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Associated Press Zubeidat Tsarnaeva (left), mother of the two Boston bombing suspects, speaks Thursday at a news conference in Makhachkala in the southern Russian province of Dagestan. Two government officials tell reporters that U.S. intelligence agencies added her to a federal terrorism database about 18 months ago.
Suspects’ mom in terror database
WASHINGTON — U.S. intelligence agencies added the mother of the Boston bombing suspects to a government terrorism database 18 months before the bombings, two officials told The Associated Press. Sh...
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Boston suspect is moved; FBI searches landfill
BOSTON — Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhohkar Tsarnaev was moved from a hospital to a federal prison medical center, while FBI agents searched for evidence Friday in a landfill near the college...
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Possible 9/11 plane landing gear part found in New York
NEW YORK — A rusted 5-foot-tall piece of landing gear believed to be from one of the hijacked planes destroyed in the Sept. 11 attacks has been discovered near the World Trade Center wedged between...
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FACT CHECK: Did FAA have to furlough controllers?
WASHINGTON — With disgruntled passengers complaining about airline flight delays, Republican lawmakers and the airline industry pounced on the Obama administration. The glitch was invented by the W...
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Associated Press This 1913 Liberty Head Nickel, one of only five known to exist, was auctioned Thursday night during the Central States Numismatic Society show at the Schaumburg Convention Center in Schaumburg, Ill., for $3,172,500.
1913 nickel fetches more than $3.1 million
RICHMOND, Va. — Four Virginia siblings who never let a rare 5-cent piece slip through their fingers, even when it was declared a fake, have been rewarded for their devotion to a humble family heirl...
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Obama backs Planned Parenthood in political fight
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama vowed Friday to join Planned Parenthood in fighting against what he said are efforts by states to turn women’s health back to the 1950s, before the Supreme Court...
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Flight delays sway Congress
WASHINGTON — Furloughed air traffic controllers will soon be heading back to work, ending a week of coast-to-coast flight delays that left thousands of travelers frustrated and furious. Unable t...
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Legal issues surround suspect’s questioning
WASHINGTON — The hospital-room questioning of the surviving suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings is generating concern about whether he should have been interrogated without first being told of ...
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Associated Press Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel speaks at the Pentagon on March 28. Hagel said Thursday that U.S. intelligence has concluded "with some degree of varying confidence," that the Syrian government has used sarin gas as a weapon in its 2-year-old civil war.
Crossing a ‘red line’? US says Syria used poison
WASHINGTON — The White House declared Thursday that U.S. intelligence indicates Syrian President Bashar Assad has twice used deadly chemical weapons in his country’s fierce civil war, a provocative...
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Associated Press Two protesters, wearing costumes near the George W. Bush Presidential Center, are asked by Dallas police to remain on the sidewalk as the center is dedicated Thursday. The two protesters were arrested.
Politics goes quiet at dedication for the Bush Presidential Center
DALLAS — George W. Bush shed a sentimental tear. Barack Obama mused about the burdens of the office. Bill Clinton dished out wisecracks. Jimmy Carter and George H.W. Bush chimed in, too, on a rare ...
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