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  1. Bowser and Barbara, reunited!

    Boswer is now safe with his owner after being found in the rubble in the aftermath of the tornado, and CBS News cameras caught his rescue on tape.

    Watch: http://cbsn.ws/Z3sQjw

    We'll catch up with the duo to see how they're doing, tomorrow on CBS This Morning.
    Bowser and Barbara, reunited!

    Boswer is now safe with his owner after being found in the rubble in the aftermath of the tornado, and CBS News cameras caught his rescue on tape.

    Watch: http://cbsn.ws/Z3sQjw

    We'll catch up with the duo to see how they're doing, tomorrow on CBS This Morning.
    Photo: Bowser and Barbara, reunited!

Boswer is now safe with his owner after being found in the rubble in the aftermath of the tornado, and CBS News cameras caught his rescue on tape.

Watch: http://cbsn.ws/Z3sQjw

We'll catch up with the duo to see how they're doing, tomorrow on CBS This Morning.
  2. On the heels of a recent report detailing 26,000 cases of military sexual assault in 2012 alone, a handful of lawmakers are pushing tough new laws that would punish the perpetrators of these crimes rather than the victim and seek to help transform the culture in a military that has been riddled with sexual offense.
  3. Both suspects remained at the scene after a savage, likely terror-related murder in London on Wednesday, and one woman stepped forward in an attempt to talk the two men down.
  4. Court documents released this week show the Obama administration secretly monitored a Washington journalist. In seeking a search warrant, the FBI called Fox News' James Rosen a "criminal co-conspirator," even though he isn't charged with any crime.
  5. Why would men from Britain wage such a violent "eye-for-an-eye" attack in the name of defending Muslims in "our lands," as the man in the video claimed?
  6. President Obama on Thursday will deliver a major speech on his counterterrorism policies, addressing everything from drone strikes and the status of the prison at Guantanamo Bay to continuing efforts to fight al Qaeda and the legal framework for the continuing "war on terror."
  7. Friend of Boston bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev implicated himself and Tsarnaev in unsolved triple homicide http://cbsn.ws/13LOOJr
  8. A friend of Boston bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev was questioned about an unsolved triple homicide before authorities say he instigated a violent confrontation that resulted in his death early Wednesday morning in Orlando, Fla., CBS News correspondent Bob Orr reports.
  9. The tornado that devastated Moore, Okla., completely demolished Plaza Towers Elementary School. Seven children were killed on the school's grounds. But, miraculously, several students were pulled out from the rubble alive.
  10. Before invoking her Fifth Amendment right to remain silent, Lois Lerner, the head of the tax-exempt organizations division of the IRS, proclaimed her innocence before a congressional committee Wednesday.
  11. This week, as Oklahoma begins to pick up the pieces following a devastating tornado, lawmakers in Washington are hoping another ugly political fight over emergency relief funds can be avoided.
  12. The FBI was involved in a fatal shooting near Universal Studios in Orlando, Fla., early Wednesday that killed a man with ties to the older brother suspected in last month's deadly terrorist bombing at the Boston Marathon.
  13. 5PM UPDATE: 24 fatalities confirmed in OK tornado, including 8 children. 19 fatalities in Moore, OK; 5 in Oklahoma City
  14. JUST IN: The tornado that tore through Moore, OK now confirmed as highest-on-scale EF-5; with winds 200-210mph http://CBSNews.com/
  15. LIVE: A CBS News Special Report, authorities in Moore, OK hold news conference to update latest on response to catastrophic tornado.

    WATCH NOW: http://cbsn.ws/live2
  16. PHOTO: A scene of complete devastation in Tornado-ravaged Moore, OK.

    (Credit: Steve Futterman, CBS News)
    Photo: PHOTO: A scene of complete devastation in Tornado-ravaged Moore, OK.

(Credit: Steve Futterman, CBS News)
  17. Moore, Oklahoma mayor: Six neighborhoods now "nothing but slabs"; "it gets worse"

    WATCH: http://cbsn.ws/14txDf5
  18. (Photos are courtesy of Robert Custer) — in Moore, OK.
    Photo: A destroyed SUV.
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  19. UPDATE: Medical examiner has lowered the number of deaths in Oklahoma tornado to 24. It was previously 51, and could still rise.
  20. Image of Moore tornado shortly before hitting that city. The image on the left shows a circle where the tornado is. Creating that circular pattern is what is called a "debris ball". The radar is actually seeing cars, houses, trees being suc...ked into the air.

    On the right is the doppler velocities. The "triangle" denoting the tornado's location with green (air moving toward the radar) and red (moving away from the radar) areas depicting the violent 200 mph winds.
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    Image of Moore tornado shortly before hitting that city. The image on the left shows a circle where the tornado is. Creating that circular pattern is what is called a "debris ball". The radar is actually seeing cars, houses, trees being suc...ked into the air.

    On the right is the doppler velocities. The "triangle" denoting the tornado's location with green (air moving toward the radar) and red (moving away from the radar) areas depicting the violent 200 mph winds.
    See More
    Photo: Image of Moore tornado shortly before hitting that city. The image on the left shows a circle where the tornado is. Creating that circular pattern is what is called a "debris ball". The radar is actually seeing cars, houses, trees being sucked into the air.

