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Posted on May 22, 2013 at 12:30pm

(AP) — Blake Shelton and NBC are putting together a benefit for Oklahoma tornado victims.

Posted on May 22, 2013 at 12:28pm

(AP) — Two infants were among the 24 people killed by the tornado that ripped across the Oklahoma City area this week, the Oklahoma medical examiner's office said Wednesday.

Posted on May 22, 2013 at 12:28pm

(AP) — Shakespeare, the Magna Carta — and now some of John Lennon's finest lyrics. The august British Library has added substantially to its already formidable collection with handwritten lyrics to "Strawberry Fields Forever", "She Said She Said" and "In My Life."

Posted on May 22, 2013 at 12:25pm

(AP) — House Republican who oppose abortion are promoting legislation that would ban abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy.

Posted on May 22, 2013 at 12:24pm

(AP) — Twelve-year-old Sathwik Karnik of Plainville, Mass., has won the 2013 National Geographic Bee.

Posted on May 22, 2013 at 12:23pm

(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 12:20pm

(AP) — The barrage of hourly tweets sent out by Aly-Khan Satchu — East Africa's version of CNBC's Mad Money host Jim Cramer — cheers on what Satchu says is a growing sentiment among investors: If you're not investing in Africa, you should be. Or as Satchu loudly proclaims on his Twitter feed or newspaper column: "ITS BOOM TOWN BABY."

Posted on May 22, 2013 at 12:20pm

(AP) — A Russian drunken driver who sparked a nationwide debate after killing seven, including five orphan children, in a road accident last year has been sentenced to prison.

Posted on May 22, 2013 at 12:19pm

(AP) — A Chechen immigrant was shot to death by authorities at his home early Wednesday while being questioned in the Boston Marathon bombing case, officials said.

Posted on May 22, 2013 at 12:19pm

(AP) — A 15-year-old girl found dead in woods north of Bangor knew the man charged with killing her, her best friend said, contrary to early reports that before her disappearance she'd headed outside her Glenburn home to see someone she recently met on Facebook.

Posted on May 22, 2013 at 12:16pm

(AP) — Robert Redford makes actions speak louder than words in shipwreck drama "All Is Lost."

Posted on May 22, 2013 at 12:12pm

(AP) — The problem with New York these days is there's just not enough litter.

Posted on May 22, 2013 at 12:12pm

(AP) — When a small anti-abortion group in Iowa sought nonprofit status, the Internal Revenue Service asked its board to promise not to organize protests outside Planned Parenthood and demanded to know how its prayer meetings and protest signs were educational.

Posted on May 22, 2013 at 12:12pm

(AP) — The United States and its Arab and European allies will step up their support for Syria's opposition to help them "fight for the freedom of their country" if President Bashar Assad's regime doesn't engage in peace talks in good faith, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry vowed Wednesday.

Posted on May 22, 2013 at 12:11pm

(AP) — A federal judge in Denver is contemplating an injunction against Abercrombie & Fitch Co. and J.M. Hollister LLC after ruling earlier that nearly 250 of their clothing stores that cater to a hip, young clientele are unfriendly to the disabled.

Posted on May 22, 2013 at 12:10pm

(AP) — China's premier signed economic agreements and praised Pakistan in glowing terms as he began a two-day visit Wednesday, underscoring the importance of the longstanding alliance to the two Asian powers.

Posted on May 22, 2013 at 12:10pm

(AP) — A U.S. official says the Pentagon has decided to buy a new computerized health records system that will allow the department to better share and merge its data with the Department of Veterans Affairs.

Posted on May 22, 2013 at 12:09pm

(AP) — James Franco's filmography is starting to look like a book shelf — and a very respectable one, at that.

Posted on May 22, 2013 at 12:09pm

(AP) — The cost of a massive tornado that battered an Oklahoma City suburb could be more than $2 billion, according to a preliminary official estimate announced Wednesday. State authorities meanwhile said two infants were among the 24 people who perished in the twister.

Posted on May 22, 2013 at 12:08pm

(AP) — The Minnesota Twins placed third baseman Trevor Plouffe on the seven-day disabled list with a concussion Wednesday after he was struck in the head by Dan Uggla's shin while breaking up an attempted double play.