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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.
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The Supreme Court today decided to hold off on a key announcement about which gay marriage cases, if any, they'll be hearing. Friday is now the earliest — but not quite the latest — we could hear about a decision during this Court term.
During the halftime segment of Sunday Night Football this week, Bob Costas went long on gun control and the weekend murder-suicide by Kansas City Chief Jovan Belcher. Shortly thereafter, #BobCostasLogic was born.
In 12 days, Rupert Murdoch's tablet publication The Daily will be shutting down, and for one simple reason: The world's first bold foray into iPad-only newspapering wasn't making money.
David Oliver Relin, who co-authored the controversial Three Cups of Tea with Greg Mortensen, killed himself in a suicide last month, police say.
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After Republicans filled every House leadership position with old white dudes, Speaker of the House John Boehner changed course on Friday afternoon by adding some diversity — emphasis on the "some."
Katniss, Legolas, and the whole archery craze just got a lot less cool with the news out of Wyoming's Casper College, where someone went on a rampage with a bow and arrow and killed three people.
Doing the simple math, seven times, carry the — Nate Silver is not fond of Politico, and he says as much in a new interview released today. And that's news because Silver is such a big player in the political field and so is Politico, and well, for political wonks, this little catfight is delicious.
After Bradley Manning's very serious appearance on the stand during his pretrial hearing yesterday, the man facing charges for the Wikileaks security breach has in his testimony today unleashed a truth of Iraq that America may never unlearn.
Everyone who knows them says the first winners are pretty awesome people, and we now know that least one of their mothers is almost absurdly adorable.
Depending on what the nine justices decide about their case load, same-sex marriages in California could get the federal stamp of approval by Monday. Here's what you need to know.
We didn't need Jon Stewart to tell us how silly it is for Washington to threaten our economy with another downgrade. We need him to show us how silly this whole thing is making the rest of us.
"Archaeologists of the History Institute of the DPRK Academy of Social Sciences have recently reconfirmed a lair of the unicorn rode by King Tongmyong, founder of the Koguryo Kingdom." reports the — wait. Stop. UNICORNS?
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Early Thursday evening, even after some last-minute diplomatic swings, Palestine easily won a vote in the U.N. General Assembly, changing its status from "entity" to "non-member state" — just like the Vatican. So what's the big deal?
Bradley Manning took the stand today in his pretrial hearing to discuss his confinement in both Kuwait and Quantico, Virginia — and the conditions were even more disturbing than we thought.
After building us up and letting us down easy about that alleged discovery "for the history books" from Curiosity, NASA has announced the next best thing in space right now: we found water ice on Mercury. And a lot of it.
After reports surfaced earlier this week, CNN finally announced Jeff Zucker as its new president on Thursday, which means everyone can officially start telling him how to fix things. We have three words (the O' counts): Soledad O'Brien.
The former president has been in Houston's Methodist Hospital for the past seven days with a concerning case of bronchitis.
It's official: In a little over a week, the Obama advisor will shave off his 40-year-old mustache — an icon, insofar as facial hair in Washington goes — as part of a bet he made with Joe Scarborough. So here's a pre-emptive obituary, of sorts.
Yes, there's something absolutely poetic about Eric Hartsburg dropping his support of Romney because of Mitt's offensive "gifts" comment, then cashing in on a FREE gift to get the symbol of his newly found regret lasered right off his temple.
For the past few weeks, we've seen Senators John McCain and Lindsey Graham fall over one another trying to point out just how wrong Susan Rice was. Don't think Jon Stewart and his team haven't been eagerly watching, too.
Before everyone got up for work this morning, Lindsay Lohan went to jail. The Liz & Dick star was arrested for allegedly punching a woman in the face at a night club.
Margaret Sullivan has already half-revealed that even though she supports this idea — and even though there are bigger questions at hand — well, maybe this whole thing was kind of a bad call.
