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Saturday, Jun 01, 2013 06:05 PM PDT
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Okla. residents opt to flee storms this time 
Saturday, Jun 01, 2013 06:05 PM PDT
 Josh Stapleton, left, and Dan Garrett help to salvage furniture from their friends Fred and Joann Horn's home that was destroyed by the tornado Saturday, June 1, 2013 in El Reno Okla. (AP Photo/Nick Oxford)Experts say it was a dangerous decision to make.
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4 firefighters killed in Houston fire mourned 
Saturday, Jun 01, 2013 06:58 PM PDT
 An official looks over the damaged scene the day after four firefighters died, Saturday, June 1, 2013, in Houston. Four firefighters searching for people they thought might be trapped in a blazing Houston motel and restaurant Friday were killed when part of the structure collapsed and ensnared them, authorities said. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)The blaze was the deadliest in the 118-year history of the department.
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More than 1,000 killed in Iraq violence in May 
Saturday, Jun 01, 2013 01:51 PM PDT
 Iraqi security personnel inspect the site of a bomb attack in BaghdadIt was the deadliest month since the sectarian slaughter of 2006-07, the U.N. says.
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Hagel mixes business and memories in Asia trip 
Saturday, Jun 01, 2013 08:58 PM PDT
 U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel delivers his keynote address on "The US Approach to Regional Security" at the International Institute for Strategic Studies Shangri-la Dialogue, or IISS Asia Security Summit, Saturday, June 1, 2013 in Singapore. (AP Photo/Wong Maye-E)It's been a bit of a walk down memory lane for the former infantry soldier.
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Jean Stapleton, TV's Edith Bunker, dies at 90 
Saturday, Jun 01, 2013 08:15 PM PDT
 FILE - Actress Jean Stapleton speaks during an interview in Washington on Wednesday, March 3, 1977, saying she will increase speaking out to the "Edith Bunkers" of the land to try and muster support for the Equal Rights Amendment. Stapleton, who played Edith Bunker in the groundbreaking 1970s TV comedy "All in the Family," has died. She was 90. John Putch said Saturday, June 1, 2013 that his mother died Friday, May 31, 2013 of natural causes at her New York City home surrounded by friends and family. (AP Photo/Jeff Taylor)Stapleton was the counterpoint to Carroll O'Connor's Archie on "All in the Family."
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Angel evokes tragedies at service for N.Y. teen 
Saturday, Jun 01, 2013 02:34 PM PDT
 In this Thursday, May 30, 2013 photo, sculptor Lei Hennessy-Owen talks about the angel sculpture behind her, in Warwick, N.Y. Hennessy-Owen, who has crafted angels to mark high-profile tragedies including the 9/11 attacks, donated this angel as a memorial to a New York teenager killed in a car crash. (AP Photo/Jim Fitzgerald)"I like to show angels rising out of wreckage," said the artist.
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3-day-old harbor seal pup rescued on Long Island 
Saturday, Jun 01, 2013 08:32 PM PDT
 In this photo provided by Riverhead Foundation for Marine Research and Preservation, a female Harbor seal pup rests on a mat in the Riverhead Foundation facility at the Long Island Aquarium in Riverhead, N.Y. Riverhead Foundation biologists responding to multiple calls of a distressed seal, found her struggling against the surf and was transported her back to the Foundation's marine mammal hospital. (AP Photo/Riverhead Foundation for Marine Research and Preservation)The pup was taken to a marine mammal hospital.
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2 Mexico kidnap victims sons of drug traffickers 
Saturday, Jun 01, 2013 06:24 PM PDT
 A man takes photos with his mobile phone of the facade of an after hours bar plastered with signs of missing people in Mexico City, Friday May 31, 2013. Anguished relatives said that on Sunday, May 26, eleven young people were kidnapped in broad daylight from an after-hours bar in Mexico City's Zona Rosa, a normally calm district of offices, restaurants, drinking spots and dance clubs. One sign reads: "Help us find him to return to his family." (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte)Authorities have been searching desperately for motives in the crime.
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TV host's black war posters focus of Pa. exhibit 
Saturday, Jun 01, 2013 06:33 PM PDT
 In this Thursday, May 30, 2013 photo, University of Pennsylvania professor and PBS History Detectives host Tukufu Zuberi speaks about an Italian 1942 broadside matted on canvas by Gino Boccasile during an interview with The Associated Press at the Black Bodies in Propaganda: The Art of the War Poster exhibit at the Penn Museum, in Philadelphia. The new museum exhibition presents 33 posters owned by Zuberi that were designed to mobilize Africans and African-Americans in war efforts, even as they faced oppression and injustice in their homelands. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)The exhibit examines how wartime propaganda has been used to motivate oppressed populations.
