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Frightened Okla. residents opt to flee tornadoes 
Saturday, Jun 01, 2013 06:05 PM PDT
 Josh Stapleton, left, and Dan Garrett help to salvage furniture from their friends Fred and Joann Horn's home that was destroyed by the tornado Saturday, June 1, 2013 in El Reno Okla. (AP Photo/Nick Oxford)OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — It's a warning as familiar as a daily prayer for Tornado Alley residents: When a twister approaches, take shelter in a basement or low-level interior room or closet, away from windows and exterior walls.
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Pressing needs test GOP's smaller government stand 
Saturday, Jun 01, 2013 09:30 AM PDT
 FILE - In this May 28, 2013, photo, President Barack Obama reacts to his introduction by New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie in Asbury Park, N.J. One major principle of Obama's presidency that his foes love to hate _ that government, when it works right, can be best-equipped to aid and protect Americans _ is finding fresh currency among some Republicans. Obama walked side by side Christie, a fiscal conservative who has shown no patience for massive government spending _ except when it comes to billions in federal aid for his state after Superstorm Sandy. In fact, it was Christie and other Northeast Republicans who blasted members of their own party for insisting that Federal Emergency Management Agency aid be offset by cuts elsewhere in the federal budget. (AP Photo/Mel Evans)WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama says a government that works properly can be best-equipped to help and protect the public. Republican believers in a less-is-more government generally disagree.
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Despite Mammoth Blood Discovery, Cloning Still Unlikely 
Saturday, Jun 01, 2013 12:16 PM PDT
 Despite Mammoth Blood Discovery, Cloning Still UnlikelyDespite the recent discovery of a stunningly preserved mammoth, the odds of scientists using it to clone a real-life mammoth anytime soon are still low, experts say.
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Republican vs. Republican on covering uninsured 
Saturday, Jun 01, 2013 09:43 AM PDT
 FILE - In this May 16, 2012 file photo, Florida Gov. Rick Scott speaks in Fort Lauderdale. It's Republican vs. Republican in the latest round of political battles over health care. Conservative Republican governors in major states are trying to block efforts by more pragmatic governors of their own party to accept health insurance for more low-income residents under President Barack Obama's health care law. Long opposed to the remake of the health insurance market, Scott has softened his tone, and is now one of nine Republican governors who support Medicaid expansion, a major component of the health care law taking effect Jan. 1. (AP Photo/J Pat Carter, File)WASHINGTON (AP) — It's Republican versus Republican in the latest round of political battles over health care.
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Twisters, floods sweep across Midwest, Plains 
Saturday, Jun 01, 2013 10:37 AM PDT
 Rilma Hulett carries a dish set from her friend Bobbie Steenbergen's home that was destroyed by the tornado that swept through Central Oklahoma Friday afternoon on Saturday June 1, 2013 in El Reno Okla. Emergency officials set out Saturday morning to see how much damage a violent burst of thunderstorms and tornadoes caused as it swept across the Midwest overnight. (AP Photo/Nick Oxford)OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Emergency officials set out Saturday to assess damage from a series of violent storms and tornadoes that killed nine people as it swept through Oklahoma City and its suburbs with tornadoes, large hail and heavy rain. More than 100 people were injured.
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For 90th birthday, pilot plans 90 border crossings 
Saturday, Jun 01, 2013 01:22 PM PDT
 In this Thursday, May 30, 2013 photo, John Lawton poses by his Cessna 172 airplane in Wadsworth, Ohio. Lawton will attempt to make 90 flying passages across the U.S.-Canadian border. Lawton says he's been a pilot for 56 years and got it in his head to do something different for his birthday this year. He plans a series of figure-eight maneuvers above the Niagara River on Grand Island, north of Buffalo, N.Y., that will take him back and forth across the northern border. (AP Photo/Tony Dejak)GRAND ISLAND, N.Y. (AP) — Loved ones of John Lawton will gaze heavenward on his 90th birthday Monday.
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Statehouses buck Catholic Church on gay marriage 
Saturday, Jun 01, 2013 06:47 AM PDT
 Rhode Island State Rep. Frank Ferri poses inside the Statehouse in Providence, R.I., Wednesday, May 29, 2013. A faithful member of his Catholic church choir for decades, the openly gay state representative led the fight to legalize same-sex marriage in what may be the most Catholic state in the nation's most Catholic region. And, in May, Rhode Island became the sixth and final New England state to allow gay couples to marry when its Democrat-dominated legislature, led by an openly gay House speaker, reversed course after years of the Catholic Church successfully lobbying lawmakers to resist legalization. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola)PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Frank Ferri made peace with God years ago. Last month, Ferri defeated the Roman Catholic Church.
