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Boston Bomb Suspect's Dad Tells Him to Surrender, Warns ‘ Hell Will Break Loose’ if Son Dies — The father of suspected Boston Marathon bomber called on his son today to give up peacefully, but warned the U.S. that if his son is killed “all hell will break loose.”
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Hospital Denies Involvement In Leak Of Grisly Post-Mortem Photo Of Boston Marathon Bomb Suspect — A grisly post-mortem photo of one of the suspected Boston Marathon bombers appears to have been taken early today after medical personnel turned the body over to law enforcement officials.
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Did Boston Bombing Suspect Post Al Qaeda Prophecy on YouTube? — Authorities have identified the deceased suspect in the bombing of the Boston marathon, which killed three and injured more than 170, as Tamerlan Tsarnaev. A user by that name has posted a video to his YouTube playlist extolling …

Boston Bomber Could Have Been Deported After 2009 Arrest — Updated 4 p.m. Friday related to arrest versus conviction issue: One of the Chechen terrorists who carried out the Boston Marathon bombings could have been deported years ago after a criminal arrest and/or conviction …
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One suspect in custody, another remains on the loose — WATERTOWN — One suspect in Monday's Boston Marathon bombings has been captured, according to an official with knowledge of the investigation. Another remains on the loose in Watertown after a firefight with police.
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Boston Bombing Hero Who Identified Suspect Resorts To Online Fundraising To Pay His Medical Bills (UPDATED) — Jeff Bauman, center, promoting the Boston Marathon — In the aftermath of the Boston Marathon bombings on Monday, Jeff Bauman's image was seared into the American consciousness.
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One Boston Bombing Suspect Is Dead — By KATHARINE Q. SEELYE, RICHARD A. OPPEL Jr. and JESS BIDGOOD — BOSTON — The Boston region was in the grip of a security emergency as police pursued one of the suspects believed to be responsible for the Monday bombings at the Boston Marathon.
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One Boston Marathon suspect killed; second suspect, his brother, on loose after firefight — The two marathon bombing suspects. The man in the white hat is still believed to be at large. — With a bomb strapped to his chest, one of the Boston Marathon suspects was killed early Friday …
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Tamerlan Tsarnaev, Dead Bombing Suspect: “I Don't Have a Single American Friend” — MYSLATE — Follow all Blog articles. — Follow the Weigel blog. — Follow stories by David Weigel. — MySlate is a new tool that lets you track your favorite parts of Slate.
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FBI interviewed dead Boston bombing suspect years ago — The FBI admitted Friday they interviewed the now-deceased Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev two years ago and failed to find any incriminating information about him. — As first reported by CBS News correspondent Bob Orr …
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Friend: Suspect ‘a normal pot head’ — The younger Boston Marathon bombing suspect seemed more interested in blunts than bombs while in college in Massachusetts, his classmate told POLITICO on Friday. — “He didn't seem like a dangerous person at all,” said Chris Barry, a sophomore at UMass-Dartmouth …
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What We Know About Boston Marathon Bomb Suspects Dzhokhar And Tamerlan Tsarnaev — AP and NBC reported that Dzhokhar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev came to the U.S. from or near Chechnya, but both have apparently spent several years in Cambridge, Massachusetts. — Dzhokhar Tsarnaev — Via: vk.com
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Details emerge on suspected Boston bombers
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‘Stay Safe People’: Here Is The Fugitive Boston Marathon Bombing Suspect's Twitter Account
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No, You Didn't Just Find Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's Secret Twitter Account
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Two Brothers' Lives Veered Off Course
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Relatives of Marathon bombing suspects worried that older brother was corrupting ‘sweet’ younger sibling
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Boston suspect's father says he's a ‘true angel’
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Chechen leader on Boston suspects: ‘Seek the roots of evil in America’
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Shots Fired in Watertown as Police Seek Second Marathon Bombing Suspect
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'I Don't Bluff, I Make Promises': Beck Gives Gov't Until Monday to Come Clean About Boston Bombing Cover-Up
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Details of Tsarnaev Brothers' Lives Emerge
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Boston Bombing Victim in Iconic Photo Helped Identify Attackers
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Details emerge on Boston suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev
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Muslim groups: Resist ‘scapegoating’
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PARADE's Exclusive Interview: President George W. and Laura Bush — More by Mark K. — President George W. and Laura Bush Reflect on the Twins, Bush's Newfound Passion for Painting, and More — Ben Baker — This Sunday's PARADE features an exclusive interview with the former first couple, George W. and Laura Bush.
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New York Times shows sympathy for Boston terrorist suspects — A New York Times feature story on the suspected Boston terrorists showed the possible terrorists in a sympathetic light, with the headline “Far from war-torn homeland, trying to fit in” and a black-and-white picture of one of the men.
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U.S. Boy Scouts set to end ban on gay members : spokesperson — (Reuters) - The Boy Scouts of America called to end a long-standing ban on openly gay members, a spokesman said on Friday, but the organization's board must still vote in May on whether to ratify the resolution.
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Boy Scouts Proposing to Lift Gay Ban for Youth
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This Is Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's Actual Twitter Account — His last tweet was on April 17, and he wrote, “I'm a stress free kind of guy.” — “I would confirm this as to being his Twitter account. Those users went to my high school,” said Stefanie Gardner, of the Rindge class of 2011.
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MSNBC comes perilously close to Brian Ross-level blunder — Chuck Todd may have saved MSNBC from an enormous blunder this morning when he stopped one of the network's analysts from speculating on “the electronic trails” of the Boston Marathon bombing suspects.
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Why Chechens Think The Tsarnaev Brothers Were Framed — Even paranoids have real enemies. Especially in Russia. — Via: Alexander Nemenov / AFP / Getty Images — The Tsarnaev brothers' forceful and charismatic aunt, Maret Tsarnaeva, had barely begun her lecture to the press …
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16 Eerie Images Of Boston On Lockdown — Eerie Images Of Boston On Lockdown — Streets were nearly deserted in Boston and the surrounding suburbs as the hunt for the remaining bombing suspect continued. — Anna North — an hour ago — 33 responses
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