| Yahoo buying Tumblr for $1.1 billion, vows not to screw it up | SAN FRANCISCO/NEW YORK (Reuters) - Yahoo Inc will buy blogging service Tumblr for $1.1 billion cash, giving the Internet pioneer a much-needed social media platform to reach a younger generation of users and breathe new life into its ailing brand.  | | 5/21/2013 1:41:58 AM |
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| Analysis: Some Republicans see new scandal in Sebelius fundraising | WASHINGTON (Reuters) - With the White House already reeling from three major controversies, some Republican lawmakers are zeroing in on what they perceive is another possible scandal tied to President Barack Obama's landmark health reform law just as it nears implementation.
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| IRS officials back on Capitol Hill hot seat over targeting | WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A Senate panel will try on Tuesday to pry more details out of current and former officials of the Internal Revenue Service about the agency's targeting of conservative groups for extra scrutiny when they sought tax-exempt status.  | | 5/21/2013 1:03:29 AM |
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| Monster tornado kills at least 51 in Oklahoma town | MOORE, Oklahoma (Reuters) - A 2-mile-wide (3-km-wide) tornado tore through the Oklahoma City suburb of Moore on Monday, killing at least 51 people while destroying entire tracts of homes, piling cars atop one another, and trapping two dozen school children beneath rubble.  | | 5/21/2013 12:41:39 AM |
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| JPMorgan investors on edge over vote on Dimon; what if they win? | TAMPA, Florida (Reuters) - As final ballots come in on a proposal to strip JPMorgan Chase & Co Chairman and Chief Executive Jamie Dimon of his chairman title, some worry about what will happen if shareholders win what will likely be a close vote.
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| Japan April exports seen up but trade deficit to persist | TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's exports are expected to have risen in April from a year earlier for a second straight month led by U.S.-bound shipments of cars and Asian demand for electronics parts in a sign a weak yen and global recovery are helping the export-reliant economy.  | | 5/20/2013 10:48:14 PM |
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| Pentagon to take over some CIA drone operations : sources | WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama's administration has decided to give the Pentagon control of some drone operations against terrorism suspects overseas that are currently run by the CIA, several U.S. government sources said on Monday.
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| Brazil probes rumor that set off panic run on state bank | BRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff said on Monday she ordered the Federal Police to investigate the source of a rumor that sent thousands of poor Brazilians running to state bank branches seeking payment of a monthly family stipend.  | | 5/20/2013 9:29:02 PM |
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| Court orders prison to hand over files in Boston bomb case | BOSTON (Reuters) - A federal judge approved a request by accused Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's lawyers that his jailers hand over their files on him, including suicide watch logs and psychological data, according to court documents released on Monday.  | | 5/20/2013 9:28:29 PM |
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| Court orders prison to hand over files in Boston bomb case | BOSTON (Reuters) - A federal judge approved a request by accused Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's lawyers that his jailers hand over their files on him, including suicide watch logs and psychological data, according to court documents released on Monday.
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| Yahoo buying Tumblr for $1.1 billion, vows not to screw it up | SAN FRANCISCO/NEW YORK (Reuters) - Yahoo Inc will buy blogging service Tumblr for $1.1 billion cash, giving the Internet pioneer a much-needed social media platform to reach a younger generation of users and breathe new life into its ailing brand.  | | 5/20/2013 7:55:00 PM |
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| Monster tornado flattens suburb of Oklahoma City | MOORE, Oklahoma (Reuters) - A huge tornado with winds of up to 200 miles per hour devastated the Oklahoma City suburb of Moore on Monday, ripping up at least two elementary schools and a hospital and leaving a wake of tangled wreckage.  | | 5/20/2013 7:52:09 PM |
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| Gay marriage law strains UK Cameron's leadership, government | LONDON (Reuters) - British Prime Minister David Cameron's flagship gay marriage policy deepened a rift in his own party on Monday after many of his own lawmakers defied him in a sign of growing strains on his leadership and his coalition government.  | | 5/20/2013 6:15:11 PM |
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| Hezbollah in big Syria battle, Obama 'concerned' | AMMAN/BEIRUT (Reuters) - Lebanese Hezbollah guerrillas have fought their biggest battle yet for Syria's beleaguered president, prompting international alarm that the civil war may spread and an urgent call for restraint from the United States.
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| Chief Palestinian peace negotiator backs Kerry's efforts | UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The top Palestinian negotiator with Israel on Monday threw his weight behind U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry's bid to revive stalled peace talks, while describing the situation in the West Bank as apartheid worse than that suffered in South Africa.  | | 5/20/2013 4:45:47 PM |
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| Tornado on the ground in Oklahoma City area | (Reuters) - A tornado was on the ground in the Oklahoma City metropolitan are on Monday, live television showed, and the National Weather Service warned of tornadoes in two counties of central Oklahoma.  | | 5/20/2013 4:36:31 PM |
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| Powerful tornadoes strike in four central U.S. states | (Reuters) - A massive storm front swept north through the central United States on Sunday, hammering the region with fist-sized hail, blinding rain and tornadoes, including a half-mile wide twister that struck near Oklahoma City. News reports said at least one person had died.
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| Dagestan bombs kill four, two dead in shootout near Moscow | MAKHACHKALA, Russia (Reuters) - Two car bombs killed at least four people and wounded dozens of others on Monday in one of the bloodiest attacks this year in Dagestan, a turbulent province in Russia's North Caucasus region where armed groups are waging an Islamist insurgency.  | | 5/20/2013 3:55:19 PM |
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| Brazil probes rumor that set off panic run on state bank | BRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff said on Monday she ordered the Federal Police to investigate the source of a rumor that sent thousands of poor Brazilians running to state bank branches seeking payment of a monthly family stipend.  | | 5/20/2013 2:50:56 PM |
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| Bomb attacks kill more than 70 Shi'ites across Iraq | BAGHDAD (Reuters) - More than 70 people were killed in a series of car bombings and suicide attacks targeting Shi'ite Muslims across Iraq on Monday, police and medics said, extending the worst sectarian violence since U.S. troops withdrew in December 2011.
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| Nigeria says has Islamists on defensive | MAIDUGURI (Reuters) - Nigeria claimed an early success for its military offensive against Islamist insurgents in the northeast on Monday, saying the militants' activities had been stifled by nearly a week of attacks on their bases.  | | 5/20/2013 1:51:27 PM |
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| Bulgarian Socialists vow to help poor, look to form coalition | SOFIA (Reuters) - Bulgaria's Socialists revealed a plan on Monday to speed payments to business and boost support for the poorest in a bid to win support for a technocrat government and end a political deadlock after an inconclusive election.  | | 5/20/2013 11:24:06 AM |
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| Britain denies bail to radical cleric who faces deportation | LONDON (Reuters) - Radical Muslim cleric Abu Qatada could be deported to Jordan to face trial on terrorism charges within weeks, a British court heard on Monday, and it ruled he should remain in jail in the meantime to prevent him from absconding.  | | 5/20/2013 10:59:31 AM |
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