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Catholic influence wanes amidst gay marriage fight 
Saturday, Jun 01, 2013 01:19 AM PDT
 Rhode Island State Rep. Frank Ferri poses at the Statehouse in Providence, R.I., Wednesday, May 29, 2013. A faithful member of his Catholic church choir for decades, the openly gay state representative led the fight to legalize same-sex marriage in what may be the most Catholic state in the nation's most Catholic region. And, in May, Rhode Island became the sixth and final New England state to allow gay couples to marry when its Democrat-dominated legislature, led by an openly gay House speaker, reversed course after years of the Catholic Church successfully lobbying lawmakers to resist legalization. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola)PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Frank Ferri made peace with God years ago. He defeated the Roman Catholic Church just last month.
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Obama: Economy showing signs of strength 
Saturday, Jun 01, 2013 06:11 AM PDT
 Obama: Economy showing signs of strengthPresident Barack Obama says the economy is showing new signs of strength. He's pointing to the auto industry, new jobs and a recovering housing market as signs of progress. In his weekly radio and Internet ...
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Lutheran assembly elects first openly gay bishop 
Saturday, Jun 01, 2013 02:12 PM PDT
 This undated image provided by ReconcilingWorks shows Dr. Guy Erwin, a premier scholar on Martin Luther, who was elected as Lutheran Bishop Saturday June 1, 2013 in Los Angeles. Erwin is Bishop of the Southwest California Synod of the Evangelical Church in America (ELCA). (AP Photo/ReconcilingWorks)LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Evangelical Lutheran Church of America elected its first openly gay bishop to a six-year term on Friday at an annual assembly in Southern California, officials said.
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Rockets from Syria hit Hezbollah stronghold 
Saturday, Jun 01, 2013 12:17 PM PDT
 This citizen journalism image provided by the Local Council of Barzeh, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, shows destroyed homes from government airstrikes and shelling, in the Barzeh district of Damascus, Syria, Saturday, June 1, 2013. More than a dozen rockets and mortar rounds fired from Syria struck eastern Lebanon on Saturday, security officials said, as tensions escalated along the Lebanese-Syria border over the increasing role of Hezbollah militants in the civil war next door. (AP Photo/Local Council of Barzeh)BEIRUT (AP) — Eighteen rockets and mortars rounds from Syria slammed into Lebanon on Saturday, the largest cross-border salvo to hit a Hezbollah stronghold since Syrian rebels threatened to retaliate for the Lebanese militant group's armed support of Syrian President Bashar Assad.
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Russia tries to kick habit with anti-smoking law 
Saturday, Jun 01, 2013 04:42 AM PDT
 A woman smokes a cigarette in a cafe, a day before new tobacco restrictions come into place, in MoscowBy Steve Gutterman MOSCOW (Reuters) - Tobacco restrictions came into force in Russia on Saturday which President Vladimir Putin hopes will create a healthier workforce and help reverse a population decline, but they face stiff opposition in a country where four in ten people smoke. The measures, part of a law Putin signed in February, include a ban on smoking at schools and universities, museums, sports facilities, hospitals and on public transport - in many cases places where it is already prohibited. ...
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NH memorial held for Newtown gunman's mother 
Saturday, Jun 01, 2013 12:55 PM PDT
 Family and friends arrive for a memorial service for Nancy Lanza on Saturday June 1, 2013 in Kingston, N.H. Lanza's 20-year-old son, Adam Lanza, killed her at their home in Newtown, Conn., on Dec. 14 and then drove to Sandy Hook Elementary School, where he killed the children and six school employees before committing suicide. (AP Photo/Jim Cole)KINGSTON, N.H. (AP) — More than 100 family and friends gathered at a church in a small New Hampshire town Saturday to remember the woman whose son massacred 20 first-graders and six educators in a Connecticut elementary school last year.
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List of 11 who disappeared from Mexico City bar 
Saturday, Jun 01, 2013 06:02 AM PDT
 Photo composite of images taken from flyers made by relatives showing ten of the eleven young people that were kidnapped in broad daylight from an after hours bar in Mexico City last Sunday May 26, 2013. From left to right, top row; Josue Piedra Moreno, Aaron Piedra Moreno, Rafael Rojas, Alan Omar Athiencia Barragon, Jennifer Robles Gonzalez. From left to right, bottom row; Jerzy Ortiz Ponce, Said Sanchez Garcia, Guadalupe Morales Vargas, Eulogio Foseca Arreola, Gabriela Tellez Zamudio. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte)Eleven young people were brazenly kidnapped May 26 from an after-hours bar in Mexico City's Zona Rosa, a normally calm district of offices, restaurants, drinking spots and dance clubs, according to their relatives. Here are the names The Associated Press has confirmed:
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2 Mexico kidnap victims sons of drug traffickers 
Saturday, Jun 01, 2013 06:24 PM PDT
 A man takes photos with his mobile phone of the facade of an after hours bar plastered with signs of missing people in Mexico City, Friday May 31, 2013. Anguished relatives said that on Sunday, May 26, eleven young people were kidnapped in broad daylight from an after-hours bar in Mexico City's Zona Rosa, a normally calm district of offices, restaurants, drinking spots and dance clubs. One sign reads: "Help us find him to return to his family." (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte)MEXICO CITY (AP) — It started to rain last Saturday night and the temperature dropped. So 19-year-old Said Sanchez Garcia stopped home to get a sweater. He'd been gone all afternoon and now he and his friend, Jerzy Ortiz, 16, were headed out clubbing on Jerzy's motor scooter.
