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Boston police inflate progress on searches, frisks
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Boston police inflate progress on searches, frisks

March 7, 2016

Information that could shed light on whether the stops were appropriate in the first place also hasn’t been made public, nearly two months after the release of nearly 150,000 “Field…

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March 7, 2016

BOSTON – A college student who survived serious injuries in the Boston Marathon bombing was killed in a car accident in Dubai over the weekend, a spokesman for Northeastern University…

Tunisia: At least 45 dead in clashes near Libyan border
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Tunisia: At least 45 dead in clashes near Libyan border

March 7, 2016

Tunisia has set a nighttime curfew following violent clashes between Tunisian police officers and extremist militants in Ben Guerdane, Tunisia, early Monday. At least 45 people were killed Monday in…

Suicide attack kills at least 47 south of Iraqi capital
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Suicide attack kills at least 47 south of Iraqi capital

March 6, 2016

Civilians and security forces gather as municipality workers remove destroyed vehicles at the scene of a deadly suicide bomb attack in Hillah, about 60 miles (95 kilometers) south of Baghdad,…

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March 6, 2016

Ray Tomlinson, the inventor of modern email, has died. Raytheon Co., his employer, on Sunday confirmed his death; the details were not immediately available. Email existed in a limited capacity…

Some in GOP start seeing Cruz as best alternative to Trump
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Some in GOP start seeing Cruz as best alternative to Trump

March 6, 2016

Brynn Anderson/Associated Press<br><br>Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump waves to the crowd before he speaks during a campaign rally Saturday in Orlando, Fla. The Texas senator split contests with Trump in…

Psychologists reporting patients’ ‘Trump anxiety’
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Psychologists reporting patients’ ‘Trump anxiety’

March 6, 2016

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks during a news conference Saturday in West Palm Beach, Fla. A recent Washington Post/ABC News poll showed that 69 percent of Americans said the…

New rancor, tough talk in Clinton-Sanders Democratic debate
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New rancor, tough talk in Clinton-Sanders Democratic debate

March 6, 2016

It was a marked change in tone for the two Democrats, signaling Sanders’ increasingly difficult effort to slow the party’s front-runner. Both candidates frequently interrupted one another and accused each…

Cruz wins Kansas in GOP battle for delegates
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Cruz wins Kansas in GOP battle for delegates

March 5, 2016

“God bless Kansas,” the Texas senator declared during a rally in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho. “The scream you hear, the howl that comes from Washington D.C., is utter terror at what…

Nation Briefs
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March 5, 2016

WASHINGTON – A Florida man who flew a small gyrocopter through protected Washington airspace before landing outside the U.S. Capitol last spring was seconds away from colliding with a Delta…

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World Briefs

March 5, 2016

KABUL – Taliban leaders will not participate in peace talks with the Afghan government, the insurgent group said in a statement on Saturday, throwing into question a U.S.-backed plan to…

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March 4, 2016

CHARLESTON, S.C. – A high school student who went through his teacher’s cellphone, found a nude picture of her and posted it online has been charged with a computer crime…

Climate change deniers suffer new setback
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Climate change deniers suffer new setback

March 4, 2016

Scientists say a new study removes one of the key sets of data that climate change doubters have used to argue that global warming is not happening.Mahesh Kumar A./Associated Press…