The Wire
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More Obama aides knew of IRS audit; Obama not told
Posted on May 20, 2013 at 5:00pm
(AP) — White House chief of staff Denis McDonough and other senior presidential advisers knew in late April that an upcoming report was likely to find that IRS employees had inappropriately targeted conservative political groups.
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Panel: Apple uses firms outside US to avoid taxes
Posted on May 20, 2013 at 5:00pm
(AP) — Apple Inc. employs a group of affiliate companies located outside the United States to avoid paying billions of dollars in U.S. income taxes, a Senate investigation has found.
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Footage shows fires, flattened buildings after tornado rips through area near Oklahoma City
Posted on May 20, 2013 at 4:58pm
(AP) — Footage shows fires, flattened buildings after tornado rips through area near Oklahoma City.
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Tornado in Oklahoma City suburb causes destruction
Posted on May 20, 2013 at 4:55pm
(AP) — A mile-wide tornado chewing through the Oklahoma City area has reduced neighborhoods to rubble and left cars and trucks crumpled on the sides of highways.
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Tunisian feminist arrested for alleged provocation
Posted on May 20, 2013 at 4:51pm
(AP) — A Tunisian feminist who had scandalized her country by posting topless photos of herself online has been arrested after sneaking into Tunisia's holiest city disguised in a veil, then trying to get undressed during a protest, officials said.
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Obama cites Myanmar reforms during leader's visit
Posted on May 20, 2013 at 4:48pm
(AP) — In a long-awaited White House visit, President Barack Obama on Monday told Myanmar's president that he appreciates the Asian leader's efforts to lead the country in "a long and sometimes difficult, but ultimately correct, path to follow" toward democracy.
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Bernard Waber, children's author, dies at age 91
Posted on May 20, 2013 at 4:48pm
(AP) — Bernard Waber, the author of such children's favorites as "The House on East 88th Street" and "Lyle, Lyle Crocodile," has died.
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United restarts 787 flights after grounding
Posted on May 20, 2013 at 4:43pm
United Airlines put its 787 back in the air on Monday, with both the airline and Boeing hoping to put the plane's four-month grounding behind them.
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Indians rally to beat Mariners 10-8
Posted on May 20, 2013 at 4:36pm
(AP) — Yan Gomes hit a three-run homer in the 10th inning and the Cleveland Indians, twice revived by Seattle's fielding errors, beat the Mariners 10-8 on Monday to complete a four-game sweep.
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Idaho couple and Sun Valley land in Twitter tussle
Posted on May 20, 2013 at 4:29pm
(AP) — An Internet entrepreneur and former Wall Street derivatives analyst contends central Idaho's Sun Valley resort and the Twitter Inc. social media site heisted his handle.
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Warren Buffett gives young entrepreneurs 10 shares
Posted on May 20, 2013 at 4:26pm
(AP) — Meeting Warren Buffett is exciting, but 10-year-old Matthew Meyer says winning $5,000 and 10 shares of stock in Buffett's company made Monday the best day of his life.
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Study: Most shipwrecks a minor US pollution threat
Posted on May 20, 2013 at 4:23pm
(AP) — A new government report details 87 shipwrecks — most sunk during World War II decades ago — that could pollute U.S. waters with tens of millions of gallons of oil.
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Conn. lawmakers to seek hearings on derailment
Posted on May 20, 2013 at 4:19pm
Updated on May 20, 2013 at 4:21pm(AP) — Commuters navigated a patchwork of cars, trains and buses along Connecticut's shoreline Monday, encountering lengthy delays as authorities probed the cause of a train collision that disrupted one of the nation's oldest and most heavily traveled railways.
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NYC: No racial motivation in stop-frisk tactic
Posted on May 20, 2013 at 4:17pm
(AP) — Police officers acted appropriately in carrying out the city's stop, question and frisk policy, and dozens of witnesses who claimed racial bias didn't prove their case, a lawyer for the city told a judge Monday.
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Deadliest attacks in Iraq since US troop pullout
Posted on May 20, 2013 at 4:15pm
(AP) — Here is a look at the deadliest attacks in Iraq since the withdrawal of U.S. troops on Dec. 18, 2011:
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Oil rises on falling dollar; gasoline at $3.65
Posted on May 20, 2013 at 4:15pm
(AP) — The price of oil rose Monday, taking its cue from the stock market and the dollar.
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Broadway's biggest theater sold to British group
Posted on May 20, 2013 at 4:15pm
(AP) — Britain's biggest theater groups has reached across the Atlantic Ocean and bought Broadway's biggest theater from Live Nation Entertainment for about $60 million.
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Alaska unveils plan to assess gas, oil in ANWR
Posted on May 20, 2013 at 4:14pm
(AP) — The state of Alaska on Monday proposed a multiyear, multimillion-dollar plan aimed at determining the true oil and gas potential in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
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Te'o off-limits to media but not Maxim party
Posted on May 20, 2013 at 4:13pm
(AP) — The San Diego Chargers are keeping Manti Te'o off-limits to the media — for now.
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Senators require fingerprinting at 30 airports
Posted on May 20, 2013 at 4:10pm
(AP) — Senate supporters of far-reaching immigration legislation accepted minor changes in public while negotiating over more sweeping alterations in private Monday as they drove toward expected Judiciary Committee approval by mid-week.












































































































