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Iran Bars Mashaei and Rafsanjani as Candidates
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Rescue Efforts Near End in Oklahoma
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Fed officials dampen speculation of imminent bond tapering
FRANKFURT/NEW YORK (Reuters) - Two senior Federal Reserve officials on Tuesday played down chances that the U.S. central bank would signal a readiness to taper bond buying at its meeting next month, dampening speculation the Fed might soon dial back its ultra-easy ...
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Top IRS official to invoke 5th before Congress
Lois Lerner, the head of the tax-exempt organizations division of the IRS, will invoke the Fifth Amendment in testimony before the House Oversight Committee on Wednesday, CBS News has confirmed. Lerner's attorney, William Taylor, wrote in a letter to House Oversight Committee chair Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., that Lerner "has not committed any crime or made any misrepresentation" ...
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Medical factors add to urgency of tornado rescues
As the 24-hour mark approached in the aftermath of the tornado that swept through a large swath of suburban Oklahoma City, emergency crews on Tuesday continued to search for survivors. At least 24 people were killed, including nine children, and those numbers are expected to climb. Disaster expert Dr. Matt Levy, an assistant professor of emergency medicine at Johns Hopkins Medicine in Baltimore ...
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Bay Area hosting 50th Super Bowl
BOSTON The 50th Super Bowl will be held in the San Francisco Bay Area. NFL owners voted Tuesday for the 49ers' new stadium as host of the 2016 game. That facility in Santa Clara, Calif., is due to open for the 2014 season. San Francisco beat out South Florida, which was stymied in its bid to stage an 11th Super Bowl when the Florida Legislature did not support financing to renovate Sun Life ...
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Nigeria to free Boko Haram members
Nigeria has announced it will release a number of Boko Haram members, including all women, in what it called a peace bid as its military waged operation in the country's northeast to clamp down on the armed group.The news of the prisoner release was announced on Tuesday shortly after the government relaxed the curfew in Maiduguri, the capital of Borno state and a stronghold of Boko Haram, ...
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Opinion We love and fear the skies
>Editor's note: Nathan Gunter is the managing editor of Oklahoma Today magazine, the state's official magazine. A graduate of Westmoore High School in Moore, Oklahoma, he holds degrees from Wake Forest University and the University of Oklahoma.(CNN) -- Oklahomans have a special relationship with the sky. We know how to look up. On the prairies of western Oklahoma, the skies are so big, and so ...
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Updates Rating changed to EF5
>For local coverage of Monday's devastating storms in Oklahoma, go to these CNN affiliates: KFOR, KOCO, KOKH, KOKI(CNN) -- At least 24 people -- including nine children -- were killed when a massive tornado struck an area outside Oklahoma City on Monday afternoon, officials said. Read more: Heartbreaking scenes in Oklahoma City after disasterAt least seven of those children were killed at ...
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Some Owls Are More Equal Than Others
The crusade to save the spotted owl continues. It began with limiting timber sales on federally managed lands in order to preserve the owl's preferred habitat. As a ...
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Top IRS Official to Take the 5th
IRS official in the division that reviews nonprofit groups will invoke the Fifth Amendment and refuse to answer questions before a House committee investigating the agency's improper screening of conservative nonprofit groups," reports ...
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The I love you theyll never forget
>Are you experiencing severe weather in your area? Send photos and videos to CNN iReport. But please remember to stay safe. For local coverage of Monday's devastating storms in Oklahoma, go to these CNN affiliates: KFOR, KOCO, KOKH, KOKIMoore, Oklahoma (CNN) -- Sun was hard to come by in Moore, Oklahoma, Tuesday. The sky still looked menacing, dark and ...
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Five Serbs Released From Libya After 21 Months
Officials say five Serbia citizens have returned home after spending 21 months in captivity in Libya. Deputy Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic said the men flew back to Serbia on May 21 following months of negotiations. The five, who said they were working on road construction in Libya, were seized by rebels during the uprising that toppled Muammar Qaddafi. They were accused of being ...
