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Whole neighbourhoods gone as 24 confirmed dead in tornado-hit Oklahoma
It was a day after a massive tornado tore through a suburb of Oklahoma City, wiping out whole blocks of homes and killing at least 24 people.Nine children were among the dead, including seven who died at Plaza Towers Elementary School, which took a direct hit in the deadliest tornado to hit the United States in two ...
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Art dealer in forgeries scandal faces tax probe
Jonathan Stempel - 21 May 2013 FEDERAL prosecutors charged a New York art dealer with tax fraud in connection with the sale of paintings she claimed to be the works of celebrated abstract expressionists, but some of which the government said were ...
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David Beckham To Earn Huge Windfall From New Yorks MLS Expansion
David Beckham is going to score big time with Manchester City and the New York Yankees bringing Major League Soccer to New York City for the 2015 season ...
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AES supplies energy at Central America and the Caribbean’s most competitive prices
Santo Domingo.- The consolidated portfolio of energy generators that the power company AES manages offer the most competitive electricity prices in the local market as well as the Central America and Caribbean region. This was revealed by Marco De la Rosa, during breakfast the Energy Committee of the American Chamber of Commerce (AMCHAMDR), explaining that "AES sells a kilowatt hour of ...
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Senators to IRS Officials Did the White House Know
Senate lawmakers jumped on the chance to grill the top IRS officials over the agency's targeting of conservative groups. Three men were on the hot seat Tuesday, including outgoing IRS Commissioner Steve Miller, former IRS Commissioner Douglas Shulman, and J. Russel George, the Treasury Department inspector general who submitted the report detailing the IRS scandal. Shulman was the one ...
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US Congress grills former IRS chief over tax scandal
WASHINGTON: The political appointee who headed the IRS during the US tax agency's abusive treatment of conservative groups insisted on Tuesday that he was not involved in the scandal. US senators grilled retired IRS ...
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How Sexual Stigma Is Undermining HIV Treatment On American Indian Reservations
has seen its HIV diagnoses go up by 20 percent since 2011. Despite a concerted push by the federal Indian Health Service (IHS) and public health advocates to expand tribal HIV education programs, doctors have found treatment and prevention efforts to be stymied by cultural stigma surrounding the disease and homosexuality. Since the Navajo tribe is a comparatively isolated population, the ...
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IRS official to invoke Fifth Amendment at hearing
By NBC's Lisa Myers A top IRS official scheduled to testify Wednesday before the House Oversight committee has notified Congress that she will invoke the Fifth Amendment and refuse to answer questions.Lois Lerner, head of the IRS unit which handled tax-exempt organizations, won't answer questions about what she knows about the improper screening of conservative groups or about why she ...
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Hatch says hell vote immigration overhaul out of committee
By Carrie Dann, Political Reporter, NBC News With a final committee vote on a comprehensive immigration reform bill finally in sight, proponents of immigration reform won the support of a key Republican panel member after hammering out a bipartisan compromise dealing with visas for high-skilled foreign workers.Sen. Orrin Hatch of Utah, long considered a Republican swing vote on the 18-member ...
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Tomgram Mattea Kramer and Jo Comerford Congress Tweeted While America Burned
went before Congress and insisted that the Defense Department couldn't be more "comfortable" with AUMF, as it was written, and that not a word should be altered or amended for changed circumstances. The Pentagon was so comfortable, in fact, that its officials foresee using that resolution to continue its drone-powered ...
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Rep. Brown asks feds to review Breedlove shooting
U.S. Rep. Corrine Brown has formally asked the Department of Justice to investigate the death of Torey Breedlove, a suspected car thief who was killed in a hail of gunfire ...
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Appeals court strikes down Arizona ban on abortions at 20 weeks
(Reuters) - A federal appeals court struck down an Arizona law on Tuesday that bans abortions from 20 weeks gestation, saying it violated "unalterably clear" U.S. Supreme Court rulings that women have a right to terminate pregnancies until a fetus is ...
