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North Korea fires short range weapons

Mon, 20 May 2013 18:25:10 -0400

PYONGYANG - North Korea continued to fire short range projectiles into waters off its east coast for a third straight day on Monday, officials here said, despite warnings from the US and South Korea against increasing tensions. The North has conducted six such firings since Saturday, in what are believed to be tests of short-range guided missiles or rockets from multiple launchers, officials ...

US drugmaker Actavis buying Warner Chilcott in $8.5bn deal

Mon, 20 May 2013 17:31:34 -0400

WASHINGTON/ DUBLIN - Actavis Inc, the largest US generic drug maker by market value, is acquiring Dublin-based Warner Chilcott in a deal worth $8.5billion (5.6billion pounds) including $3billion net debt, to create the third-biggest specialty pharmaceutical company in the country. Under the deal, Actavis, which itself has been the subject of bid speculation, would be offering $5billion in ...

Bombardier unveils Challenger 350 mid sized business jet

Mon, 20 May 2013 17:11:21 -0400

GENEVA - Canadian aeroplane maker Bombardier has expanded its leading Challenger family of business jets with the launch of the new Challenger 350 aircraft in collaboration with global leader in private aviation, US firm NetJets. The launch on Monday was held at a special event here at the European Business Aviation Conference and Exhibition (EBACE). Bombardier said deliveries of the ...

Paraguay becomes South Americas used car paradise

Tue, 21 May 2013 01:00:02 -0400

Paraguay has become the main destination in South America for used cars from Japan, the US and other countries, thanks to new regulations aimed at making it easier to import automobiles so low-income consumers can purchase vehicles. Used cars are all the rage in Paraguay, where vehicles that have been shipped from thousands of kilometers away are put to use as soon as they are repaired and made ...

US Sees Climate of Intolerance on Global Religious Freedom

Mon, 20 May 2013 18:15:12 -0400

The United States said the right to global religious freedom was challenged last year, with governments often creating a "climate of intolerance" leading to hatred and violence. In an annual report, the State Department said Monday government officials worldwide are often allowed to act with impunity while violating the religious rights of their countrymen. It said there often is uneven ...

Burmese Presidents White House Visit a Reward for Reforms

Mon, 20 May 2013 18:15:11 -0400

Burmese President Thein Sein is visiting the White House, becoming the first leader of his nation to do so in nearly half a century. It marks the latest U.S. effort to reward him for introducing reforms after decades of military rule. The White House meeting with President Barack Obama also represents a rapid diplomatic boost for Thein Sein, whom the United States removed from a blacklist of ...

Past Differences Hamper US-Russian Efforts to Help Syria

Mon, 20 May 2013 18:15:06 -0400

Public diplomacy experts say a difference in perceptions dating back to the Cold War era could hamper U.S. and Russian efforts to deal with the ongoing civil war in Syria. Heritage Foundation senior fellow Helle Dale said there is a "love-hate" relationship between the United States and Russia that is "quite complicated." On VOA's Encounter program, Dale said she agrees with an ...

Obama Praises Burma Reforms Calls For End to Attacks on Muslims

Mon, 20 May 2013 18:15:04 -0400

U.S. President Barack Obama praised Burma's president on Monday for his leadership in pushing through political reforms, while warning that ethnic and communal violence targeting minority Muslims in Burma must stop. Mr. Obama spoke Monday at the White House, alongside Burmese President Thien Sein, the former general who in 2011 became president after Burma's first democratic polls in more than ...

President Obama To Visit Senegal South Africa Tanzania

Mon, 20 May 2013 18:15:03 -0400

The White House says U.S. President Barack Obama will travel to Africa this summer, visiting three countries. In a statement Monday, the White House says President Obama along with his wife, Michelle, will travel to Senegal, South Africa and Tanzania in late June and early July. The administration says Obama will meet with government officials as well as leaders from business, civil ...

Wave of Attacks Kills At Least 76 in Iraq

Mon, 20 May 2013 18:15:02 -0400

A wave of car bombings and suicide attacks against Shi'ite Muslims ripped through Iraqi cities Monday, killing at least 76 people and wounding scores more, extending the worst sectarian violence since U.S. troops withdrew from the country in December 2011. The attacks increased the number of Iraqis killed in sectarian clashes over the past week to more than 200, including 70 who died Friday in ...

