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Damaging storms move through east, south

Posted: 02 Jun 2013 05:03 PM PDT

A police officer offers directions to a driver leaving this heavily damaged supply yard for Cactus Drilling Company on State Highway 66 in El Reno, Okla. on Saturday, June 1, 2013. Employee David Stottemyre was working in the lot when the tornado took aim at the plant. Stottemyre ran inside the large supply storage building and took shelter as the tornado passed over, leaving the building in a twisted pile of steel and metal. He was not injured. (AP Photo/The Oklahoman, Jim Beckel) LOCAL STATIONS OUT (KFOR, KOCO, KWTV, KOKH, KAUT OUT); LOCAL WEBSITES OUT; LOCAL PRINT OUT (EDMOND SUN OUT, OKLAHOMA GAZETTE OUT) TABLOIDS OUTThe East Coast braced for remnants of deadly weather that hit Oklahoma.


Erdogan rejects 'dictator' claims of Turkey protesters

Posted: 02 Jun 2013 01:38 PM PDT

Anti-government protesters clash with riot police near the Prime Minister Erdogan's office in IstanbulTurkey's prime minister on Sunday dismissed Istanbul protesters as extremists.


GOP lawmaker: IRS targeting likely led by Washington

Posted: 02 Jun 2013 03:29 PM PDT

U.S. Representative Issa walks from a Republican caucus meeting on Capitol Hill in WashingtonThe claim was quickly rejected by a top congressional Democrat.


House panel: Report finds $50M for IRS conferences

Posted: 02 Jun 2013 03:08 PM PDT

FILE – In this Nov. 9, 2011, file photo then-Controller Danny Werfel of OMB Office of Federal Financial Management watches as President Barack Obama (not shown) signs an Executive Order to cut waste and promote efficient spending across the federal government in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington. Friday May 31st, 2013, Werfel, the new acting Commissioner of the IRS, issued a statement commenting on a report by Treasury Department's Inspector General in which he criticized a $4 million IRS conference in August 2010 in Anaheim, Calif. The report will be released Tuesday. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File)The report comes as the agency faces bipartisan criticism.


At Princeton, Bernanke offers no hint of Fed moves

Posted: 02 Jun 2013 01:29 PM PDT

Ben S. Bernanke, Chairman of the Federal Reserve leads the processional out of Princeton University Chapel after giving the Baccalaureate address during an interfaith service in Princeton, N.J. Sunday, June 2, 2013. At left is outgoing Princeton President Dr. Shirley Tilghman, (AP Photo/Rich Schultz)He quoted everyone from Lily Tomlin to Forrest Gump but scarcely mentioned economics.


‘Storm Chasers’ star Tim Samaras, son die chasing Oklahoma tornado

Posted: 02 Jun 2013 10:27 AM PDT

FILE - In this May 26, 2006, file photo Tornado chaser Tim Samaras shows the probes he uses when trying to collect data in Ames, Iowa. Jim Samaras said Sunday, June 2, 2013, that his brother Tim Samaras was killed along with Tim's son, Paul Samaras, and another chaser, Carl Young, on Friday, May 31, 2013 in Oklahoma City. The National Weather Service's Storm Prediction Center in Norman, Okla., said the men were involved in tornado research. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall, File)They were among those killed in Friday's powerful storms.


Cloning contest seeks worthiest U.K. dog

Posted: 02 Jun 2013 03:25 PM PDT

Cloning Contest Seeks Worthiest UK DogPuppy lovers in the United Kingdom may soon get a chance to extend their dogs' years.


Hezbollah, Syrian rebels in worst clash in Lebanon

Posted: 02 Jun 2013 12:45 PM PDT

This citizen journalism image provided by Qusair Lens which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, shows Fadi Kerkoz mourning next to a body of his brother Shadi Kerkoz, who was killed in a battle against Syrian forces loyal to Syrian President Bashar Assad, in the town of Qusair, near the Lebanon border, Homs province, Syria, Sunday, June 2, 2013. Syrian rebels fought with gunmen from the Hezbollah militia in a deadly clash on Lebanese soil, a security official and local media said Sunday, in the latest sign Syria's civil war is spilling over the country's borders. (AP Photo/Qusair Lens)Syrian rebels and Hezbollah guerrillas battled Sunday in their worst clashes yet inside Lebanon, a new sign that the civil war in Syria is increasingly destabilizing its fragile neighbor.


Llama busts loose in Fla., subdued with taser

Posted: 02 Jun 2013 01:08 PM PDT

This June 1, 2013, photo provided by the Leon County Sheriff's Office, shows Leon County officials working to corner Scooter, a 7-year-old llama that was on the loose in north Florida, in Tallahassee, Fla. Scooter had to be subdued with a Taser, authorities said Sunday. (AP Photo/Leon County Sheriff's Office)When Scooter the llama busted out of his penned-in yard in Tallahassee, it took three county sheriff's deputies and a taser gun to get him back in again.


