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  1. Man shot to death while questioned in Boston probe

    AP Top Headlines At 4:40 p.m. EDT | 22 May 2013 | 2:40 pm MDT

    ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) -- A Chechen immigrant who was being questioned about his ties to one of the Boston Marathon bombing suspects was shot to death early Wednesday after he lunged at an FBI agent with a knife, officials said....

  2. AG: 4 Americans killed since 2009 in drone strikes

    AP Top Headlines At 4:40 p.m. EDT | 22 May 2013 | 2:40 pm MDT

    WASHINGTON (AP) -- Attorney General Eric Holder says four American citizens have been killed in drone strikes since 2009....

  3. Bernanke says more progress needed before stimulus pullback

    Reuters: Top News | 22 May 2013 | 2:36 pm MDT

    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Federal Reserve's monetary stimulus is helping the economy recover but the central bank needs to see further signs of traction before taking its foot off the gas, Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke said on Wednesday.


  4. Home sales close in on three-and-a-half year high

    Reuters: Top News | 22 May 2013 | 2:35 pm MDT

    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Home resales rose in April to the highest level in nearly 3-1/2 years and prices surged, offering the economy a buffer from the stiff headwinds posed by belt-tightening by Washington.


  5. U.S. may boost Syria rebels if Assad won't talk peace

    Reuters: Top News | 22 May 2013 | 2:32 pm MDT

    AMMAN/BEIRUT (Reuters) - Washington threatened on Wednesday to increase support for Syria's rebels if President Bashar al-Assad refuses to discuss a political end to a civil war that is spreading across borders.



  6. Gang raped at 11, victim now pregnant at 14

    Latest News - UPI.com | 22 May 2013 | 2:31 pm MDT


    HOUSTON, May 22 (UPI) -- The mother of a Texas girl who was gang raped when she was 11 says she was upset when she found her daughter, now 14, is pregnant.

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  7. Oklahoma tornado victims astounded at how they survived

    Reuters: Top News | 22 May 2013 | 2:31 pm MDT

    MOORE, Oklahoma (Reuters) - Tornado survivors thanked God, sturdy closets and luck in explaining how they lived through the colossal twister that devastated an Oklahoma town and killed 24 people, an astonishingly low toll given the extent of destruction.



  8. AP NewsAlert

    AP Top Strange News At 5:07 p.m. EDT | 22 May 2013 | 2:29 pm MDT

    WASHINGTON (AP) -- US says 4 American citizens have been killed in drone strikes since 2009....

  9. Man hacked to death in London street in suspected militant attack

    Reuters: Top News | 22 May 2013 | 2:29 pm MDT

    LONDON (Reuters) - A man was hacked to death in a street near an army barracks in London on Wednesday in what Prime Minister David Cameron said appeared to be a politically motivated attack.


  10. Defendant: Epithets, attack on gay man wasn't hate crime

    Latest News - UPI.com | 22 May 2013 | 2:26 pm MDT


    WOODLAND, Calif., May 22 (UPI) -- A California defendant in a hearing on an assault charge said the words he hurled at the gay man he allegedly beat up did not make the beating a hate crime.

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  11. Connecticut readies laws to protect privacy of Newtown victims

    Latest News - UPI.com | 22 May 2013 | 2:22 pm MDT


    HARTFORD, Conn., May 22 (UPI) -- Connecticut is finalizing legislation to withhold records related to the investigation of the Newtown school massacre, a state attorney's email indicated.

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  12. Debris removal become priority in Moore, Okla.

    Latest News - UPI.com | 22 May 2013 | 2:21 pm MDT


    MOORE, Okla., May 22 (UPI) -- Cleanup crews fanned out Wednesday across Moore, Okla., devastated by a tornado that killed at least 24 people Monday.

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  13. Ford steps on the gas, production-wise

    Latest News - UPI.com | 22 May 2013 | 2:19 pm MDT


    DEARBORN, Mich., May 22 (UPI) -- U.S. automaker Ford Motor Co. said it will bump up production in 2013 by 200,000 vehicles, due in part to increased demand on the West Coast.

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  14. Polish man gets quick face transplant after injury

    AP Top Headlines At 4:40 p.m. EDT | 22 May 2013 | 2:17 pm MDT

    WARSAW, Poland (AP) -- A 33-year-old Polish man received a face transplant just three weeks after being disfigured in a workplace accident, in what his doctors said Wednesday is the fastest time frame to date for such an operation. It was Poland's first face transplant....

  15. Ill. school board approves book on diverse families

    Latest News - UPI.com | 22 May 2013 | 2:17 pm MDT


    NAPERVILLE, Ill., May 22 (UPI) -- Some parents in a suburban Chicago school district say a book on diverse families, including one with two fathers, should not be used for kindergarten.

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  16. UK officials: Radical Islam drives London attack

    AP Top Headlines At 4:40 p.m. EDT | 22 May 2013 | 2:16 pm MDT

    LONDON (AP) -- Two U.K. government officials say a brutal attack that left one man dead near a London military barracks appears to have been motivated by radical Islam....

