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• Republican Senator Receives Potentially Poisoned Letter
• Auditors Find Low Enrollment in Vets Jobs Program
• CA-NEWS Summary
• After Boston bombing, swift help, comfort, and a resolve to keep running
• Marathon victims had nails, pellets in wounds
• Obama’s Numbers (Quarterly Update)
• Senior KRG delegation highlights Kurdistan and emphasizes critical situation in Iraq
• Plea deal sought by U.S. soldier accused in Iraq killings: lawyer
• What Can Doctors Do to Save a Leg from Amputation?
• U.S. condoned torture after 9/11, must close Guantanamo: report
• Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood condemns Boston blasts
• Report: US resorted to torture after 9/11 terror
• In Fact, the U.S. Has Been Winning the War on Terror
• How Boston's hospitals are uniquely equipped to treat trauma victims
• Boston attacks are reminder of violence elsewhere
• Egypt policeman sentenced to 15 years for torture
• Boston: What We Know So Far
• Cowboy Hat-Wearing Man Helping Boston Bombing Victims Is Father of Fallen Soldier, Peace Activist: Here’s His Story
• This Is What Boston Heroism Looks Like
• Give an Hour Mental Health Professionals to Offer No-Cost Counseling Services to Victims, Families, and First Responders of Boston Marathon Explosions
• Factbox: Previous attacks on sports events
• Boston Marathon blasts: How the world is responding
• Why Boston Bombings Might Be Scarier Than 9/11
• Iran's Massive Earthquake Explained
• How Social Media and the Boston Bombing Can Be a Recipe for PTSD
• Shrapnel-packed pressure cookers: The deadly explosives at the Boston Marathon
• For Obama, a Rising Tide of Rage
• Saying Something About Boston
• Muslim Brotherhood Leader Pens Bizarre Boston Bombing Note Pointing to Widespread Conspiracy
• The Stories Behind the Most Indelible Images of the Boston Bombing
• Previous attacks on sports events
• HairPlaceNYC Continues Tradition of Charity with Recent Donation of Human Hair Wig to Injured Iraqi Girl
• Two U.S. Commercial Service Strategic Partners Announce Alliance
• A Salute to Silence: National Tinnitus Awareness Week is May 19-25, 2013
• Fiction Pulitzer returns and Adam Johnson wins it
• 6 heroes who emerged from the Boston Marathon tragedy
• The Boston Marathon bombing: Reactions from around the world
• Officials: Car bombs in Iraq kill 9 people
• S_47P::::10 Things to Know for Today
• U.S. soldier sentenced to prison in Alaska espionage case

Republican Senator Receives Potentially Poisoned Letter Posted: 16 Apr 2013 04:56 PM PDT Letter Did Not Reach Capitol

Auditors Find Low Enrollment in Vets Jobs Program Posted: 16 Apr 2013 04:44 PM PDT Report: Nearly two-thirds of slots in veterans job-training program still unfilled

CA-NEWS Summary Posted: 16 Apr 2013 04:39 PM PDT Boston Marathon bombs believed carried in dark, heavy bags BOSTON (Reuters) - Authorities suspect whoever perpetrated the Boston Marathon bombings carried heavy devices made out of pressure cookers in dark-colored nylon bags or backpacks before dropping them near the finish line, causing the worst attack on U.S. soil since September 11, 2001. The twin blasts on Monday killed three people including an 8-year-old boy and injured 176 others, some of whom were maimed by bombs packed with ball bearings and nails. ...

After Boston bombing, swift help, comfort, and a resolve to keep running Posted: 16 Apr 2013 04:18 PM PDT The very explosions that brought horrific tragedy to Monday's Boston Marathon also brought out a powerful response of human strength and compassion that swept well beyond Boston.

Marathon victims had nails, pellets in wounds Posted: 16 Apr 2013 03:19 PM PDT A dark-haired little girl arrived with singed eyebrows, nails sticking out of her and a badly damaged leg. A little boy also was full of metal fragments, one of his legs bound by a tourniquet that saved his life. A day later, the injuries from the Boston Marathon explosions are now more of a threat to limbs than to lives, doctors and hospitals report.

Obama’s Numbers (Quarterly Update) Posted: 16 Apr 2013 03:14 PM PDT Reviewing some key statistical measures of Barack Obama's presidency so far, we find: The economy has added more jobs since Obama took office than it did in his predecessor's entire eight years in office. Despite the improved economy, the number of people receiving food-stamp assistance has continued to grow, and now more people have been added to the food-stamp rolls ... More

Senior KRG delegation highlights Kurdistan and emphasizes critical situation in Iraq Posted: 16 Apr 2013 02:42 PM PDT WASHINGTON, April 16, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A senior delegation from the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) spent a week in Washington meeting with key Administration officials, Members of Congress, the U.S. business community and several non-governmental organizations. The delegation, which included Dr. ...

Plea deal sought by U.S. soldier accused in Iraq killings: lawyer Posted: 16 Apr 2013 02:22 PM PDT SEATTLE (Reuters) - A U.S. soldier charged with killing five fellow servicemen in 2009 at a military counseling center in Iraq is seeking a plea deal with Army prosecutors that would spare him from facing the death penalty, his lawyer told Reuters on Tuesday. Army Sergeant John Russell faces five charges of premeditated murder, one charge of aggravated assault and one charge of attempted murder in the shootings that killed two medical staff officers and three soldiers at Camp Liberty, near Baghdad airport. ...

