USA TODAY – A massive, mile-wide tornado with winds up to 200 mph spent 40 minutes on the ground as it devastated homes, schools and businesses across southern Oklahoma City and its suburbs Monday afternoon.
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FBI mourns loss of agents in hostage rescue training
CNN— The FBI is mourning the deaths of two special agents killed Friday during a training exercise off the coast of Virginia Beach, Virginia.
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By Editorial Staff /// May 20, 2013
Illinois State Senate approves medical marijuana
FOX ILLINOIS — Legalizing medical marijuana in Illinois is now up to the governor. Both the House and Senate have passed the measure, which would legalize marijuana for those suffering from certain medical conditions.
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By Editorial Staff /// May 20, 2013
Tears for slain student Andrea Rebello at Hoftra University graduation
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS — Grieving Hofstra University students mourned the shooting death of classmate Andrea Rebello in a tearful graduation ceremony on Sunday.
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By Editorial Staff /// May 20, 2013
Mitch McConnell, Rand Paul push for hemp legalization in Senate fight
HUFFINGTON POST — Kentucky’s two senators, Republicans Rand Paul and Mitch McConnell, have been working to include a provision that would legalize industrial hemp into the farm bill, according to Senate and Kentucky sources, an effort that is likely to result in a floor vote on the issue this week.
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By Editorial Staff /// May 20, 2013
Politicians furious over Bronx bus company’s ‘Ghetto’ tour
NEW YORK POST — Tourists are crowding onto a Bronx bus tour that promises “a ride through a real New York City ‘GHETTO’ ” — and local politicians are furious.
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By Editorial Staff /// May 20, 2013
Northwestern student govt nominee’s confirmation blocked because he is a ‘heterosexual white male’
CAMPUS REFORM — A student’s bid to become associate vice president of diversity and inclusion at Northwestern University was derailed last Wednesday over accusations that his status as a white heterosexual male would make it impossible for him to perform the position’s duties.
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By Editorial Staff /// May 20, 2013
Members of Congress question privacy implications of new Google video glasses
Google Glass may be one of the most anticipated gadgets of the century, but not everyone is excited for the high-tech eye wear to hit the market – at least, not yet. Since the project’s unveiling, many have wondered how the technology, which allows users to easily take videos and picture without detection, will interfere with privacy.
By Arrianne Talma /// May 20, 2013
Yahoo pledges ‘not to screw up’ Tumblr deal
USA TODAY — Yahoo confirmed Monday it is buying social media platform Tumblr for $1.1 billion and “we promise not to screw it up,” CEO Marissa Mayer blogged on her Tumblr page.
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By Editorial Staff /// May 20, 2013
Wife who can’t load shotgun uses it to club bear attacking husband
FOX NEWS — A Wisconsin woman saved her husband from an attacking black bear outside of their cabin by hitting the animal with a gun, authorities said.
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By Editorial Staff /// May 20, 2013
Early-morning intruder arrested after barging into wrong house
NEWS TRIBUNE — It was definitely a case of picking the wrong house.
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By Editorial Staff /// May 20, 2013
Not so funny: Stephen Colbert tells college graduates they owe the Chinese
In the midst of a hilarious address to the 2013 graduating class at the University of Virginia, comedian Stephen Colbert had a serious message for the eager crowd: if you owe anything, it’s to the Chinese.
By Erin Brown /// May 20, 2013
Sen. Ted Cruz’s solution to the IRS: Abolish it
The Internal Revenue Service was being dragged through the mud this week, after it came to light that agency had been targeting conservative groups. But Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) has a solution to make the scandal all go away: abolish the IRS.
By Kelsey Osterman /// May 19, 2013
Pfeiffer: Obama won’t let IRS scandal “distract” him from “doing the people’s work”
President Obama isn’t going to let the Republicans ‘politicize’ the IRS scandal and keep him from doing his job, according to Senior Advisor to the President for Strategy and Communications Dan Pfeiffer.
By Kelsey Osterman /// May 19, 2013
In commencement speech President Obama tells college grads that financial success should not be their goal in life
Hoping to start a small business that some day turns into a big business and rakes in lots of profits so you can buy a multimillion dollar home and take the vacations you always dreamed of? Well, President Barack Obama has a message for you: that’s selfish.
By Francesca Chambers /// May 19, 2013
Senior Obama Advisor Dan Pfeiffer: President’s location on night of Benghazi attack is “a largely irrelevant fact”
Does it matter where President Obama was during the night of the Benghazi attack? Not according to Dan Pfeiffer, Senior Advisor to the President for Strategy and Communications.
By Kelsey Osterman /// May 19, 2013
Bloomberg talks gun control in commencement address
CNN – Diverging from the generally non-political college sendoff, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, a gun-control advocate, Saturday tore into members of Congress for failing to pass background check legislation.
By Editorial Staff /// May 19, 2013
Michelle Obama Makes Light of President’s Failures in Graduation Speech
ABC – Delivering her only speech at a high school graduation this year, first lady Michelle Obama joked about the failures her husband, President Obama, has encountered in life as she told a graduating class of high school seniors in Nashville, Tenn. today that in order to achieve success in life, they must first experience failure.
By Editorial Staff /// May 19, 2013
Kathleen Sebelius dances on an ethical line
THE WASHINGTON POST – One of the biggest questions hanging over the health-care system is how many young Americans will sign up for coverage once the Affordable Care Act begins to phase in this October. If too few buy insurance on the markets that the government is creating, insurance companies would be stuck covering primarily the the old and the sick. They would have to pay out more per customer. Their customers, in turn, would have to pay more to those companies for coverage. The stakes for the Health and Human Services Department, which is overseeing the transition, are tremendous.
By Editorial Staff /// May 19, 2013
[WATCH] ‘SNL’ ridicules Al Sharpton in cold open
Al Sharpton really doesn’t understand why the Tea Party is so upset with the IRS — but that’s probably just because Sharpton doesn’t seem to understand much of anything.
By Kelsey Osterman /// May 19, 2013
