IT-Code-News: IT News Head Lines (Yahoo News) 6/4/2013

Drought-fueled fires rage in N.M., Calif.

A firefighter monitors flames from a wildfire near Lake Hughes, California

Winds and adverse conditions hampered firefighting, authorities said.

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Fire kills 55 at poultry plant in northeast China

In this photo released by China's Xinhua News Agency, smoke rises from a poultry farm at the Jilin Baoyuanfeng Poultry Company in Mishazi township of Dehui City, northeast China's Jilin Province Monday, June 3, 2013. At least 43 people were killed on Monday morning in the poultry processing plant fire. Reports say 43 people have died in the fire which broke out Monday morning. (AP Photo/Xinhua, Wang Haofei) NO SALES

BEIJING (AP) — A large fire broke out at a poultry farm and processing plant in northeastern China early Monday, charring much of the facility, trapping workers inside large concrete buildings and killing at least 55 people, reports and officials said.

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House panel: Report finds $50M for IRS conferences

FILE – In this Nov. 9, 2011, file photo then-Controller Danny Werfel of OMB Office of Federal Financial Management watches as President Barack Obama (not shown) signs an Executive Order to cut waste and promote efficient spending across the federal government in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington. Friday May 31st, 2013, Werfel, the new acting Commissioner of the IRS, issued a statement commenting on a report by Treasury Department's Inspector General in which he criticized a $4 million IRS conference in August 2010 in Anaheim, Calif. The report will be released Tuesday. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File)

The report comes as the agency faces bipartisan criticism.

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Damaging storms move through East, South

Under a threatening sky, New York Yankees starting pitcher Hiroki Kuroda (18) heads to the bullpen for warmup before a baseball game against the Boston Red Sox at Yankee Stadium in New York, Sunday, June 2, 2013. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens)

The East Coast endures remnants of deadly weather that hit Oklahoma.

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Turkey's Erdogan rejects 'dictator' claims

A protester stands atop of a destroyed car during a rally at the Taskim square in Istanbul early Sunday, June 2, 2013. Public anger has flared among urban and secular Turks after police violently broke up an anti-development sit-in in the landmark Taksim Square, with protests spreading to dozens of other cities as demonstrators denounced what they see as Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan's increasingly authoritarian style. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis)

Turkey's prime minister dismissed protesters as extremists.

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3 veteran storm chasers killed by Okla. tornado

This undated photo provided by The Discovery Channel shows Carl Young, left, and Tim Samaras watching the sky. Jim Samaras said Sunday, June 2, 2013, that his brother storm chaser Tim Samaras was killed along with Tim’s son, Paul Samaras, and another chaser, Carl Young, on Friday, May 31, 2013 in Oklahoma City. The National Weather Service’s Storm Prediction Center in Norman, Okla., said the men were involved in tornado research.( AP Photo/Discovery Channel) MANDATORY CREDIT

Tim Samaras, his son Paul and colleague Carl Young died in Friday storms.

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Palestinian president appoints new prime minister

Breaking News Headlines: Rami Hamdallah Appointed Prime Minister Of Palestine By President Mahmoud Abbas

Mahmoud Abbas appointed Rami Hamdallah, a little-known academic.

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Search on for teen swept over Yosemite waterfall
Yosemite National Park rangers are searching for a 19-year-old Sacramento man

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Lawmakers seek better cooperation from Russia after Boston bombs

Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, foreground, who is leading a U.S. Congressional delegation to the Russian Federation, U.S. actor Steven Seagal, right, and Rep. Steve King, left, speak to the media after a news conference in U.S. Embassy in Moscow, Russia, Sunday, June 2, 2013. A U.S. Congressional delegation to Russia learned little about what could have been done to prevent the Boston Marathon bombings, but got to hang out with Steven Seagal. Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, a California Republican who led the six-person delegation this week, said at a press conference Sunday that there was “nothing specific” that could have helped April’s bombings, but that the U.S. and Russia needed to work more closely on joint security threats.(AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)

U.S. lawmakers on a mission to Russia said on Sunday they had found no evidence that an American intelligence error enabled the Boston bombings, but that closer cooperation between Washington and Moscow might have helped to thwart the attack. U.S. investigators suspect two brothers who emigrated from Russia, one since shot dead by police, staged the attack at the Boston Marathon on April 15 that killed three people and wounded 264 others. ...

