Law enforcement sources say the surviving Boston Marathon bombing suspect scrawled a note on the boat where he was hiding, calling the blasts revenge for U.S. attacks on Muslims in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Police found Dzhokhar Tsarnaev hiding in the boat in a backyard in suburban Boston, four days after the April 15 bombings killed three people and wounded more than 260.
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Lawmakers and fiscally conservative leaders are vowing to keep up the pressure on the White House to see why it may have been involved with the Internal Revenue Service’s targeting of conservative groups. Conservative leaders say the IRS scandal confirms their worst fears about a federal government they see as too big and too powerful.
A large number of Republican members of Congress and Tea Party leaders from across the country gathered outside the U.S. Capitol Thursday to criticize the Internal Revenue Service and the Obama administration over allegations the tax agency targeted Tea Party groups for special scrutiny. Conservative lawmakers called on Congress to dig deep to find out who made the decision to single out the groups seeking non-profit tax exempt status. Republican House Speaker John Boehner said House committees would stop at nothing to get to the truth.
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Just four months after his inauguration for a second four-year term, Barack Obama finds himself on the defensive in three controversies that threaten to derail his political agenda. Obama may be on the verge of joining a long list of his predecessors who ran into severe political problems in their second terms in office. Some are comparing Obama to Nixon.
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Actress and U.N. goodwill ambassador Angelina Jolie is in the spotlight for her decision to undergo a double mastectomy to reduce her chances of getting breast cancer, even though she is cancer free. The actress announced her decision, and her surgery, in an article she wrote for The New York Times. Jolie’s decision was based on a genetic test she had — and other options available to women facing a breast cancer risk.
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Today, patchy fog before noon. Otherwise, cloudy early, then becoming mostly sunny, with a high near 79. Calm wind. Tonight, isolated showers and thunderstorms before 10pm. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 54. Light east wind becoming southeast 5 to 9 mph in the evening. Chance of precipitation is 20%.
Saturday: Isolated showers, then scattered showers and thunderstorms after 11am. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 78. Southeast wind 10 to 14 mph, with gusts as high as 24 mph. Chance of precipitation is 30%. New rainfall amounts of less than a tenth of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.
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Barack Obama says Treasury Secretary Jack Lew has asked for and received the resignation of the acting director of the Internal Revenue Service. The tax collecting agency was found to have been improperly targeting conservative groups.
Obama spoke Wednesday after meeting with Lew and his top deputy to review a report from the Treasury Department inspector general. The report found that the IRS singled out for scrutiny conservative groups which were seeking tax-exempt status.
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Barack Obama moved late Wednesday to head off further potential political damage from the controversy over his administration’s lack of response to last year’s terrorist attack on a U.S. diplomatic facility in Libya.
The White House released 100 pages of emails detailing intense debate among administration officials and the CIA about how to word public “talking points” after the attack in Benghazi.
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At least six people are dead after a tornado devastated a small city near Dallas, Texas. Authorities say dozens of homes were destroyed or damaged in the late Wednesday night storm, which struck the town of Granbury, located south of the Dallas-Fort Worth area.
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Barack Obama welcomes Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan to the White House on Thursday for talks on the situation in Syria and other regional security and bilateral issues.
The two speak frequently on the phone. Syria has been a key topic as the death toll there continues to mount.
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Today, scattered showers and thunderstorms before 10:00 am, then isolated showers and thunderstorms after 11:00 am. Partly sunny, with a high near 80. West wind 7 to 10 mph.
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