Negotiate Settlements in Chinese Solar Panel Cases
Hong Kong -- The Obama administration and the European Union have decided to negotiate settlements with China in the world's largest anti-dumping and anti-subsidy trade cases involving China's roughly $30 billion a year in solar panel shipments to the West, officials and trade advisers in Beijing, Brussels and Washington ...
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Royal Bank of Scotland leads the way as FTSE 100 hits highest level since September 2000
was the day's biggest riser.The bank ended 15.1p higher at 351.9p after analysts at Numis raised their recommendation from hold to buy and their target price from 308p to 410p. The broker said RBS's US business Citizens was undervalued while the profitability of its UK retail operations would be underpinned by its efficiency measures.Overall the FTSE ...
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The myth of suburban prosperity
Brookings Institution said. Suburbs, however, still have a smaller percentage of the poor than cities do. The report notes that poor people were pulled to the suburbs by more affordable homes and followed jobs that were often low paying. But those who moved to the suburbs also saw manufacturing jobs disappear and housing prices plummet following the economic recession. "The myth of ...
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Immigration agency employees union president denounces reform bill
Immigration Services officer Norma Christian speaks with an immigrant at the USCIS office on May 17, 2013, in New … The president of a union that represents 12,000 U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services employees announced his opposition to the immigration reform bill in the Senate on Monday morning. "The legislation will provide legal status to millions of visa overstays while ...
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Split-second choice ended with N.Y. student dead
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. A moment later ...
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London Markets Ftse 100 Jumps To Highest Close Since 2000
LONDON – U.K.'s benchmark stock index ended at the highest closing level since September 2000 on Monday, boosted by banking shares and a rally for budget airline EasyJet PLC.The FTSE 100 index added 0.5% to close at 6,755.63, building on gains from Friday, when the index climbed to the highest closing level since October 2007.Shares of budget airline EasyJet PLC jumped 4% to 12.35 ...
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UPDATE 1-Spains El Corte Ingles in 5 bln euro debt restructuring
Mon May 20, 2013 1:04pm EDT By Carlos Ruano MADRID May 20 (Reuters) - Spanish department store El Corte Ingles, the country's largest privately held company, said on Monday it had started talks to restructure debt totalling 5 billion euros ($6.43 billion). El Corte Ingles, one of Spain's largest employers and most venerable retailers, has been hit by a tough economic downturn and been ...
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Actavis to buy Warner Chilcott in $5bn stock deal
20 May 2013 GENERIC drugmaker Actavis Inc, itself the subject of takeover speculation, said on Monday it would buy specialty pharmaceutical ...
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US nuclear missles in Europe remain poised for a war that will never come
The United States and Russia recently signed a new landmark nuclear non-proliferation treaty called START in March and the US in early May followed up its non-proliferation goals by making the unprecedented step of publicly declaring how many nuclear weapons it had – just over 5,113 in total, though many of them are in storage and would take time to be deployed.
That is a vast reduction compared to the total arsenal the country possessed at the height of the Cold War in 1967, the number at that time was 31,225, according to reports by European news media. Read more
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