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Spring storm brings ice and snow, sure, but why tornadoes?

A record-setting spring storm has killed three people, downed power lines, snapped large trees, and closed roads, schools, and businesses across the Midwest and Southeast.

USA Update Tornadoes, ice, and snow knock out power across the Midwest (+video)

New cybersecurity bill: Privacy threat or crucial band-aid?

Bipartisan deal on background checks: Biggest gun control win yet?

Deals that changed history

Tax reform: Why a kinder, simpler tax code eludes Congress, so far

Election results: Gun control advocate wins Jesse Jackson Jr.'s seat

Entitlement reform takes step toward reality in new Obama budget

Good news for Chicago Democrats? Robin Kelly is not Jesse Jackson Jr.

Opinion Equal Pay Day: Raising minimum wage will help women – and the economy

CSI: Ancient Egypt? Investigating the 'Gospel of Judas'

Immigration reform: What the last 'path to citizenship' did for immigrants

Kerry mourns young US diplomat killed in Afghanistan

Robert Remini dies, leaves legacy as Andrew Jackson scholar

Tax VOX Stockton to enter bankruptcy. What happens next?

Opinion Liberal hypocrisy on Bloomberg's moneyed fight for gun control

For Keystone XL foes, oozing Canadian crude in Arkansas spill is black gold (+video)

Connecticut responds to Newtown with groundbreaking gun control laws

Business, labor reach immigration deal on guest workers. Will it stand?

Zombie foreclosures: 300,000 'undead' properties stalk ex-owners

Obama's $2 billion plan to wean US off foreign oil (+video)

600-year-old coin found in Kenya

Sinkhole swallows golfer: Friends come to the rescue

Washington sinkhole: What's with all the sinkholes anyway?

The Monitor's View Illinois and Greece as penitent cookers of books