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Bomb suspect charged; religious motive is seen

Brothers not tied to terrorist group

DATE: Apr 21, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Mosque: Bomb suspect had 2 outbursts in last year

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – When preachers told congregants at a mosque in November that it was appropriate for Muslims to celebrate U.S. holidays such as the Fourth of July and Thanksgiving, a man w...

DATE: Apr 21, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Aunt: Boston bombings suspect struggled with Islam

MAKHACHKALA, Russia – The elder suspect in the Boston bombings regularly attended a mosque and spent time learning to read the Quran, but he struggled to fit in during a trip to his ancestra...

DATE: Apr 21, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

A talented artist and now, bombing suspect’s wife

PROVIDENCE, R.I. – Katherine Russell was a talented artist, a good student who grew up Christian, the daughter of a suburban doctor. Then she went off to college in Boston. ...

DATE: Apr 21, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Canada arrests 2 in al-Qaida-linked plot

Pair planning to bomb train

DATE: Apr 21, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

World Briefs

Nicaragua catches U.S. child porn suspect MANAGUA, Nicaragua – Police in Nicaragua have detained a former U.S. school teacher who was on the FBI’s 10 most-wanted fugitives as a su...

DATE: Apr 21, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Supporters: Don’t link immigration bill to Boston

WASHINGTON – Democratic supporters of a new immigration bill accused opponents Monday of trying to “exploit” the Boston Marathon bombings to hold up the legislation, sparking a testy exchang...

DATE: Apr 21, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Doctors: All Boston bomb patients likely to live

BOSTON – In a glimmer of good news after last week’s tragedy, all of the more than 180 people injured in the Boston Marathon blasts who made it to a hospital alive now seem likely to survive...

DATE: Apr 21, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

At least 185 killed in Nigeria attacks

BAGA, Nigeria – Fighting between Nigeria’s military and Islamic extremists killed at least 185 people in a fishing community in the nation’s far northeast, officials said Sunday, an attack t...

DATE: Apr 21, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

China rushes relief after quake

LUSHAN, China – Sitting near chunks of concrete, bricks and a ripped orange sofa, Luo Shiqiang told how his grandfather was just returning from feeding chickens when their house collapsed an...

DATE: Apr 21, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

World Briefs

Problems reported in Iraqi provincial vote BAGHDAD – Iraqi election monitors on Sunday reported multiple irregularities in the country’s first provincial vote since U.S. troops le...

DATE: Apr 21, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Parents of Boston suspect describe his Russia trip

MAKHACHKALA, Russia – The parents of Tamerlan Tsarnaev insisted Sunday that he came to Dagestan and Chechnya last year to visit relatives and had nothing to do with the militants operating i...

DATE: Apr 20, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World