After the president took the battle for the fiscal cliff over the edge of Twitter today, conservatives went right to work using the hashtag to push back up the social-media mountain — and quite successfully thus far.
The tens of thousands of people hoping you got all of your numbers wrong have made tonight's drawing an unavoidable thing, thanks to the numbers being bandied about on social media.
People were willing to spend more than $11,000 for a jar containing what they and eBay thought was Glenn Beck's bodily fluid — until the auction site removed the listing today. Bids are still being taken via Beck's website.
Earlier this month, Iran's news agency provided visual evidence that its government had figured out to make a fancy new drone that could take off and land vertically. What they didn't tell us is that they used Photoshop.
It won't be long before her parents are arranging playdates with Facebook and Like. No, really, those are real names, too.
The White House just announced that Mitt Romney will be having lunch with President Obama tomorrow at the White House. That ugly campaign will make this whole thing awkward, right? Well, Obama told us exactly three weeks ago this would be happening.
You know what, Walmart employees? Things could be worse. You could be working in, say, a flammable factory in Bangladesh.
Here we go again: a Florida man is now claiming self defense and will possibly use the state's "Stand Your Ground" law after shooting eight rounds into a car full of black teens, killing one, and fleeing the scene, all because the teens allegedly did not turn their loud music down and the man saw a gun that did not exist.
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Less than 24 hours after Senator John McCain told Republicans should lay off the subject of abortion, his home state launched its "A Woman's Right to Know" website — a site loaded with misinformation that appears specifically designed to steer women away from their abortions.
The actor is suddenly rumored to be taking up Christian Bale's cowl and appear in the Warner Bros.'s Justice League movie as the new Batman. This "decision," of course, has divided nerds the world over.
Susan Rice met with the triumvirate of Senators John McCain, Lindsey Graham, and Kelly Ayotte in a closed-door meeting today. And the first few "disturbed" things we're hearing from those senators sound awfully familiar: They're threatening to block her potential nomination as Secretary of State... again.
With the conflict in Gaza at a tenuous point, a Holocaust-denying Hungarian lawmaker thought the next logical thing to do would be to ask the government to draw up a list of Jews who pose a national security threat. Because, really, what could go wrong with that?
Gosh, it's totally inappropriate to laugh at the conflict in the Middle East, right? Well, it's totally Jon Stewart's fault.
We're not here to debate whether or not North Korea's supreme leader is the sexiest man alive. No, we're here to snicker that The Onion fooled the official paper of China's communist party into thinking it so.
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With 47 percent of the popular vote, Mitt Romney may become the president of nothing more than Ironystan.
So ... if Tracy Morgan goes on a rant again and tells people that he'd stab and kill his son for being gay, the AP will just call it "anti-gay." And forget about "ethnic cleansing" and "Islamophobia" — those won't exist in the new stylebook either.
After handing himself new powers over the weekend — and taking heat for it across the globe — Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi met with the country's top judges to assure them that he hasn't usurped their authority. So who believes him?
Citing a charitable sports donation gone bad, Ontario's Superior Court Judge vacated Toronto Mayor Rob Ford's seat on Monday, possibly leaving Canada's largest city mayorless — which is totally fine, if you ask Canadians.
Vanity Fair has been putting caucasian actresses on their New Hollywood cover for years, managing to generate thousands of conversations on the race topic... without really addressing it. Here's how The Hollywood Reporter captured the conversation.
Liberty University will be allowed to appeal Obamacare's individual mandate and a mandate requiring employers to provide coverage for workers.
We're about five months removed from the dismissal of Ann Curry from the Today show, and the NBC executives are still trying run interference between you, your hate for Matt Lauer and Matt Lauer. Their latest attempt involves complaining about your tweeting habits to The Daily Beast's Howard Kurtz.
The septuagenarians ended their first 50th-anniversary concert at London's O2 Arena with a whimper and couldn't play the biggest hit of their 50-year careers because the rock stars decided to obey the city's strict curfew.
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