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Conflicting reports of arrest in Boston bombings

BOSTON – Police and reporters converged on the federal courthouse in a jittery Boston on Wednesday amid reports of a breakthrough in the investigation of the marathon bombings and conflictin...

DATE: Apr 17, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Fertilizer plant blast injures dozens of people in Texas

WEST, Texas – A massive explosion at a fertilizer plant near Waco on Wednesday night injured dozens of people and sent flames shooting into the night sky, leaving the factory a smoldering ru...

DATE: Apr 16, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Letter with ricin sent to Miss. senator

WASHINGTON – An envelope addressed to Sen. Roger Wicker of Mississippi tested positive Tuesday for ricin, a potentially fatal poison, congressional officials said, heightening concerns about...

DATE: Apr 16, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

American Airlines halts flights, passengers stuck

DALLAS – American Airlines grounded flights across the country Tuesday because of an outage of its main reservations system. Thousands of passengers were stranded at airports and on airplane...

DATE: Apr 16, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Boston bombs said to be made from pressure cookers

BOSTON – The bombs that ripped through the crowd at the Boston Marathon, killing three people and wounding more than 170, were fashioned out of pressure cookers and packed with metal shards,...

DATE: Apr 16, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Nation Briefs

Senate to vote today on background-check bill WASHINGTON – The Senate set a long-awaited vote for today on a bipartisan plan for expanding background checks to more firearms buyer...

DATE: Apr 15, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Letter to senator tests for ricin

WASHINGTON – An envelope addressed to Sen. Roger Wicker of Mississippi tested positive Tuesday for ricin, a potentially fatal poison, authorities said, heightening concerns about terrorism a...

DATE: Apr 15, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

In Boston, now comes the who and why

Feds: Bombs may have been in pressure cookers

DATE: Apr 15, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Left, right criticize new immigration bill

WASHINGTON – To some conservatives, it’s amnesty. To some immigration advocates, it’s unnecessarily punitive. The Senate’s new bipartisan immigration bill drew critici...

DATE: Apr 15, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Nation Briefs

Boston tragedy delays immigration bill WASHINGTON – Senators are set to unveil a sweeping immigration bill this week to secure the border, remake legal immigration, boost wor...

DATE: Apr 15, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Gun background-check deal may be in jeopardy in Senate

WASHINGTON – A bipartisan proposal to expand background checks to more gun buyers seemed in jeopardy Monday as a growing number of Republican senators expressed opposition to the propos...

DATE: Apr 15, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Car-bombings kill 55 in Iraq

Attacks come less than a week ahead of elections

DATE: Apr 15, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

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