http://www.voanews.com/archive/breaking-news-usa/latest/3491/3494.html USA http://www.voanews.com/img/voa/rssLogo_VOA.gif http://www.voanews.com/archive/breaking-news-usa/latest/3491/3494.html en-US 2012 - VOA 60 Thu, 23 May 2013 01:03:00 -0400 Pangea CMS – VOA The U.S. Justice Department has formally acknowledged that the United States has killed four American citizens in drone strikes in Yemen and Pakistan since 2009. The official disclosure came Wednesday in a letter from U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder to congressional leaders, on the eve of a major national security speech by President Barack Obama. In the letter, addressed to Senate Judiciary Committee chairman Patrick Leahy, Holder said the deaths occurred in U.S. counterterrorism ... http://www.voanews.com/content/us-officially-acknowledges-drone-strike-killings/1666514.html http://www.voanews.com/content/us-officially-acknowledges-drone-strike-killings/1666514.html Wed, 22 May 2013 18:28:17 -0400 Breaking News The FBI says a man being questioned in the Boston Marathon bombings probe was fatally shot when he attacked an FBI agent in Florida. An FBI statement said the shooting occurred early Wednesday in the city of Orlando as the FBI agent and other law enforcement officers were interviewing the man. A friend of the dead man identified him as Ibragim Todashev. He said Todashev had lived in the Boston area before moving to Florida several months ago and knew bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev because ... http://www.voanews.com/content/fbi-says-florida-man-fatally-shot-during-boston-bombings-investigation/1666089.html http://www.voanews.com/content/fbi-says-florida-man-fatally-shot-during-boston-bombings-investigation/1666089.html Wed, 22 May 2013 10:54:27 -0400 Breaking News City Councilman Eric Garcetti has won election to be the 42nd mayor of Los Angeles, becoming the first elected Jewish mayor in the city's history. The Lost Angeles Times newspaper reported his opponent, City Controller Wendy Greuel, conceded defeat early Wednesday. Garcetti, will succeed Antonio Villaraigosa, who was unable to run again because of term limits. The 42-year-old Garcetti is to take office July 1 and will also be the youngest Los Angeles mayor in more than a century. His ... http://www.voanews.com/content/garcetti-wins-los-angeles-mayors-race/1665963.html http://www.voanews.com/content/garcetti-wins-los-angeles-mayors-race/1665963.html Wed, 22 May 2013 09:26:26 -0400 Breaking News Reports from Florida say the FBI has shot and killed a man with suspected links to the Boston Marathon bombings. The incident occurred in the city of Orlando. A local newspaper, The Orlando Sentinel, said a friend had identified the dead man as 27-year-old Ibragim Todashev. The friend told local media Todashev was being investigated as part of the Boston bombings and knew suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev because both were martial-arts fighters. The FBI said only that one of its agents was involved ... http://www.voanews.com/content/fbi-shooting-in-florida-may-be-related-to-boston-bombings/1665962.html http://www.voanews.com/content/fbi-shooting-in-florida-may-be-related-to-boston-bombings/1665962.html Wed, 22 May 2013 09:26:25 -0400 Breaking News U.S. President Barack Obama is planning a Sunday visit to Moore, Oklahoma, the city decimated by a powerful tornado that killed at least 24 people and flattened a wide swath of the community.   President Obama plans to meet with survivors of Monday's storm, as well as first responders who rescued as many as 100 children and adults buried in the rubble.   U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano traveled Wednesday to Moore to assess recovery efforts. The tornado left ... http://www.voanews.com/content/us-homeland-security-secretary-to-survey-tornado-response/1665820.html http://www.voanews.com/content/us-homeland-security-secretary-to-survey-tornado-response/1665820.html Wed, 22 May 2013 02:34:10 -0400 USA VOA News http://www.voanews.com/content/us-homeland-security-secretary-to-survey-tornado-response/1665820.html#relatedInfoContainer More stormy weather is interfering with rescue efforts in Moore, Oklahoma, the day after a monster tornado destroyed large parts of the central U.S. town. The town's fire chief says emergency workers will not stop searching for survivors and plan to go through the rubble of each building at least three times. Monday's tornado killed 24 people and injured 240, tearing up entire neighborhoods and leaving the landscape unrecognizable even to those who have lived in Moore their whole ... http://www.voanews.com/content/rescuers-searching-for-survivors-following-deadly-us-tornado/1665676.html http://www.voanews.com/content/rescuers-searching-for-survivors-following-deadly-us-tornado/1665676.html Tue, 21 May 2013 17:09:25 -0400 Breaking News More stormy weather is interfering with rescue efforts in Moore, Oklahoma, the day after a monster tornado destroyed large parts of the central U.S. town. Moore's