Ahead of strategic dialogue US official goes to India

Mon, 20 May 2013 08:30:01 -0400

Ahead of US Secretary State John Kerry's June visit for the India-United States Strategic Dialogue, a senior American diplomat is travelling to New Delhi this week to exchange notes on the preparations. Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs Wendy Sherman, who will be in New Delhi May 24-25, will meet External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid, Foreign Secretary Ranjan Mathai and other ...

Chinese hackers resume cyber attacks on U.S. companies government agencies

Mon, 20 May 2013 06:50:02 -0400

Chinese hackers have resumed attacks on America three months after hackers, who worked for a cyber unit of China's People's Liberation Army, went silent amid evidence that they had stolen data from scores of American companies and government agencies. The hackers appear to have resumed their attacks using different techniques, according to computer industry security experts and American ...

Did Justin Theroux have bachelor party at NYC

Mon, 20 May 2013 06:40:01 -0400

Justin Theroux is rumoured to have had celebrated his bachelor party in New York City. The 41-year-old actor, who was photographed enjoying a stag party at the Big Apple on Sunday, is fuelling speculation that he could be tying the knot with Jennifer Aniston sooner than expected, Contactmusic reported. A pal of Theroux, writer Gavin McInnes, posted a photo of himself fooling around with the ...

Obama to reveal Guantanamo Bay plans drones strategy on Thursday

Mon, 20 May 2013 06:10:03 -0400

President Barack Obama will be speaking on his administration's evolving counterterrorism policies on Thursday, a White House official has said. The official told POLITICO that the president will also be discussing the administration's controversial use of drones and renewed plans to close the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay. Obama will discuss the country's broad counterterrorism policy, ...

Lady Gagas tattoo parlour visit helped her bag Machete Kills role

Mon, 20 May 2013 05:40:02 -0400

Lady Gaga's movie debut in Robert Rodriguez's 'Machete Kills' came due to a chance encounter with actor Danny Trejo in a Los Angeles tattoo parlour. According to a source, the film's star, Trejo, was getting inked at Shamrock Social Club in LA, right next to the 27-year-old singer, shortly before the movie started its production. When Gaga overheard Trejo saying that his film will be a sequel ...

Kerr suffers wardrobe malfunction

Mon, 20 May 2013 03:30:02 -0400

Supermodel Miranda Kerr suffered a wardrobe malfunction at the Miami Beach while she was shooting an ad campaign. The 30-year-old was shooting a campaign for her KORA Organics make-up line when her top fell down accidentally, exposing her breasts, reports dailystar.co.uk. She laughed off the blunder after covering up her ...

Chris Brown hit with death threats

Mon, 20 May 2013 03:00:02 -0400

Chris Brown is the focus of an investigation by Los Angeles Police Department after his lawyer Mark Geragos received multiple calls at his office threatening his client's life. Sources told TMZ.com that though it's unclear if any specific threats were made, the caller threatened to kill Brown. Insiders told the publication that Geragos, who represented Brown during his arrest and trial for ...

Leaks turn to deluge for reeling White House

Tue, 21 May 2013 02:06:18 -0400

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 ...

Feds also spied on Fox News reporter

Tue, 21 May 2013 02:06:18 -0400

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 phone ...

The taxman’s targeting blame the White House

Tue, 21 May 2013 02:06:14 -0400

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 ...

Hathaway lawyer pleads case to keep her out of prison feds want her to serve 12-18 months

Tue, 21 May 2013 01:59:51 -0400

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 ...

How to help OK tornado victims

Tue, 21 May 2013 01:53:08 -0400

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 ...

Deadly Oklahoma tornado exceptional but all too familiar

Tue, 21 May 2013 01:53:08 -0400

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 ...

Midwest still rough weather forecast

Tue, 21 May 2013 01:53:08 -0400

Bill Karins, NBC News meteorologist, talks with Rachel Maddow about the tornado forecast across the Midwest for the rest of the night and further storms expected though ...

National Guard brings skills equipment to tornado scene

Tue, 21 May 2013 01:53:07 -0400

Maj. Gen. Myles Deering of the Oklahoma City National Guard talks with Rachel Maddow about the role the National Guard will play in Moore, Oklahoma, from support to security. Lt. Gov. Todd Lamb discusses rescue preparedness through the overnight ...

