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.
In her first interview since the bottom of the David Petreaus scandal fell out, Jill Kelley told the Daily Beast's Howard Kurtz that Paula Broadwell is one scary cyberbully.
After a five-month tour of duty, Prince Harry is heading home from combat — with a little bragging on his way out of Afghanistan.
The 57th presidential inauguration — Barack Obama's second — has been sealed into history, and we'll no doubt remember President Obama's powerful speech, which seems to have gone over well. But there were other bright spots — moments that weren't in the script — that deserve their own special place.
In 2009 Chief Justice John Roberts flipped some very important words in President Obama's swearing-in. Four years later, it appears the two still haven't figured out how to do get this tradition quite right.
We got word on Friday that an American had died in the Algeria hostage situation, but now the AP reports, by way of a U.S. administration official, that two more Americans were killed in the standoff.
More details are emerging about Nehemiah Griego, and they add up to a gruesome picture of a teenager with a van packed with guns and a plan to shoot up his local Walmart in New Mexico.
Inauguration Day is as good a time as any to look back at four years ago, when a younger Obama officially took over a country that was happy for Chris Brown and Rihanna, rooting for Anne Hathaway, and enduring an otherwise pretty terrible January.
We've all wanted to hear from Manti Te'o's other half—Ronaiah Tuiasosopo, the alleged mastermind who conceived Te'o fake girlfriend Lennay Kekua, her fake fatal leukemia, and her fake car accident. According to Tuiasosopo's family, the hoaxer is ready to talk.
Rapper Lupe Fiasco was the headliner at the StartUp RockOn concert to celebrate President Obama's reelection last night. Fiasco celebrated by spending more than 30 minutes rapping an anti-Obama song, and was eventually booted off stage.
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The AP has now identified the dead American hostage, by way of unnamed U.S. officials, as Frederick Buttaccio of Katy, Texas, a Houston suburb. It was unclear how he died, though his body has been recovered and his family notified.
The Onion's brilliant creation, "Diamond" Joe Biden, stopped by Reddit, in character, for one of the site's signature Ask Me Anything sessions on Friday afternoon. And, hey, look who asked something over Twitter just as the AMA began.
The case of the Notre Dame star's fake girlfriend is unfolding quickly, and it's now looking like Manti Te'o wasn't the only one duped by the non-existent Lennay Kekua. An online identity scam addiction of sorts, involving multiple people and multiple victims, now centers on one man. Who is he? And how can we be so sure?
House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, viewed as one of the hostage-takers in the upcoming debt ceiling fight, has given in and promised a three-month temporary debt limit increase.
After a contentious fight over the near-naked images security agents were seeing on the other side of full-body scans at many of the nation's airports, the TSA has decided to replace a version of its scanners with slightly less scandalous — but equally weird — machines.
There is no Lennay Kekua, but the woman whose image was used to create Manti Te'o's fake girlfriend appears to be this marketing executive in Los Angeles. She won't be telling her side of the story right now, but huge questions remain.
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Whether you believe them or not, the explanations given to us by Notre Dame and Manti Te'o fail to cover all of the relationship's tracks: What made Te'o so vulnerable? Why did his parents buy in? If Notre Dame knew he was a victim, why didn't the school say anything? And why did Te'o keep speaking out in public?
Jay Carney today called the National Rifle Association and their latest lobbying campaign centering on the president's daughters "repugnant" and "cowardly," but according to a new poll, Americans hate the NRA less than the entertainment industry
Despite the ongoing and controversial efforts of their lawyers to paint the alleged attackers as victims, it looks like swift justice will hammer down on the men accused of gang-raping a woman on a bus in New Delhi — and there's already been a prison fight.
On this special day, loaded with legal ramifications along with ratings and tell-alls, the International Olympic Committee has finally decided to strip the disgraced cyclist of his Olympic bronze medal.
Yes, we know what you're thinking: Kucinich is a notoriously outspoken Democrat, so what on Earth is he going to do on Fox News that Roger Ailes has hired him as a contributor? Well, the Internet may be stumped, but the Internet has also spoken.
As part of its new campaign, the NRA released a pretty ridiculous (but action-packed!) four-and-a-half-minute video late Wednesday afternoon. Let's take a look at how the push for putting armed guards in schools got the superhero treatment.
Guns don't kill kids — ignoring kids kills kids. That seems to be the message many upset Americans are taking away from the National Rifle Association's new lobbying strategy following its response to President Obama's gun announcement today, as the NRA and the White House prepared for a fight over legislation after Obama's executive actions.
