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  Yahoo takes big leap with $1.1B deal for Tumblr

  Posted 5:08 AM 5/20/2013 by Associated Press

  SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Yahoo is buying online blogging forum Tumblr for $1.1 billion as CEO Marissa Mayer tries to rejuvenate an Internet icon that had fallen behind the times.The deal announced Monday represents Mayer's boldest move yet since she left Google 10 months ago to lead (More)

  
  

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  Tornadoes level homes in Okla., 1 dead

  Posted 9:47 PM 5/19/2013 by Associated Press

  SHAWNEE, Okla. (AP) - Authorities say a tornado that severely damaged a mobile home park southeast of Oklahoma City killed a 79-year-old man whose body was found in an open area of the neighborhood.Pottawatomie County Sheriff Mike Booth also said that six people who lived in the (More)

  
  

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  SKorea analyzing if 4 projectiles North Korea launched were missiles or artillery

  Posted 8:45 PM 5/19/2013 by Associated Press

  SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - South Korea officials are trying to determine out what exactly North Korea fired into its eastern waters over the weekend.A Defense Ministry official speaking on condition of anonymity citing department rules says experts are analyzing whether the projectiles (More)

  
  

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  US adviser on board of firm that sold anthrax drug

  Posted 7:20 PM 5/19/2013 by Associated Press

  WASHINGTON (AP) - A report says former Navy Secretary Richard J. Danzig, who serves as a bio-warfare adviser to the president and Pentagon, urged the government to stockpile an anti-anthrax drug while serving as a director for the company that supplies it.An investigation published (More)

  
  

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  Tornado levels homes in Oklahoma City trailer park

  Posted 6:23 PM 5/19/2013 by Associated Press

  EDMOND, Okla. (AP) - One of several tornadoes spawned by a powerful storm system rumbling through the Plains and Midwest has leveled several mobile homes in an area southeast of Oklahoma City.Reports of injuries in the mobile home park near Shawnee about 35 miles southeast of Oklahoma (More)

  
  

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  Consumer group flags high SPF ratings on sunscreen

  Posted 5:10 PM 5/19/2013 by Associated Press

  WASHINGTON (AP) - Sunbathers headed to the beach this summer will find new sunscreen labels on store shelves that are designed to make the products more effective and easier to use. But despite those long-awaited changes, many sunscreens continue to carry SPF ratings that some experts consider (More)

  
  

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  Tornadoes hit Kan., Okla.; no injuries reported

  Posted 4:19 PM 5/19/2013 by Associated Press

  TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) - Authorities say tornadoes have touched down in Wichita, Kan., and a suburb of Oklahoma City but there are no immediate reports of injuries or significant damage.Sedgwick County, Kan., emergency management director Randy Duncan says officials are "very grateful" (More)

  
  

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  2 FBI agents killed in training accident in Va.

  Posted 2:12 PM 5/19/2013 by Associated Press

  VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (AP) - Two FBI special agents on the agency's elite Hostage Rescue Team have been killed in a training accident in Virginia.The FBI's national press office said in a statement Sunday that the accident happened off the coast of Virginia Beach on Friday. No other (More)

  
  

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  Russian TV: American accused of spying flies out

  Posted 9:25 AM 5/19/2013 by Associated Press

  MOSCOW (AP) - Russian NTV television is reporting that the U.S. Embassy employee accused of spying and ordered to leave the country has flown out of Moscow.The Kremlin-loyal TV station broadcast video that appeared to show Ryan Fogle passing through passport control and security at (More)

  
  

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  Obama to speak on legality of drone program

  Posted 8:34 AM 5/19/2013 by Associated Press

  WASHINGTON (AP) - President Barack Obama will address the legality of his administration's controversial drone program during a speech this week.A White House official says Obama will also address other counterterrorism policies, including stalled efforts to close the Guantanamo Bay (More)