Obama offers help for Oklahoma tornado victims
Updated: 10:48 AM President Barack Obama says he is instructing his disaster response team to get tornado victims in Oklahoma everything they need "right away."
Updated: 10:48 AM President Barack Obama says he is instructing his disaster response team to get tornado victims in Oklahoma everything they need "right away."
Posted: 10:23 AM The former head of the Internal Revenue Service heads to Capitol Hill on Tuesday, giving lawmakers their first opportunity to question the man who ran the agency when agents were improperly targeting tea party groups.
Posted: 10:22 AM A leading Senate Democrat says the Internal Revenue Service's targeting of conservative groups was intolerable, and he is promising to get to the bottom of how it happened.
Posted: 10:11 AM A Senate panel says Apple Inc. is avoiding paying billions of dollars in U.S. taxes by using a cluster of affiliates located outside the United States and is prepared to question its chief executive Tuesday about the "loopholes."
Posted: 10:00 AM The Division of Waste Management will adjust its collection schedule for the Memorial Day holiday.
Updated: 9:38 AM The state medical examiner's office has revised the death toll from a tornado in an Oklahoma City suburb to 24 people, including seven children.
Posted: 7:11 AM More severe weather is in the forecast for parts of the central United States already reeling from powerful tornadoes this week.
Posted: 7:09 AM President Barack Obama will be meeting with his disaster response team, including Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, on Tuesday before delivering a statement on the devastating tornado that tore through the Oklahoma City suburbs Monday.
Posted: 6:46 AM Russia's point man on Syria and on its relations with the U.S. is turning his attention toward a subject close to Russian hearts - alleged vote theft at the Eurovision Song Contest.
Posted: 11:55 PM President Barack Obama has declared a major disaster in Oklahoma as the state recovers from a massive tornado that ripped through the Oklahoma City suburbs Monday, killing dozens and flattening entire neighborhoods.
Posted: 11:52 PM Your daily look at late-breaking news, upcoming events and the stories that will be talked about Tuesday.
Posted: 10:12 PM CBS has taken the scheduled season-ending episode of "Mike & Molly" off the air because its plot line revolved around a tornado threatening the couple.
Updated: 6:53 AM The tornado, which hit Monday afternoon, was at least a mile wide.
Updated: 8:13 PM MOORE, Okla. (AP) - Several children have been pulled out of the rubble alive at a school in an Oklahoma City suburb.
Updated: 9:00 PM Officials at two hospitals say they're treating more than 120 patients, including about 70 children, after a massive tornado hit suburban Oklahoma City.
Updated: 4:23 PM Three more states have received permission to ignore parts of the federal No Child Left Behind education law.
Posted: 2:29 PM Billionaire Warren Buffett is spending his day listening to business pitches from a select group of kids, but the ideas aren't likely to generate new acquisitions for Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway conglomerate.
Posted: 2:25 PM More of the "Rakkasans" have returned to Fort Campbell from Afghanistan.
Posted: 11:38 AM A first edition copy of "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone" that contains author J.K. Rowling's notes and original illustrations is going on sale in a charity auction.
Posted: 10:09 AM The Supreme Court will decide if government whistleblower protection applies to employees of a privately-held contractor or the subcontractor of a publicly-held company.
Posted: 9:16 AM A manager of Chicago's Navy Pier rode the tourist spot's Ferris wheel for more than two days, bringing the world record for the longest ride to the birthplace of the amusement park favorite.
Posted: 8:34 AM Researchers from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill are creating a gargantuan map of what foods Americans are buying and eating.
Posted: 8:28 AM United Airlines' 787s will be back in the air this morning.
Posted: 8:17 AM Owensboro police reported clearing 77.1 percent of violent crimes and nearly 39 percent of property crimes in 2012.
Posted: 8:11 AM Yahoo is buying online blogging forum Tumblr for $1.1 billion as CEO Marissa Mayer tries to rejuvenate an Internet icon that had fallen behind the times.