Meanwhile, at the SHOT Show in Las Vegas, emboldened gun owners and high-tech gun makers were watching, as frustrated and determined as ever.
An Oregon sheriff is citing his constitutional duty in accusing politicians of "attempting to exploit the deaths of innocent victims" to enact new gun laws that he thinks would harm his law-abiding locals, making him the gun-rights hero of a very big day for pro-gun America.
The latest evidence that the international elephant poaching trade hasn't gotten any better was revealed late Tuesday, hiding underneath a container of precious stones on its way from Tanzania to Indonesia.
In an about face on gay rights and the church, Obama's inaugural team has found a gay-friendly replacement for Pastor Louie Giglio, who dropped out of the January 21 benediction last week after his sermons on "ex-gay therapy" surfaced.
On the day that Obama and Biden are set to reveal their proposals — including a renewed assault-weapons ban — for gun legislation, a rare, behind-the-scenes look at an NRA nominating committee implicates a CEO who made money off the Bushmaster assault rifle used in the Newtown shooting.
President Obama has one more position to fill in his second-term cabinet. Following the departures of Hillary Clinton, Leon Panetta, Timothy Geithner, and Hila Solis, sources in the administration have confirmed that his Interior Secretary is departing to be closer to his family.
In a classified leak that could signal a crossing of President Obama's "red line," a report surfaced Tuesday evening that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and his military forces used poison gas in a deadly attack last month.
Fresh off their most recent spat over the Newtown shootings, the alleged hate-group protestors at Westboro Baptist Church and the do-gooder hacktivists from Anonymous faced off over the ongoing Aaron Swartz suicide controversy on Tuesday — albeit briefly — and in a sign of Anonymous's growing power, the hackers won.
There's a conspiracy theory floating around that the controversial new first-person shooter game in the iTunes Store might be a counterfeit app, but the National Rifle Association has picked some curious timing to ignore the controversy.
Google Maps has encountered a full-on roadkill scandal, and they're not taking this one, uh, lying down.
The emotional divide between increasingly ugly new accusations and apparently unflinching politicians expanded on Tuesday, as thousands of protestors took to the Indian state of Goa over reports that seven-year-old girl was raped in a school restroom.
With more and more defectors heading south, the North Korean regime spent $1.66 million on over 16,000 border-security cameras in the first 11 months of 2012, as it continues to build a spy network on its own citizens.
The heads were discovered on their way through customs at Chicago's O'Hare airport last night. But, somehow, authorities said no foul play was involved, and this sort of shipment has actually been uncovered before.
We hate to ruin Bloomberg News' squirm-inducing trend story of the day, but there's no solid evidence that the increasing popularity of the bikini wax is, in fact, actually leading to the elimination of pubic lice.
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The AP reports that Armstrong did indeed confess to doping in his Oprah interview, and CBS News has confirmed that Armstrong "has indicated a willingness to testify against others." Winfrey is expected to offer a preview in the latest stop in a series of private mea culpas that suggest he may really be telling all.
The group may have put itself back on its lobbying heels, because they introduced a new app for the iPhone and iPad last night — complete with virtual assault rifles — which the NRA's mobile developers (and Apple) say is appropriate for children ages four and up.
The former president's curious two-month visit to a Houston hospital has come to a healthy end, and he'll be returning home today, according to NBC News but not yet his back-and-forth family spokesperson.
Even as Buzz Bissinger retracts a Newsweek cover story, Armsgtrong still has his defenders. Did they still buy his lies? Or did they just enable the man they're now calling a "sleazeball"? Here's a look, in their own words, as the pre-Oprah debate heats up
For the first time in 138 days, Robin Roberts got up at 4 a.m. this morning and appeared on GMA not only to greet us with a "Good Morning America" but, more importantly, to let us and her co-hosts know that she'll be starting her comeback in earnest.
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We all got to witness the freak occurrence of an actual snake on an actual freakin' plane this week. And while news of the scrub python quickly spread from the side of a Qantas flight to YouTube, actual scientists are pretty used to this sort of thing. Seriously. We asked a real-life snake detective.
At a meeting Friday the vice president offered a clean slate, but Congress and the NRA are calling, and gaming leaders have few defenses. Here's a look at the revenge of the nerds.
As President Obama danced around questions about troop levels, he and Afghan President Hamid Karzai continued to press their message at this afternoon's press briefing — American soldiers are about to be in support mode, and the withdrawal is coming... soon enough.
If you thought Todd Akin's defeat in November's Senate race ended the "legitimate rape" controversy, get ready for Georgia Rep. Phil Gingrey, a pro-life OB-GYN who very much has gone there — and way beyond.
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