As of Tuesday evening, all students at Briarwood Elementary School and AgapeLand Learning Center have been accounted for; police said seven of nine children confirmed to have died in the storm's path went to Plaza Towers Elementary. And as the recovery efforts in Moore continue, know that there are teachers at all three schools who were there when America's kids needed them most. These are their stories.
Cinemark, the company that owns the movie theater in Colorado where James Holmes went on a shooting rampage last July, apparently thought it was a good idea. The families, in a lengthy response, clearly did not.
An already emotional case became that much more complex today when a WikiLeaks-style site dumped new information about football boosters, the town sheriff, and the alleged "Rape Crew" information rounded up by the anonymous hacking collective.
Andrew Sullivan is leaving The Daily Beast to launch up an independent, reader-funded publishing company based around a new kind of pay "meter," and he needs your help to start it — a lot of your help.
We may never know whether imposed silences by their parent organizations helped NBC News's Richard Engel or The New York Times's David Rohde escape, but the Agence France-Presse is now trying the opposite.
While Morgan Gliedman was resting, the tabloids were busy uncovering her and her boyfriend's drug-riddled past and starting to explain away a terror plot as the concoctions of "well-to-do junkies."
Police reports revealed today that the six men accused of the fatal gang rape of a 23-year-old student allegedly tried to run over over her after they raped and attacked her with an iron rod. That, on top of worldwide outrage, is making it really tough for these men to find legal representation.
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A week after the Great Netflix Outage of Christmas 2012, some but not all users complained that Netflix was down once again on New Year's Eve day, and nobody's entirely sure why this keeps happening at the most inopportune time.
Don't laugh: Lagers, ales, and pilsners were long considered "food" by the Russian government, but thanks to a new rule going into effect in 2013 (any minute now over there), it's going to be a lot tougher to find a brewski in the motherland.
Morgan Gliedman is the stuff of New York Times wedding announcements. Except that today she's the subject of New York Post pulp for her alleged bomb-making skills.
As India drags its feet to prosecute the six men whose gang rape of a young woman on a New Delhi bus led to her death and continuing protests across the country, we're finding out more about the victim.
What were supposed to be private Facebook messages on the occasion of New Year's Eve were not private at all, and everyone got to see what people in Australia and New Zealand were saying to each other — new privacy settings and all.
The most powerful people in Washington met at the White House on Friday, and they all walked away, saying and accomplishing close to nothing. President Obama and Speaker Boehner made evening statements, and here's what we know heading into the weekend.
A House Democrat will introduce a bill next Thursday limiting high-capacity magazines that lacks GOP support right now, but that supporters hope "would be a smaller concession for gun-rights advocates than a broader assault weapons ban."
The 23-year-old woman who was raped and attacked by six men on a moving bus in New Delhi, India, setting off a wave of protest and government action through the country, died as a result of her injuries in a Singapore hospital Friday.
The apparent post-Newtown craze for gun-rights activists to transform teachers into gun-class students has arrived, despite the fact that no armed civilian has killed a mass shooter in the past three decades. Here's evidence from around the country.
The latest statement, after a string of alternately bad, worse, and pretty good updates from bedside in Houston, arrived Friday afternoon from Bush family spokesman Jim McGrath.
After falling on their swords for their $25 million man multiple times — and complaining about Curry's defenders coming for Lauer's head — NBC executives are now rumored to be orchestrating a summitt between the two former Today couchmates.
After a years long legal battle, federal prosecutors in Belgium say they're ready to charge the Church of Scientology and its leaders as a criminal organization on charges of extortion, fraud, privacy breaches, and the illegal practice of medicine.
In a move sure to upset privacy advocates across the country, and perhaps spark action from the Supreme Court, the Senate on Friday morning passed FISA by a vote of 73-23 and will send it to President Obama's desk for signature.
The final numbers from the one-day gun buyback in Los Angeles have arrived: 2,037 firearms, including 75 assault weapons and two anti-tank rocket launchers were traded in for supermarket gift cards — no questions asked. But we have so many questions.
General H. Norman Schwarzkoph, the general who commanded coalition forces during the Persian Gulf War, died on Thursday, a U.S. official told the AP. He was 78.