Emergency workers prepare for overnight in Moore OK

Tue, 21 May 2013 01:53:06 -0400

Jayme Shelton, Moore, OK spokesperson, talks with Rachel Maddow about how the town is trying to pull itself together after being shattered by a deadly tornado. Jay Gray, NBC News correspondent, discusses lighting and heat detecting technology being deployed by rescue workers to continue the overnight sear for survivors and the obstacles to progress like disabled communication ...

IRS officials back on Capitol Hill hot seat over targeting

Tue, 21 May 2013 01:43:02 -0400

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A Senate panel will try on Tuesday to pry more details out of current and former officials of the Internal Revenue Service about the agency's targeting of conservative groups for extra scrutiny when they sought tax-exempt ...

South Africa Jansen to Be Honoured in New York

Tue, 21 May 2013 01:37:15 -0400

South Africa's Professor Jonathan Jansen will receive the Education Africa Lifetime Achievement Award for Africa at a gala ceremony in New York on 3 June, it was announced at the weekend. Jansen, the vice-chancellor and rector of the University of the Free State, played a key role in turning the university "away from its apartheid legacy into an institution that is truly representative ...

MLB San Francisco 8 Washington 0

Tue, 21 May 2013 01:33:45 -0400

Ryan Vogelsong earned a win but was injured Monday in San Francisco's 8-0 rout of Washington. Belt scored four times and his blast in the fifth inning handed a 6-0 lead to San Francisco, which opened a homestand by snapping a three-game ...

Hainan Airlines to launch Beijing-Chicago route on Sept 3

Tue, 21 May 2013 01:07:44 -0400

Economy-class passengers on the new route, which will initially use an Airbus 340, will be charged about 5,500 yuan ($895.4) for return tickets up to the end of ...

Hamels gets 10 Ks but falls to 1-7 with Miami loss

Tue, 21 May 2013 01:03:35 -0400

Philadelphia Phillies starting pitcher Cole Hamels throws in the first inning during a baseball game against the Miami Marlins in Miami, Monday, May 20, 2013. (AP Photo/Lynne ...

Medical examiner 20 children killed in twister

Tue, 21 May 2013 01:00:19 -0400

OKLAHOMA CITY -- The Oklahoma state medical examiner's office says that 20 children are among the dead in the tornado that ripped through Oklahoma City suburbs.The twister has 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 ...

Average credit card debt late payments fall in 1Q

Tue, 21 May 2013 01:00:18 -0400

LOS ANGELES -- Americans got better about paying their credit card debt on time in the first three months of the year, a period when many borrowers use income tax returns to tackle their holiday season debt.The rate of credit card payments at least 90 days overdue fell to 0.69 percent in the first quarter from 0.85 percent a year earlier - drop of nearly 19 percent, credit reporting agency ...

Detroit takes 2-1 series lead against Chicago

Tue, 21 May 2013 00:54:22 -0400

DETROIT — The young Detroit Red Wings have made the mighty Chicago Blackhawks look vulnerable, beating them two straight times to gain an advantage in their last playoff matchup as Western Conference rivals. Gustav Nyquist and Drew Miller scored 31 seconds apart midway through the second period and Pavel Datsyuk restored a two-goal lead in the third to help Detroit beat Chicago 3-1 Monday ...

What happens when a tornado hits

Tue, 21 May 2013 00:48:35 -0400

paul douglas . paul is someone i kaualways go. bill was talking before about an f-5 tornado. explain to me what that means and what happens. what are the physics when a tornado of that strength touches down in a pop ulaulated ...

Oh my God KFC cook records dramatic footage of monster tornado

Tue, 21 May 2013 00:48:35 -0400

By Jeff Black, Staff Writer, NBC News Michael Welch was midshift into his job at KFC in Newcastle, Okla., on Monday afternoon when he noticed hail pounding the parking lot outside the restaurant.Then, as he looked into the distance, he saw the wall cloud of an enormous tornado rotating in front of him."It was very large and very fast," he said. "I could see debris flying all ...

Tales of heroism emerge from battered Oklahoma

Tue, 21 May 2013 00:48:33 -0400

Chris Hayes talks to KFOR's Scott Hines about the stories of heroism in the immediate aftermath of the tornado and what the plan is going forward in terms of recovery and ...

Erupting Alaska volcano spews ash disrupts air travel

Tue, 21 May 2013 00:38:55 -0400

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (Reuters) - One of Alaska's most active volcanoes, which has been belching ash and spewing lava since last week, has forced regional flight cancellations and dusted some nearby communities with ash, scientists and local officials said on ...

