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Tuesday, May 21, 2013
St. Andrews United Methodist Church in Oklahoma City. (Google Plus)

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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Tuesday, May 21, 2013
Two men go through the damage surrounding the Moore Medical Center and damaged vehicals after a tornado moves through Moore, Okla. on Monday, May 20, 2013. (Alonzo Adams/AP)

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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Tuesday, May 21, 2013
"Programming party." (racheocity/Flickr)

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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Tuesday, May 21, 2013
Adam Scudder, Trisha Milittle, Tamra Jones and Bridget Kline, from left, take shelter at Pelican's Restaurant in northern Oklahoma City as a tornado passes nearby Friday night, May 9, 2003. (Andrew Laker/AP)

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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Tuesday, May 21, 2013
Apple CEO Tim Cook arrives on Capitol Hill, in Washington, Tuesday, May 21, 2013, to testify before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Permanent subcommittee on Investigations. (J. Scott Applewhite/AP)

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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Tuesday, May 21, 2013
A woman carries a child through a field near the collapsed Plaza Towers Elementary School in Moore, Okla., Monday, May 20, 2013. (Sue Ogrocki/AP)

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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Monday, May 20, 2013
Residents of Edmond, Okla., survey storm damage from a tornado that hit their neighborhood Sunday, May 19, 2013. (Sean Murphy/AP)

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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Monday, May 20, 2013
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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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Monday, May 20, 2013
Metro North employees, in orange vests, help transfer westbound commuters at the transportation center in Bridgeport, Ct., to buses Monday, May 20, 2012, after a train collision on Friday injured 72 people and disrupted rail service into New York City. (Mark Lennihan/AP)

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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Friday, May 17, 2013
Evelyn Shelton has been missing since May 2011. (Courtesy Shelton family)

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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Monday, May 20, 2013
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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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Monday, May 20, 2013
(Dennis Brack/Landov)

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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Friday, May 17, 2013
Paul Monti next to the truck of his son, Jared Monti. Jared Monti died while serving in Afghanistan in 2006. (Anna Miller/Here & Now)

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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