Wednesday, May 25, 2011

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Forecasters urge residents to take cover as storms rip through region

Posted: 25 May 2011 10:53 PM PDT

Forecasters warned thousands to take cover as severe storms pummeled parts of Arkansas and Tennessee early Thursday, while communities in neighboring states picked up the pieces after tornadoes cut a path of destruction a day earlier.

U.S. warns against travel to Yemen, tells Americans to get out

Posted: 25 May 2011 10:51 PM PDT

The United States has warned Americans against travel to Yemen and advised those in the Gulf nation to depart, citing "terrorist activities and civil unrest."

Sheriff's deputy, 2 others arrested in Arizona human trafficking bust

Posted: 25 May 2011 10:44 PM PDT

Authorities in Arizona have arrested three employees of a sheriff's office known for its tough stand on illegal immigration, accusing them of aiding human traffickers and drug smugglers.

Reporters group condemns killing of Ivory Coast journalist

Posted: 25 May 2011 10:25 PM PDT

A journalist who openly supported the Ivorian Popular Front of former President Laurent Gbagbo has been killed in a suburb of Abidjan, Reporters Without Borders said Wednesday.

Washington to reduce military presence in Pakistan

Posted: 25 May 2011 10:19 PM PDT

The United States is reducing its military presence in Pakistan at the request of that country's government, a Pentagon spokesman said Wednesday.

Ahmadinejad losing ground in Iran power struggle, analysts say

Posted: 25 May 2011 10:12 PM PDT

Iran's vital oil industry appears to be the latest front in a power struggle between President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei -- a fight that overseas analysts say the colorful president appears to be losing.

Calderon says Juarez violence is down, residents remain unconvinced

Posted: 25 May 2011 08:52 PM PDT

The homicide rate in Mexico's most violent city -- Ciudad Juarez -- is down, according to Mexican President Felipe Calderon, but some residents of the city are not convinced.

Verizon to debut 3rd Android phone with 4G Thursday

Posted: 25 May 2011 08:50 PM PDT

Verizon Wireless is releasing the third smartphone to take advantage of its faster fourth-generation data network on Thursday.

Egypt to open Gaza border crossing at Rafah

Posted: 25 May 2011 08:28 PM PDT

Egypt will permanently open its Rafah border crossing into Gaza beginning Saturday, an Egyptian official reported Wednesday. The move provides Gazans with an open door to the outside world for the first time in four years.

In Joplin, a push to find missing; reconnect families

Posted: 25 May 2011 08:17 PM PDT

A large metal cross soars above the ruin of the Catholic church, a beacon in a Joplin, Missouri, neighborhood made unrecognizable by Sunday's powerful tornado.

'We needed a victory': Patient at Joplin hospital identified

Posted: 25 May 2011 08:03 PM PDT

Inundated by patients after Sunday's deadly tornado, doctors and nurses at Freeman Hospital West in Joplin, Missouri, turned their attention to a patient with multiple injuries, including broken chest bones.

More severe weather expected across region pummeled Tuesday

Posted: 25 May 2011 07:46 PM PDT

Arkansas, Oklahoma and Kansas picked up the pieces after damaging storms and tornadoes moved through Tuesday night, but national weather forecasters predicted more severe weather Wednesday evening for parts of the Ohio and Mississippi Valleys.

Hezbollah leader: Most Syrians believe in al-Assad

Posted: 25 May 2011 07:40 PM PDT

The powerful leader of the Lebanese Shiite militant group Hezbollah weighed in on the conflict in Syria on Wednesday and defended the country's embattled president.

Oprah bids farewell in final show

Posted: 25 May 2011 07:33 PM PDT

Talk show queen Oprah Winfrey took her final bow in a taped episode that aired Wednesday, marking the end of her 25-year daytime talk show with a tearful goodbye.

Embattled Strauss-Kahn relocates to luxury townhouse

Posted: 25 May 2011 07:32 PM PDT

Ex-International Monetary Fund chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn has a new place to stay under house arrest -- a luxury townhouse in New York's tony Tribeca, according to a source with knowledge of his whereabouts.

Explosions erupt for second consecutive night in Tripoli

Posted: 25 May 2011 07:29 PM PDT

Explosions erupted in Tripoli for a second consecutive night Wednesday into Thursday morning as NATO jets struck a vocational secondary school, a Libyan government official said.

Filibustered appeals court nominee asks to be withdrawn

Posted: 25 May 2011 06:50 PM PDT

Goodwin Liu, a California law professor nominated by President Barack Obama for the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, asked Thursday for his name to be withdrawn after Senate Republicans had invoked a rarely used filibuster to block a final floor vote.

Joplin dodges new storms as cleanup continues

Posted: 25 May 2011 06:22 PM PDT

Residents of tornado-ravaged Joplin, Missouri, continued picking up the pieces, totaling the damages and counting their blessings Wednesday.

Elizabeth Smart abductor sentenced to life in prison

Posted: 25 May 2011 05:57 PM PDT

Brian David Mitchell, the homeless street preacher who abducted, raped and kept a 14-year-old Elizabeth Smart captive for nine months, was sentenced to life in prison Wednesday.
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