Sunday, May 26, 2013

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Sunday, May 26, 2013 06:41 PM PDT
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Searchers find body of teen missing in Texas flood 
Sunday, May 26, 2013 06:41 PM PDT
Members of a the Shertz Fire Department and Texas Parks and Wildlife search Sunday, May 26, 2013, in Shertz, Texas, for a missing teen who was swept away in a rain swollen Cibilo Creek Saturday. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)Search teams on Sunday found the body of an 18-year-old man who was swept away by floodwaters as he tried to swim across a swollen creek near San Antonio, authorities said.
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Obama says gov't, people behind hard-hit Oklahoma 'all the way' 
Sunday, May 26, 2013 11:27 AM PDT
U.S. President Obama surveys damage with Plaza Tower Elementary School Principal Amy Simpson in Moore, OklahomaPresident Barack Obama flew to tornado-ravaged Oklahoma Sunday, offering moral and monetary support to people still reeling from lost lives and shattered neighborhoods. He told survivors, "You've got folks behind you" across America.
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Gettysburg readies for 150th anniversary of battle 
Sunday, May 26, 2013 05:44 PM PDT
In this Friday, May 24, 2013 photo, Richard Baldino, right, accompanied by Dave Morris, both portraying army surgeons with the 2nd Division 11th Corps Army of Potomac, cleans out his pipe at the George Spangler Farm that served as a field hospital during the Civil War, in Gettysburg, Pa. Tens of thousands of visitors are expected for the 10-day schedule of events that begin June 29 to mark 150th anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg that took that took place July 1-3, 1863. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)The commemoration of this year's milestone anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg will include amenities that soldiers would have relished 150 years ago.
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Native American vets push for recognition 
Sunday, May 26, 2013 04:41 PM PDT
Code Talker Writes MemoirThe Navajo Code Talkers are legendary. Then there was Cpl. Ira Hamilton Hayes, the Pima Indian who became a symbol of courage and patriotism when he and his fellow Marines raised the flag over Iwo Jima in 1945.
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NASCAR fans injured when TV cable falls on race track 
Sunday, May 26, 2013 09:18 PM PDT
A crew gathers cable from a broken television camera rig during the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Coca-Cola 600 auto race at the Charlotte Motor Speedway in Concord, N.C., Sunday, May 26, 2013. The race was red flagged temporarily and several cars were damaged after running over the cable. (AP Photo/Gerry Broome)Charlotte Motor Speedway said 10 fans were injured Sunday and three were taken to the hospital after a nylon rope supporting a FOX Sports overhead television camera fell from the grandstands and landed on the track surface during the Coca-Cola 600.
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Affleck gets honorary doctorate from Brown 
Sunday, May 26, 2013 06:29 PM PDT
Ben Affleck speaks after receiving an honorary degree at Brown University's 245th commencement in Providence, R.I., Sunday, May 26, 2013. (AP Photo/Michael Dwyer)Academy Award-winning actor and director Ben Affleck has received one of six honorary doctorate degrees from Brown University.
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Rocket fired from Lebanon towards Israel 
Sunday, May 26, 2013 02:56 PM PDT
A landscape view of Marjayoun valley in southern LebanonA rocket was fired from south Lebanon towards Israel on Sunday, Lebanese security sources said, and residents of a northern Israeli town reported hearing a blast.
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Two dead, five hurt in Texas shooting spree 
Sunday, May 26, 2013 07:29 PM PDT
A gunman randomly firing from his pickup truck killed one person and wounded five, including the sheriff of Concho County, Texas, on Sunday before the suspect was killed in a shootout with law enforcement, officials said.
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Tony Kanaan finally wins Indy 500, ends heartbreak 
Sunday, May 26, 2013 02:28 PM PDT
Tony Kanaan, of Brazil, drives through the first turn during the Indianapolis 500 auto race at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway in Indianapolis Sunday, May 26, 2013. (AP Photo/Tom Strattman)After 12 attempts, Tony Kanaan has finally won the Indianapolis 500.
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Senator: Fire commanders allowing sex assault 
Sunday, May 26, 2013 01:40 PM PDT
Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel, left, and Superintendent Lt. Gen. David Huntoon, Jr., stand for the national anthem during a graduation and commissioning ceremony at the U.S. Military Academy in West Point, N.Y. on Saturday, May 25, 2013. (AP Photo/Mike Groll)From Congress to the White House, pressure is mounting to hold military commanders accountable for the rising number of sexual assaults in the armed services.
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Man charged in double homicide in Anchorage 
Sunday, May 26, 2013 08:06 PM PDT
A 24-year-old man has been charged with beating an Alaska man and his wife to death and sexually assaulting their 2-year-old great-granddaughter.
