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Bomb discovered: Three municipal workers this week found a powerful bomb in a backpack along the planned route of Spokane’s Martin Luther King Jr. Day parade, prompting city officials to reroute the parade. Had it detonated during the parade, the remote-controlled device would likely have produced “multiple casualties,” the FBI said. An estimated 15 different white-supremacist groups operate in Washington, with more across the border in Idaho, and the FBI says it’s a “virtually inescapable” conclusion that the bomb was meant to harm marchers or bystanders. A day after the Spokane bomb was discovered, police safely detonated a suspicious package found in a public park in Seattle. It’s not clear if the two incidents are connected.

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