Tornadoes Level Homes in Okla., Killing One Person
“You can see where there’s absolutely nothing, then there are places where you have mobile home frames on top of each other, debris piled up,” Pottawatomie County Sheriff Mike Booth said after surviving damage in the Steelman Estates Mobile Home Park. “It looks like there’s been heavy equipment in there on a demolition tour. “It’s… More »
What Jolie forgot to mention
.cnn_html_media_utility::before{color:red;content:’>>’;font-size:9px;line-height:12px;padding-right:1px} .cnnstrylccimg640{margin:0 27px 14px 0} .captionText{filter:alpha(opacity=100);opacity:1} .cnn_html_slideshow_media_caption a,.cnn_html_slideshow_media_caption a:visited,.cnn_html_slideshow_media_caption a:link,.captionText a,.captionText a:visited,.captiontext a:link{color:#004276;outline:medium none} .cnnVerticalGalleryPhoto{margin:0 auto;padding-right:68px;width:270px} ]]> Known for her humanitarian works and action movies, Angelina Jolie is an actress who has been in the spotlight since she was a child. Here’s a look at her life. Jolie, center, hugs her father, Jon Voight, in… More »
It’s not voyeurism, it’s art
.cnn_html_media_utility::before{color:red;content:’>>’;font-size:9px;line-height:12px;padding-right:1px} .cnnstrylccimg640{margin:0 27px 14px 0} .captionText{filter:alpha(opacity=100);opacity:1} .cnn_html_slideshow_media_caption a,.cnn_html_slideshow_media_caption a:visited,.cnn_html_slideshow_media_caption a:link,.captionText a,.captionText a:visited,.captiontext a:link{color:#004276;outline:medium none} .cnnVerticalGalleryPhoto{margin:0 auto;padding-right:68px;width:270px} ]]> This photo, “The Neighbors #5,” 2012, from photographer Arne Svenson’s series, “The Neighbors,” is one of several being exhibited at Julie Saul Gallery in New York. “The Neighbors #26,” 2012. “The Neighbors #10,” 2012. “The Neighbors #17,” 2012.… More »
Powerful tornadoes ravage Plains
SHAWNEE, Okla. (AP) — Tornadoes ravaged portions of central Oklahoma on Sunday, reducing portions of a mobile home park to rubble and killing a 79-year-old man whose body was found out in the open. “You can see where there’s absolutely nothing, then there are places where you have mobile home frames on top of each… More »
Why IRS investigation is already Obama’s Watergate
Will Benghazi become President Obama‘s Watergate? Or perhaps the IRS scandal? In a sense, they already have. Watergate, of course, has become political parlance for any scandal that takes down a president. But it was also something that has become much more mundane – something that has hit every two-term president since. It was a… More »
Larger Union Enforcing Immigration Opposes Overhaul
The two unions represent a total of 20,000 employees in the Department of Homeland Security who would play a central role in carrying out the ambitious legislation, either by reviewing applications from millions of immigrants who could gain new legal status through the bill or by expelling illegal immigrants who did not qualify. A letter… More »
White House Told in April That Audit of I.R.S. Completed
The White House counsel’s briefing came about the same time that Treasury Secretary Jacob J. Lew met with the Treasury inspector general for tax administration, J. Russell George, to learn the conclusions of his draft audit of the controversial I.R.S. effort, the official said. The acknowledgment that Ms. Ruemmler knew about the I.R.S. inquiry weeks… More »
DealBook: Cohen Gets Subpoena in SAC Capital Trading Inquiry
Steven A. Cohen has received a subpoena to testify before a grand jury in the government’s insider trading investigation into his hedge fund, SAC Capital Advisors, a development that signals a newly aggressive phase in the multiyear inquiry, according to lawyers and executives briefed on the case. Issued last week, the grand jury subpoena came… More »
Tornadoes Level Homes and Cause Injuries in Oklahoma
The tornadoes, high winds and hail across Oklahoma, Kansas and Iowa were part of a massive, northeastward-moving storm system that stretched from Texas to Minnesota. At least four separate twisters touched down in central Oklahoma late Sunday afternoon, including one near the town of Shawnee, 35 miles southeast of Oklahoma City, that laid waste to… More »
The Caucus: Obama Urges Morehouse Graduates to ‘Keep Setting an Example’
Doug Mills/The New York Times President Obama delivered the commencement speech at Morehouse College in Atlanta. ATLANTA — President Obama came to Morehouse College, the alma mater of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., on Sunday to tell graduates, 50 years after Dr. King’s landmark “I Have a Dream” speech in Washington, that “laws… More »