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Today's Yahoo! News - Latest News & Headlines: GOP dilemma: draw new voters without irking base Obama says gov't, people behind hard-hit Oklahoma 'all the way' Gettysburg readies for 150th anniversary of battle Searchers find body of teen missing in Texas flood 10 fans injured when TV cable falls on race track Native American vets push for recognition Prosecutor: Bombs hidden in bedroom linked to Ore. school plot Rocket fired from Lebanon toward Israel Two dead, five hurt in Texas shooting spree Texas Legislature passes measure to prevent Medicaid expansion Search ongoing for passenger of NY plane crash 'Crack baby' scare overblown, teen research says NYC's bike share, largest in nation, launches 1 dead, 10 hurt in car-party bus crash in Calif. Kentucky policeman shot and killed in apparent highway ambush

GOP dilemma: draw new voters without irking base  Monday, May 27, 2013 12:18 AM PDT The Republican Party, having lost the popular vote in five of the last six presidential elections, confronts a dilemma that's easier to describe than to solve: How can it broaden its appeal to up-for-grabs voters without alienating its conservative base? Full Story	Top
Obama says gov't, people behind hard-hit Oklahoma 'all the way'  Sunday, May 26, 2013 11:27 AM PDT President 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. Full Story	Top
Gettysburg readies for 150th anniversary of battle  Sunday, May 26, 2013 05:44 PM PDT The commemoration of this year's milestone anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg will include amenities that soldiers would have relished 150 years ago. Full Story	Top
Searchers find body of teen missing in Texas flood  Sunday, May 26, 2013 06:41 PM PDT 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. Full Story	Top
10 fans injured when TV cable falls on race track  Sunday, May 26, 2013 09:53 PM PDT Charlotte Motor Speedway said 10 fans were injured Sunday at the Coca-Cola 600 and three of them 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. Full Story	Top
Native American vets push for recognition  Sunday, May 26, 2013 04:45 PM PDT The 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. Full Story	Top
Prosecutor: Bombs hidden in bedroom linked to Ore. school plot  Sunday, May 26, 2013 10:30 AM PDT A 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. Full Story	Top
Rocket fired from Lebanon toward Israel  Sunday, May 26, 2013 02:56 PM PDT A rocket was fired from south Lebanon toward Israel on Sunday, Lebanese security sources said, and residents of a northern Israeli town reported hearing a blast. Full Story	Top
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. Full Story	Top
Texas Legislature passes measure to prevent Medicaid expansion  Sunday, May 26, 2013 09:30 PM PDT The Republican-majority Texas House and Senate on Sunday sent Governor Rick Perry a proposal to prevent the state from expanding its Medicaid program as outlined by President Barack Obama's healthcare reform law. Full Story	Top
Search ongoing for passenger of NY plane crash  Monday, May 27, 2013 12:15 AM PDT Rescuers will search for a third day for a brain cancer patient on board the volunteer medical flight that crashed in a wooded area of central New York. Full Story	Top
'Crack baby' scare overblown, teen research says  Sunday, May 26, 2013 10:05 PM PDT Research in teens adds fresh evidence that the 1980s "crack baby" scare was overblown, finding little proof of any major long-term ill effects in children whose mothers used cocaine during pregnancy. Full Story	Top
NYC's bike share, largest in nation, launches  Monday, May 27, 2013 12:31 AM PDT New York City's long-awaited and much-hyped bicycle-sharing program is finally set to begin. Full Story	Top
1 dead, 10 hurt in car-party bus crash in Calif.  Sunday, May 26, 2013 10:11 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. Full Story	Top
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. Full Story	Top

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