We speak with the pastor of St. Andrew’s United Methodist Church in Oklahoma City, which served as a shelter during the tornado. A member of the church and her baby were killed in the storm.
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Kelly Frey, the editor of Oklahoma’s big daily newspaper The Oklahoman, is from El Reno, Okla. and describes what it’s like to grow up in “tornado alley.”
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The San Francisco-based company Gild is using complex algorithms to discover talented programmers that tech companies might want to hire. Can it be adapted for other industries?
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Are home-based shelters really enough to hold back an F5 category tornado, which can have winds upwards of 300 miles per hour? And what about people who don’t have home-based shelters?
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Apple’s CEO Tim Cook is disputing assertions by a Senate panel that the company avoids billions of dollars in U.S. taxes by shifting profits to foreign affiliates.
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The state medical examiner’s office has revised the death toll from a tornado in an Oklahoma City suburb to 24 people, including nine children. Those numbers are expected to climb.
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The outbreak of deadly tornadoes that struck the nation’s midsection over the weekend is expected to continue today. Oklahoma has been the hardest hit, with two people killed.
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The law requires the IRS to determine whether a group is a social welfare organization, which is allowed some political activity, or a political group, which must disclose its donors.
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Connecticut Governor Dan Malloy is telling commuters heading into New York City to pack an overnight bag, after a train collision disrupted the country’s busiest rail corridor.
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The Black and Missing Foundation says African Americans make up about one-third of all missing people in the U.S. but they’re not represented in the media as much as pretty white females.
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If you find yourself waxing nostalgic for the kind of 1970s investigative journalism that led to the Watergate hearings, you can now relive the chills and thrills of the Washington Post investigation.
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The law requires the IRS to determine whether a group is a social welfare organization, which is allowed some political activity, or a political group, which must disclose its donors.
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A conversation Here & Now’s Alex Ashlock had with Paul Monti about his son Jared Monti, who was killed in Afghanistan, sparked a song that hit No. 1 on the country charts last month.
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