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  • Rescue crews are working through the night after a monstrous tornado barreled through the Oklahoma City suburbs, demolishing an elementary school and reducing homes to piles of splintered wood.
    Helmeted rescue workers raced Tuesday to complete the search for survivors and the dead in the Oklahoma City suburb where a mammoth tornado destroyed countless homes, cleared lots down to bare red earth and claimed 24 lives,...
  • Tuesday, May 21 2013 7:45 PM EDT2013-05-21 23:45:08 GMT
    Brian Williams anchors a special primetime hour at 8 p.m. from Oklahoma with reports from Lester Holt, Ann Curry, Harry Smith, Kate Snow and others.
    Brian Williams anchors a special primetime hour at 8 p.m. from Oklahoma with reports from Lester Holt, Ann Curry, Harry Smith, Kate Snow and others.
  • Wind, humidity and rainfall combined precisely to create the massive killer tornado in Moore, Okla. And when they did, the awesome amount of energy released over that city dwarfed the power of the atomic bomb that...
    Everything had to come together just perfectly to create the killer tornado in Moore, Okla.: wind speed, moisture in the air, temperature and timing. And when they did, the awesome energy released over that city dwarfed the...
  • Tuesday, May 21 2013 4:36 PM EDT2013-05-21 20:36:15 GMT
    A mile-wide tornado chewing through the Oklahoma City area has reduced neighborhoods to rubble and left cars and trucks crumpled on the sides of highways.
    A mile-wide tornado chewing through the Oklahoma City area has reduced neighborhoods to rubble and left cars and trucks crumpled on the sides of highways.
  • Tuesday, May 21 2013 2:45 PM EDT2013-05-21 18:45:22 GMT
    Two Rhode Island businesses with close ties to the Oklahoma tragedy are collecting donations for the storm's victims.
    Two Rhode Island businesses with close ties to the Oklahoma tragedy are collecting donations for the storm's victims.
  • Tuesday, May 21 2013 11:32 AM EDT2013-05-21 15:32:40 GMT
    The Red Cross is asking for your help in the wake of a devastating tornado in Moore, Oklahoma Monday. 
    The Red Cross is asking for your help in the wake of a devastating tornado in Moore, Oklahoma Monday.

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    • National

    • When Jodi Arias addresses the jury in her murder trial, the big question will be whether she pleads for mercy or repeats what she told a TV reporter minutes after her conviction: She would rather be executed than...
      Jodi Arias begged jurors Tuesday to give her life in prison, saying she "lacked perspective" when she told a local reporter in an interview that she preferred execution to spending the rest of her days in jail.
    • Citing a lack of leads, a police agency said Monday that it is closing the active investigation of the disappearance of Susan Powell, a Utah mother whose now-dead husband was a prime suspect
      The lawyer for the family of missing Utah woman Susan Powell said Tuesday that even as local police close the active part of their investigation into her disappearance, federal authorities continue to review the case - a...
    • The president of a New York police union defended an officer who accidentally killed a Hofstra University student during a standoff with an armed intruder, saying Tuesday the only person responsible for the...
      The president of a New York police union defended an officer who accidentally killed a Hofstra University student during a standoff with an armed intruder, saying Tuesday the only person responsible for the woman's death...

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