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Breaking News- Huge tornado flattens area near Oklahoma CityBy Lindsay Morris TULSA, Oklahoma (Reuters) - A huge tornado flattened an area near Oklahoma City on Monday, leaving a wake of tangled wreckage, as a dangerous storm system threatened as many as 10 states. At least two schools were in the path of the tornado, television reports said, and video showed homes destroyed, cars tossed and at least one building on fire. There were no immediate reports of injuries or deaths from the tornado, which struck near Moore, Oklahoma, in the Oklahoma City metropolitan area, in the midafternoon. ...
- Supreme Court to hear case of disgruntled frequent flyerBy Lawrence Hurley WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court agreed on Monday to weigh whether federal law prevented a customer from suing an airline for kicking him out of its frequent flyer program for allegedly complaining too frequently about the service. Rabbi Binyomin Ginsberg sued Northwest Airlines Corp, which ceased operations in 2010 after merging with Delta Air Lines Inc, for breach of contract after the airline said he had abused the program. Ginsberg, who is from Minnesota, said he and his wife were thrown out in 2008 for filing too many service complaints. ...
- US names envoy to combat anti-Semitism, warns of rising incidentsWASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States on Monday appointed a special envoy to monitor and combat anti-Semitism as a new State Department report warned about incidents in Venezuela, Egypt and Iran. Secretary of State John Kerry named Ira Forman, a long time director of the National Jewish Democratic Council, as special envoy citing a "troubling trend" of anti-Semitism around the world. Forman succeeds Hannah Rosenthal, who stepped down last year. The 2012 report on religious freedom said an increase worldwide in anti-Semitism was "of great concern. ...
- Videos: Massive tornado rips through OklahomaA massive tornado about a mile wide has torn through Oklahoma, flattening homes and schools and causing widespread destruction in the Oklahoma City area. There were no immediate reports of deaths or injuries. Videos of the twister show a giant funnel cloud powering across the landscape. "Oh my god, that thing is getting huge!" A [...]
- Massive tornado touches down near Oklahoma CityA devastating, mile-wide tornado touched down near Oklahoma City on Monday, decimating homes, businesses and schools in the suburb of Moore. There were no immediate reports of fatalities or injuries, as emergency officials urged people to remain off the roads so rescue workers and first responders could reach people potentially trapped in rubble. "This is [...]
- Tornadoes tear through central U.S., killing twoLess than a week after a string of tornadoes killed six people in north Texas, a massive storm system that tore through the center of the country on Sunday spawned at least a dozen tornadoes, killed two people, injured dozens more and caused extensive damage from Georgia to Minnesota. According to the Oklahoma state medical [...]
- How to Help: Midwest stormsSeveral tornadoes tore through the Midwest on Sunday, May 19, laying waste to entire neighborhoods and killing at least two people.
- Sticker shock: New college graduates, here is why your education cost so much moneyWhen high school senior Jenny Bonilla got her college acceptance letter in March, she felt shock and heartbreak rather than joy. That’s because the letter from Goucher College, a private liberal arts school in Baltimore, also brought news that she would owe an unaffordable $20,000 a year in tuition and board, even with a scholarship [...]
- Judge tosses ex-BP executive's obstruction chargeNEW ORLEANS (AP) — A federal judge on Monday dismissed one of the two counts in the indictment of a former BP executive who was charged with concealing information from Congress about the amount of oil that was leaking from the company's blown-out well in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010.
- Govt presses ahead on another leak caseWASHINGTON (AP) — In another case of the Obama administration investigating classified information improperly disclosed to reporters, the government is prosecuting a State Department expert on North Korea in a probe that appears to step into uncharted territory — by declaring that a journalist is committing a crime in disclosing leaked information.
- Huge tornado flattens area near Oklahoma City
