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Breaking News- Survivors pulled from Oklahoma tornado debris as toll fallsBy Carey Gillam and Ian Simpson MOORE, Oklahoma (Reuters) - Emergency workers pulled more than 100 survivors from the rubble of homes, schools and a hospital in an Oklahoma town hit by a powerful tornado, and officials lowered the death toll from the storm to 24, including nine children. The 2-mile (3-km) wide tornado tore through Moore outside Oklahoma City on Monday afternoon, trapping victims beneath the rubble, wiping out entire neighborhoods and tossing vehicles about as if they were toys. ...
- Court rules bin Laden death photos can stay secretBy David Ingram WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A federal appeals court ruled on Tuesday that the U.S. government had properly classified top secret more than 50 images of al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden taken after his death, and that the government did not need to release them. The unanimous ruling by three judges on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit rejected a request for the images by a conservative nonprofit watchdog group. Judicial Watch sued for photographs and video from the May 2011 raid in which U.S. ...
- Pentagon to take over some CIA drone operations : sourcesBy Tabassum Zakaria and Mark Hosenball WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama's administration has decided to give the Pentagon control of some drone operations against terrorism suspects overseas that are currently run by the CIA, several U.S. government sources said on Monday. Obama has pledged more transparency on controversial counterterrorism programs, and giving the Pentagon the responsibility for part of the drone program could open it to greater congressional oversight. ...
- Report: Accused Fort Hood shooter draws salary while victims struggleAlleged Fort Hood shooter Major Nidal Hasan has been paid more than $278,000 in salary since the Nov. 5, 2009 shooting that resulted in 13 deaths and 32 injuries, according to Dallas-Fort Worth's NBC 5 Investigates. The Dallas Fort Worth news team reported that the Department of Defense confirmed that Major Hasan has continued to [...]
- Moore tornado aftermath: Videos show jaw-dropping destructionA day after a massive tornado tore through Moore, Okla., photos, video footage and eyewitness accounts painted a chilling picture of the destruction left by the deadly F4 storm. Mangled heaps of debris stretched for some 20 miles in the Oklahoma City suburb. Two dozen people, including children, were killed during Monday's storm, and officials [...]
- Witnesses describe deadly Oklahoma tornado: ‘All you could hear were screams’[Updated at 11:12 a.m. CT] MOORE, Okla. – The hell he saw was harrowing, but it’s the sounds at Plaza Towers Elementary that Stuart Earnest Jr. says will haunt him forever. “All you could hear were screams,” Earnest said. “The people screaming for help. And the people trying to help were also screaming.” Plaza Towers, [...]
- Raw video: Parents reunite with children after tornado levels Oklahoma elementary schoolDramatic raw video, taken just after a massive tornado ripped through Moore, Okla., on Monday, shows panicked parents reuniting with their shell-shocked children outside of Briarwood Elementary, one of two schools leveled during the storm. The harrowing scene was repeated throughout the Oklahoma City suburb, where dozens of people were killed and many others feared [...]
- How to Help: Oklahoma tornadoA huge tornado ripped through Moore, Okla. on Monday afternoon, leaving a 20-mile path of death and destruction.
- Limited, slower Conn. rail service starts TuesdayHARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Connecticut says limited, slower train service is about to resume, four days after a derailment injured scores of commuter rail passengers.
- Face-chewing victim continues recovery in MiamiMIAMI (AP) — A homeless man whose face was mostly chewed off in a bizarre attack last year in Miami says he doesn't want any more reconstructive surgery.
- Survivors pulled from Oklahoma tornado debris as toll falls
