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EXCLUSIVE PHOTOS: Boston Marathon bomb — The bomb that exploded at the finish line of Monday's Boston Marathon sent shock waves across the country. Crime scene photos obtained exclusively by FOX 5 Atlanta are the first look at what is left of the first deadly device.
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Let's hope the Boston Marathon bomber is a white American — There is a double standard: White terrorists are dealt with as lone wolves, Islamists are existential threats — As we now move into the official Political Aftermath period of the Boston bombing — the period that will determine …
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Second Boston Marathon victim identified: Krystle Campbell — A second victim in the Boston Marathon bombings has been identified: Krystle M. Campbell, a 29-year-old originally from Medford, Mass. — Her father, William A. Campbell Jr., told Yahoo News he's in shock that his daughter was killed.


China Mourns the Death of a Student in Boston Blast — HONG KONG - Mourning for a Chinese student who was the third victim killed in the Boston Marathon bombing rippled across her home country on Wednesday, when Internet sites and news reports described and celebrated a young woman whose ambitions …
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Jack Kingston urged Guard ‘take a pass’ on Boston Marathon
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How long until we know? — It's been more than 24 hours since the explosions in Boston.
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Why Boston Bombings Might Be Scarier Than 9/11
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Militia Groups Denounce Boston Marathon Attack
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Marathon bombs likely made from pressure cookers, shrapnel, sources say
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Al Qaeda's Recipe for Pressure-Cooker Bombs
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PRESSURE COOKERS HELP MAKE GOOD BOMBS _ AND CLUES
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Jihadists Hope Boston Bombings are Acts of Jihadi Terrorism
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FBI to take lead in probe
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Boston Marathon bombs: al-Qaeda's Inspire magazine taught pressure cooker bomb-making techniques
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Researchers Finally Replicated Reinhart-Rogoff, and There Are Serious Problems. — In 2010, economists Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff released a paper, “Growth in a Time of Debt.” Their “main result is that...median growth rates for countries with public debt over 90 percent of GDP …
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Reinhart-Rogoff, Continued — I was going to post something sort of kind of defending Reinhart-Rogoff in the wake of the new revelations — not their results, which I never believed, nor their failure to carefully test their results for robustness, but rather their motives.
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How influential was the Rogoff-Reinhart study warning that high debt kills growth?
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Brad DeLong


EXCLUSIVE: New pics from moments before, after blasts — BOSTON (WHDH) — Photos sent to 7News by a viewer show the scene just before and right after the bombs went off on Boylston Street. — 7News has provided these pictures to the FBI as they continue their investigation.
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IS THIS THE BOMBER? Man With Black Backpack Before Bombing - Then Without Backpack Moments Before Blast — These photos from yesterday's marathon were forwarded to me from a trusted source and came from a Japanese Flickr account. — This photo here shows the Boston crowd before the bombing... And then after the bombing.
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Doug Ross and Riehl World News

On Gun Control, the Dems Don't Have the Votes — In the wake of Newtown, the media cheered liberal politicians who thought the moment had come to cut back on the Second Amendment. Liberal reporters gave enormous publicity to Dianne Feinstein's proposals to ban “assault weapons,” …
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Letter sent to Roger Wicker tests positive for ricin — An envelope sent to the U.S. Senate office of Sen. Roger Wicker (R-Miss.) included a substance that has tested positive for Ricin, two sources say. — It was not immediately clear when the envelope was received.
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Ricin sent to U.S. senator
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Deadly poison sent to Sen. Wicker
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AP: Ex-wife says former SC Gov. Sanford trespassed — CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — A lawyer says ex-South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford trespassed at his ex-wife's home and he has been ordered to appear in court two days after his special congressional election. — Documents acquired …
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Ex-wife accuses Mark Sanford of trespassing — Jenny Sanford, the ex-wife of South Carolina congressional candidate and former Gov. Mark Sanford, has filed a lawsuit alleging that her husband trespassed at her home earlier this year, the Associated Press reported Tuesday evening.
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Mark Sanford Trespassed At Jenny Sanford's Home: Lawyer
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In Grisly Image, a Father Sees His Son — BOSTON — When Jeff Bauman woke up in a hospital bed on Tuesday, an air tube was down his throat, both of his legs had been amputated at the knee, and his father was by his side. He tried to talk, but he could not.
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Eight Potholes for ‘Gang of Eight’ Immigration Bill — The “gang of eight” senators rolling out a bipartisan immigration overhaul this week are gearing up for the battle to formally be joined at the Senate Judiciary Committee and ultimately on the floor this summer.
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Obama dismisses North Korean nuclear missile threat in interview — President Obama said in an interview that aired Tuesday he did not believe North Korea was able to marry its nuclear weapons and missile technology. — “You know, based on our current intelligence assessments …
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Texas Attorney General: Democrats Pose Greater Threat To Texas Than North Korea
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Gosnell Worker: Toilets Backed Up With Body Parts From Abortions — Former abortion clinic worker James Johnson testified today during the murder trial of Kermit Gosnell and provided jurors with a nauseating account of the horrific conditions at the abortion facility.
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Texas Soldier Arrested for ‘Rudely Displaying’ Weapon — I just got off the phone with Army Master Sergeant. C. J. Grisham, a serving American soldier and veteran of the the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, who recently was illegally disarmed by the Temple Police Department while out for a walk with his son.
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