Chicago puts ‘L’ on Jon Lester

Tue, 21 May 2013 00:37:55 -0400

CHICAGO - When Jon Lester took the mound last night, he was trying to become the first Red Sox lefty starter since 1973 to go at least 7-0 to begin a season.But he also was facing his personal kryptonite.In his best and worst seasons, Lester struggles against the White Sox. Indeed, it has become as predictable as winter blizzards in Chicago. In nine previous starts against the White Sox entering ...

Chicagos GrubHub to merge with Seamless

Tue, 21 May 2013 00:37:31 -0400

One company was founded in Chicago by hungry software engineers, the other in New York by hungry lawyers. Both were looking to replace restaurants' paper takeout menus with Web-based technology. Now the two rivals are joining forces. GrubHub, one of Chicago's most high-profile startups, is merging with New York-based Seamless to create an online food ordering company with more than ...

Rand Paul Calls IRS Scandal Un-American

Tue, 21 May 2013 00:34:58 -0400

May 20, 2013 11:36pm Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul made another stop in an early voting state Monday evening, continuing to feed the speculation that he will possibly run for president in 2016. Just 10 days ...

MLB Chicago White Sox 6 Boston 4

Tue, 21 May 2013 00:30:19 -0400

Adam Dunn clouted a three-run homer Monday, carrying the Chicago White Sox past Boston 6-4. Axelrod (2-3) limited the Red Sox to two runs on four hits over six innings, walking one and striking out two en route to his second victory in two starts. Addison Reed tossed a scoreless ninth inning for his 15th save as the White Sox broke a two-game skid. Dunn's homer in the first inning set the ...

AP Photos Images of devastating Oklahoma tornado

Mon, 20 May 2013 23:56:47 -0400

The devastating tornado that swept through Oklahoma turned houses into matchsticks and sent parents and teachers running to pull children from the wreckage of an elementary school in the eye of the storm. At least 51 people were killed by the 200-mph storm and dozens of homes destroyed. The toll was expected to rise. Here are images from the aftermath ...

Missouri city aids tornado-ravaged Okla. town

Mon, 20 May 2013 23:56:47 -0400

President Barack Obama has called Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin to express his concern about a monstrous tornado that wreaked havoc in the Oklahoma City ...

Zach Galifianakis Takes Former Homeless Woman to Hangover 3 Premiere in Los Angeles

Mon, 20 May 2013 23:50:58 -0400

Cast member Zach Galifianakis poses at the premiere of "The Hangover Part II" at Grauman's Chinese theatre in Hollywood, California May 19, 2011. Zach Galifianakis has taken a former homeless woman to the Los Angeles premiere of "The Hangover 3" on Sunday, according to reports.The Hollywood actor met 87 year old, Elizabeth "Mimi" Haist, at a Laundromat in 1994. ...

Two out of three regional hospitals still standing near tornado site

Mon, 20 May 2013 23:44:50 -0400

Kelly Wells of the Norman Regional Health System updates MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell on the status of local hospitals following the devastating and fatal tornado in Moore, Oklahoma ...

Moore Mayor Glenn Lewis Were still looking for people

Mon, 20 May 2013 23:44:49 -0400

MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell talks to Jill Ashtaugh, whose home was destroyed in the Oklahoma tornado. He's also updated on the status of Moore, Oklahoma by Mayor Glenn ...

Deadly tornado rips through Oklahoma

Mon, 20 May 2013 23:44:48 -0400

The town of Moore, Oklahoma, lost dozens of people in one of the most deadly and destructive tornados in living memory. MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell has the latest with Oklahoma Congressman Tom ...

Confirmed casualties at Oklahoma school flattened by tornado fire chief says

Mon, 20 May 2013 23:44:46 -0400

By Tracy Connor, Staff Writer, NBC News Seven children were found drowned at a tornado-flattened elementary school where rescuers were searching the rubble for survivors as parents kept a heart-breaking vigil, officials said Monday night.The students killed at Plaza Towers Elementary School were among at least 51 lives claimed by the monster twister that laid to Moore, Okla.Several children and ...

FBI Agents fell to deaths training off Va. coast

Mon, 20 May 2013 23:40:19 -0400

NORFOLK, Va. (AP) -- 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 ...

Healthcare workers set to strike California public hospitals

Mon, 20 May 2013 23:38:58 -0400

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Nearly 13,000 healthcare employees at five University of California medical centers plan to strike on Tuesday in a move that threatens to back up emergency rooms and already has forced the postponement of elective ...

