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Updated: Wed May 22, 2013 11:17 AM
The Oklahoma medical examiner's office says two infants are among 24 people killed by the tornado that ripped across the Oklahoma City area this week.
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Updated: Wed May 22, 2013 11:16 AM
The Oklahoma Insurance Department says a preliminary estimate suggests the cost of the tornado that hit the Oklahoma City suburb of Moore could be more than $2 billion.
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Updated: Wed May 22, 2013 9:47 AM
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 and has invoked her constitutional right to not answer lawmakers' questions.
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Updated: Wed May 22, 2013 9:03 AM
Chairman Ben Bernanke is telling Congress that the U.S. job market remains weak and that it is too soon for the Federal Reserve to end its extraordinary stimulus programs.
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Updated: Wed May 22, 2013 5:28 AM
Your daily look at late-breaking news, upcoming events and the stories that will be talked about today.
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Updated: Wed May 22, 2013 5:37 AM
The residents of Moore, Okla., affected by a deadly tornado are coming back to find their belongings scattered and their homes left in pieces.
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Updated: Wed May 22, 2013 5:36 AM
Five men are under round-the-clock U.S. surveillance in Libya, wanted for questioning in the attack last year on the diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya.
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Updated: Wed May 22, 2013 5:34 AM
A House committee taking Congress' latest look at the Internal Revenue Service's mistreatment of tea party groups will apparently hold its hearing without input from its star witness.
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Updated: Wed May 22, 2013 5:33 AM
The Boy Scouts of America will convene a two-day meeting of 1,400 local leaders to consider changing its long-standing ban on allowing openly gay boys to don the Boy Scouts uniform.
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Updated: Wed May 22, 2013 5:32 AM
While Congress debates legalizing about 11 million immigrants living in the U.S. illegally, immigration advocates are pushing plans they say will open the asylum process for thousands more people who flee persecution in their home countries.
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Updated: Wed May 22, 2013 5:31 AM
A House panel is poised to approve a series of revisions to military law in an effort to stem the growing epidemic of sexual assaults in the armed forces.
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Updated: Tue May 21, 2013 6:00 PM
The Army says the commanding general of Fort Jackson, S.C., has been suspended in connection with charges of adultery and involvement in a physical altercation.
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Updated: Tue May 21, 2013 4:22 PM
Kentucky Governor Steve Beshear issued a statement Tuesday in response to the deadly Oklahoma tornadoes.
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Updated: Tue May 21, 2013 4:07 PM
The Senate has voted to keep a $400 million annual cut - or roughly a half of 1 percent - to the food stamp program in a farm bill it is considering this week.
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Updated: Tue May 21, 2013 4:05 PM
A key figure in the Internal Revenue Service controversy plans to invoke her constitutional right not to testify at a congressional hearing on Wednesday. Lois Lerner is the director of the IRS division that handles applications for tax exempt status.
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Updated: Tue May 21, 2013 3:27 PM
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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Updated: Tue May 21, 2013 1:49 PM
U.S. officials say they have identified five men they believe might be behind the attack on the diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya, last year.
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Updated: Tue May 21, 2013 1:23 PM
Wind, humidity and rainfall combined precisely to create the massive killer tornado in Moore, Okla. And when they did, the awesome amount of energy released over that city dwarfed the power of the atomic bomb that leveled Hiroshima.
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Updated: Tue May 21, 2013 11:19 AM
Rescue teams combed through pulverized buildings and splintered homes early Tuesday after one of the deadliest tornadoes in U.S. history blasted through Oklahoma City and its suburbs, killing at least 24 people, including nine children.
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Updated: Tue May 21, 2013 11:21 AM
Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew says the Internal Revenue Service's targeting of conservative political groups was "unacceptable and inexcusable" and he has directed the agency's acting director to hold people accountable.
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