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Tornadoes: FEMA seeks to redeem agency reputation ...

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110503/ap_on_re_us/us...

The messages came in a fast and furious onslaught: a series of massively powerful tornadoes were ripping across Alabama and other parts of the South.

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Gates: Big budget cuts will diminish US influence ...

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110524/ap_on_re_us/us...

In a parting shot by one of the nation's longest-serving Pentagon chiefs, Robert Gates on Tuesday warned that shrinking defense budgets will mean a smaller military and a diminished American role in t...

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Obama signs Patriot Act extension with autopen - Y...

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110527/ap_on_go_co/us...

Congress on Thursday passed a four-year extension of post-Sept. 11 powers to search records and conduct roving wiretaps in pursuit of terrorists. Votes taken in rapid succession in the Senate and Hous...

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Thousands ordered out of Ariz. town as fire nears ...

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110608/ap_on_re_us/us...

Flames from a mammoth forest fire licked the ridges surrounding the eastern Arizona town of Eagar on Tuesday afternoon, forcing the evacuation of about half the 4,000 residents as surrounding towns al...

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No bodies found in Texas home after psychic tip - ...

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Deputies who swarmed a rural Texas neighborhood Tuesday to search a farmhouse where a person claiming to be a psychic told officials multiple bodies were buried found no evidence of even a single homi...

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Holder defends terror trials in civilian courts - ...

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110617/ap_on_re_us/us...

Attorney General Eric Holder on Thursday defended the prosecution of terrorism suspects in civilian court after the top-ranking Senate Republican urged him to send two Iraqis to Guantanamo Bay rather ...

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Bin Laden showed interest in kidnapping for ransom...

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110620/ap_on_re_us/us...

Pressured by increased scrutiny of terrorist money sources and strikes aimed at its financiers, al-Qaida's core organization in Pakistan has turned to kidnapping for ransom to offset dwindling cash re...

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8-year-old Brooklyn boy is killed and dismembered ...

http://old.news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110714/ap_on_re_u...

An 8-year-old Brooklyn boy who got lost while walking home alone from day camp in his Orthodox Jewish neighborhood was killed and dismembered by a stranger he had asked for directions, and his remains...

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NYC man held in boy's slaying says he hears voices...

http://old.news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110715/ap_on_re_u...

A man accused of kidnapping, killing and dismembering an 8-year-old boy who asked him for directions was ordered Thursday to undergo a psychological evaluation after his lawyer told a judge that his c...

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Midwest flooding causes rail delays

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Disruption caused by Midwest flooding has inundated Amtrak with delays and extra expense this summer while dampening the spirits of passengers traveling popular routes, forcing them in some cases to h...

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