U.S. Supreme Court agrees to hear town meeting prayer case

Mon, 20 May 2013 23:35:31 -0400

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Delving into the controversial relationship between government and religion, the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday agreed to consider whether a town in New York could allow members of the public, who in practice were nearly all Christian clergy, to open meetings with a ...

Jon Lester Red Sox fall in Chicago

Mon, 20 May 2013 23:34:37 -0400

CHICAGO - When Jon Lester took the mound tonight, he was trying to become the first Red Sox pitcher since 1973 to go at least 7-0 to start a season.But he also was facing his personal kryptonite.In his best and worst seasons, Lester struggles against the White Sox. Indeed, it has become as predictable as winter blizzards in Chicago. In nine previous starts against the White Sox entering the ...

Former IRS chief faces bipartisan ire on Capitol Hill

Mon, 20 May 2013 22:59:46 -0400

IRS scandal gains traction and a bipartisan chorus on Capitol Hill demands more answers, the man who headed the agency at the time it was targeting conservative groups will be on the hot seat twice this ...

Police close Susan Powell case offer new details

Mon, 20 May 2013 22:56:41 -0400

West Valley City Deputy Police Chief Mike Powell, center, makes remarks during a news conference, while West Valley City Mayor Mike Winder, right, and West Valley City Manager Wayne Pyle, left, look on Monday, May 20, 2013, in West Valley City, Utah. Citing a lack of leads, a police agency said Monday that it is closing the active investigation of the disappearance of Susan Powell, a Utah mother ...

File Josh Powell had affair before wife vanished

Mon, 20 May 2013 22:52:57 -0400

Chinese president to visit three Latin American nations meet Obama in US

Mon, 20 May 2013 22:49:35 -0400

Chinese President Xi Jinping will pay state visits to Trinidad and Tobago, Costa Rica and Mexico from May 31 to June 6, and meet with US President Barack Obama in the United States on June 7-8, Foreign Ministry spokesman Qin Gang announced Tuesday.According to Qin, Xi's visits are at the invitation of President of Trinidad and Tobago Anthony Carmona, President of Costa Rica Laura Chinchilla, ...

Is no place safe New Yorks gay community unsettled by hate crimes

Mon, 20 May 2013 22:44:19 -0400

Photo credit: David Gatten of New York marches in a rally to honor Marc Carson. (Craig Ruttle) The string of savage hate crimes in New York City, culminating with the death of Marc Carson in Greenwich Village early Saturday morning, has New York's gay community reassessing its assumption of "safe places." Gay people come from all over the world to enjoy the non-judgmental embrace ...

Tornado Alleys violent weather history

Mon, 20 May 2013 22:41:08 -0400

Harold Brooks, NOAA research meteorologist with the national severe storms lab, talks with Rachel Maddow about the meteorological dynamics of Tornado Alley and what explains the concentration of tornado events in ...

Six of the worst twisters in US history

Mon, 20 May 2013 22:41:08 -0400

An aerial view shows extensive damage to homes in the path of tornadoes in Tuscaloosa, Ala., April 28, 2011. Before Joplin came Tuscaloosa, an F4 tornado that killed 65 during a record-setting day when 200 twisters spun through the Southeast. The spring and summer of 2011 was one of the most active, deadly and destructive periods of tornadic activity in U.S. history. That year there were a ...

Logistics of tornado disaster challenges response

Mon, 20 May 2013 22:41:06 -0400

tornado warning that's going so this is by no means over. we had the mile-wide tornado that you mentioned in moore and we have so many people responding off the street to help that ...

Wait for news from schools heavy with anxiety

Mon, 20 May 2013 22:41:05 -0400

Jay Gray, NBC News correspondent, talks with Rachel Maddow from outside the wreckage of what was Briarwood Elementary School in Moore, Oklahoma before it was destroyed by a deadly tornado that cut a massive swath of destruction through the ...

Preparing for bad news in Oklahoma

Mon, 20 May 2013 22:41:03 -0400

The storm peaked in the populated area of Moore, Okla., where the town is bracing for more bad news in the coming days. The Weather Channel's Brian Norcross ...