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Study Drone Strikes Unlikely To Destroy Islamist Networks
Drone strikes in Pakistan's northwestern tribal areas are unlikely to eliminate Islamist extremist networks, according to a new study. Brussels-based International Crisis Group, in a report released May 21, said the U.S. drone campaign may "disrupt" the abilities of Islamic militants in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas to launch attacks, but they cannot destroy their ...
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Indian Leaders Offer More Aid To Visiting Karzai
India has offered more aid to Afghanistan after international forces withdraw next year. Indian President Pranab Mukherjee told his visiting Afghan counterpart, Hamid Karzai, on May 21 that New Delhi is proud to help his country. A statement from Mukherjee's office noted that "India is prepared to increase bilateral contribution to institution-building, training, and ...
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South African court acquits brother of Oscar Pistorius
One Pistorius brother is free of charges - acquitted today of culpable homicide in the death of a woman in a road accident. The famous younger brother, Olympian double-amputee Oscar Pistorius, still must face his day in court for shooting and killing his girlfriend. Carl Pistorius cried tears of relief Tuesday as a magistrate acquitted him of culpable homicide and negligent driving for the ...
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Delay in mine project shadows hopes for Afghan economy
KABUL, Afghanistan - The giant copper mine that the Afghan government has made the centerpiece of its plans for building an economy nearly from scratch is at least five years behind schedule and the state-owned Chinese company that won the bidding has missed key deadlines in its still-secret contract with the Afghan government and is trying to renegotiate the deal, according to several officials ...
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Eleven Palestinians have died under PA Hamas detention
Eleven Palestinians have died in Palestinian Authority and Hamas detention centers during 2012, according to a report released Tuesday by the Palestinian Independent Commission For Human Rights [ICHR].Two of the Palestinians died in PA detention centers in the West Bank, while the nine others died in Hamas custody in the Gaza Strip. Seven of the Palestinians who died in detention had been ...
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In my own write Right to die
If I could in any way help to change this law [against assisted suicide], it would let me die a proud man, a very proud man - Briton Paul Lamb, left almost totally paralyzed after a car ...
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Report Top politicians banned from Iranian election
DUBAI - Iranian authorities have barred two prominent politicians from running for president, Iranian media reported on Tuesday, leaving the June 14 election to be contested between mostly hardline conservatives loyal to the country's supreme leader.Former President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani and Esfandiar Rahim Mashaie, a close aide to president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, failed to make it ...
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From the media’s ‘gotcha’ grip to Zionist fulfillment
Jerusalem Post item this Sunday, sandwiched between sobering Syria updates, was "Israeli restaurateur goes viral with online meltdown."These sideshows reveal a political culture corrupted by media demagoguery and celebrity worship.Naturally, when word leaks out about prime ministerial predilections for designer ice cream, flying beds and fancy threads, cynics delight and moralists ...
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Oklahoma tornado 2013 Moore family of four die including their baby
A family of four have been killed by the monster tornado that roared through Oklahoma on Monday, claiming 24 lives, with dozens still missing, feared dead and hundreds of people ...
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Oklahoma tornado 2013 Video shows touching moment woman finds dog in the rubble
An elderly woman whose home was leveled by the Oklahoma tornado was reunited with her lost dog live on television when it emerged from the rubble as she was being ...
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I love you so much The tear-jerking moment a mother is reunited with her lost son after the Oklahoma tornado
With dozens of people left dead and large numbers of children still missing, there has been little reason to smile for those affected by the Oklahoma ...
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Oklahoma tornado 2013 Shocking before-and-after photos of Plaza Towers elementary school
The two mile wide tornado which tore through the suburbs of Oklahoma City on Monday left devastation reminiscent of a war zone as it leveled entire streets and buildings killing at least 24 ...
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Silicon Valley's Expo ambitions
Moffet Field, a fairly unknown former military airbase in Silicon Valley near Mountain View and Sunnyvale, may become the centerpiece of the 2020 World Expo if Governor Schwarzenegger and other advocated of a California bid get their way.
California wants one of its cities to host the 2020 World Expo, the event is a seminal one on the world calendar and is expected to draw in over 70 million visitors to Shanghai, the city currently hosting the exhibition, which last six months. Read more
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