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New York Post:
Authorities ID person of interest as Saudi national in marathon bombings, under guard at Boston hospital — Investigators have a suspect — a Saudi Arabian national — in the horrific Boston Marathon bombings, The Post has learned. — Law enforcement sources said the 20-year-old suspect …
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Mark Arsenault / Boston Globe:
Three killed, more than 100 injured in marathon blast — Area is locked down as FBI leads investigation — Two bomb blasts, 12 seconds apart, rocked the finish line of the 117th running of the Boston Marathon on Monday, killing at least three people, including an 8-year-old Dorchester boy …
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Larry Celona / New York Post:
FBI grills Saudi man in Boston bombings — ‘Smells of gunpowder’ — An FBI investigator examines a bag inside an apartment in Revere, in a building on the street where a man being questioned in the bomb attack lives. — Police took a 20-year-old Saudi national into custody near the scene …
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John Miller / CBS News:
Authorities question Saudi national in Boston attack — (CBS News) Following the twin blasts at the Boston Marathon that has claimed two lives and dozens injured, a Saudi national is being held in custody in relation to the incident who was near the scene of the blast, CBS News correspondent John Miller reported.
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CBS News:
Boston Marathon bombings: Suburban apartment searched — Law enforcement officers investigating the Boston marathon bombings searched an apartment in the Boston suburb of Revere, Mass. late Monday into early Tuesday, CBS Boston station WBZ-TV reports.. — Massachusetts State Police confirm …
Daily Mail:
Pictured: Boy, 8, who was waiting to give his runner father a hug at finish line is named as one of three Boston Marathon bombing victims along with woman in her twenties while 152 are injured and 17 left in critical condition — Martin Richard, 8, and woman in 20s among three confirmed dead …
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Miketoole / CBS Boston:
Boston Marathon Bombings: Investigators Make Plea For Photos, Video — BOSTON (CBS) - Federal and local investigators are asking the public to come forward with information, photos, or video to help them track down who's responsible for the deadly explosions at the Boston Marathon finish line.
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Nancy Chen / WHDH-TV:
8-year-old boy killed in blast, mother and sister injured — DORCHESTER, Mass. (WHDH) — An 8-year-old boy from Dorchester was killed in the blast at the Boston Marathon. His mother and sister were also critically injured. — The family is very active in their community.
CNN:
Tagg Romney: They messed with the wrong people — (CNN) - The perpetrator of Monday's terror bombing at the finish line of the Boston Marathon “messed with the wrong people,” Tagg Romney asserted in an interview Tuesday. — “It's such a cowardly act, whoever did this,” said Romney …
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Leah Barkoukis / Townhall.com:
FBI Press Conference: “This Will be a Worldwide Investigation”
FBI Press Conference: “This Will be a Worldwide Investigation”
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Jim Hoft / The Gateway Pundit:
PHOTOS of SAUDI NATIONAL Person of Interest in Boston Custody
PHOTOS of SAUDI NATIONAL Person of Interest in Boston Custody
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John Hinderaker / Power Line:
One Word on the Boston Massacre
David Hench / Portland Press-Herald:
‘It was all innocent people, just defenseless’
‘It was all innocent people, just defenseless’
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Alan Cowell / New York Times:
Officials Urge Tight Security for London Marathon After Boston Bombs
Officials Urge Tight Security for London Marathon After Boston Bombs
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Alyssa Newcomb / ABCNEWS:
8-Year-Old Died at Boston Marathon Waiting to Greet Father
8-Year-Old Died at Boston Marathon Waiting to Greet Father
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Algemeiner.com:
Boston Marathon Blasts: Doctor Credits Israelis With Helping Set Up Disaster Team (VIDEO)
Boston Marathon Blasts: Doctor Credits Israelis With Helping Set Up Disaster Team (VIDEO)
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Jimmy Golen / Associated Press:
MASS. GOV: NO UNEXPLODED BOMBS AT BOSTON MARATHON
MASS. GOV: NO UNEXPLODED BOMBS AT BOSTON MARATHON
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Patricia Wen / The Boston Globe:
Brothers watching Boston Marathon each lose a leg
Brothers watching Boston Marathon each lose a leg
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Daily Mail:
Boston Marathon bomber planted SEVEN devices but only two went off: One ‘suspect’ …
Boston Marathon bomber planted SEVEN devices but only two went off: One ‘suspect’ …
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New York Times:
Many Injured in Blasts Near End of Boston Marathon
Many Injured in Blasts Near End of Boston Marathon
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Josh Gerstein / Politico:
What Obama's learned about talking about terror — When bombs went off at the finish line of the Boston Marathon Monday afternoon, President Barack Obama was quick to speak out — but extremely cautious about what he said. — Obama's decision to step before cameras despite sketchy information …
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Bruce Schneier / The Atlantic Online:
The Boston Marathon Bombing: Keep Calm and Carry On — It is easy to feel scared and powerless in the wake of attacks like those at the Boston Marathon. But it also plays into the perpetrators' hands. — As the details about the bombings in Boston unfold, it'd be easy to be scared.
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Daniel Halper / Weekly Standard:
Axelrod: Obama Thinks Boston Bombings Could Be Related to ‘Tax Day’ — In explaining why President Obama didn't call the Boston bombings a “terrorist attack,” former adviser David Axelrod said, “I'm sure what was going through the president's mind is — we really don't know who did this — it was tax day”:
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David Weigel / Slate:
Why the Conspiracy Theorists Will Have a Tough Time With Boston — Shortly before 9 p.m. I got out of a much-needed, much-delayed catch-up with a friend who shared my desire to escape — briefly — the news from Boston. It was unescapable. A bar next door had turned a flatscreen toward the street …
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Alex Seitz-Wald / Salon:
Alex Jones: Boston explosion a government conspiracy
Alex Jones: Boston explosion a government conspiracy
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Kevin Cullen / The Boston Globe:
A perfect Marathon day, then the unimaginable
A perfect Marathon day, then the unimaginable
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Politico:
Gun control bill in peril — The tough gun-control bill that President Barack Obama wants now has little, if any, chance of passing this Congress - it's struggling in the Senate and facing outright rejection in the House. — Vice President Joe Biden worked the phones Monday to try to salvage …
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Jennifer Steinhauer / New York Times:
Manchin and Toomey Consider Changes to Gun Bill
Manchin and Toomey Consider Changes to Gun Bill
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Scott Shane / New York Times:
U.S. Practiced Torture After 9/11, Nonpartisan Review Concludes — WASHINGTON — A nonpartisan, independent review of interrogation and detention programs in the years after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks concludes that “it is indisputable that the United States engaged in the practice of torture” …
Thomas Erdbrink / New York Times:
Powerful Earthquake Strikes in Iran — TEHRAN — A powerful earthquake that struck southeastern Iran was felt in several countries in Asia on Tuesday, rocking buildings in the Indian capital of New Delhi, sending panicked resident of Karachi, Pakistan, fleeing into the streets and causing tremors through Persian Gulf states.
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James Chapman / Daily Mail:
Obama's snub to Thatcher: President won't send envoy to funeral - and leaves it to her old allies from the Reagan era — President Obama made decision not to send a member of his administration before yesterday's bombings in Boston — Instead, Reagan's former Secretary of State George Shultz …
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