fire chief says emergency workers will not stop searching for survivors, saying they will go through the rubble of each building at least three times. Monday's tornado killed 24 people and injured 240. It was a large and powerful storm, measuring as an F-4 on a scale of five. Top measured winds hit 306 kilometers per ... http://www.voanews.com/content/us-tornado-4th-upd--v/1665609.html http://www.voanews.com/content/us-tornado-4th-upd--v/1665609.html Tue, 21 May 2013 15:42:41 -0400 Breaking News Monday's deadly tornado in the central U.S. state of Oklahoma struck in an area commonly known as "Tornado Alley" - home to most of the nation's tornadoes. Tornado Alley is generally seen to span north to south from South Dakota to Texas between the Rocky Mountains and the Appalachian Mountains, but there is no official consensus on the boundaries. The region is susceptible to tornadoes when cold, dry air moving south from Canada meets warm, moist air from the Gulf of ... http://www.voanews.com/content/deadly-us-twister-hit-tornado-alley/1665431.html http://www.voanews.com/content/deadly-us-twister-hit-tornado-alley/1665431.html Tue, 21 May 2013 12:45:49 -0400 USA VOA News http://www.voanews.com/content/deadly-us-twister-hit-tornado-alley/1665431.html#relatedInfoContainer A U.S. appeals court has ruled the federal government is not required to release photos taken of al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden after he was killed by special forces. The terrorist leader was slain two years ago at his Pakistani compound by U.S. Navy SEAL commandos, who took pictures of their target's corpse in order to confirm the success of their mission. The court said the CIA properly withheld publication of the images, and it concluded photos used for facial recognition analysis ... http://www.voanews.com/content/court-rules-binladen-photos-may-remain-secret/1665407.html http://www.voanews.com/content/court-rules-binladen-photos-may-remain-secret/1665407.html Tue, 21 May 2013 12:21:55 -0400 USA VOA News former head of the U.S. tax agency says he was "dismayed and saddened" to learn that conservative groups were targeted for special scrutiny under his watch, but told a congressional panel Tuesday he did not know about it as it was occurring. Douglas Shulman served as the commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service for more than four years until last November. It was a period in which the agency asked conservative groups extensive questions about their activities as they sought ... http://www.voanews.com/content/former-us-tax-chief-dismayed-at-conservative-targeting/1665397.html http://www.voanews.com/content/former-us-tax-chief-dismayed-at-conservative-targeting/1665397.html Tue, 21 May 2013 12:12:44 -0400 USA VOA News U.S. search and rescue crews are digging for survivors in several kilometers of wreckage, after a massive tornado leveled neighborhoods Monday in the central U.S. state of Oklahoma, killing at least 24 people. Oklahoma officials say they have recovered 24 bodies since the tornado devastated the town of Moore, a suburb of the state capital, Oklahoma City. The suburb of Newcastle was also hit. President Barack Obama declared a major disaster in Oklahoma following the storm. He ordered the ... http://www.voanews.com/content/rescuers-dig-for-survivors-after-deadly-us-tornado/1665307.html http://www.voanews.com/content/rescuers-dig-for-survivors-after-deadly-us-tornado/1665307.html Tue, 21 May 2013 11:12:32 -0400 Breaking News U.S. search and rescue crews are digging for survivors in miles of wreckage, after a massive tornado leveled neighborhoods Monday in the central U.S. state of Oklahoma, killing at least 24 people. Oklahoma officials say they have recovered 24 bodies since the tornado devastated the town of Moore, a suburb of the state capital, Oklahoma City. The suburb of Newcastle was also hit. President Barack Obama declared a major disaster in Oklahoma following the storm. He ordered the Federal Emergency ... http://www.voanews.com/content/rescuers-dig-for-survivors-after-deadly-us-tornado/1665270.html http://www.voanews.com/content/rescuers-dig-for-survivors-after-deadly-us-tornado/1665270.html Tue, 21 May 2013 10:57:26 -0400 Breaking News Officials in Oklahoma have revised to 24 the number of bodies recovered after a tornado devastated the town of Moore, Oklahoma. Earlier, 51 people were reported killed. Officials attributed the higher number to counting bodies twice in the chaos following the storm that struck late Monday. They said additional bodies could yet be recovered. At least 240 people were injured. The tornado with winds of 320 kilometers an hour demolished an elementary school and reduced homes to piles of ... http://www.voanews.com/content/death-toll-revised-lower-in-oklahoma-tornado/1665174.html http://www.voanews.com/content/death-toll-revised-lower-in-oklahoma-tornado/1665174.html Tue, 21 May 2013 09:39:32 -0400 Breaking News Search and rescue crews worked through the night in Oklahoma after a tornado with winds of 320 