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• Obama promises help to rebuild tornado-hit South (Reuters)
• Judge says southern Illinois levee can be blown up (Reuters)
• Strongest tornado of week hurled bodies into fields (Reuters)
• Democrats Mobilize on Ryan Plan as Republican Town Halls Simmer (Time.com)
• How the G-Man Got His Groove Back (Time.com)
• New Jersey's Christie to teachers: I could be Mr. Nice Guy (Reuters)
• AP: Public defense again sought for Demjanjuk (AP)
• Americans wake before dawn to watch royal wedding (AP)
• Tornado survivors had minutes to seek refuge (AP)
• Obama says devastation unlike any he has ever seen (AP)
• KC university supports lecturer in video flap (AP)
• Even rescuers hobbled by worst twisters since 1932 (AP)
• NWS: NE Mississippi tornado was highest-rated EF-5 (AP)
• Shuttle flight is delayed; Obama visits Giffords (AP)
• Japan official: US tornadoes evoke quake damages (AP)
• Tornadoes suddenly stop life in small town South (AP)
• NC judge orders documents released in Edwards case (AP)
• Maine official forced out for race, other remarks (AP)
• Dugard 'relieved' by kidnappers' guilty pleas (AP)
• Media outlets urge access in Edwards sex tape case (AP)

Obama promises help to rebuild tornado-hit South (Reuters) Posted: 29 Apr 2011 04:55 PM PDT Reuters - President Barack Obama promised federal aid on Friday to the tornado-ravaged South, where deadly twisters have killed at least 339 people and caused billions of dollars in damage.

Judge says southern Illinois levee can be blown up (Reuters) Posted: 29 Apr 2011 01:52 PM PDT Reuters - A federal judge on Friday ruled that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers can blow up a Mississippi River levee, which would flood Missouri farmland but prevent the flooding of an Illinois town.

Strongest tornado of week hurled bodies into fields (Reuters) Posted: 29 Apr 2011 03:28 PM PDT Reuters - The small town of Smithville, Mississippi may have endured the strongest tornado of the dozens that pounded the southern U.S. this week, packing such force that it hurled bodies into nearby fields, weather experts and local officials said on Friday.

Democrats Mobilize on Ryan Plan as Republican Town Halls Simmer (Time.com) Posted: 28 Apr 2011 01:55 PM PDT Time.com - The Easter recess hasn't been restful for Republican congressmen in swing districts

How the G-Man Got His Groove Back (Time.com) Posted: 28 Apr 2011 10:05 AM PDT Time.com - Inside Bob Mueller's 10-year campaign to fix the FBI

New Jersey's Christie to teachers: I could be Mr. Nice Guy (Reuters) Posted: 29 Apr 2011 04:45 PM PDT Reuters - New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, a tough talking school reformer, said on Friday that even a hint of compromise from the state teachers union could turn him into Mr. Nice Guy.

AP: Public defense again sought for Demjanjuk (AP) Posted: 29 Apr 2011 04:41 PM PDT AP - The federal public defender's office in Cleveland filed a motion Friday asking to be re-appointed as co-counsel for alleged Nazi war criminal John Demjanjuk, claiming the retired auto worker's trial in Germany has been tainted by a secret FBI report uncovered by The Associated Press.

Americans wake before dawn to watch royal wedding (AP) Posted: 29 Apr 2011 12:52 PM PDT AP - With dining chairs forming makeshift pews and tacky "Royal Wedding" t-shirts in lieu of formalwear, Jen Barnette and five bleary-eyed friends settled in her living room before dawn on Friday to watch Britain's Prince William marry his longtime sweetheart, Kate Middleton.

Tornado survivors had minutes to seek refuge (AP) Posted: 29 Apr 2011 03:16 PM PDT AP - A Georgia salon owner and her two daughters — Sky and Stormy — climbed inside a tanning bed while a tornado ripped the roof off their business. A Virginia couple scrambled under their garage's wooden steps after a twister ripped off their home's roof. Mississippi mobile home park residents found shelter in a Baptist church, clinging to one another as the building disintegrated.

Obama says devastation unlike any he has ever seen (AP) Posted: 29 Apr 2011 12:58 PM PDT AP - Expressing amazement at the destruction around him, President Barack Obama on Friday stepped through the wreckage left by rampaging tornadoes and pledged help to those who survived but lost their homes in a terrifying flash. Said the president: "I've never seen devastation like this."

KC university supports lecturer in video flap (AP) Posted: 29 Apr 2011 04:39 PM PDT AP - University of Missouri-Kansas City officials say they're standing behind a labor studies professor whose lecture comments about union agitation tactics have created an Internet stir among conservative commentators.

Even rescuers hobbled by worst twisters since 1932 (AP) Posted: 29 Apr 2011 05:07 PM PDT AP - Southerners found their emergency safety net shredded Friday as they tried to emerge from the nation's deadliest tornado disaster since the Great Depression.

NWS: NE Mississippi tornado was highest-rated EF-5 (AP) Posted: 29 Apr 2011 09:12 AM PDT AP - At least one of the massive tornadoes that killed hundreds across the South was a devastating EF-5 storm, and the National Weather Service expects to determine later Friday that "many more" also were the worst of the worst.

Shuttle flight is delayed; Obama visits Giffords (AP) Posted: 29 Apr 2011 04:12 PM PDT AP - The president was on his way. Space shuttle Endeavour's astronauts were riding out to the launch pad in a van. And a wounded Rep. Gabrielle Giffords had flown in from her Houston rehab hospital to watch her husband blast off Friday on the historic, next-to-last shuttle mission.

Japan official: US tornadoes evoke quake damages (AP) Posted: 29 Apr 2011 05:35 PM PDT AP - Japan's foreign minister said Friday the tornado destruction that swiped the U.S. this week killing more than 300 people evoked the carnage of the earthquake that recently struck his own country.

Tornadoes suddenly stop life in small town South (AP) Posted: 29 Apr 2011 04:57 PM PDT AP - Lisa Chandler and her husband have been working nonstop since the deadly tornado outbreak, moving around the one generator powering their funeral home so they can get ready for services for six of the dead. Some are people they knew.

NC judge orders documents released in Edwards case (AP) Posted: 29 Apr 2011 02:11 PM PDT AP - Former presidential candidate John Edwards will again be asked a series of questions he earlier refused to answer under oath, this time with a judge on hand to immediately rule what's fair or foul in the privacy lawsuit filed by his mistress.

Maine official forced out for race, other remarks (AP) Posted: 29 Apr 2011 03:47 PM PDT AP - A Maine cabinet member who was forced out after offending rural residents, African-Americans and Native Americans all in one day said Friday that some of the comments attributed to him were misconstrued and others he didn't even say.

Dugard 'relieved' by kidnappers' guilty pleas (AP) Posted: 29 Apr 2011 12:38 AM PDT AP - A convicted sex offender and his wife are likely to spend the rest of their lives in prison after pleading guilty to kidnapping and raping a California girl who gave birth to two daughters while being held for 18 years in the couple's backyard.

Media outlets urge access in Edwards sex tape case (AP) Posted: 29 Apr 2011 08:03 AM PDT AP - A North Carolina judge is hearing from attorneys for media companies that want broader disclosure in a lawsuit over a sex tape described as involving former presidential candidate John Edwards.

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