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  Senators work through changes to immigration bill

  Posted 8:56 AM 5/20/2013 by Associated Press

  WASHINGTON (AP) - Senators working on a wide-ranging immigration bill have agreed to tighten controls on the asylum system that allows people fleeing war or persecution to find refuge in the U.S.Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina offered the amendment, which would (More)

  
  

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  Official: 2nd person killed by Oklahoma tornado

  Posted 8:17 AM 5/20/2013 by Associated Press

  SHAWNEE, Okla. (AP) - Oklahoma's state medical examiner's office says a second person was killed by a tornado that leveled a central Oklahoma mobile home park.Office spokeswoman Amy Elliot on Monday identified the two people who are confirmed to have been killed during Sunday's storms (More)

  
  

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  Cartel towns pose challenge for immigration reform

  Posted 7:46 AM 5/20/2013 by Associated Press

  MATAMOROS, Mexico (AP) - Just across the Rio Grande from Brownsville, Texas, stands a dormitory-style shelter filled with people recently deported from the U.S. and other migrants waiting to cross the border.

  The long rows of bunk beds offer immigrants a place to rest on their long journey. (More)

  
  

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  United to restart 787 flights today

  Posted 6:22 AM 5/20/2013

  UNDATED (AP) - United Airlines' 787s return to the air this morning with a flight from Houston to Chicago.

  The federal government had grounded Boeing 787s in January because of smoldering batteries that caused an emergency landing and a fire on another plane.

  United says it'll first use the 787s for shorter domestic flights and resume using them for international flights June 10.

   

  
  

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  Yahoo takes big leap with $1.1B deal for Tumblr

  Posted 5:08 AM 5/20/2013 by Associated Press

  SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Yahoo is buying online blogging forum Tumblr for $1.1 billion as CEO Marissa Mayer tries to rejuvenate an Internet icon that had fallen behind the times.The deal announced Monday represents Mayer's boldest move yet since she left Google 10 months ago to lead (More)

  
  

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  Tornadoes level homes in Okla., 1 dead

  Posted 9:47 PM 5/19/2013 by Associated Press

  SHAWNEE, Okla. (AP) - Authorities say a tornado that severely damaged a mobile home park southeast of Oklahoma City killed a 79-year-old man whose body was found in an open area of the neighborhood.Pottawatomie County Sheriff Mike Booth also said that six people who lived in the (More)

  
  

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  SKorea analyzing if 4 projectiles North Korea launched were missiles or artillery

  Posted 8:45 PM 5/19/2013 by Associated Press

  SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - South Korea officials are trying to determine out what exactly North Korea fired into its eastern waters over the weekend.A Defense Ministry official speaking on condition of anonymity citing department rules says experts are analyzing whether the projectiles (More)

  
  

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  US adviser on board of firm that sold anthrax drug

  Posted 7:20 PM 5/19/2013 by Associated Press

  WASHINGTON (AP) - A report says former Navy Secretary Richard J. Danzig, who serves as a bio-warfare adviser to the president and Pentagon, urged the government to stockpile an anti-anthrax drug while serving as a director for the company that supplies it.An investigation published (More)

  
  

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  Tornado levels homes in Oklahoma City trailer park

  Posted 6:23 PM 5/19/2013 by Associated Press

  EDMOND, Okla. (AP) - One of several tornadoes spawned by a powerful storm system rumbling through the Plains and Midwest has leveled several mobile homes in an area southeast of Oklahoma City.Reports of injuries in the mobile home park near Shawnee about 35 miles southeast of Oklahoma (More)

  
  

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  Consumer group flags high SPF ratings on sunscreen

  Posted 5:10 PM 5/19/2013 by Associated Press

  WASHINGTON (AP) - Sunbathers headed to the beach this summer will find new sunscreen labels on store shelves that are designed to make the products more effective and easier to use. But despite those long-awaited changes, many sunscreens continue to carry SPF ratings that some experts consider (More)