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4798A second 'house of horrors' abortion clinic is being investigated in Texas, just days after Dr Kermit Gosnell was found guilty of murdering newborns at his Philadelphia termination center.

Dr. Douglas Karpen, seen here in court, is accused of killing babies aborted in their third trimester
Illinois has come within a signature of becoming the 19th state to allow marijuana use for medical purposes.

Pictured: Illinois state Sen. William Haine is congratulated after his bill to legalize medical marijuana passes through the Senate. (Seth Perlman / Associated Press / May 17, 2013)

Surprise Tornadoes Touch Down in Northern Alabama

A possible tornado has knocked down trees, flipped Dumpsters and damaged the roof of a nearby WalMart in a north Alabama city.
Two Metro-North Railroad trains collided after a derailment near Fairfield, Conn., at the height of the evening rush on Friday, injuring 60 people, 5 of them critically, and snarling transit corridors in the Northeast, the authorities said.

Pictured: An eastbound Metro-North train derailed on Friday, striking a westbound train near Fairfield, Conn., halting service. (Christian Abraham/The Connecticut Post, via Associated Press)
A group of Colorado county sheriffs, angry over two new state gun control laws passed in the wake of last year's mass shootings in Connecticut and Colorado, filed a federal lawsuit on Friday seeking to block the laws from going into effect.

Pictured: Man holds a gun in the exhibit hall of the George R. Brown Convention Center, the site for the NRA's annual meeting in Houston, Texas (Adrees Latif Reuters, / May 17, 2013)
A Navy SEAL died here Wednesday after the Humvee in which he was riding in overturned during a training exercise, Navy officials said Friday.

Pictured: The Chaffee Gate entrance to Fort Knox, Ky., where a Navy SEAL died Wednesday during a training exercise. (Photo: AP)
Slim majorities of Americans are very or somewhat closely following the situations involving the Internal Revenue Service (54%) and the congressional hearings on the attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya, and its aftermath (53%) -- comparatively low based on historical measures of other news stories over the last two decades.

Pictured: President Obama is tasked with quelling three scandals affecting his administration.
The immigration debate in Arizona reached a boiling point in 2007 when the state passed a groundbreaking law targeting those often blamed with fueling the nation's border woes: Employers who hire immigrants living in the U.S. illegally.

Pictured: Sheriff Joe Arpaio speaks to the media.
Chainsaws wailed Thursday in Granbury, Texas, as some residents began to clear fallen trees and whittle down the mounds of household goods strewn across the landscape, a testament to the ferocity of the previous night's tornadoes.

Pictured: Tornadoes wrecked this neighborhood in Granbury.
President Barack Obama is leaving behind scandal-focused Washington to focus on the country's slowly improving jobs picture.

Pictured: President Barack Obama speaks during a town hall meeting with Ohio students, workers, local leaders and small business owners at Ewing Field House on the campus of Lorain County Community College on Jan. 22, 2010 in Elyria, Ohio. (J.D. Pooley / Getty Images)
President Barack Obama said Thursday the nation's military leaders told him they are "ashamed" of their failure to end sexual abuse in the armed services. Obama pledged to "leave no stone unturned" in the effort to halt the abuse, which he said undermines the trust the military needs to be effective.
Federal authorities in Idaho said Thursday they have arrested an Uzbekistan national accused of conspiring with a designated terrorist organization in his home country and helping scheme to use a weapon of mass destruction.
Two brothers with a history of drug arrests and suspected ties to a neighborhood gang each face 20 counts of attempted second-degree murder in a shooting spree that brought a sudden bloody end to a neighborhood Mother's Day parade.

Pictured: Two brothers with suspected ties to a neighborhood gang each face 20 counts of attempted second-degree murder in a shooting spree that brought a sudden bloody end to a neighborhood Mother's Day parade.
Every day across America, people check into private hotels and resorts and find a Gideon Bible in the nightstand. But when Ed Buckner saw nine of them in his cabin at a Georgia state park, he became concerned and complained.
President Barack Obama, seeking to regain his footing amid controversies hammering the White House, named a temporary chief for the scandal-marred Internal Revenue Service Thursday and pressed Congress to approve new security money to prevent another Benghazi-style terrorist attack.