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Oklahoma Town Devastated by Tornado Razed Before in 1999
The path of destruction, left, taken by tornadoes that hit the Oklahoma City area, May 2, 1999, can be seen from the air over Moore, Okla., and An aerial view of a tornado's path is seen over Moore, Okla., May 21, ...
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Watch Jodi Arias to Donate Hair Recycle If Allowed to Live
Some months back. Well it -- that this child was brutally. My mom visited me just like. She'd been doing every week since happy. She -- after -- the courthouse. She was idling stop light. And she haven't recovered the car next to her. -- siblings -- in the car. My mom and I was very few moments. -- -- requesting that they would. -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- being -- that point home -- ...
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Vogelsong Casilla Land On Disabled List For Giants
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) The San Francisco Giants put Ryan Vogelsong on the 15-day disabled list Tuesday and prepared to be without their right-hander for two months in yet another challenge for their struggling starting ...
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UC Medical Workers Begin 2-Day Strike
SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF) –University of California medical center workers in San Francisco and several other cities statewide began a two-day strike Tuesday. The strike, organized by the union American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees Local 3299, started early this morning at medical facilities at UC San Francisco, UC Davis, UCLA, UC Irvine and UC San Diego, union ...
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Prehistoric crocodiles ruled the roost in South America study finds
Modern alligators and crocodiles rarely share the same environments but that was not true of their prehistoric ancestors in South America, paleontologists say. From 9 million to 5 million years ago the deltas of the Amazonas and the Urumaco, a river on the Gulf of Venezuela that no longer exists, boasted an unparalleled abundance of extremely diverse, highly specialized species of crocodile, ...
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Obama against prosecuting reporters for doing their jobs White House
President Obama believes in the need for balance between national security concerns and the ability of reporters to work freely, White House has ...
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Key senator to let Myanmar sanctions bill lapse
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The top Senate Republican says he plans to let key sanctions legislation against Myanmar (mee-an-MAWR') lapse because of the country's progress toward ...
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Arias asks jury to give her life in prison
Jodi Arias points to her family as a reason for the jury to give her a life in prison sentence instead of the death penalty on Tuesday, May 21, 2013, during the penalty phase of her murder trial at Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix. Arias was convicted of first-degree murder in the stabbing and shooting to death of Travis Alexander, 30, in his suburban Phoenix. (AP Photo/The Arizona ...
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No new funds needed for Okla. tornado recovery
An aerial view shows the Monday tornado's path through a residential area Tuesday, May 21, 2013, in Moore, Okla. A huge tornado roared through the Oklahoma City suburb Monday, flattening entire neighborhoods and destroying an elementary school. (AP Photo/Tony ...
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Idaho man facing terror charges will remain jailed
This undated image provided by the Idaho State Police shows Fazliddin Kurbanov. Kurbanov, an Uzbekistan national, pleaded not guilty during his first court appearance Friday, May 17, 2013 on U.S. charges that he gave support, cash and other resources to help a recognized terrorist group in his home country plan a terrorist attack there. (AP Photo/Idaho State ...
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Oklahoma schools hit by tornado had no safe rooms
MOORE, Okla. -; An emergency official says Oklahoma has reinforced tornado shelters in hundreds of schools across the state, but the two that were hit by this week's storms in suburban Oklahoma City did not have ...
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Miles and minutes Okla. tornado by the numbers
A tornado moves past homes in Moore, Okla. on Monday, May 20, 2013. A monstrous tornado roared through the Oklahoma City suburbs, flattening entire neighborhoods with winds up to 200 mph, setting buildings on fire and landing a direct blow on an elementary school. (AP Photo/Alonzo ...
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Lawyer Feds investigate Susan Powell case
This undated photo released by the West Valley City Police Department shows Susan Powell. 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 whose now-dead husband was a prime suspect. The announcement came after police spent two days searching in rural Oregon last week for any trace of Powell's ...
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