Just how bad is an EF5 tornado?
Just how bad is an EF5 tornado? The EF rating of a tornado is based solely on the damage it has caused Oklahoma tornado Path mapped Few shelters Before and after Storm warnings On Tuesday, officials at the US National Weather Service (NWS) upgraded the intensity of Monday’s tornado in Moore, Oklahoma from its preliminary [...]
Boston bomb investigators kill Florida man Investigators outside the Orlando apartment block Boston bombing investigators have shot dead a man who became violent as they questioned him in Orlando, Florida, FBI officials say. The shooting took place early on Wednesday as law enforcement personnel interviewed 27-year-old Ibragim Todashev, according to officials. FBI spokesman Paul [...]
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Oklahoma tornado: Search for survivors nears end Rescue workers are combing the ruins left by the gigantic tornado that killed two dozen people, including nine children, in Oklahoma on Monday. Officials say the search for survivors is nearly over as efforts turn towards recovery. Gary Bird, fire chief of the badly hit Moore suburb, said [...]
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CINCINNATI — Chanting “IRS has got to go,” tea party activists are rallying in Cincinnati to protest extra IRS scrutiny of their groups. Waving such signs as “internal revenge service” and some wearing Colonial-era attire, members of tea party groups gathered Tuesday at the city’s Fountain Square. They plan to march to the nearby federal [...]
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Oklahoma tornado: Search for survivors continues Alastair Leithead reports on the aftermath of the tornado in Oklahoma City Emergency workers in the US are continuing to search for survivors of the gigantic tornado that tore through a suburb of Oklahoma City on Monday. Rescuers worked through the night in the rubble of homes, schools and [...]
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WASHINGTON — The war authorization that Congress passed after 9/11 will be needed for at least 10 to 20 more years, and can be used to put the United States military on the ground anywhere, from Syria to the Congo to Boston, military officials argued Thursday. The revelations came during a hearing before the Senate [...]
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Argentina’s ex-military leader Jorge Rafael Videla has died aged 87 while serving a life sentence for crimes against humanity, local media report. He is said to have died of natural causes in prison. The general was jailed in 2010 for the deaths of 31 dissidents during the 1976-83 military dictatorship, of which he was overall [...]
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The New York Times quotes unnamed US officials as saying the missiles could be used to counter any potential future foreign military intervention in Syria. Without confirming details, Russia’s foreign minister said Russian supplies did not break any international rules. It comes amid growing alarm that chemical weapons may be being used in Syria, something [...]
Continue reading …The Obama administration is forecast to turn a record $51 billion profit this year from student loan borrowers, a sum greater than the earnings of the nation’s most profitable companies and roughly equal to the combined net income of the four largest U.S. banks by assets. Figures made public Tuesday by the Congressional Budget Office [...]
Continue reading …IRS Tea Party Scandal: White House Did Not Drive Investigation, Inspector General Says
May 15, 2013 No CommentWASHINGTON — The IRS Inspector General said Tuesday that incompetence, not malice, was behind the tax agency’s heavy scrutiny of conservative groups applying for tax-exempt status in the lead-up to the 2012 elections. A 48-page IG report explicitly stated that the IRS behavior was “not politically biased,” that it was due to lower-level staff who [...]
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