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SAN MARCOS, Texas (AP) — Record rainfall inundated a swath of the U.S. Midwest today, forcing at least 2,000 people to flee. Tornados struck, severely damaging an apartment complex in Houston, Texas. A firefighter in Oklahoma was swept to his death while trying to rescue 10 people in high water.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The roar of motorcycle engines filled the air in the nation's capital today. Thousands of bikers saluted military veterans with the Rolling Thunder "Ride for Freedom." Bikers and spectators thronged to the Washington, D.C., area as they do each Memorial Day weekend for the annual ride.
WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Polish President Bronislaw Komorowski has conceded defeat in his country's presidential election. An exit poll showed him trailing Andrzej Duda, a previously little-known right-wing politician. Final, official results are expected to be released tomorrow.
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Actress and comedian Anne Meara, whose comic work with husband Jerry Stiller helped launch a 60-year career in film and TV, has died. She was 85. Jerry Stiller and son Ben Stiller say Meara died Saturday.
TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — John Nash Jr., the mathematical genius whose struggle with schizophrenia was portrayed in the 2001 movie "A Beautiful Mind," has died along with his wife in a car crash on the New Jersey Turnpike. He was 86; she was 82.
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