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This evidence photo released Monday, May 20, 2013, by the West Valley City Police Department shows a journal collected from Josh and Susan Powell's house. Citing a lack of leads, a police agency said Monday that it is closing the active investigation of the disappearance of Susan Powell, a Utah mother whose now-dead husband was a prime suspect. West Valley City police called the news conference to offer new details in the case that's been largely kept under wraps since Powell vanished in 2009. The announcement came after police spent two days searching in rural Oregon last week for any trace of Powell's body.  (AP Photo/West Valley City Police Department )
Utah man, brother suspects in wife's disappearanceUtah police suspect husband, brother in case of Susan Powell, mom missing nearly 3 1/2 years
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WikiLeaks hearing focuses on classified evidenceGI back at Fort Meade, Md., for WikiLeaks pretrial hearing focusing on classified evidence
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A member of a security team helps guard an area of rubble from a destroyed residential neighborhood, one day after a tornado moved through Moore, Okla., Tuesday, May 21, 2013. The huge tornado roared through the Oklahoma City suburb Monday, flattening entire neighborhoods and destroying an elementary school with a direct blow as children and teachers huddled against the winds. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)
More tornadoes from global warming? Nobody knowsScientists: Unlike hurricanes and nor'easters, tornadoes show no clear link to global warming
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FILE - This 2004 file photo released by Richard Kornberg & Associates shows Gabriel Ortega, left, and Sandra Bootz performing in "Forever Tango," in New York.  Gilberto Santa Rosa will make his Broadway debut as a guest vocalist in musical "Forever Tango," which returns to the theater Mecca in July with some covers of the Puerto Rican singer’s hits. (AP Photo/Richard Kornberg and Associates)
Gilberto Santa Rosa leads 'Forever Tango' to B'waySalsa star Gilberto Santa Rosa to lead a revival of 'Forever Tango' to Broadway this summer
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The mother of Hezbollah fighter Hassan Faisal Shuker, 18, right, who was killed in battle against Syrian rebels in the Syrian town of Qusair, mourns during her son's funeral procession at his hometown of Nabi Sheet in the eastern Bekaa valley, Lebanon, Monday May 20, 2013. Fierce street fighting in Qusair, near the Lebanese border has killed dozens of elite members of Lebanon's militant Hezbollah group, activists said Monday, as Syrian government forces pushed deeper into the strategic, opposition-held town. (AP Photo)
Syrian, Hezbollah troops fight rebels in key townSyrian army, Hezbollah fighters battle rebels in town near Lebanon border 3rd straight day
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FOR STORY SLUGGED FRANCE SHRINKING ECONOMY - FILE - In this April, 10, 2013 file photo, French Minister for Industrial Recovery Arnaud Montebourg tries a Basque beret as he visits the Made In France Show in Paris.  The 50-year old lawyer Montebourg, is the man charged with reviving France's shrinking economy and attracting businesses to invest in the country, but according to some analysts he is fast gaining a reputation for doing the opposite, as public spats with international companies, and efforts to block employee layoffs are being seen as the epitome of what is wrong with the French economy.(AP Photo/Remy de la Mauviniere, File)
Does France have right plan to revive its economy?Analysts say French president's plan to boost economy, attract jobs is misguided
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President Barack Obama, accompanied by, from left, Vice President Joe Biden, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano and FEMA Deputy Administrator Richard Serino. talks about the Oklahoma tornado and severe weather, Tuesday, May 21, 2013, in the State Dining Room of the White House in Washington.  (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
Obama pledges urgent aid to Oklahoma townObama pledges urgent assistance to Oklahoma town devastated by tornado
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People under umbrellas walk by an electronic stock board of a securities firm in Tokyo, Monday, May 20, 2013. Japan's Nikkei 225 index jumped 1.4 percent to 15,352.84 as evidence of a steady economic recovery in the U.S. helped push Asian stock markets higher Monday. (AP Photo/Koji Sasahara)
Markets choppy ahead of Bernanke testimonyInvestors remain on edge ahead of Bernanke's key testimony to Congress
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Jersey shore readies for 1st post-Sandy summerBoardwalks, beaches, rides and ruins await visitors to Jersey shore in 1st post-Sandy summer
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