Video: School Takes Direct Hit From Oklahoma Tornado

Plaza Towers Elementary School reduced to rubble


NBC reports that 2 elementary schools were heavily damaged. Those schools are Briarwood Elementary in Oklahoma City and Plaza Towers Elementary in Moore.

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Reporter standing in front of the Elementary School: 'Not a lot left standing'

Flashback: DNC Ran Web Ad Calling Tea Party 'The Mob' [Video]

'Republicans have no plan for moving this country forward, so they called out The Mob' (Tea Party). From the DNC YouTube page. Remember this?

Rove: White House Surveilling Fox Reporter Is 'Chilling'

Rove says, 'This is a clear declaration by the FBI and Department of Justice they considered him a target of a criminal investigation, and wanted to prosecute him for criminal conspiracy. This is beyond the pale'

'The press is supposed to try to collect information and report it, that's their job'

More video on the news that the DOJ targeted a Fox reporter

Fox News Reponds to DOJ Targeting of Reporter James Rosen: ‘We Are Outraged'

Fox News executive VP of news Michael Clemente released the following statement to TVNewser with regard to James Rosen being targeted by the Department of Justice.

“We are outraged to learn today that James Rosen was named a criminal co-conspirator for simply doing his job as a reporter. In fact, it is downright chilling. We will unequivocally defend his right to operate as a member of what up until now has always been a free press.”

Clemente’s statement comes as The New Yorker‘s Ryan Lizza uncovers the full warrant application, which makes it seem as though the FBI is interested in investigating Rosen as much as it is interested in investigating Rosen’s source. Chilling indeed.

Megyn Kelly revealed that two other Fox News staffers were targeted for investigation by the DOJ on stories unrelated to Rosen’s.

Raw Video: TV Staff Take Cover From Tornado

KSN-TV (Kansas) employees and meteorologists took shelter from a tornado Sunday while continuing to broadcast from a safe place

Anchor says: 'At this point folks, we here at KSN are moving to our shelters'...Meteorologists then leaves live report, walking away from the screen

Michele Bachmann Trails Democrat Jim Graves 47-45

The good news is, the election is a long way off, but right now, Bachmann is trailing the person she defeated in November in a new PPP Poll. She won by 4,200 votes in 2012.

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With Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann facing a widening campaign finance probe, her Democratic challenger is out with a new poll showing him in a close race with the conservative firebrand.

The survey, conducted by Public Policy Polling and obtained by POLITICO, shows Democrat Jim Graves leading Bachmann, a four-term congresswoman and former GOP presidential candidate, 47 percent to 45 percent. The results are within the poll’s 4.4 percentage point margin of error.

Bachmann has found herself under growing scrutiny in recent weeks, with the Federal Election Commission and the Office of Congressional Ethics opening investigations into allegations that she paid an Iowa state senator to work for her presidential campaign — a potential violation of the Legislature’s rules. And on Sunday evening, a Minneapolis newspaper reported that the FBI would be joining the investigation.

Bachmann already running ads in MN, she put out this one Friday

60 people Killed in Series of Car Bomb Explosions Across Iraq [Video]

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More than 60 people were killed in a series of car bomb explosions targeting Shi'ite Muslims across Iraq on Monday, police and medics said, part of the worst sectarian violence since U.S. troops pulled out in December 2011.  

The attacks brought the number killed in sectarian clashes in the past week to over 200, and tensions between Shi'ites, who now lead Iraq, and minority Sunni Muslims have reached a point where some fear a return to all-out civil conflict. No group claimed responsibility for the bombings.  

Iraq is home to a number of Sunni Islamist insurgent groups, including the al Qaeda-affiliated Islamic State of Iraq, which has previously targeted Shi'ites in a bid to provoke a wider sectarian confrontation. Nine people were killed in one of two car bomb explosions in Basra, a predominantly Shi'ite city 420 km (260 miles) southeast of Baghdad, police and medics said.

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North Korea Launches 2 More Missiles

6 missile launches in 3 days


SEOUL — North Korea fired two short-range missiles Monday, making six launches in three days, and it condemned South Korea for criticizing what it said were its legitimate military drills. South Korea's Defense Ministry said North Korea had fired one missile Monday morning and a second one in the afternoon.

Both were fired into the sea off North Korea's east coast, a ministry official said. The launches come hard on the heels of more than two months of threats from North Korea that it would wage a nuclear war against South Korea and the United States if it were attacked.

The North condemned joint U.S. and South Korean military exercises, that ended in late April, as a rehearsal for an attack on its territory. "We are conducting intense military exercises to strengthen our defense capacity," North Korea's KCNA news agency quoted the Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of Korea, the body that handles inter-Korean issues, as saying on Monday.

"Our military is conducting these exercises in order to cope with the mounting war measures from the U.S. and South Korea, which is the legitimate right of any sovereign country."