kilometers an hour caused massive destruction late Monday. At least 51 people were killed, including at least 20 children, and those numbers are expected to climb. A spokeswoman for the state medical examiner's office says as many as 40 more fatalities may be reported. At least 240 people were injured. The twister demolished an elementary school and reduced homes to piles of splintered wood in ... http://www.voanews.com/content/dozens-dead-from-massive-oklahoma-tornado/1665147.html http://www.voanews.com/content/dozens-dead-from-massive-oklahoma-tornado/1665147.html Tue, 21 May 2013 09:06:24 -0400 Breaking News U.S. search and rescue crews are digging for survivors in the area where a massive tornado leveled neighborhoods Monday in the central state of Oklahoma, killing at least 24 people and injuring nearly 240 others.  The twister is the nation's deadliest since a 2011 tornado in Joplin, Missouri, killed more than 150 people. Monday's tornado tore through the town of Moore, a suburb of the state capital, Oklahoma City, leaving a path of destruction up to three kilometers wide and 32 ... http://www.voanews.com/content/death-toll-expected-to-rise-from-oklahoma-tornado/1665037.html http://www.voanews.com/content/death-toll-expected-to-rise-from-oklahoma-tornado/1665037.html Tue, 21 May 2013 03:18:07 -0400 USA Alex Villarreal http://www.voanews.com/content/death-toll-expected-to-rise-from-oklahoma-tornado/1665037.html#relatedInfoContainer Rescue crews are continuing to search for survivors in 9the central U.S. state of) Oklahoma, where a tornado with winds of 320 kilometers an hour caused massive destruction and killed at least 51 people. Authorities say the death toll is expected to rise. Among those killed were young children who were inside a school when the tornado hit Monday afternoon. Large sections of Moore, an Oklahoma City suburb, were destroyed as the tornado flattened entire neighborhoods and sent debris flying ... http://www.voanews.com/content/51-dead-as-massive-tornado-hits-oklahoma/1665024.html http://www.voanews.com/content/51-dead-as-massive-tornado-hits-oklahoma/1665024.html Tue, 21 May 2013 00:57:20 -0400 Breaking News Rescue crews are continuing to search for survivors in the central U.S. state of Oklahoma, where a tornado with winds of 320 kilometers an hour caused massive destruction and killed at least 51 people. Authorities say the death toll is expected to rise. Among those killed were young children who were inside a school when the tornado hit Monday afternoon. Large sections of Moore, an Oklahoma City suburb, were destroyed as the tornado flattened entire neighborhoods and sent debris flying ... http://www.voanews.com/content/51-dead-as-massive-tornado-hits-oklahoma/1665011.html http://www.voanews.com/content/51-dead-as-massive-tornado-hits-oklahoma/1665011.html Tue, 21 May 2013 00:00:21 -0400 Breaking News A tornado with 320 kilometer-per-hour winds has killed at least 51 people and caused massive destruction in the central U.S. state of Oklahoma, destroying two schools and entire neighborhoods. The Oklahoma Medical Examiner's Office said the death toll was expected to rise as rescue workers move deeper into the hardest-hit areas. The tornado, more than a kilometer wide, hit Monday afternoon and destroyed large swaths of Moore, an Oklahoma City suburb, injuring dozens of people, sending ... http://www.voanews.com/content/51-killed-as-massive-tornado-hits-oklahoma/1664961.html http://www.voanews.com/content/51-killed-as-massive-tornado-hits-oklahoma/1664961.html Mon, 20 May 2013 21:20:24 -0400 Breaking News A U.S. Senate committee says Apple has avoided paying taxes on billions of dollars in profits by setting up a complex network of off-shore entities. The Senate panel says Apple created foreign subsidiaries with no employees or physical offices so it would pay little or no taxes on its earnings. It says Apple is holding $145 billion in cash, of which more than $100 billion is held offshore. Apple chief Tim Cook is scheduled to go before the panel on Tuesday. It is common for multi-national ... http://www.voanews.com/content/senate-panel-accuses-apple-of-using-complex-tax-loopholes/1664951.html http://www.voanews.com/content/senate-panel-accuses-apple-of-using-complex-tax-loopholes/1664951.html Mon, 20 May 2013 20:51:40 -0400 USA VOA News A tornado with 320 kilometer-per-hour winds has killed at least 37 people and caused massive destruction in the central U.S. state of Oklahoma, destroying two schools and entire neighborhoods. The Oklahoma Medical Examiner's Office said the death toll was expected to rise as rescue workers move deeper into the hardest-hit areas. The 1.6 kilometer wide tornado hit Monday afternoon and destroyed large swaths of Moore, an Oklahoma City suburb, injuring dozens of people, sending debris flying ... http://www.voanews.com/content/37-killed-as-massive-tornado-hits-oklahoma/1664947.html http://www.voanews.com/content/37-killed-as-massive-tornado-hits-oklahoma/1664947.html Mon, 20 May 2013 20:45:42 -0400 Breaking News