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Heat's Andersen accepts ban, won't change style 
Saturday, Jun 01, 2013 12:17 PM PDT
 Miami Heat forward Chris Andersen (11) is restrained by official Marc Davis as coach Erik Spoelstra yells at him during the first half of Game 5 in the NBA basketball playoffs Eastern Conference finals against the Indiana Pacers, Thursday, May 30, 2013, in Miami. Andersen was charged with a flagrant foul. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky)INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Miami forward Chris Andersen grudgingly accepted his punishment from the NBA on Saturday morning.
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Damage assessment to begin after fatal Okla. storm 
Saturday, Jun 01, 2013 03:41 AM PDT
 Cars that were damaged by a tornado in parking lot at Canadian Valley Technical Center on State Highway 66, west of Banner Road, Friday May 31, 2013 in El Reno, Okla. (AP Photo/The Oklahoman, Jim Beckel) LOCAL STATIONS OUT (KFOR, KOCO, KWTV, KOKH, KAUT OUT); LOCAL WEBSITES OUT; LOCAL PRINT OUT (EDMOND SUN OUT, OKLAHOMA GAZETTE OUT) TABLOIDS OUTOKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Emergency officials were preparing to survey tornado damage Saturday morning following the second major fatal storm to strike the Oklahoma City metropolitan area in several days.
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Weather Channel meteorologist injured in tornado 
Saturday, Jun 01, 2013 07:03 AM PDT
 NEW YORK (AP) — The next time meteorologist Mike Bettes talks about the power of tornadoes on The Weather Channel, he can speak from personal experience.
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Russia to send nuclear submarines to southern seas 
Saturday, Jun 01, 2013 06:40 AM PDT
 Russian submarine is anchored on Neva River in central part of the city of St. PetersburgBy Alexei Anishchuk MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia plans to resume nuclear submarine patrols in the southern seas after a hiatus of more than 20 years following the break-up of the Soviet Union, Itar-Tass news agency reported on Saturday, in another example of efforts to revive Moscow's military. The plan to send Borei-class submarines, designed to carry 16 long-range nuclear missiles, to the southern hemisphere follows President Vladimir Putin's decision in March to deploy a naval unit in the Mediterranean Sea on a permanent basis starting this year. ...
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3 things to do if you're arrested in Mexico 
Saturday, Jun 01, 2013 01:16 AM PDT
 What should a tourist do if arrested in Mexico and accused of carrying drugs?
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Ariz. mom not giving up on Mexico, despite arrest 
Saturday, Jun 01, 2013 03:00 PM PDT
 Yanira Maldonado, 42, left, accompanied by her husband, Gary, center, speaks to an official after being released from a prison on the outskirts of Nogales, Mexico late Thursday, May 30, 2013. Maldonado, jailed in Mexico on a drug-smuggling charge, was released after court officials reviewed her case. She was arrested by the Mexican military last week after they found nearly 12 pounds (5.4 kilograms) of pot under her seat on the commercial bus traveling from Mexico to Arizona. (AP Photo/Cristina Silva)AVONDALE, Ariz. (AP) — The American woman who was jailed for a week after Mexican authorities said they found marijuana under her bus seat said she'll return to Mexico someday.
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Hagel warns China on cyberattacks 
Saturday, Jun 01, 2013 03:43 AM PDT
 U.S. Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel, center, poses with Japan's Defense Minister Itsunori Onodera, left, and South Korean Defense Minister Kim Kwan-jin, right, pose for photographers before their trilateral meeting on the sidelines of the International Institute for Strategic Studies Shangri-la Dialogue, or IISS Asia Security Summit in Singapore, Saturday, June 1, 2013. (AP Photo/Wong Maye-E)SINGAPORE (AP) — Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel delivered a two-pronged message to Beijing — holding out hope for a slowly improving military relationship with the Asian giant while issuing a stern warning on cyberattacks coming from that country. But he was met with immediate skepticism from the Chinese delegation in the audience, who questioned America's role in the Pacific.
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Analysis: As hurricanes loom, Florida insurance lives on borrowed time 
Saturday, Jun 01, 2013 05:10 AM PDT
 File photo shows strong waves crashing around coastal houses in Key West, FloridaBy David Adams MIAMI (Reuters) - Mother Nature has been kind to Florida's coastline lately with a record run of seven years without a hurricane making landfall, allowing property insurers time to re-stock their depleted coffers. As a result, when the new six-month hurricane season gets underway on Saturday, state insurance officials say the industry is ready to withstand a major storm. "We are better positioned today than I have seen in 10 years," Kevin McCarty, who heads the state's Office of Insurance Regulation, told Reuters. ...
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