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- 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. ...
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- Report: Accused Fort Hood shooter draws salary while victims struggleSoldiers wounded in the Fort Hood shooting spree in November 2009 have a new problem on their hands: Getting the shooting's classification changed from "workplace violence" to "combat related." As reported by Dallas-Fort Worth's NBC 5 Investigates, the injured soldiers are struggling to pay their bills. Because the government doesn't classify the shooting as an [...]
- 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; Gov. Fallin says death count unknown[Updated at 1:25 p.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 [...]
- Germany's SAP to recruit tech staff with autismBERLIN (AP) — German software giant SAP AG said Tuesday it plans to recruit people with autism to take make full use of their talents to process information.
- Poll: Teens migrating to TwitterWASHINGTON (AP) — A new poll finds that teens are sharing more about themselves on social media. They're also moving increasingly to Twitter to avoid their parents and the "oversharing" that they see on Facebook.
- Survivors pulled from Oklahoma tornado debris as toll falls