Congressmen, Seagal find few Boston attack clues in Russia

Posted: 02 Jun 2013 02:02 PM PDT

Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, left, who is leading a U.S. Congressional delegation to the Russian Federation, Rep. Steven Cohen, center, and U.S. actor Steven Seagal, right, speak to the media after a news conference in U.S. Embassy in Moscow, Russia, Sunday, June 2, 2013. A U.S. Congressional delegation to Russia learned little about what could have been done to prevent the Boston Marathon bombings, but got to hang out with Steven Seagal. Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, a California Republican who led the six-person delegation this week, said at a press conference Sunday that there was The head of a U.S. congressional delegation said Sunday that its meetings in Russia showed there was "nothing specific" that could have helped prevent the Boston Marathon bombings, but that the two countries need to work more closely on joint security threats.


Plouffe: IRS targeting 'was not a political pursuit'

Posted: 02 Jun 2013 10:31 AM PDT

'This Week' Web Extra: David PlouffeEx-White House senior adviser and Democratic strategist David Plouffe fought back against assertions from GOP strategist and former Deputy Chief of Staff to George W. Bush Karl Rove that the IRS's targeting of conservative groups was a political pursuit driven by Democrats.


Blow to Egyptian regime: Court rules legislature illegally elected

Posted: 02 Jun 2013 06:49 AM PDT

FILE - In this file photo taken on Tuesday, April 23, 2013, Egyptian Shura Council members meet to discuss the government's 2013-2014 budget at the Shura Council, Parliament's upper house. When voters went to the polls more than a year ago to vote for Egypt's upper house of parliament, most presumed the legislature would be the powerless talk shop that it had been for 30 years. Few candidates were known outside their families, parties or neighborhoods. Only seven percent of the electorate bothered to cast a ballot. Thanks to the twists and turns of the rocky transition that followed Egypt's 2011 uprising, the Shura Council finds itself the sole law-making body in the land. This accidental legislature is now back in the spotlight ahead of an expected court ruling on its disputed legal status _ a move that could see it dissolved. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil, File)Egypt's highest court ruled on Sunday that the nation's Islamist-dominated legislature and constitutional panel were illegally elected, dealing a serious blow to the legal basis of the Islamists' hold on power.


Schumer: Immigration bill to pass Senate by July 4

Posted: 02 Jun 2013 10:59 AM PDT

FILE – In this May 9, 2013, file photo Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., left, confers with Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., as the Senate Judiciary Committee meets on immigration reform on Capitol Hill in Washington. On a Sunday morning talk show June 2, 2013, Schumer predicted that comprehensive immigration reform would overwhelmingly pass the Senate by July 4. He said he anticipates as many as 70 of the 100 senators will vote for the measure heading to the full Senate on June 10. "We are moving forward because we believe in a bipartisan way this is so vital for America, and we'll have a good bill," Schumer said, pledging to allow colleagues to amend the legislation. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)A lawmaker who helped negotiate a bipartisan bill to overhaul immigration predicted on Sunday that comprehensive legislation would overwhelmingly pass the Senate by July 4 while House Republicans cautioned that they would write their own version, one piece at a time.


Central Europe hit by floods after days of rain

Posted: 02 Jun 2013 02:06 PM PDT

Parts of the old town re flooded by the river Danube in Passau, southern Germany, Sunday, June 2, 2013. Heavy rainfalls cause flooding along rivers and lakes in Germany, Austria and the Czech Republic. (AP Photo/dpa, Armin Weigel)Authorities in parts of central Europe issued disaster warnings and scrambled to reinforce flood defenses Sunday as rivers swelled by days of heavy rain threatened to burst their banks.


Who won $590M jackpot? Fla. city still wonders

Posted: 02 Jun 2013 06:25 AM PDT

FILE - In this Sunday, May 19, 2013 file photo, satellite trucks are parked outside a supermarket where the highest Powerball jackpot worth an estimated $590.5 million was sold in Zephyrhills, Fla. It's been two weeks since news broke that the winning $590 million Powerball ticket was sold in this small town north of Tampa. No one expected the winner to come forward in the first days after the announcement, but now people are starting to wonder. Who won? Does the person with the winning ticket live in town? Did they lose the ticket? It's all anyone is talking about here. (AP Photo/Scott Iskowitz)It's been two long weeks since the small city of Zephyrhills learned that a $590 million Powerball ticket was sold at a supermarket here.


Southern Calif. wildfire explodes in size overnight

Posted: 02 Jun 2013 09:02 AM PDT

The Powerhouse Fire burning in the Angeles National Forest northwest of Los Angeles sends up a huge plume of smoke on Saturday, June 1, 2013. Smoke from the fire made visibility hazy in the San Fernando Valley, foreground. The blaze has burned thousands of acres of brush since it erupted Thursday afternoon near a utility powerhouse. (AP Photo/John Antczak)A fire that has burned at least five structures and is threatening about 1,000 others exploded in size overnight, burning dangerously close to two foothill communities north of Los Angeles.


Long-awaited Bulger murder trial set to begin in Mass.

Posted: 02 Jun 2013 07:21 AM PDT

FILE - This June 23, 2011 booking photo provided by the U.S. Marshals Service shows James "Whitey" Bulger, one of the FBI's Ten Most Wanted fugitives, captured in Santa Monica, Calif., after 16 years on the run. Bulger's trial begins with jury selection on Tuesday, June 4, 2013 in federal court in Boston. (AP Photo/ U.S. Marshals Service, File)BOSTON (AP) — James "Whitey" Bulger is no longer the feared man who swaggered around South Boston and later became one of the nation's most-wanted fugitives.


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