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  1. Life after the Strip: Neon graveyard in Las Vegas

    → feeds/usnews+feeds/usnewsvideo | 19 May 2013 | 8:50 am MDT

        




  2. Separated by military duties, dad and daughter reunite

    → feeds/usnews+feeds/usnewsvideo | 19 May 2013 | 8:50 am MDT

        




  3. Winning Powerball ticket sold in Florida

    → Top videos | 19 May 2013 | 8:45 am MDT

        




  4. SNL says goodbye to Bill Hader (and Stefon)

    → feeds/usnews+feeds/usnewsvideo | 19 May 2013 | 8:33 am MDT

        




  5. Plains states brace for tornadoes

    → feeds/usnews+feeds/usnewsvideo | 19 May 2013 | 8:33 am MDT

        




  6. Winning ticket for huge Powerball jackpot sold in Florida

    → feeds/usnews+feeds/usnewsvideo | 19 May 2013 | 8:17 am MDT

    Do you have the lucky ticket? A winner for the huge Powerball jackpot was sold at a supermarket in Zephyrhills, Fla., a Florida Lottery official confirmed to NBC News early Sunday.The winning Powerball numbers drawn late Saturday were 10, 13, 14, 22, 52 with Powerball number 11.Powerball's website said one winner was sold in Florida, and David Bishop of the Florida Lottery confirmed that it was so...
        




  7. Dozens injured in Connecticut train collision

    → Top videos | 19 May 2013 | 7:55 am MDT

        




  8. Officer once hailed as hero now facing charges

    → Top videos | 19 May 2013 | 7:55 am MDT

        




  9. Plane makes belly landing in Newark

    → Top videos | 19 May 2013 | 7:55 am MDT

        




  10. Ax hovers over food stamp program as costs grow

    → feeds/usnews+feeds/usnewsvideo | 19 May 2013 | 7:55 am MDT

    By Andrew Rafferty, Staff Writer, NBC NewsA heated battle is brewing on Capitol Hill over cuts to the food stamp program, with lawmakers quoting Bible verses at each other and benefits for millions of people hanging in the balance.Nearly 47 million people – one in seven Americans – rely on food stamps for some or all of their daily sustenance, according to the Department of Agriculture, a n...
        




  11. Plains states brace for tornadoes

    → Top videos | 19 May 2013 | 7:55 am MDT

        




  12. Record jackpot up for grabs in Powerball drawing

    → Top videos | 19 May 2013 | 7:55 am MDT

        




  13. Officer once hailed as hero now facing charges

    → feeds/usnews+feeds/usnewsvideo | 19 May 2013 | 7:49 am MDT

        




  14. Puzzling! Swine flu virus detected in elephant seals off West Coast

    → feeds/usnews+feeds/usnewsvideo | 19 May 2013 | 12:35 am MDT

    The H1N1 virus strain that caused a 2009 swine flu outbreak in humans was detected in northern elephant seals off the coast of central California.Scientists say this is the first time marine mammals have been found to carry the H1N1 flu strain, which originated in pigs. The seals seem to have picked up the virus while at sea, but it's unclear how this happened."We thought we might find influenza v...
        




  15. Winning ticket for huge Powerball jackpot sold in Florida

    → feeds/usnews+feeds/usnewsvideo | 18 May 2013 | 11:46 pm MDT

    Do you have the lucky ticket? A winner for the huge Powerball jackpot was sold at a supermarket in Zephyrhills, Fla., a Florida Lottery official confirmed to NBC News early Sunday.The winning Powerball numbers drawn late Saturday were 10, 13, 14, 22, 52 with Powerball number 11.Powerball's website said one winner was sold in Florida, and David Bishop of the Florida Lottery confirmed that it was so...
        




  16. Lucky numbers for biggest Powerball jackpot are ...

    → feeds/usnews+feeds/usnewsvideo | 18 May 2013 | 10:02 pm MDT

    Do you have the lucky ticket? The winning Powerball numbers drawn late Saturday are 10, 13, 14, 22, 52 with Powerball number 11.Four out of every five possible combinations of numbers were in play, Powerball officials said. The jackpot of the 43-state lottery game surged ahead of the drawing, and had been estimated at $600 million. Powerball officials said after the drawing that the final amount w...
        