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N.M. crews fight wildfires; smoke pours into capital 
Saturday, Jun 01, 2013 04:57 PM PDT
 Smoke from the Tres Laguans fire near Pecos, N.M. is seen on May 30, 2013. Officials said the fire in New Mexico's Santa Fe National Forest more than doubled in size by Friday night and was still totally uncontained. That prompted New Mexico Gov. Susana Martinez to declare a state of emergency in San Miguel County to free up state funds to fight the fire. (AP Photo/The Santa Fe New Mexican, Luis Sanchez Saturno)Two blazes have scorched thousands of acres and spurred evacuation calls.
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Protesters swarm Istanbul square after clashes 
Saturday, Jun 01, 2013 03:21 PM PDT
 Turkish youths shout slogan " Tayyip, resign! " as they clash with security forces in Ankara, Turkey, Saturday, June 1, 2013. Turkish police retreated from a main Istanbul square Saturday, removing barricades and allowing in thousands of protesters in a move to calm tensions after furious anti-government protests turned the city center into a battlefield. A second day of national protests over a violent police raid of an anti-development sit-in in Taksim square has revealed the depths of anger against Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who many Turks view as increasingly authoritarian and dismissive of opposing views. (AP Photo / Burhan Ozbilici)A crackdown on an anti-government protest turned city streets into a battlefield clouded by tear gas.
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Lutheran assembly elects first openly gay bishop 
Saturday, Jun 01, 2013 02:12 PM PDT
 This undated image provided by ReconcilingWorks shows Dr. Guy Erwin, a premier scholar on Martin Luther, who was elected as Lutheran Bishop Saturday June 1, 2013 in Los Angeles. Erwin is Bishop of the Southwest California Synod of the Evangelical Church in America (ELCA). (AP Photo/ReconcilingWorks)The election of Rev. Dr. R. Guy Erwin comes after a controversial rule change in 2009.
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Whirligig art creator Vollis Simpson dies at 94 
Saturday, Jun 01, 2013 04:13 PM PDT
 In this Thursday, June 21, 2012 file photo, whirligig artist Vollis Simpson sits outside his shop in Lucama, N.C. Simpson, a self-taught artist famed for his whimsical, wind-powered whirligigs, has died. He was 94. Simpson's wife, Jean, told the Wilson Daily Times that her husband died in his sleep Friday, May 31, 2013. (AP Photo/Gerry Broome)Where others saw trash, Simpson saw whimsical, wind-powered creations.
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Memorial held for Newtown gunman's mother 
Saturday, Jun 01, 2013 12:55 PM PDT
 Family and friends arrive for a memorial service for Nancy Lanza on Saturday June 1, 2013 in Kingston, N.H. Lanza's 20-year-old son, Adam Lanza, killed her at their home in Newtown, Conn., on Dec. 14 and then drove to Sandy Hook Elementary School, where he killed the children and six school employees before committing suicide. (AP Photo/Jim Cole)More than 100 family and friends gathered at a church in a small New Hampshire town.
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U.K. police charge second suspect in soldier's death 
Saturday, Jun 01, 2013 12:12 PM PDT
 British police officers arrest anti-fascist demonstrators protesting against members of the British National Party (BNP), not seen, during a demonstration in central London, Saturday, June.1, 2013. BNP supporters gathered to protest the May 22 killing of British soldier Lee Rigby. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)British police charged a second suspect Saturday with the murder of a soldier who was hacked to death in a London street, as right-wing and antifascist groups both demonstrated.
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Despite mammoth blood discovery, cloning still unlikely 
Saturday, Jun 01, 2013 12:16 PM PDT
 Despite Mammoth Blood Discovery, Cloning Still UnlikelyDespite the recent discovery of a stunningly preserved mammoth, the odds of scientists using it to clone a real-life mammoth anytime soon are still low, experts say.
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Rockets from Syria hit Hezbollah stronghold 
Saturday, Jun 01, 2013 12:15 PM PDT
 This citizen journalism image provided by the Local Council of Barzeh, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, shows destroyed homes from government airstrikes and shelling, in the Barzeh district of Damascus, Syria, Saturday, June 1, 2013. More than a dozen rockets and mortar rounds fired from Syria struck eastern Lebanon on Saturday, security officials said, as tensions escalated along the Lebanese-Syria border over the increasing role of Hezbollah militants in the civil war next door. (AP Photo/Local Council of Barzeh)Eighteen rockets and mortars rounds from Syria slammed into Lebanon on Saturday, the largest cross-border salvo to hit a Hezbollah stronghold since Syrian rebels threatened to retaliate.
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