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At least 800,000 people across the United States live near hundreds
of sites that store large amounts of potentially explosive ammonium
nitrate, which investigators are blaming as the source of last month’s
deadly blast at a fertilizer plant in West, Texas, a Reuters analysis
shows.

Will gamers want One? After four years of development, Microsoft unveiled the Xbox One
entertainment console and touted it as an all-in-one solution for
playing games, watching TV and doing everything in between. Microsoft
wants the Xbox One to be central to your living room and packed the new
Xbox with such features as the ability to change TV channels through
voice commands.

A judge has ruled that a New Yorker who rented his apartment on a popular traveler site broke the law.

The cost of a massive tornado that battered an Oklahoma City suburb
could be more than $2 billion, according to a preliminary official
estimate announced Wednesday. State authorities meanwhile said two
infants were among the 24 people who perished in the twister.

Four years after he predicted a minimum of 10-15 kosher meat
producing companies would be carrying its label by the end of 2010, the
director of Magen Tzedek, Rabbi Morris Allen, says he has “learned” not
to make such “bold” predictions.

Based on a survey of Boro Park and Midwood which revealed that
hundreds of new parking spots will become available once the city
removes its old outdated coin-operated meters, the DOT has agreed to
remove the old meters as soon as possible.

Wind, humidity and rainfall combined precisely to create the massive
killer tornado in Moore, Okla. And when they did, the awesome amount of
energy released over that city dwarfed the power of the atomic bomb that
leveled Hiroshima.

Israel’s military chief has issued a stern warning to Syrian leader
Bashar Assad after an Israeli military jeep came under fire from Syrian
forces early Tuesday.
The Oklahoma
Medical Examiner’s Office says 51 people among them kids have been
killed by a tornado that hit suburban Oklahoma City on Monday afternoon.
Spokeswoman Amy Elliott says the death toll is expected to rise.
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The two FBI agents who died while training off the Virginia Beach
coast were part of the agency’s elite hostage rescue team, a group known
most recently for rescuing an Alabama boy from an underground bunker.

Officials at two hospitals say they’re treating nearly 60 patients,
including more than a dozen children, after a massive tornado hit
suburban Oklahoma City.

Several children have been pulled out of the rubble alive at a school in an Oklahoma City suburb.

Two New Jersey men accused in a series of firebomb attacks on
synagogues across northern New Jersey have pleaded not guilty to
the charges.
 Four
people have been killed in a robbery at a branch of Bank Hapoalim today
in Beersheva One of the robbers locked himself inside the branch with
hostages and then shot himself dead.

The Supreme Court said Monday it will hear a new case on the
intersection of religion and government in a dispute over prayers used
to open public meetings.

The State Department has appointed a special envoy to monitor and
combat anti-Semitism as a new report documents a global increase in
incidents of anti-Semitism and Holocaust denial.

The U.S. Embassy in the Bahamas is warning about the threat of armed
robbery in the capital of the island chain off Florida’s east coast.

The Israel Antiquities Authority says that the discovery of a 2,800
year old pillar dating back to the First Temple-era must be handled
“delicately” and “sensitively” since it sits under a Palestinian
orchard.

The U.S. Embassy employee accused of spying in Moscow flew out of
Russia on Sunday, five days after he was ordered to leave the country,
NTV television reported.

Yahoo Inc’s board has approved a deal to buy blogging and social
networking site Tumblr for $1.1 billion in cash, the Wall Street Journal
cited people familiar with the matter as saying on Sunday.

The commuter train derailment and collision that left dozens injured
outside New York City was not the result of foul play, officials said
Saturday, but a fractured section of rail is being studied to determine
if it is connected to the accident.
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Lottery officials say the winning numbers in a near-historic Powerball jackpot have been drawn.

The International Criminal Court’s prosecutor said she would open a
preliminary examination into the events surrounding the 2010 Israel Navy
raid on a Turkish-flagged aid flotilla to the Gaza Strip.

A court in Jerusalem released on bail conditions, seven adults and
one youth after they were arrested following the large haredi protest on
Thursday against the government’s intention to draft haredi men into
the army.

Israeli police have temporarily barred Israeli Jews and tourists from
entering a sensitive holy site in Jerusalem after Palestinian
demonstrations.
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