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Oklahoma tornado damage could top $2 billion
 

MOORE, Okla. — The tornado that tore through an Oklahoma City suburb destroyed or damaged as many as 13,000 homes and may have caused $2 billion in overall damage, officials said Wednesday.

 
Arias jury deadlocked but must continue

PHOENIX — Jurors in the Jodi Arias murder trial told the judge Wednesday that they are unable to reach a unanimous verdict on whether the convicted murderer should be get life or death for killing her boyfriend, prompting the judge to send them back to the deliberation room to work through their differences.

 
British prime minister: ‘Indications’ London attack was terror

LONDON — A brazen, brutal attack near a military barracks in London on Wednesday afternoon left one man dead and two suspects in the hospital. British Prime Minister David Cameron said the attack appeared to be terror-related.

 
IRS official Lerner: ‘I did nothing wrong’

WASHINGTON — The Internal Revenue Service official at the center of the storm over the agency’s targeting of conservative groups told Congress on Wednesday that she had done nothing wrong in the episode, and then invoked her constitutional right to refuse to answer lawmakers’ questions.

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Southern Nevadans reach out to tornado-stricken Oklahomans

As Oklahomans struggle to recover from a massive tornado that wrought devastation Monday afternoon, Southern Nevadans are stepping up with recovery aid and assistance.

US sees missile strike on Israel by Iran, proxies as imminent

Iran has threatened to hit Israel in retaliation for an attack on a diplomatic compound in the Syrian capital of Damascus last week that killed senior Iranian military officials.

Monster blizzard dumps snow on California, Nevada; 100 miles of I-80 closed

Authorities closed the interstate on a day when most ski resorts around Lake Tahoe were closed, a tornado touched down in central California and visitors to Yosemite National Park were told to leave.

 
Metropolitan Police officer heads to Israel to serve

Ariel Salley is a Metropolitan Police officer and a reservist in the Israeli Defense Forces who is going back to Israel following Hamas’ attack.

Louisville shooter legally bought gun a week ago, police say

Connor Sturgeon, 25, killed five people — including a close friend of Kentucky’s governor — while livestreaming the attack Monday on Instagram.

US unemployment claims fall to a pandemic low of 498K

Thursday’s report from the Labor Department showed that applications declined 92,000 from a revised 590,000 a week earlier.

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