Senate showdown vote on gun curbs set for Thursday
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Neil Heslin, center, whose 6-year-old son Jesse was killed in the mass shooting in Newtown, Conn., arrives with other victims' families to meet privately on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, April 9, 2013, with Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., and Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn. Heslin gave moving testimony during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing in February on the proposed assault ...
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Terror revisits US as 3 killed in Boston bombings
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BOSTON, United States - At least three people, including an eight-year-old boy, were killed and 176 injured in a massive twin-bombing targeting the Boston Marathon, leaving a shell shocked America scrambling for answers on the terror strike that shattered a decade of calm in the US.
President Barack Obama vowed that those responsible would feel the "full weight of justice" as the FBI started ...
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Boston bomb suspect says he and his brother acted alone
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WASHINGTON - Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev has told investigators that there was no international terrorist group involved in the terror act that killed three as it was masterminded by his older brother Tamerlan, a media report said Tuesday.
CNN quoted an unnamed US government source saying that the two brothers fit the classification of 'self-radicalized jihadists".
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Obama defends FBI praises Russia after Boston bombings
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US President Barack Obama Tuesday defended the performance of law enforcement authorities including the FBI and praised the Russian side's cooperation following the Boston bombings, reported Xinhua. Speaking at a White House news conference, Obama told reporters that all the US law enforcement officials had performed in "an exemplary fashion" after the Boston bombings took place on April 15. ...
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Boston bombers mum wants body to be buried in Russia following US cemeteries refusal
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Boston bombing suspect's mother has expressed interest in receiving her son's body back in Russia for burial. An employee at the funeral home trying to find a burial site for the body of Tamerlan Tsarnaev told this to Fox News, as cemeteries have refused to accept his body. Joseph Gliniecki, of Graham Putnam and Mahoney Funeral Parlors, said that the funeral home is 'exploring that as an ...
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Boston suspect gets support on social media
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Professions of love and support for 19-year-old Boston bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev are popping up on social media websites by the thousands, driven in part by scores of US schoolgirls who insist the "brown-eyed, baby-faced teen" has been framed. "There's nothing I believe in more than jahar's innocence," tweeted an 18-year-old from Kansas with the handle @keepitbluntedd, using the popular ...
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Taoiseach spends weekend in Boston
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Taoiseach Enda Kenny has spent the weekend in Boston, Massachusetts furthering the strength of U.S. -Ireland relations. The head of Ireland's government attended a function on Saturday at the JFK Library to commemorate the 50th Anniversary of President Kennedy's 1963 visit to Ireland At the ceremony Kenny addressed an audience of U.S. lawmakers and representatives of the business ...
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$18mn fraud welfare benefits claims detected in Massachusetts
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BOSTON - More than 1,160 people in Massachusetts who were either dead or using a deceased person's Social Security number have been handed out $18 million in "questionable public assistance benefits" over the past few years, a state audit report has revealed. The report estimated that recipients using a dead person's Social Security number alone received at least $2.4 million between July 2010 ...
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