  17. Who else took the 5th? Baseball star, banker, more

    AP Top Headlines At 4:40 p.m. EDT | 22 May 2013 | 2:13 pm MDT

    WASHINGTON (AP) -- The baseball star, the Hollywood 10, Oliver North. And Lois Lerner of the IRS....

  18. Heinrich Rohrer, Nobel winning physicist, dies at 79

    Latest News - UPI.com | 22 May 2013 | 2:07 pm MDT


    The Swiss physicist who won a Nobel Prize in 1986 for the creation of a microscope that set the path for nanotechnology died in his home on Thursday.

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  19. Arias jury deadlocked but must keep deliberating

    AP Top Headlines At 4:40 p.m. EDT | 22 May 2013 | 2:03 pm MDT

    PHOENIX (AP) -- Jurors in the Jodi Arias murder trial told the judge Wednesday they are unable to reach a unanimous verdict on whether the convicted murderer should be sentenced to life in prison or death for killing her one-time boyfriend, prompting the judge to send them back to the deliberation room to work through their differences....

  20. Expert says doctors must giving antibiotics for colds, coughs

    Latest News - UPI.com | 22 May 2013 | 2:01 pm MDT


    GENEVA, Switzerland, May 22 (UPI) -- Britain's chief medical officer says physicians must stop prescribing antibiotics for routine coughs and colds.

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  21. Autopsy says death of faith-healing couple's baby was homicide

    Latest News - UPI.com | 22 May 2013 | 1:58 pm MDT


    PHILADELPHIA, May 22 (UPI) -- A Philadelphia medical examiner has ruled the death of a 7-month-old child of a couple who believe in faith healing was a homicide.

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  22. Report highlights species decline in Britain

    Latest News - UPI.com | 22 May 2013 | 1:55 pm MDT


    LONDON, May 22 (UPI) -- Conservationists say 60 percent of animal and plant species studied in Britain have declined in the past 50 years with bees and wildflowers the most vulnerable.

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  23. Median CEO pay rises to $9.7 million in 2012

    AP Top Headlines At 4:40 p.m. EDT | 22 May 2013 | 1:29 pm MDT

    CEO pay has been going in one direction for the past three years: up....

  24. FBI says man shot dead while being questioned about Boston bombings

    Reuters: Top News | 22 May 2013 | 12:59 pm MDT

    ORLANDO, Fla./WASHINGTON (Reuters) - An FBI agent shot and killed a man of Chechen origin who turned violent while being questioned on Wednesday about his connection to Tamerlan Tsarnaev, one of two Chechen brothers suspected of carrying out the Boston Marathon bombings.



  25. Oklahoma tornado damage could top $2 billion

    AP Top Headlines At 4:40 p.m. EDT | 22 May 2013 | 12:42 pm MDT

    MOORE, Okla. (AP) -- The tornado that tore through an Oklahoma City suburb destroyed or damaged as many as 13,000 homes and may have caused $2 billion in overall damage, officials said Wednesday....

  26. Main Bahrain opposition group temporarily boycotts talks

    Reuters: Top News | 22 May 2013 | 12:34 pm MDT

    DUBAI (Reuters) - Bahrain's main opposition group suspended its participation in reconciliation talks with the government for two weeks on Wednesday, blaming the slow pace of talks and the raid last week on a top Shi'ite Muslim cleric's home.


  27. IRS official refuses to answer questions at scandal hearing

    Reuters: Top News | 22 May 2013 | 12:16 pm MDT

    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Internal Revenue Service official at the center of a scandal about extra tax scrutiny of conservative groups told Congress on Wednesday she had done nothing wrong but invoked her constitutional right not to answer questions.


  28. Iran's Ahmadinejad looks to outsider options

    AP Top Headlines At 4:40 p.m. EDT | 22 May 2013 | 12:15 pm MDT

    TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- By now, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is well-accustomed to enduring blows from Iran's ruling clerics as his reputation fell from favored son to political outcast. But their intended parting shot - barring his chief aid from the presidential race - may be just the opening act in Ahmadinejad's reinvention as a self-styled opposition force....

  29. Analysis: From opera to exercises, U.S. and China deepen military ties

    Reuters: Top News | 22 May 2013 | 11:14 am MDT

    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Even as the United States accuses China of military espionage and worries about Beijing's more strident posture in the Asia-Pacific region, the ties between the armed forces of the two nations have been getting closer.


  30. One block: How neighbors saw twister's deadly path

    AP Top Headlines At 4:40 p.m. EDT | 22 May 2013 | 10:59 am MDT

    MOORE, Okla. (AP) -- Dan Garland could feel the latch on the shelter door begin to turn in his hand. It was as if the storm outside were a living, breathing thing - and it was trying desperately to get in....