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GOP lawmaker: IRS targeting likely led by Washington

U.S. Representative Issa walks from a Republican caucus meeting on Capitol Hill in Washington

The claim was quickly rejected by a top congressional Democrat.

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Cloning contest seeks worthiest U.K. dog

Puppy lovers in the United Kingdom may soon get a chance to extend their dogs' years.

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At Princeton, Bernanke offers no hint of Fed moves

Ben S. Bernanke, Chairman of the Federal Reserve leads the processional out of Princeton University Chapel after giving the Baccalaureate address during an interfaith service in Princeton, N.J. Sunday, June 2, 2013. At left is outgoing Princeton President Dr. Shirley Tilghman, (AP Photo/Rich Schultz)

He quoted everyone from Lily Tomlin to Forrest Gump but scarcely mentioned economics.

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Hezbollah, Syrian rebels in worst clash in Lebanon

This citizen journalism image provided by Qusair Lens which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, shows Fadi Kerkoz mourning next to a body of his brother Shadi Kerkoz, who was killed in a battle against Syrian forces loyal to Syrian President Bashar Assad, in the town of Qusair, near the Lebanon border, Homs province, Syria, Sunday, June 2, 2013. Syrian rebels fought with gunmen from the Hezbollah militia in a deadly clash on Lebanese soil, a security official and local media said Sunday, in the latest sign Syria's civil war is spilling over the country's borders. (AP Photo/Qusair Lens)

Syrian rebels and Hezbollah guerrillas battled Sunday in their worst clashes yet inside Lebanon, a new sign that the civil war in Syria is increasingly destabilizing its fragile neighbor.

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Llama busts loose in Fla., subdued with taser

This June 1, 2013, photo provided by the Leon County Sheriff's Office, shows Leon County officials working to corner Scooter, a 7-year-old llama that was on the loose in north Florida, in Tallahassee, Fla. Scooter had to be subdued with a Taser, authorities said Sunday. (AP Photo/Leon County Sheriff's Office)

When Scooter the llama busted out of his penned-in yard in Tallahassee, it took three county sheriff's deputies and a taser gun to get him back in again.

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Blow to Egyptian regime: Court rules legislature illegally elected

FILE - In this file photo taken on Tuesday, April 23, 2013, Egyptian Shura Council members meet to discuss the government's 2013-2014 budget at the Shura Council, Parliament's upper house. When voters went to the polls more than a year ago to vote for Egypt's upper house of parliament, most presumed the legislature would be the powerless talk shop that it had been for 30 years. Few candidates were known outside their families, parties or neighborhoods. Only seven percent of the electorate bothered to cast a ballot. Thanks to the twists and turns of the rocky transition that followed Egypt's 2011 uprising, the Shura Council finds itself the sole law-making body in the land. This accidental legislature is now back in the spotlight ahead of an expected court ruling on its disputed legal status _ a move that could see it dissolved. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil, File)

Egypt's highest court ruled on Sunday that the nation's Islamist-dominated legislature and constitutional panel were illegally elected, dealing a serious blow to the legal basis of the Islamists' hold on power.

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Schumer: Immigration bill to pass Senate by July 4

FILE – In this May 9, 2013, file photo Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., left, confers with Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., as the Senate Judiciary Committee meets on immigration reform on Capitol Hill in Washington. On a Sunday morning talk show June 2, 2013, Schumer predicted that comprehensive immigration reform would overwhelmingly pass the Senate by July 4. He said he anticipates as many as 70 of the 100 senators will vote for the measure heading to the full Senate on June 10.

A lawmaker who helped negotiate a bipartisan bill to overhaul immigration predicted on Sunday that comprehensive legislation would overwhelmingly pass the Senate by July 4 while House Republicans cautioned that they would write their own version, one piece at a time.

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Long-awaited Bulger murder trial set to begin in Mass.
BOSTON (AP) — James "Whitey" Bulger is no longer the feared man who swaggered around South Boston and later became one of the nation's most-wanted fugitives.

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