  17. Plains states on edge under tornado watches

    → feeds/usnews+feeds/usnewsvideo | 18 May 2013 | 8:17 pm MDT

    Large sections of the Plains states came under tornado watches Saturday as a wave of storms swept through.The greatest threat late Saturday was in eastern Kansas and Oklahoma, weather.com reported, with central Oklahoma seeing a spike on Sunday.But Weather Channel meteorologist Michael Palmer said the storms on Sunday afternoon and evening were likely to carry a greater chance of tornadoes and the...
        




  18. Anchorage sets record for longest snow season

    → feeds/usnews+feeds/usnewsvideo | 18 May 2013 | 8:06 pm MDT

    232 days - it took over 30 years for Anchorage to set a new record for the longest snow season on record.The National Weather Service measured 2/10ths of an inch just after 9 p.m. Friday and 1/10th Saturday morning - breaking the old record of 230 days set in 1981-1982.Anchorage police responded to 22 crashes, 4 with injuries and 37 vehicles in distress between midnight and noon Saturday. Police s...
        




  19. Hofstra student shot in home robbery was killed by police, officials say

    → feeds/usnews+feeds/usnewsvideo | 18 May 2013 | 6:50 pm MDT

    The New York college student who was shot during a home robbery early Friday was killed by police gunfire, officials said at a news conference Saturday.According to NBC New York affiliate WNBC, Nassau County Police said Andrea Rebello, 21, was killed by police fire, not by the armed gunman attempting to rob the off-campus house where she lived with her twin sister, Jessica, and several other wom...
        




  20. Car barrels through Virginia parade crowd, injuring at least 50, official says

    → feeds/usnews+feeds/usnewsvideo | 18 May 2013 | 6:17 pm MDT

    About 50 to 60 people were injured Saturday when a driver described by witnesses as an elderly man drove his car into a group of hikers marching in a parade in a small Virginia mountain town.Washington County director of emergency management Pokey Harris said no fatalities had been reported.The injuries ranged from critical to superficial, he said. Three of the victims were flown by helicopte...
        




  21. Big dreams as Powerball jackpot soars to $600 million

    → feeds/usnews+feeds/usnewsvideo | 18 May 2013 | 6:06 pm MDT

        




  22. Tornado risk increases in the Plains

    → Top videos | 18 May 2013 | 5:39 pm MDT

        




  23. Belly-landing caught on camera at Newark airport

    → Top videos | 18 May 2013 | 5:28 pm MDT

        




  24. Obama administration reels from controversy

    → Top videos | 18 May 2013 | 9:14 am MDT

        




  25. TP shortage means Venezuelans can’t spare a square

    → Top videos | 18 May 2013 | 9:14 am MDT

        




  26. Investigators to scour wreckage of Conn. derailment

    → Top videos | 18 May 2013 | 8:24 am MDT

        




  27. Risk of tornadoes threatens Nebraska, Kansas

    → Top videos | 18 May 2013 | 8:24 am MDT

        




  28. Taste of outside world: Smugglers sneak KFC into Gaza

    → Top videos | 18 May 2013 | 8:08 am MDT

        




  29. UCF med students graduate debt free

    → Top videos | 18 May 2013 | 3:21 am MDT

        




  30. Cicadas emerge in the South

    → Top videos | 17 May 2013 | 5:39 pm MDT

        




  31. UK bids farewell to 'Iron Lady' Margaret Thatcher

    → feeds/worldnews+feeds/worldnewsvideo | 17 Apr 2013 | 5:21 am MDT

    LONDON -- Some had slept in the streets to guarantee a good spot to watch her body pass by on a gun carriage, but others said they were glad she was gone: Margaret Thatcher’s funeral proved as divisive as the 11 years she spent as Britain's prime minister.To her supporters, the “Iron Lady” was the greatest British premier of modern times -- rivaled only by World War II icon Winston Churchill. For ...
        




