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Posted on May 22, 2013 at 10:59am

(AP) — The Oklahoma Insurance Department says a preliminary damage estimate could top $2 billion for the tornado that hit the Oklahoma City suburb of Moore.

Posted on May 22, 2013 at 10:58am

(AP) — Khaled Hosseini, whose novels have sold more than 38 million copies worldwide, knows what a lucky man he is.

Posted on May 22, 2013 at 10:57am

(AP) — The European Union is reassessing whether to declare the Lebanese party Hezbollah's military wing a terrorist organization, a move it has long shied from despite pressure from the United States, officials said Wednesday.

Posted on May 22, 2013 at 10:56am

(AP) — Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke's signal that monetary policy will remain loose gave stocks another lift Wednesday, paving the way for many indexes to advance to new record highs.

Posted on May 22, 2013 at 10:56am

(AP) — An attorney for an 87-year-old grandmother who accuses Donald Trump of cheating her in a condo deal has told jurors the "Apprentice" star lied on the witness stand.

Posted on May 22, 2013 at 10:56am

(AP) — Lowe's said Wednesday that its first-quarter net income rose nearly 3 percent, but results fell short of expectations as rainy weather hurt spring gardening sales.

Posted on May 22, 2013 at 10:51am

(AP) — Oklahoma Insurance Department says preliminary tornado damage estimate could top $2 billion.

Posted on May 22, 2013 at 10:49am

(AP) — Malawi's cost-cutting president is selling her predecessor's jet.

Posted on May 22, 2013 at 10:46am

(AP) — After months of ignoring Chinese warnings to give up nuclear weapons, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un sent a high-level confidant to Beijing on Wednesday, in a possible effort to mend strained ties with his country's most important ally and a sign that he may be giving diplomacy a chance.

Posted on May 22, 2013 at 10:45am

(AP) — The Obama administration says more doctors and hospitals are embracing technology as adoption of computerized medical records reaches a "tipping point" in America.

Posted on May 22, 2013 at 10:41am

(AP) — The leader of Iceland's center-right Progressive Party was chosen as the island nation's new prime minister Wednesday and promptly announced a halt to talks with the European Union about Iceland joining the 27-nation bloc.

Posted on May 22, 2013 at 10:40am

(AP) — Pope Francis has issued his first appeal directed at Catholics in China, long the source of concern for his predecessor Benedict XVI.

Posted on May 22, 2013 at 10:39am

(AP) — Pakistani cricket star-turned-politician Imran Khan left a hospital Wednesday, more than two weeks after he suffered serious back injuries in a fall from a forklift at a campaign event, a spokesman said.

Posted on May 22, 2013 at 10:38am

(AP) — The Boy Scouts of America will convene a two-day meeting of 1,400 local leaders to consider changing its long-standing ban on openly gay boys in the scouting movement.

Posted on May 22, 2013 at 10:37am

(AP) — Aretha Franklin is taking off the month of June.

Posted on May 22, 2013 at 10:36am

(AP) — A publicist for an upcoming Marilyn Monroe exhibition in Prague says that photographs of the star have been stolen.

Posted on May 22, 2013 at 10:35am

(AP) — The mayor of the Oklahoma City suburb battered by a monstrous tornado says he is pushing to require safe-room shelters in all new homes.

Posted on May 22, 2013 at 10:34am

(AP) — Stocks are moving higher Wednesday morning after Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said it was too soon for the central bank to pull back on its massive economic stimulus programs.

Posted on May 22, 2013 at 10:34am

(AP) — British prosecutors have charged a 61-year-old Irishman with the Irish Republican Army bombing of the queen's cavalry in Hyde Park in 1982, a strike at a top London tourist attraction that killed four soldiers and seven horses.

Posted on May 22, 2013 at 10:33am

(AP) — The Internal Revenue Service official at the center of the storm over the agency's targeting of conservative groups has told Congress she did nothing wrong and has invoked her constitutional right to not answer lawmakers' questions.