Stocks fall on Fed, weak Chinese manufacturing

Trader John Panin, second left, adjusts his glasses as he works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange Thursday, May 23, 2013. A global stock market slump is continuing on Wall Street as traders worry about how committed the Federal Reserve remains to keeping up its bond-buying program.…

Stocks fall on Fed, weak Chinese manufacturing

Trader Randy Biller, left, works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange Thursday, May 23, 2013. A global stock market slump is continuing on Wall Street as traders worry about how committed the Federal Reserve remains to keeping up its bond-buying program. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)

Stocks fall on Fed, weak Chinese manufacturing

Trader Gregory Rowe works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange Thursday, May 23, 2013. A global stock market slump is continuing on Wall Street as traders worry about how committed the Federal Reserve remains to keeping up its bond-buying program. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)

Stocks fall on Fed, weak Chinese manufacturing

Trader John Song works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange Thursday, May 23, 2013. A global stock market slump is continuing on Wall Street as traders worry about how committed the Federal Reserve remains to keeping up its bond-buying program. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)

Stocks fall on Fed, weak Chinese manufacturing

Stocks fell in early trading, extending a sell-off that began Wednesday afternoon, after Chinese manufacturing unexpectedly contracted and on concern that the Federal Reserve may ease back on its stimulus program.

Birth control coverage up for federal appeal

Customers are seen at a Hobby Lobby store in Denver on Wednesday, May 22, 2013. A challenge to the federal health care law faces its most prominent test yet in a full 10th Circuit hearing in Denver on Thursday. Hobby Lobby stores is challenging a federal mandate requiring it to offer employe…

Birth control coverage up for federal appeal

This undated photo provided by Hobby Lobby Stores Inc., shows its co-founders David and Barbara Green who are asking a federal appeals court in Denver on Thursday, May 23, 2013, for an exemption from part of the federal health care law that requires it to offer employees health coverage that…

Birth control coverage up for federal appeal

In the most prominent challenge of its kind, Hobby Lobby Stores Inc. is asking a federal appeals court Thursday for an exemption from part of the federal health care law that requires it to offer employees health coverage that includes access to the morning-after pill.

UK soldier slaying suspects had been investigated

Police officers lay down floral tributes handed to them by members of the public at the scene of a terror attack in Woolwich, southeast London, Thursday, May 23, 2013. The British government’s emergency committee met Thursday after two attackers killed a man in a daylight attack in London th…

UK soldier slaying suspects had been investigated

An armed soldier stands guard at the gate of the Royal Artillery Barracks near the scene of a terror attack in Woolwich, southeast London, Thursday, May 23, 2013. Police remained at the scene throughout the night after a brutal attack in a London street Wednesday, which left one member of th…

UK soldier slaying suspects had been investigated

A police officer holds a floral tribute handed to him by a member of the public to be placed at the scene of a terror attack in Woolwich, southeast London, Thursday, May 23, 2013. The British government’s emergency committee met Thursday after two attackers killed a man in a daylight attack …

UK soldier slaying suspects had been investigated

Two men accused of butchering a British soldier had been investigated previously by security services, a British official said Thursday, as investigators searched several locations and tried to determine whether the men were part of a wider plot to instill terror on the streets of London.

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Thunderstorms slow Oklahoma tornado cleanup

This undated handout photo provided by Brandie Candelaria shows Antonia Candelaria. Candelaria was killed when a tornado struck Plaza Towers Elementary School in Moore, Texas on Monday, May 20, 2013. (AP Photo/Courtesy of Brandie Candelaria)

Thunderstorms slow Oklahoma tornado cleanup

Brittany Brown rushes to get aid after finding her grandmother's cat "Kitty" which was buried in tornado rubble for two days at the grandmother's destroyed home Wednesday, May 22, 2013, in Moore, Okla. Cleanup continues two days after a huge tornado roared through the Oklahoma City suburb, f…

Thunderstorms slow Oklahoma tornado cleanup

Jesse Edgar takes a break in the shade while helping salvage items at a friend's home Wednesday, May 22, 2013, in Moore, Okla. Cleanup continues two days after a huge tornado roared through the Oklahoma City suburb, flattening a wide swath of homes and businesses. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)

Thunderstorms slow Oklahoma tornado cleanup

An unidentified man tosses a board as residents sort through their tornado-ravaged homes Wednesday, May 22, 2013, in Moore, Okla. Cleanup continues two days after a huge tornado roared through the Oklahoma City suburb, flattening a wide swath of homes and businesses. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)

Thunderstorms slow Oklahoma tornado cleanup

An unidentified man tosses debris as residents sort through their tornado-ravaged homes Wednesday, May 22, 2013, in Moore, Okla. Cleanup continues two days after a huge tornado roared through the Oklahoma City suburb, flattening a wide swath of homes and businesses. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)

Thunderstorms slow Oklahoma tornado cleanup

Cody Cannon looks at tornado destruction in his neighborhood from the second floor of his parent's home that once was his bedroom Wednesday, May 22, 2013, in Moore, Okla. Cleanup continues two days after a huge tornado roared through the Oklahoma City suburb, flattening a wide swath of homes…

Thunderstorms slow Oklahoma tornado cleanup

A band of thunderstorms battered the Oklahoma City area Thursday, slowing cleanup operations in the suburb where a tornado killed 24 people and destroyed thousands of homes this week.