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In a historic shift to its membership policy, Boy Scouts of America's 1,400 voting members decided Thursday to remove a ban on gay Scouts. More than 60 percent of the delegates at the organization's national council meeting in Grapevine, Texas, supported a ...

Fox News
MOUNT VERNON, Wash. – An Interstate 5 bridge over a river collapsed north of Seattle Thursday evening, dumping two vehicles into the water and sparking a rescue effort by boats and divers as three injured people were pulled from the chilly waterway.

CNN International
(CNN) -- A British Airways plane made an emergency landing at London's Heathrow Airport Friday morning after developing a technical fault, the airline said. Both the airport's runways were closed for a period but the southern runway has now reopened.

Reuters
Fri May 24, 2013 2:53am EDT. (Reuters) - A magnitude 5.7 earthquake struck Northern California on Thursday, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The epicenter of the quake was 6 miles northwest of the town of Greenville, and near the smaller ...

Washington Post
PHOENIX — As jurors in Jodi Arias' murder trial filed one by one from the courtroom after a dramatic five months of gut-wrenching testimony and gruesome photographs, three women on the panel cried and one looked to the victim's family, mouthing the word, ...

ABC News
President Barack Obama's speech on the use of drones to kill Islamic militants was well-received in two countries most affected by the strikes — Pakistan and Yemen — but criticism of the U.S. policy remains strong. Obama cast the drone program as crucial to ...

BBC News
This morning, the government has been defending security services against criticism that they missed signs which might have helped prevent the murder of Drummer Rigby - a father-of-one, from Manchester, who had fought in Afghanistan with the 2nd ...

The Daily Advertiser
The National Hurricane Center started using women's names for Atlantic storms in 1953; men's names were added in 1979. The lists are now maintained by the World Meteorological Organization. ARE NAMES REUSED? • Yes, there are six lists for the ...

Voice of America
A senior North Korean military official sent to China as a special envoy has met with a top Chinese official, at a time of strained relations between the two traditional allies. Choe Ryong Hae, director of the General Political Bureau of the North Korean army, ...

Bloomberg
Twitter Inc. is adding a new security tool to its website, making it harder for outsiders to gain access to accounts, a month after a false posting triggered a stock-market decline. The two-step authentication measure, available as an option starting today, requires ...