Reuters Publishes An Obituary Of George Soros
Reuters published an obituary of George Soros in error. Reuters withdrew the article as soon as it appeared.
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Reuters published an obituary of George Soros in error. Reuters withdrew the article as soon as it appeared.
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FAA Warns Of 3.5 Hour Flight Delays This Summer
Flight delays of up to 3-1/2 hours are expected at some busy U.S. airports this summer because of furloughs of air-traffic controllers, the top U.S. aviation regulator warned on Thursday.
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Over 5,000 Register For Bike Sharing Program
New York City’s Department of Transportation says more than 5,000 people have registered this week for a bike-sharing program that launches in May.
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Brooklyn Youth Charged With Hate Crime For Attack On Jewish Subway Passenger
A Brooklyn youth has been charged today with a hate crime after an attack on a Jewish passenger on the southbound 3 train on Monday.
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Teen On Cover Of NY Post Says "I'm Not The Bomber"
Calling it the “worst possible feeling,” the 17 year-old whose picture has been circulated as a potential suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings says he is “not” the bomber and that he actually paid police a visit yesterday in an attempt to clear his name.
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FBI Releases Images Of 2 Men At Boston Marathon
The FBI released photos and video Thursday of two suspects in the Boston Marathon bombing and asked for the public’s help in identifying them, zeroing in on the two men on surveillance-camera footage less than three days after the deadly attack.
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Al Qaeda 4 Plotted Toy-Car Terror
The terror plot involved targeting British reserve troops using a toy-car packed with explosives.
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Tuning In: Twitter Launches Music Feature
Twitter has launched a service for people to find music they like and tweet songs from iTunes, Spotify and Rdio.
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Victim Of Boston Bombings Grateful To Survive
Kevin White had just left a restaurant with his parents when the first of two bombs that hit the Boston Marathon exploded about 10 feet away. The force of the blast, he said Wednesday, was so strong that it slammed them to the ground, breaking some of his mother’s bones and tearing his father’s right foot so badly surgeons had to amputate it.
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EMS: Dozens Feard Dead In Major Texas Plant Explosion
Hundreds of people were likely injured in a fiery explosion on Wednesday night at a fertilizer plant near Waco, Texas, that damaged or destroyed numerous buildings including a nursing home, authorities said.
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Media Frenzy On Marathon Investigation
For about an hour Wednesday afternoon, people could flip through different television channels and hear completely different accounts of the investigation into the Boston Marathon explosions: Some news organizations reported the arrest of a suspect and then took those claims back.
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Recently Married Couple Each Lose Leg In Boston Bombing
Boston - A recently married couple are among the more than 170 people wounded in the Boston Marathon bombings.
Patrick and Jessica Downes were married in August. Both are avid runners. According to an email sent to friends, each lost their left leg below the knee.
Patrick Downes has run the Boston Marathon in years past.
According to the email, Patrick Downes had surgery Wednesday and is out of intensive care. Jessica is in surgery and the email says she may be in jeopardy of losing her remaining foot.
It says Patrick is the “ultimate Boston boy” and graduated from Boston College. It says Jessica is from California and has the “spirit of a lion.” She is now a nurse at Massachusetts General Hospital.
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FBI: Miss. Man Arrested, Accused In Ricin Letters
A Mississippi man was arrested Wednesday, accused of sending letters to President Barack Obama and a senator that tested positive for poisonous ricin and set the nation’s capital on edge a day after the Boston Marathon bombings.
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'Terrorist Freed For Schalit Plotted West Bank Attack'
Security forces arrested a Palestinian man from Nablus on suspicion of plotting to carry out a terrorist attack, adding that he had been recruited in Mecca after meeting a terrorist released by Israel in 2011 in the Gilad Schalit prisoner exchange.
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FBI: Boston Marathon Bombing Suspect Not In Custody
Police and reporters converged on the federal courthouse in Boston on Wednesday amid conflicting reports of whether a suspect was in custody in the marathon bombings that killed three people and wounded more than 170.
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Dad Of Woman Killed At Marathon Told She Was Alive
The father of one of the three people who died in the Boston Marathon bombings was at first told that his daughter had survived, but was in surgery and could lose a leg.\
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FBI Sees No Link Between Suspicious Letters And Boston Attack
The FBI said on Wednesday that an investigation into mail containing a suspicious substance addressed to a lawmaker and to President Barack Obama has not found a link to the attack in Boston.
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Israeli Media: Israeli Police Chiefs Head To Boston To Meet With FBI
Israel Police chief Yohanan Danino and other senior police officers left Israel late Tuesday night, heading for Boston to meet with FBI officials and other US law enforcement officials.
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FBI Investigating CH7. Photos Showing Bag Where Bomb Went Off
Photos sent to Boston Ch. 7 7News by a viewer show the scene just before and right after the bombs went off on Boylston Street.
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American Air Reservation System Down, Grounds 200 Flights
American Airlines said its reservation system had an outage on Tuesday, leading to a system wide delay that grounded the carrier’s fleet and halted its flights at least through late in the afternoon.
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Obama to Visit Boston On Thursday
President Barack Obama will visit Boston on Thursday, three days after a pair of deadly bombings at the Boston Marathon.
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Report: US Resorted To Torture After 9/11 Terror
An independent review of the U.S. government’s anti-terrorism response after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks reported Tuesday that it is “indisputable” the United States engaged in torture and the George W. Bush administration bears responsibility.
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Officials: Envelope Sent To Sen. Roger Wicker Tests Positive For Deadly Poison Ricin
An envelope addressed to Sen. Roger Wicker of Mississippi tested positive Tuesday for ricin, a potentially fatal poison, congressional officials said, heightening concerns about terrorism a day after a deadly bombing killed three and left more than 170 injured at the Boston Marathon.
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Boston Marathon bomb blasts kill 3, injure at least 140
Two deadly bombs exploded near the Boston Marathon finish line on Monday, killing at least three, injuring more than 140, and severing the limbs of a number of people, police and hospital officials say.
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Pressure Cooker Bombs Used In Past By Militants
Homemade bombs built from pressure cookers, a version of which was used in the Boston Marathon bombings, have been a frequent weapon of militants in Afghanistan, India and Pakistan. Al-Qaida’s branch in Yemen once published an online manual on how to make one, urging “lone jihadis” to act on their own to carry out attacks.