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Kentucky policeman shot and killed in apparent highway ambush 
Sunday, May 26, 2013 02:37 PM PDT
A Kentucky policeman was shot and killed in an apparent ambush when he stopped to pick up debris on a highway exit ramp, the Courier-Journal newspaper said on Sunday.
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Japanese mayor apologizes for comment on US troops 
Sunday, May 26, 2013 09:21 PM PDT
A Japanese mayor has apologized for saying two weeks ago that U.S. troops should patronize legal adult entertainment businesses to help reduce rapes and other assaults.
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1 dead, 10 hurt in car-party bus crash in Calif. 
Sunday, May 26, 2013 08:54 PM PDT
A car whose driver police allege had been drinking crashed with a party bus on a San Francisco Bay Area bridge on Sunday, leaving the driver critically injured, his wife dead and nine others hospitalized with minor-to-moderate injuries, authorities said.
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Prosecutor: Bombs hidden in bedroom linked to Ore. school plot 
Sunday, May 26, 2013 10:30 AM PDT
Oregon Teenager Busted for Columbine-Inspired Plan to Bomb His High SchoolA 17-year-old student in Albany, Ore., built several bombs and had a detailed plan – including checklists and diagrams – as part of a Columbine-style plot to attack West Albany High School, a local prosecutor says.
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NY plane crash passengers ID'd as patient, wife 
Sunday, May 26, 2013 08:23 PM PDT
First responders gather at a staging point in Ephratah, N.Y., Saturday, May 25, 2013, before continuing their search for the pilot of a light plane that crashed in the wooded area day before. The twin engine plane was flown by an Angel Flight volunteer pilot and was carrying at least two passengers when it took off from Hanscom Field in Bedford, Mass., and was headed to Rome, N.Y. on Friday. Angel Flight is a nonprofit group that arranges free air transportation for sick patients from volunteer pilots. (AP Photo/The Daily Gazette, Bethany Bump) NO SALESA brain cancer patient and his wife were on board the volunteer medical flight piloted by a Connecticut man that crashed in a wooded area of central New York, authorities said Sunday.
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Jolie aunt dies of breast cancer days after op-ed 
Sunday, May 26, 2013 07:49 PM PDT
FILE- In this Aug. 13, 2003 file photo, actress Angelina Jolie arrives at the Mathaeser cinema in Munich, Southern Germany, to attend the German premiere of her latest movie "Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life." Less than two weeks after Jolie had a double mastectomy to avoid breast cancer, her aunt has died from the disease. Jolie's aunt Debbie Martin died at age 61 Sunday in a San Diego-area hospital, her husband Ron Martin tells The Associated Press. Debbie Martin was the younger sister of Jolie's mother Marcheline Bertrand, whose own death from cancer in 2007 inspired the surgery that Jolie described in a May 14 New York Times op-ed. (AP Photo/Uwe Lein, File)Less than two weeks after Angelina Jolie revealed she'd had a double mastectomy to avoid breast cancer, her aunt died from the disease Sunday.
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Temp bridges planned for fallen Wash. span 
Sunday, May 26, 2013 02:33 PM PDT
Workers walk past the collapsed portion of the Interstate 5 bridge at the Skagit River Friday, May 24, 2013, in Mount Vernon, Wash. A truck carrying an oversize load struck the four-lane bridge on the major thoroughfare between Seattle and Canada, sending a section of the span and two vehicles into the Skagit River below Thursday evening. All three occupants suffered only minor injuries. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)Plans are underway to construct a pair of temporary steel bridges across the Skagit River in northern Washington state where a highway span collapsed into the water last week.
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Christie wants to talk with Rutgers about latest scandal twist 
Sunday, May 26, 2013 02:30 PM PDT
Christie wants to talk with Rutgers about HermannNew Jersey Gov. Chris Christie plans to speak with Rutgers officials about a report that the athletic director hired to clean up the school's scandal-scarred program quit as Tennessee's women's volleyball coach 16 years ago after her players complained she ruled through humiliation, fear and emotional abuse.
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GOP continues to slam new Obama war approach 
Sunday, May 26, 2013 09:02 AM PDT
President Barack Obama walks with Col. Greg Urtso to board Air Force One, Sunday, May 26, 2013, at Andrews Air Force Base, Md., en route to Moore, Okla., to visit with families and first responders in the wake of the tornadoes and severe weather that devastated the area. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)Republicans keep slamming President Barack Obama's push to move away from a war footing and recalibrate his counterterrorism strategy.
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