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Tamerlan Tsarnaev
feature An outburst during the imam's sermon at his local mosque showed just how far he’d descended into a hard-line version of Islam.
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Tsarnaev tells investigators: We acted alone
feature Federal investigators began piecing together the motives of the two ethnic-Chechen brothers suspected of the Boston bombings.
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Dzhokhar Tsarnaev
feature Over the past year, as he spent more time with his older brother, there were signs that the young man with “a heart of gold” was changing.
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The Zimmerman trial winds up
feature Did former neighborhood watch captain George Zimmerman provoke a fight or act in self-defense?
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The fatal crash of a 777
feature Investigators focused on pilot error as the cause of the Asiana Airlines plane crash at San Francisco Airport.
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Arming the Syrian rebels
feature With the Assad regime now winning the civil war, President Obama reversed course and ordered the CIA to supply weapons to selected rebel groups.
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A devastating tornado in Oklahoma
feature Recovery efforts continued after a huge tornado tore through the Oklahoma City region, obliterating buildings and killing dozens of people.
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Israel raises the stakes in Syria
feature President Obama faced growing pressure to intervene in Syria, after Israel launched air assaults on military facilities near Damascus.
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New testimony on Benghazi
feature State Department officials testifying before a House committee say the administration botched its immediate response to the attack on Benghazi.
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The IRS’s Tea Party crackdown
feature The Obama administration was scrambling to distance itself from a growing scandal at the Internal Revenue Service.
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Holder defends AP subpoena
feature The attorney general said the subpoena was part of an investigation into a “very serious” leak that had “put the American people at risk.”
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Egypt in chaos as the military seizes control
feature Egypt’s brief experiment with democracy was on the verge of collapse, after the military ousted the country’s Islamist president.
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The Weiner scandal, Part 2
feature Anthony Weiner acknowledged that he had continued to send sexually explicit messages online after resigning from Congress in disgrace.
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Debt-ridden Detroit files for bankruptcy
feature Detroit entered uncharted waters after it became the largest American city to file for bankruptcy.
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