| Tornadoes slam Kansas, Oklahoma |
 Officials say the twisters are "violent and dangerous," but there are no immediate reports of injuries or significant damage.
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| McConnell: ‘There is a culture of intimidation throughout the administration’ |
 Republican Senators Rand Paul, Mitch McConnell and Rob Portman continued Sunday to press the Obama administration on the Internal Revenue Service scandal that's engulfed the White House.
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| Obama delivers Morehouse commencement |
 President Obama took a break from the trifecta of controversies—IRS, Benghazi, Department of Justice—swirling around the White House on Sunday to deliver the commencement at Morehouse College, the historically black, all-male institution in Atlanta.
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| Small Fla. city wonders who won $590.5 million Powerball jackpot |
 Some lucky person walked into a Publix supermarket in suburban Florida over the past few days and bought a ticket now worth an estimated $590.5 million — the highest Powerball jackpot in history.
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| Officer who shot NY student faced harrowing choice |
 The police officer who accidentally killed a Long Island college student along with an armed intruder faced perhaps the most harrowing decision in law enforcement: choosing the split-second moment when the risk is so high that you must pull the trigger.
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| Tea party looks to take advantage of moment |
 Is the tea party getting its groove back? Shouts of vindication from around the country suggest the movement's leaders certainly think so.
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| The good news – and the bad news – for Obama in scandal-tinged polls |
 Given the battering President Obama took this past week on a trio of political scandals, any public opinion survey results that aren’t dreadful probably are viewed with some relief at the White House.
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| Commuters warned of traffic mess for up to 1 week |
 Traffic in southwest Connecticut could be a mess for as much as a week until service is restored to the commuter rail line affected by a derailment that injured scores of passengers, Gov. Dannel P. Malloy warned Sunday.
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| AP CEO calls records seizure unconstitutional |
 The president and CEO of The Associated Press says the government's seizure of AP journalists' phone records was "unconstitutional" and already has had a chilling effect on newsgathering.
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| Suspect in NY bias shooting is charged with murder |
NEW YORK (AP) — The man who police say hurled homophobic slurs at a gay man on a Manhattan street before firing a single fatal shot to his head appeared in court Sunday to face a charge of murder as a hate crime. |
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| Charlotte remembers historic1963 desegregation 'eat-in' |
 In the spring of 1963, a prominent civil rights leader led dozens of protesters on a four-mile march from a predominantly African-American college campus to the center of Charlotte's downtown.
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| Official: Va. driver likely had medical condition |
 DAMASCUS, Va. (AP) — Authorities believe the driver who plowed into dozens of hikers marching in a Virginia mountain town parade suffered from a medical condition and did not cause the crash intentionally, an emergency official said Sunday.
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