  32. John Kerry ‘prepared’ for talks with N. Korea

    → feeds/worldnews+feeds/worldnewsvideo | 17 Apr 2013 | 4:58 am MDT

        




  33. Deadly car bombings rock Iraq

    → feeds/worldnews+feeds/worldnewsvideo | 17 Apr 2013 | 4:58 am MDT

        




  34. Afghanistan poppies feed opium production

    → feeds/worldnews+feeds/worldnewsvideo | 17 Apr 2013 | 4:58 am MDT

        




  35. Pumas roam 3-room apartment in Lithuania

    → feeds/worldnews+feeds/worldnewsvideo | 17 Apr 2013 | 4:58 am MDT

        




  36. Kerry asks China to help end North Korean crisis

    → feeds/worldnews+feeds/worldnewsvideo | 17 Apr 2013 | 4:58 am MDT

        




  37. Major quake rattles Iran, Pakistan, Gulf states

    → feeds/worldnews+feeds/worldnewsvideo | 17 Apr 2013 | 4:58 am MDT

        




  38. McCain pushes general over US troop numbers in Afghanistan

    → feeds/worldnews+feeds/worldnewsvideo | 17 Apr 2013 | 4:58 am MDT

        




  39. Girl 'unwedged' from walls in China

    → feeds/worldnews+feeds/worldnewsvideo | 17 Apr 2013 | 4:58 am MDT

        




  40. Earthquake rocks southeast region of Iran

    → feeds/worldnews+feeds/worldnewsvideo | 17 Apr 2013 | 4:58 am MDT

        




  41. Deadly quake leaves town 'totally destroyed,' witness says; aftershocks rattle Iran, Pakistan

    → feeds/worldnews+feeds/worldnewsvideo | 17 Apr 2013 | 4:13 am MDT

    QUETTA, Pakistan - Powerful aftershocks rocked the border between Iran and Pakistan Wednesday, a day after a major earthquake tore through the region, collapsing buildings and killing at least 39 people and injuring more than 170.The Pakistani town of Mashkel was “totally destroyed,” according to a local journalist at the scene. Reporter Farooq Kabdani said almost all of the town's mud houses and ...
        




  42. 'A great prime minister': Crowds gather for 'Iron Lady' Margaret Thatcher's funeral

    → feeds/worldnews+feeds/worldnewsvideo | 17 Apr 2013 | 2:55 am MDT

    LONDON -- Some slept in the streets to guarantee a good spot to watch her body pass by on a gun carriage, as others prepared to celebrate her death: Margaret Thatcher’s funeral was proving as devisive in the U.K. as her 11 years as prime minister.To her supporters, the “Iron Lady” was the greatest British premier of modern times -- rivaled only by World War II icon Winston Churchill. For them, Tha...
        




  43. 'A fitting tribute to a great prime minister': UK to bury 'Iron Lady' Margaret Thatcher

    → feeds/worldnews+feeds/worldnewsvideo | 17 Apr 2013 | 2:22 am MDT

    LONDON -- Some slept in the streets to guarantee a good spot to watch her body pass by on a gun carriage, as others prepared to celebrate her death: Margaret Thatcher’s funeral was proving as devisive in the U.K. as her 11 years as prime minister.To her supporters Thatcher, known as the “Iron Lady,” was the greatest British premier apart from Winston Churchill, who transformed the country’s ailing...
        




  44. How to protect 500,000 along a 26-mile route? London beefs up marathon security

    → feeds/worldnews+feeds/worldnewsvideo | 17 Apr 2013 | 12:49 am MDT

    LONDON -- British authorities ordered more police on the streets for Sunday's London Marathon in the wake of the Boston bombings, but experts warned it was "virtually impossible" to guarantee the safety of the hundreds of thousands who will attend the event. A police source said additional patrols by uniformed officers were planned to reassure the public in the wake of deadly attack.While British ...
        




  45. In Falklands, Thatcher 'will always be remembered'

    → feeds/worldnews+feeds/worldnewsvideo | 17 Apr 2013 | 12:26 am MDT

        






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