  31. HP's slumps deepens in 2Q as earnings fall 32 pct

    Technology Headlines | 22 May 2013 | 10:22 am MDT

    SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Hewlett-Packard's slump is deepening as the world's largest personal computer maker scrambles to meet the growing demand for more versatile and less expensive mobile devices.

  32. Twitter adds security measure to logins

    Technology Headlines | 22 May 2013 | 9:56 am MDT

    NEW YORK (AP) — Twitter is adding an extra security measure to users' accounts in an effort to prevent unauthorized logins.

  33. Militants release seven Egyptians kidnapped in Sinai

    Reuters: Top News | 22 May 2013 | 9:44 am MDT

    CAIRO/ISMAILIA (Reuters) - Seven Egyptian security men kidnapped by Islamist militants in Sinai last week were freed on Wednesday and President Mohamed Mursi vowed to pursue a crackdown on lawlessness in the desert peninsula.


  34. Clearwire board approves higher Sprint offer

    Technology Headlines | 22 May 2013 | 4:25 am MDT

    BELLEVUE, Wash. (AP) — Clearwire wants to accept a richer buyout offer made by Sprint this week and is recommending that shareholders vote in favor of it.

  35. Sony mulls hedge fund's entertainment sale idea

    Technology Headlines | 21 May 2013 | 10:48 pm MDT

    TOKYO (AP) — Sony's CEO Kazuo Hirai says the electronics giant's board will discuss a proposal by U.S. hedge fund manager Daniel Loeb to spin off up to 20 percent of its movie, TV and music division.

  36. Goat on the lam snarls NJ's Pulaski Skyway traffic

    AP Top Strange News At 5:07 p.m. EDT | 21 May 2013 | 3:07 pm MDT

    JERSEY CITY, N.J. (AP) -- A goat believed to have escaped en route to a slaughterhouse snarled the morning commute along one of the busiest roadways in northern New Jersey on Tuesday, leading police on a nearly two-hour chase....

  37. Thailand urged to explore edible insect market

    AP Top Strange News At 5:07 p.m. EDT | 21 May 2013 | 6:20 am MDT

    BANGKOK (AP) -- Researchers say Thailand is showing the world how to respond to the global food crisis: by raising bugs for eating....

  38. Apple case seen as possible spur to tax action

    Technology Headlines | 21 May 2013 | 1:50 am MDT

    WASHINGTON (AP) — Now that tech darling Apple Inc. has been dragged front and center into the debate over the U.S. tax code, lawmakers are hoping that the spotlight on such a high-profile company could be the catalyst for Congress to take action to close loopholes or reform the law.

  39. Ferris wheel ride world record broken in Chicago

    AP Top Strange News At 5:07 p.m. EDT | 20 May 2013 | 1:23 pm MDT

    CHICAGO (AP) -- A manager of Chicago's Navy Pier rode the tourist spot's Ferris wheel for more than two days - 384 times, up and around - bringing the world record for the longest ride to the birthplace of the amusement park favorite....

  40. Denmark's de Forest wins Eurovision song contest

    AP Top Strange News At 5:07 p.m. EDT | 18 May 2013 | 7:46 pm MDT

    MALMO, Sweden (AP) -- Denmark's Emmelie de Forest has won this year's Eurovision Song Contest with her ethno-inspired flute and drum tune "Only Teardrops," despite tough competition from spectacular stage shows by performers from Azerbaijan and Ukraine....

  41. Funeral home has bicycle hearse for 1 last ride

    AP Top Strange News At 5:07 p.m. EDT | 17 May 2013 | 9:59 am MDT

    EUGENE, Ore. (AP) -- An Oregon funeral home in Eugene offers natural burials where the ride to the person's final resting place is on the back of a three-wheeled bicycle....

  42. Birth of anteater has Conn. zoo staff puzzled

    AP Top Strange News At 5:07 p.m. EDT | 17 May 2013 | 6:47 am MDT

    GREENWICH, Conn. (AP) -- An anteater has given birth at a Connecticut conservation center, prompting officials there to wonder how the mother conceived....

  43. Alaska man runs onto frozen lake to avoid jail

    AP Top Strange News At 5:07 p.m. EDT | 16 May 2013 | 11:26 pm MDT

    ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) -- Anchorage police say a young man who didn't want to return to jail ran out onto the uncertain ice of an Alaska lake to escape officers armed with an arrest warrant....

  44. Aussie minister sorry he 'liked' exposed teen pic

    AP Top Strange News At 5:07 p.m. EDT | 16 May 2013 | 10:44 pm MDT

    SYDNEY (AP) -- An Australian politician says he has learned a valuable lesson in social networking after he "liked" a Facebook photo without realizing that it showed a teenage prankster exposing himself....

  45. Wash. state woman spots stolen car in drive-thru

    AP Top Strange News At 5:07 p.m. EDT | 16 May 2013 | 7:23 am MDT

    KENNEWICK, Wash. (AP) -- A Washington woman whose car was stolen from her apartment complex saw the stolen SUV hours later - in the drive-thru of the McDonald's restaurant where she works....



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