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Senate panel approves sweeping immigration reform bill
www.washingtonpost.com-May 22, 2013
A Senate committee approved a sweeping immigration reform bill Tuesday that would provide a path to citizenship for up to 11 million illegal immigrants, setting the stage for the full Senate to consider the landmark legislation next month.
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Russia detains U.S. diplomat, accuses him of trying to recruit Russian agent
www.washingtonpost.com-May 14, 2013
An American diplomat was briefly detained by the Russian State Security Service and is being accused of trying to recruit a Russian officer to work as a U.S. agent, Russian officials told news services on Tuesday.
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GOP senators’ assault shows tough path for immigration measure
www.washingtonpost.com-May 10, 2013
The difficult road ahead for comprehensive immigration reform became more evident Thursday as Republican critics mounted a sustained assault on the legislation, demanding that it include considerably greater border security measures before legalizing any undocumented immigrants.
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Senate begins amendment process on immigration bill
www.washingtonpost.com-May 09, 2013
The Senate opened formal debate Thursday on a comprehensive immigration reform proposal, launching the grueling process of amending a bill that could represent the most sweeping overhaul of the nation’s border control laws in nearly three decades.
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Obama prods liberals to give-and-take on Senate immigration bill
www.washingtonpost.com-May 02, 2013
President Obama is warning liberal supporters that their push to make changes in a comprehensive immigration bill could jeopardize the strategy of Senate leaders, who are aiming to win up to 70 votes for the measure.
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CIA pushed to add Boston bomber to terror watch list
www.washingtonpost.com-April 25, 2013
The CIA pushed to have one of the suspected Boston Marathon bombers placed on a U.S. counterterrorism watch list more than a year before the attacks, U.S. officials said Wednesday.
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No links seen between Boston suspects and foreign terrorist groups, officials say
www.washingtonpost.com-April 24, 2013
The injured suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings has told interrogators that he and his brother were driven by hard-line Islamist views and anger over the U.S. wars in Afghanistan and Iraq but had no ties to foreign militant groups, U.S. officials said Tuesday.
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Boston bombing suspects built explosives with help of online Al Qaeda magazine, official says
www.foxnews.com-April 23, 2013
The brothers suspected of planting deadly bombs at the Boston Marathon may have gotten their ideas -- and even instructions on how to make explosives from household items -- from an English-language website that Al Qaeda uses to radicalize and recruit Westerners.
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CIA, FBI, military interrogators ready to question Boston bombing suspect
www.washingtonpost.com-April 22, 2013
Federal prosecutors on Sunday were preparing to file charges against the surviving suspect in the Boston Marathon bombing, even as he remained under heavy guard at a local hospital amid questions about whether authorities would be able to interrogate him.
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Suspects Seemed Set for Attacks Beyond Boston
www.nytimes.com-April 22, 2013
The two men suspected in the Boston Marathon bombings were armed with a small arsenal of guns, ammunition and explosives when they first confronted the police early Friday, and were most likely planning more attacks, the authorities said Sunday.
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Boston locked down for massive manhunt; one bombing suspect killed by police, the other at-large
www.washingtonpost.com-April 19, 2013
A massive manhunt was underway Friday morning in Boston and its suburbs, after one suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings died in a confrontation with police and the second was identified as a 19-year-old immigrant from Kyrgyzstan who, a classmate said, attended high school in Cambridge, Mass.
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Police going door-to-door in hunt for second marathon bomb suspect Y
www.foxnews.com-April 19, 2013
Police were donning bullet-proof vests and going door-to-door as a perimeter tightened in the Watertown section of Boston, where the second Boston Marathon bomber could be hiding.
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'I don’t understand them,' bombing suspect said of Americans
www.foxnews.com-April 19, 2013
The brothers behind Monday's deadly bombing at the Boston Marathon are believed to have come to the U.S. from Chechnya as long as a decade ago, but apparently never fit in with the American culture.
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Suspect in Boston Marathon bombing died of gunshot and possible blast wounds, doctor says
www.reuters.com-April 19, 2013
The Boston Marathon suspect who died had multiple wounds from gunshots and possibly the blast of an explosive, said a doctor at the hospital where the man was treated on Friday.
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Search for marathon bombing suspect locks down Watertown, surrounding communities
www.bostonglobe.com-April 19, 2013
Police have surrounded a home and car in Watertown, a community just outside Boston, as part of a massive manhunt for one of the suspects in the deadly Boston Marathon terror bombing attacks. The standoff comes after a chaotic, violent night in which a second suspect died in a confrontation with police, and one police officer was killed and another seriously wounded.
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