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Pressure cooker bombs common in South Asia
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — On Sunday, a local politician named Mukarram Shah was in his car in the remote Pakistani village of Banjot when a bomb was detonated by remote control. He was instantly killed. The bomb was made out of a pressure cooker, a...
Tags: U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Bombings, Lobbying, Boston Marathon Bombing (2013), Unrest, Conflicts and War
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Boston bombing suspect transferred to federal site
From the Associated PressBOSTON -- The surviving Boston Marathon bombings suspect has been released from a civilian hospital and transferred to a federal medical detention center in central Massachusetts. The U.S. Marshals Service said Friday that Dzhokhar Tsarnaev left Beth...Tags: Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, Hospitals and Clinics, Boston Marathon Bombing (2013), Sports
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Debating FDR and the Holocaust
It wasn't surprising that Rafael Medoff's April 7 Op-Ed article about President Franklin D. Roosevelt's private comments on Jews facing persecution in Europe drew spirited responses (though I do admit that I was a little rattled that most of the letters...
Tags: Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Immigration, World War II (1939-1945), John F. Kennedy
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Did the system fail a soldier?
SHERMAN, Texas — Sgt. John Russell designed his new house here so there would be room for everyone: for him and his wife, Mandy, his wife's parents and his own. There was a doggie door for Louie and Queenie — "the little ones," he called...
Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, Iraq, Baghdad (Iraq), Punishment, Behavioral Conditions
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Sam Jameson dies at 76; former longtime L.A. Times correspondent
Sam Jameson, a former longtime Los Angeles Times foreign correspondent with a deep knowledge of and close personal affinity for Japan, his professional and personal base for half a century, died Friday at a Tokyo hospital. He was 76. The cause of...
Tags: Stroke, Wars and Interventions, Northwestern University, Vietnam War (1955-1975), Japan
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Body of 9-year-old recovered from 200-foot crevasse in Alaska
Officials have recovered the body of a 9-year-old boy who died over the weekend after crashing his snowmobile through a glacier in Alaska. Shjon Brown’s body was recovered around 12:40 a.m. on Monday, Alaska State Troopers spokeswoman Megan Peters...Tags: Glaciers, Landforms
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Four years after Camp Liberty killings, families losing patience
SEATTLE — On the day Sgt. John Russell allegedly walked into the mental health clinic at Camp Liberty in Baghdad and shot five U.S. service members to death, Pfc. Jacob Barton was just signing in at the front desk. It was the day after Mother’...
Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, Psychiatrists, Baghdad (Iraq), Health and Medical Professionals, Murder
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Alaska boy, 9, presumed dead after falling into icy crevasse
An Alaska father was watching his son drive around on a snowmobile when it happened, officials said: The boy was there, and then he wasn't. Sjohn Brown, 9, of Fairbanks, disappeared Saturday afternoon and was presumed dead when he and his snowmobile...Tags: Joe Arpaio
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At Army base, an aggressive campaign against suicide
FT. BLISS, Texas — Army Pvt. John Jeffery stumbled into Kyle Boswell's barracks room at Ft. Bliss before dawn one day in February, his eyes glassy. "I've done something," Jeffery mumbled to his buddy. "I can't tell anyone. It's going to happen."...
Tags: Heroin, Chemical Industry, Hospitals and Clinics, Acupuncture, Iraq
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Medal of Honor goes to Korean War chaplain
WASHINGTON — When men who served in the Korean War with Emil Kapaun describe him, they do not talk about the acts most commonly associated with the Medal of Honor: He fell on no grenades, captured no enemy machine guns, killed no enemy soldiers....
Tags: Prisons, Prisoners and Detainees, U.S. Congress, Religion and Belief, Wars and Interventions
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Automotive aftermarket legend Gale Banks revs up Army's Humvee
For more than 50 years, Gale Banks has tweaked fast cars and trucks to make them even faster. Banks has become a legend among the aftermarket speed crowd, having set land-speed records and built what was once the world's fastest passenger car. Perhaps...
Tags: Los Angeles Police Department, Peak International Limited, Science and Technology, Automotive Equipment, U.S. Military
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