Pictured: President Barack Obama leans out from under an umbrella to check if it's still raining, during a joint news conference with Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Thursday, May 16, 2013, in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
As second top Internal Revenue Service official has announced plans to leave the agency amid the controversy over the targeting of tea party groups.

SOURCE: Fox News
The nation's top defense leaders were summoned to the White House Thursday to talk about the military's sexual assault crisis as the Pentagon's top general said women in uniform were losing confidence the problem will be solved.

Pictured: In this April 26, 2013, file photo, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Martin Dempsey speaks during his lecture at Joint Staff College in Tokyo. (AP Photo/Koji Sasahara, File)
The number of Americans seeking unemployment benefits rose 32,000 last week to a seasonally adjusted 360,000, the most since late March. The jump came a week after applications had reached a five-year low.

Pictured: In this photo taken Thursday, May 9, 2013, Jennifer Wilhoit of U. S. Express, left, talks with Devin Washington while others wait in line as 63 companies participate in a job fair at the Brainerd Crossroads in Chattanooga, Tenn. (AP Photo/Chattanooga Times Free Press, John Rawlston) 
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A 57-year-old woman allegedly beat another woman with a Bible.

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The White House on Wednesday released 94 pages of emails between top administration and intelligence officials who helped shape the talking points about the attacks in Benghazi, Libya, that the CIA would provide to policymakers in both the legislative and executive branches.

4798Suspected tornadoes ripped through North Texas on Wednesday night, killing at least six people and injuring more than 100 others, officials said.
President Barack Obama on Wednesday said Treasury Sec. Jacob Lew asked for and received the resignation of acting Internal Revenue Service commissioner Steven Miller. The IRS has been under fire as an inspector-general report revealed the agency improperly singled out "Tea Party" and other conservative groups for inappropriate treatment. Obama, in a televised statement, said new safeguards will have to be put in place, and there may be efforts needed to make sure laws are clear.

SOURCE: MarketWatch
The White House released more than 100 pages of e-mails on Wednesday in a bid to quell critics who say President Barack Obama and his aides played politics with national security following the deadly attack on the U.S. diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Libya.
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Tomorrow, Mat Staver, Founder and Chairman of Liberty Counsel, argues Liberty Counsel's ObamaCare case, Liberty University v. Geithner, before the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond. Liberty Counsel represents Liberty University and two private individuals in this case.

Is this unraveling of Obama's presidency a part of divine retribution for a disobedient president who pushed homosexual marriage, something that he didn't have to do?

by Joe Battenfeld

President Obama's second-term campaign slogan was "Forward," but instead we've got cover-ups, congressional investigations and the government persecution of political opponents and reporters.
Philadelphia abortion doctor Kermit Gosnell agreed today to serve two life sentences and waive his right to an appeal in order to avoid the possibility of being condemned to death.

Pictured: Dr. Kermit Gosnell is seen during an interview with the Philadelphia Daily News at his attorney's office in Philadelphia, March 8, 2010. (Yong Kim/Philadelphia Daily News/AP Photo)

Homosexual Marriage Legalized In Minnesota

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Minnesota will become the third state in the last 10 days to legalize gay marriage when Democratic Gov. Mark Dayton signs the bill passed yesterday into law tonight at a ceremony on the front steps of the Capitol in St. Paul. 

The U.S. Navy made aviation history on Tuesday by launching an unmanned jet off an aircraft carrier for the first time, taking an important step toward expanded use of drones by the American military with an eye on possible rivals like China and Iran.

Pictured: An X-47B pilot-less drone combat aircraft is prepared for launched for the first time off an aircraft carrier, the USS George H. W. Bush, in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Virginia, May 14, 2013. Credit: REUTERS/Jason Reed
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Attorney General Eric Holder said Tuesday he's opened a criminal inquiry into the Internal Revenue Service's handling of applications for tax-exempt status by Tea Party groups.

