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FBI Kills Man Linked to Boston Bombing Suspect
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A Florida man linked to the Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev was shot and killed while being questioned by the FBI in Orlando, Fla., early Wednesday morning, NBC News reported. Ibragim Todashev, 27, allegedly attacked an agent with a knife, who shot and killed him, the FBI said in a statement. The agent sustained non-life threatening injuries. Todashev was not suspected of being involved in the bombing, but he did confess to being involved in a brutal slaying in 2011 in which three men were murdered in an apartment in Waltham, Mass., investigators said, according to NBC News. Law enforcement officials said Todashev was being questioned as part of the FBI’s effort to find and talk to anyone who had any links to Tsarnaev. Todashev, officials said, had spent some time in the Boston area, where he was a mixed martial arts fighter, and knew Tsarnaev there. He had been interviewed about his connections to the bombing suspects before by the FBI and started out cooperative. Officials said he became violent as he was about to sign a written statement based on his confession.
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IRS Official: "I've Done Nothing Wrong"
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A House committee dismissed the IRS official in charge of overseeing the division that took action to target conservative groups seeking tax exempt status after she invoked her Fifth Amendment rights and refused to testify during an appearance before the House Oversight Committee Wednesday, NBC News reported. Lois Lerner refused to answer lawmakers’ questions but denied having done anything wrong before invoking her rights. “I have not done anything wrong. I have not broken any laws. I have not violated any IRS rules or regulations,” she said in a brief appearance on Capitol Hill. The committee chairman, Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., dismissed Lerner, but warned that his panel might again seek her testimony in the future. Lerner’s appearance marked a dramatic opening to a House hearing into the IRS abuses that was expected to feature abundant political fireworks.
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Rescue Turns to Recovery as Search Nears End in Okla.
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The task of clearing debris from areas devastated by the massive tornado in Oklahoma was expected to start Wednesday as the search and rescue teams wound up their search, NBC News reported. President Barack Obama vowed to help victims get needed assistance "right away" after the category EF-5 tornado tore through the suburbs of Oklahoma City on Monday leaving a 17-mile path of destruction. Authorities said 24 people were confirmed killed by the twister, nine of them children, including a 3-month-old baby. Officials were still not certain how many homes were destroyed or how many families had been displaced. Emergency crews had trouble navigating devastated neighborhoods because there were no street signs left. Severe thunderstorms were forecast for an area stretching from the lower Great Lakes to the Tennessee Valley on Wednesday. The National Weather Service said that the “primary threats” would be damaging winds and large hail, but added “isolated tornadoes will also be possible.”
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Tornado Victims Face Wreckage as Cleanup Gets Underway
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Vice President Speaks at Coast Guard Academy Graduation
Vice President Joe Biden is delivering the keynote address at the U.S. Coast Guard Academy graduation today in New London. The academy has about 1,000 cadets in its four-year program. Students graduate with a bachelor of science degree and an obligation to serve five years in the Coast Guard. President Barack Obama delivered the keynote address at the academy's graduation in 2011.
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Courage Amid Chaos as Tornado Destroys School
The powerful tornado that tore through Moore, Okla., on Monday hit hard Plaza Towers Elementary School, where children sheltered inside from the roaring gusts, even as the building began to come apart around them. The winds and flying debris from the mile-wide tornado claimed at least two dozen lives, the Oklahoma medical examiner said on Tuesday, according to NBC News. Nine of those victims were children. The seven students who were killed at Plaza Towers, a single-story cinder block building that was leveled in the storm, were found dead in a pool of water, authorities said. Another student died at Briarwood Elementary, less than two miles away. School officials had long planned for a tornado, but they were not ready for such such a devastating one, with EF-5 category winds that topped 200 mph.
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Wednesday, May 22, 2013 at 1:49 AM
Immigration Bill Approved by Senate Committee
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The Senate Judiciary Committee voted 13-5 Tuesday night on a sweeping bill to overhaul the nation's immigration system, NBC News reported. Three Republicans -- Sens. Jeff Flake of Arizona, Lindsey Graham of South Carolina and Orrin Hatch of Utah -- joined the panel's 10 Democrats to vote in favor of the bill. Flake and Graham are both members of the bipartisan "Gang of Eight" that originally drafted the 844-page immigration legislation. Sens. Ted Cruz and John Cornyn of Texas, Chuck Grassley of Iowa, Mike Lee of Utah and Jeff Sessions of Alabama voted against the legislation. In an emotional moment shortly before the final passage of the bill, committee chairman Patrick Leahy announced that he would withhold a vote on an amendment that would give the spouses of LGBT individuals the same standing as heterosexual couples. The measure will now head to the Senate floor.
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Jodi Arias: Death Penalty Would Be "Revenge"
As an Arizona jury resumes deliberating Wednesday about whether she deserves the death penalty for the murder of her ex-boyfriend Travis Alexander, Jodi Arias is now asking jurors to spare her life after initially saying she preferred to die. “What I receive will be what I deserve, I believe,’’ Arias said in interview which aired on the "Today" show Wednesday. Arias said she deserves life in prison instead of the death penalty because she still has a lot to contribute to society. She also said she feels betrayed by the jury’s verdict, which her attorneys plan to appeal. On Tuesday she begged jurors to spare her life on behalf of her family. “I’m asking you, please, please don’t do that to them,” she said. “I want everyone’s pain to stop.” Asked in the "Today" interview about people who feel that the only way for Travis Alexander to get justice is for Arias to get the death penalty, the former waitress replied, "That's not justice. That's revenge."
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Sweden Stunned by Third Night of Unrest
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Hundreds of youths rioted in suburbs of Stockholm, Sweden, on Tuesday night, setting fire to cars and attacking police and rescue services, Reuters reported. It was the third night of unrest, mainly in the suburbs where many immigrants live. The disorder, in one of Europe’s richest capitals, has fueled a debate about how Sweden is dealing with youth unemployment and an influx of immigrants. The riots appear to have been sparked by the police killing of a 69-year-old man wielding a machete, which prompted accusations of police brutality. A spokesman for Stockholm police said Wednesday that around 30 cars were set on fire and eight people had been arrested Tuesday night. After decades of practicing the "Swedish model" of generous welfare benefits, the country has been reducing the role of the state since the 1990s, spurring a rapid growth in inequality.
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Tuesday, May 21, 2013 at 10:47 PM
9-Year-Old Among First Tornado Victims Identified
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A 9-year-old girl is among the first of the Oklahoma tornado victims to be identified, NBC News reported. Third-grader Ja'Nae Hornsby, who was "always smiling" was one of the students who died when the tornado slammed into Plaza Towers Elementary School in Moore, Okla., on Monday afternoon. Grieving family members gathered Tuesday at a Baptist church in Oklahoma City to console each other after a night of anxious waiting ended with a devastating call from the medical examiner's office. Ja'Nae's father tried to race back home to pick her up from school and pick up his two-year-old from daycare as the twister bore down on the Moore suburb. By the time he got there, the school had been reduced to a pile of rubble and the parking lot was transformed into a triage area for surviving students. Click through to read more about the frantic search for Ja'Nae Hornsby.
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