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Justin Bieber's monkey to become German property Mally the Monkey was seized by German customs March 28 when Bieber failed to produce required vaccination and import papers for the animal after landing in Munich. Customs spokesman Thomas Meister said after offices opened following a holiday weekend that officials received no documents.

AP photographer describes destroyed Okla. school Associated Press Copyright 2013 Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. Updated 2:55 am, Tuesday, May 21, 2013 Mangled pieces of metal wrapped up in bare tree limbs. A woman told me it was a school and that students had hid in hallways and bathrooms as the massive tornado struck. Police and firefighters used bars to try to lift a large chunk of a wall up as they pulled children out one-by-one from underneath. Oklahoma City-based AP photographer Sue Ogrocki was at the elementary school destroyed by a tornado and saw rescuers pulling children out of the rubble.

Former IRS commissioner heads to Hill amid scandal Associated Press Copyright 2013 Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. Updated 2:56 am, Tuesday, May 21, 2013 WASHINGTON (AP) — Lawmakers are getting their first chance to question the former head of the Internal Revenue Service, the man who ran the agency when agents were improperly targeting tea party groups. On Monday, the White House revealed that chief of staff Denis McDonough and other senior presidential advisers knew in late April that an upcoming inspector general's report was likely to find that IRS employees had inappropriately targeted conservative political groups. A Treasury official also disclosed Monday that the department told the White House twice in late April about IRS plans to address the targeting publicly, including during congressional testimony and a possible speech by Lois Lerner, the head of the IRS division that oversees tax-exempt groups. [] independent status, the official said Treasury deferred to the IRS in its decision about how to make the targeting public. A new poll by the Pew Research Center says 42 percent of adults think the Obama administration was involved in targeting conservative groups. IRS officials have said the agency was facing a large increase in the number of applications for tax-exempt status, so agents adopted inappropriate shortcuts to identify groups that may be involved in political activity. "Targeting applicants for tax-exempt status using political labels threatens to undermine the public's trust in the IRS," Baucus and Hatch wrote. The agency's inspector general says he told Shulman on May 30, 2012, that his office was auditing the way applications for tax-exempt status were being handled, in part because of complaints from conservative groups.

2 downtown museums lowering rates for LR Riverfest LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Two museums in downtown Little Rock are lowering their admission rates during this year's Riverfest. The Clinton Presidential Center and the Museum of Discovery are offering $5 admission during operating hours for the festival over the Memorial Day weekend. The Clinton Center is to be open Friday through May 27, which is Memorial Day. The Discovery Museum is to be closed Friday but it is planning special programs while it is open the rest of the holiday weekend. Riverfest draws about 250,000 people to downtown Little Rock each year.

Justin Bieber's pet monkey is set to become the property of Germany.