Britain's Prince Harry expressed astonishment at the damage still evident on the New Jersey shore from Hurricane Sandy on Tuesday as he toured hard-hit towns and took in the view of the historic Seaside Heights roller coaster, which was washed into the sea during the storm.

Pictured: Prince Harry with Governor of New Jersey Chris Christie meets local residents during his visit to Mantoloking, one of the areas affected by Superstorm Sandy on the fifth day of his visit to the United States on May 14, 2013 in Ocean Heights, New Jersey. // John Stillwell/Pool/Getty Images
Attorney General Eric Holder said on Tuesday that he had recused himself from the Justice Department's controversial decision to secretly seize telephone records of the Associated Press as part of a wide-ranging leak investigation.

Pictured: U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder appears on television monitors as he stands at the lectern to address a news conference. // Credit: REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst
Attorney General Eric Holder said Tuesday that he's ordered a Justice Department probe into an IRS program that singled out Tea Party and other conservative groups for additional scrutiny in their applications for tax-exempt status. 
British Prime Minister David Cameron met with Gov. Deval Patrick on Monday to offer his condolences and discuss lessons that can be learned from the deadly Boston Marathon bombing.

Pictured: Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick, left, walks with British Prime Minister David Cameron through a corridor at the Statehouse in Boston, Monday, May 13, 2013. (Elise Amendola/ Associated Press)
A Pakistani human rights activist who founded an all-girls school said the Taliban was "more afraid of the books than bombs" as he and his 15-year-old daughter, who survived an assassination attempt by the Taliban late last year, were honored Monday at the memorial for Oklahoma City bombing victims.

Pictured: Ziauddin Yousafzai, left, reacts after receiving the Reflections of Hope Award from Kari Watkins, right, executive director of the Oklahoma City National Memorial & Museum, in Oklahoma City, Monday, May 13, 2013. The 2013 Reflections of Hope Award was presented to Yousafzai and his daughter Malala Yousafzai, who was not present. Malala was shot in the head by a Taliban gunman in an assassination attempt that drew attention worldwide to the struggle for women's rights in her homeland. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki)

Was President Obama Crying Over Benghazi?

An aggravated President Obama on Monday dismissed criticism of his handling of the attacks in Benghazi, Libya, as a political "sideshow." He said a Republican charge of a coverup "defies logic."

Pictured: Obama appears to tear Monday while discussing the attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya, on Sept. 11. Republicans say the administration tried to play down an act of terror that might reflect poorly on the President before the election.
The government is running out of time to try to halt implementation of a federal judge's ruling that would lift age restrictions for women and girls wanting to buy the morning-after pill.

U.S. District Judge Edward Korman in Brooklyn last week refused to delay enforcement of his month-old decision while the government challenges his ruling, but said it would have until Monday to appeal to the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan.
The two brothers of the Cleveland man accused of holding three women captive for about a decade say they have no sympathy for him. One called him a "monster" who he hopes "rots in jail."

Pictured: Onil and Pedro Castro are interviewed on CNN
In roughly 75 hours of arguments at the Supreme Court since October, only one African-American lawyer appeared before the justices, and for just over 11 minutes.

Pictured: In this Feb. 27, 2013 file photo special counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, Debo Adegbile, speaks with the media outside the Supreme Court in Washington after presenting arguments in the Shelby County, Ala., v. Holder voting rights case.
Obama calls IRS focus on conservative groups 'outrageous,' says people 'properly concerned'

President Barack Obama on Monday called reports that the Internal Revenue Service targeted conservative groups "outrageous" and said anyone responsible should be held accountable. He pushed back strongly against fresh Republican criticism of the administration's handling of last year's deadly Benghazi attacks, calling it a political "sideshow."

Pictured: President Obama (Photo: Carolyn Kaster, AP)