Emergency responders rush all hands to tornado-stricken town

Mon, 20 May 2013 22:41:02 -0400

Janet Shamlian, NBC News national correspondent, talks with Rachel Maddow live from Moore, Oklahoma about the conditions she sees as authorities are limiting the people being allowed into the town. Oklahoma Lt. Gov. Todd Lamb discusses the state of efforts by first responders to find as many people as possible as quickly as possible in the ...

An agonizing wait for those returning to Moore

Mon, 20 May 2013 22:41:01 -0400

It is about an hour to travel two miles to reach the city of Moore now that traffic is so backed up. In addition, cell phones have been rendered useless by lack of signal. NBC's Janet Shamlian ...

Rescue workers face sea of destruction in Oklahoma

Mon, 20 May 2013 22:41:01 -0400

David Massey, whose series of brief web videos shot in the immediate wake of the Moore, OK tornado spread rapidly across the Web, talks with Rachel Maddow about what he experienced on the scene. Sgt. Gary Knight of the Oklahoma City Policy Department discusses the state of the emergency response and the greatest challenges rescuers are ...

Fox News Washington reporter who sought State Department leaks from Korean faces criminal rap

Mon, 20 May 2013 22:38:09 -0400

The US government is prosecuting a State Department expert on North Korea in an inquiry that appears to step into uncharted territory _ by declaring that a journalist is committing a crime in disclosing leaked information. It is the latest case of the Obama administration investigating classified information improperly disclosed to reporters, AP reports. During the investigation of State ...

White House Defends Tracking Fox Reporter

Mon, 20 May 2013 22:33:19 -0400

court affidavit obtained by The Washington Post . Without naming Mr. Rosen, the document describes the reporter as "at the very least, either as an aider, abettor and/or ...

A Mayoral Race of ‘Firsts’ for Los Angeles Voters

Mon, 20 May 2013 22:33:15 -0400

LOS ANGELES -- Voters in the nation's second-largest city will go to the polls Tuesday to elect a new mayor in an election that will inevitably result in a milestone: either the first woman or first Jew elected to the top city ...

TARGET SPEAKS OUT Tea Party Founder Claims Feds Eyed Her for Years

Mon, 20 May 2013 22:30:42 -0400

Catherine Engelbrecht has been telling people for years she's been targeted and harassed by the federal government. Not many people listened. But her case is receiving new attention after her congressman, Republican Texas Rep. Kevin Brady, recounted her ordeal during a high-profile House committee hearing on the IRS practice of singling out conservative groups. He claimed she was ...

Tornadoes in America The Oklahoma Disaster in Context

Mon, 20 May 2013 22:30:22 -0400

could probably lay claim to being the very center of Tornado Alley, an area roughly defined from north Texas to South Dakota, and west of the Mississippi river. On May 3, 1999, Moore was hit by one of the worst tornadoes on record. That storm's winds were indirectly measured at 302 miles per ...

Broward women brought 143 Haitians to S. Fla. for fake jobs feds say

Mon, 20 May 2013 22:30:06 -0400

Haiti with false promises of steady paying jobs in construction or on farms, the hope of getting permanent residency and making a life in the U.S., they said.But when they arrived, they found the jobs didn't exist, and they were left to fend for themselves — the victims of a fraud perpetrated by two Broward women, prosecutors said.The plot was so audacious that one of the women, Jetta ...

Pentagon to take over some CIA drone operations sources

Mon, 20 May 2013 22:29:50 -0400

A U.S. Marine, who is part of a military honor guard, takes his position before a welcoming ceremony for German Defense Minister Thomas de Maiziere, by U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel, at the Pentagon in Washington April 30, ...

The New York Times Reinvents the Boring Banner Ad

Mon, 20 May 2013 22:29:36 -0400

obscure piece on The New York Times’ website about Picasso repurposing his canvases by painting over older, abandoned projects was fascinating, at least insofar as stories about master artists and their recycling habits go. But let’s face it-it wasn’t exactly click ...

Chicago Blackhawks vs Detroit Red Wings Live Stream Free Watch Online Stanley Cup Playoffs Hockey

Mon, 20 May 2013 22:29:23 -0400

May 20, 2013 7:24 pm The Chicago Blackhawks will take on the Detroit Red Wings in the Stanley Cup Playoffs Western Conference semifinal series Game 3 on Monday night, with the Red Wings hoping to build on their Game 2 win, which brought the series back to 1-1.The game is scheduled to start at 7.30 p.m. ET and can be watched online through free live stream (details ...

Video Okla. tornado survivor finds dog buried alive under rubble