On the right is the doppler velocities. The "triangle" denoting the tornado's location with green (air moving toward the radar) and red (moving away from the radar) areas depicting the violent 200 mph winds.
  21. Storm spotter describes mile-wide tornado that tore through Oklahoma City suburb, one of the worst he's ever seen http://cbsn.ws/10RcW9i
  22. HOW TO HELP: How to help those hit hard by Oklahoma tornado http://cbsn.ws/12qmucV
  23. BREAKING NEWS: OK Chief Medical Examiner’s Office is now reporting at least 51 deaths from Moore, OK tornado.
  24. BREAKING NEWS: Oklahoma Medical Examiner’s office tells CBS News that at least 37 are killed after tornado hits Moore, OK
  25. PHOTO: Rescue workers dig through rubble after a massive torado strikes near Oklahoma City, OK.
    Photo: PHOTO: Rescue workers dig through rubble after a massive torado strikes near Oklahoma City, OK.
  26. JUST IN: Keyboardist Ray Manzarek, a founding member of The Doors, has died at 74, his business manager confirms to CBS News
  27. "There is massive devastation that has occurred over the last hour"
    Photo: "There is massive devastation that has occurred over the last hour"
  28. WATCH: Ongoing live KWTV coverage of devastating tornado near Oklahoma City, OK (via @NEWS9) http://cbsn.ws/live #OKC
  29. LIVE NOW: A @CBSNews Special Report, devastating tornado outbreak in Oklahoma. WATCH: http://cbsn.ws/live and on @CBS stations
  30. LIVE BREAKING NEWS VIDEO: Live aerials of very large tornado passing near Oklahoma City http://cbsn.ws/WgEY1z (via @NEWS9)
  31. A tornado spawned by a powerful storm system rumbling through the Midwest has leveled homes in a trailer park nearby Oklahoma City. CBS affiliate KOTV warns Oklahoma residents to be on high alert for more twisters to come.
  32. The Associated Press doesn't question the Justice Department's right to have seized two months' worth of its phone records, the organization's president and CEO Gary Pruitt said Sunday on Face The Nation. It was the methodology - "so sweeping, so secretively, so abusively and harassingly overbroad," he said - that breached the Constitution. Additionally, it has already had a chilling effect on their sources.
  33. "Partisan fishing expeditions" - like the amplifying clamor around news that the Internal Revenue Service targeted for excessive review conservative groups applying for tax-exempt status - White House senior adviser Dan Pfeiffer said Sunday on Face The Nation, won't "distract" President Obama from doing his job. Pfieffer did admit, however, the the IRS' conduct was wrong and should be fixed.
  34. While preservationists try to save architectural treasures of the past, Tracy Smith reports for CBS Sunday Morning on one N.Y. design team using timeless materials and designs to create buildings that evoke nostalgia.
  35. In what police are describing as a crime of opportunity, a wanted man with a criminal history dating nearly 15 years entered a front door that had been left open at a New York home near Hofstra University.
    A short time later, the intruder, ...Dalton Smith, and a 21-year-old college junior, Andrea Rebello, were both dead. The two were killed early Friday by a Nassau County police officer who fired eight shots at the masked man, hitting him seven times but also accidentally hitting Rebello once in the head, Nassau County homicide squad Lt. John Azzata said Saturday.See More
  36. JUST IN: Oxbow wins the #Preakness Stakes. There will be no Triple Crown winner in 2013 http://CBSNews.com/
  37. CBS News shared a link.
    As controversies continue to fester over the IRS, Benghazi and the Justice Department's seizure of reporters' phone records, 2012 Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney condemned the government for a "breach of trust" during a nationally televised interview Friday night.
  38. CBS News shared a link.
    The parents of an American computer engineer, Shane Todd, contend he was murdered in Singapore, but authorities say it was suicide. The mystery seems to have links to the dark world of cyber-spying and could possibly involve China.
  39. CBS News shared a link.
    Rep. Andy Harris, R-Md., linked the ongoing targeting scandal at the IRS with Obamacare in the weekly Republican address on Saturday, warning that the troubled agency has too much control over the rules and regulations governing the implementation of the law.
  40. CBS News shared a link.
    In a year marked by phone record seizures, hacked Twitter accounts and CIA leaker prison terms, media organizations are scrambling to find ways to protect themselves and their sources.
  41. CBS News shared a link.
    As the Obama administration grapples with a series of recent controversies within its ranks, political observers in Washington have begun to calculate their potential political impacts.
  42. CBS News shared a link.
    Obama administration officials who were in key positions on Sept. 11, 2012, acknowledge that a range of mistakes were made the night of the attacks on the U.S. missions in Benghazi, and in messaging to Congress and the public in the aftermath.

    The officials spoke to CBS News in a series of interviews and communications under the condition of anonymity so that they could be more frank in their assessments.
  43. CBS News shared a link.
    Amid ongoing scrutiny over alleged discrimination in IRS targeting practices, acting IRS commissioner Steven Miller on Friday apologized on behalf the agency for "the mistakes that we made and the poor service we provided," but he said he did not think partisanship drove the practices now under investigation.

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