AP 2011-04-22

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1. Stocks plunged¹ as Standard & Poor's Rating Service lowered the long term outlook on US debt to negative from stable. S&P says it has little confidence that Washington will produce a deficit² reduction plan before the 2012 elections.

2. North Carolina governor Beverly Perdue is meeting with families who were most devastated³ by a series of tornadoes⁴. Severe weather skipped across a half dozen states over the past few days, leaving as many as 44 people dead and destroying several neighborhoods.

3. A 16-year-old Florida boy has been arrested in connection with the weekend murders of two British tourists. Police are now trying to figure out why the victims voluntarily went to a notorious public housing complex before they were fatally shot.

4. The White House has released the 2010 tax returns of President Barack Obama and his wife Michelle. The Obamas reported an income of 1.7 million dollars last year and paid nearly $454,000 in federal taxes.