Nathan Weaver was trying to figure out how to make it safer for turtles to cross highways. What he ended up finding was that there will always be drivers who intentionally run over or try and aim their vehicles at the defenseless reptiles.
The team hasn't used their "Screaming Indian" logo in any capacity since 1989. Today, some 23 years later, they're bringing the offensive Native American imagery back — not that anyone in particular was asking for it.
After alternating statements from his family spokesman Wednesday, a different family aide swooped in late Thursday with some good news: "put the harps back in the closet," former chief of staff Jean Becker wrote in an email to Bush family and friends.
After a brutal gang rape that shocked the country, India's government promised to publicly post the photos, names, and addresses of rapists. The announcement came on the same day a gang rape victim committed suicide after pressure to marry one of her attackers.
Federal authorities have arrested Nouel Alba, who they allege posed as an aunt of one of the 20 first-graders killed in the Newtown shootings, claimed to have identified his body, and proceeded to collect and solicit money over Facebook.
As part of The Atlantic Wire's Year in Review, we've gathered our favorites from among all the ridiculous, kernel-of-truth in a popcorn-bowl-of-pleasure stories reported by the Times and beyond, and bestowed them with their own special awards.
It might be a mini-deal, but still: members of Congress are expected to go back to work Thursday, and lawmakers seem to realize that their theatrics are wearing thin on the American public.
We've collected visual evidence of Westboro's severe left-wing behavior to back up Fox News's bold assertion.
The National Weather Service said that 34 tornadoes touched down on Christmas Day as a massive storm system continues to move across the country. This is how social media chased the twisters.
The Meet the Press host is actually under investigation for showing a 30-round magazine to the NRA's Wayne LaPierre this weekend, and the prospect of Gregory going to prison is actually making a lot of conservatives very happy.
A newspaper plotted everything on Google Maps, and the reaction over Christmas was swift and national, as the local story was swept up by the already powerful voice of gun owners on social media. Here were their main complaints about getting outed.
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Perhaps the most talked-about moment from the NRA's already eventful press conference came when Wayne LaPierre called out the "corrupting shadow industry" of video games — then cited 10 year old titles like they were good evidence.
Al Alverson got his daughter an iPad Mini for Christmas, which FedEx dropped on his doorstep Wednesday. Later that day, a UPS delivery man stole it right off of the front porch, which UPS denied ... until he showed them this video.
The Marine in charge of the squad caught urinating on dead members of the Taliban last year — on video — has been sentenced, and, well, all he's getting is a $500 fine and a demotion.
President Obama nominated Senator John Kerry to replace Hillary Clinton as Secretary of State today.
That the Apple CEO never got to enjoy his superyacht was disappointing enough, but now it doesn't look like anyone can.
ABC News's senior White house correspondent is leaving the network to become an anchor at CNN, and we play the guessing game for which slot he'll fill in new CNN boss Jeff Zucker's lineup.
The WikiLeaks founder re-emerged today for a Christmas address promising a leak guaranteed to affect "every country in this world." Fine, we'll bite. Maybe.
There was one piece of legislation introduced on the Senate floor yesterday in response to the Newtown shootings. It came ahead of any of the legislation from Sen. Dianne Feinstein or Vice President Biden's new commission. It was about video games. Why?
Membership is up, they tell us. People are giving more than usual, they say. We'll be back on Friday, they promised. But what's the truth about America's most powerful interest group after the massacre in Newtown?
Today the country has blessed us with Pyongyang Racer, the first video game ever to come out of North Korea, and just like their satellite, it's not very good.
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The latest info from the investigation in Connecticut indicates that Nancy Lanza may have left her son alone at home before the shootings, and begins to paint a clearer picture of Adam Lanza himself.
You would think, after a 20-year-old with legal guns killed 20 first-graders, that the National Rifle Association wouldn't be doing too well — what with the initial outcry over its silence and the ensuing outcry over the gun lobby's brief statement late Tuesday. But you would be wrong.
The columnist responded to the controversy for the first time since calling the Redskins quarterback a "cornball brother" and being suspended by ESPN.
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