What Can Doctors Do to Save a Leg from Amputation? Posted: 16 Apr 2013 01:57 PM PDT The doctors fighting to save the lives — and limbs — of those wounded in the Monday's bombing will have the benefit of recent major advances, many of them results of medical experience during the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, in what is called limb salvaging. The latest casualty figure has 183 injured in the attack (fortunately, 89 have now been released), and at least 10 of them have had a limb amputated, according to CNN. ...

U.S. condoned torture after 9/11, must close Guantanamo: report Posted: 16 Apr 2013 01:49 PM PDT By Matt Spetalnick and Jane Sutton WASHINGTON/MIAMI (Reuters) - An independent task force issued a damning review of Bush-era interrogation practices on Tuesday, saying the highest U.S. officials bore ultimate responsibility for the "indisputable" use of torture, and it urged President Barack Obama to close the Guantanamo detention camp by the end of 2014. In one of the most comprehensive studies of U.S. ...

Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood condemns Boston blasts Posted: 16 Apr 2013 01:38 PM PDT CAIRO (AP) — Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood condemned the Boston Marathon bombings Tuesday, but a senior member of the group painted them as part of a conspiracy aimed at undermining Muslims' moves toward democracy.

Report: US resorted to torture after 9/11 terror Posted: 16 Apr 2013 01:13 PM PDT NEW YORK (AP) — 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.

In Fact, the U.S. Has Been Winning the War on Terror Posted: 16 Apr 2013 01:00 PM PDT Terror in the United States have evolved since 1970: once the tool of left-wing radicals, then right-wing radicals, terrorist attacks are now uncommon, often unsuccessful, and not nearly as deadly. We have heard a lot in recent days that the Boston Marathon bombing is the sort of attack we should expect. But historic data suggests it largely isn't.

How Boston's hospitals are uniquely equipped to treat trauma victims Posted: 16 Apr 2013 11:50 AM PDT The city is home to many great medical centers, including the nation's top-ranked hospital

Boston attacks are reminder of violence elsewhere Posted: 16 Apr 2013 11:22 AM PDT BAGHDAD (AP) — The blasts that struck the Boston Marathon on Monday were shocking not only for their brazenness and the lives they shattered, but also because attacks like this usually happen in far-off, troubled places — not in the middle of a major American city.

Egypt policeman sentenced to 15 years for torture Posted: 16 Apr 2013 11:15 AM PDT CAIRO (AP) — An Egyptian court sentenced a police officer to 15 years in prison on Tuesday for torturing an ultraconservative Muslim to death, a rare lengthy prison term for a policeman convicted of abuse.

Boston: What We Know So Far Posted: 16 Apr 2013 10:49 AM PDT The city and people of Boston — indeed, the people of the world — are still confronting the aftermath of one of the saddest days in the city's history, and the process of mourning the victims, helping the survivors, and finding the perpetrators has very much begun. At least 176 people were injured, 17 critically, and three killed from two bombs that exploded at the finish line of the Boston Marathon.

Cowboy Hat-Wearing Man Helping Boston Bombing Victims Is Father of Fallen Soldier, Peace Activist: Here’s His Story Posted: 16 Apr 2013 10:30 AM PDT "We are broken people."

This Is What Boston Heroism Looks Like Posted: 16 Apr 2013 10:18 AM PDT We don't know all their names. We don't know where they all came from. But the good people seemed to come from everywhere on a day when there was not too much good news in Boston. They are average citizens. They are marathon runners and football players. They are doctors and nurses and trained professionals. They are, in some small and often anonymous way, a part of all of us right now. And yet a whole lot more. As Mr. Rogers once said, "When I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news, my mother would say to me, 'Look for the helpers. ...

Give an Hour Mental Health Professionals to Offer No-Cost Counseling Services to Victims, Families, and First Responders of Boston Marathon Explosions Posted: 16 Apr 2013 10:04 AM PDT Give an Hour, a national nonprofit organization providing mental health services at no cost to members of the military, veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan, their loved ones, and their communities, is expanding its reach to include victims, families, and first responders dealing with the aftermath of the Boston Marathon explosions. ...

Factbox: Previous attacks on sports events Posted: 16 Apr 2013 09:46 AM PDT (Reuters) - Previous attacks on sports events, and failed plots, in recent decades, after Monday's bomb blasts that killed three people at the Boston Marathon: September 5, 1972 - Eight members of the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) splinter group Black September raided the Israeli team's quarters in the Olympic village in Munich, killing a weightlifter and a wrestling coach almost immediately. They took nine athletes and officials hostage and demanded the release of more than 200 prisoners held in Israel. ...

Boston Marathon blasts: How the world is responding Posted: 16 Apr 2013 09:46 AM PDT The world was already watching Boston on Monday afternoon, when two bombs exploded near the finish line of the city's annual marathon, touching off an outpouring of solidarity from around the world.

Why Boston Bombings Might Be Scarier Than 9/11 Posted: 16 Apr 2013 09:33 AM PDT Call it "terrorism" if a label helps you make sense of this madness. Find who did it and squash him—or them—with what President Obama called "the full weight of justice." But in the broad scheme of things, such loose ends matter less than this: Life in America changed with the Boston Marathon bombings—again, and as with past attacks, for the much worse.

Iran's Massive Earthquake Explained Posted: 16 Apr 2013 09:25 AM PDT The strongest earthquake to hit Iran in more than 50 years was a subduction-zone quake — the same tectonic setting underlying deadly temblors in Japan, Chile and Indonesia.

How Social Media and the Boston Bombing Can Be a Recipe for PTSD Posted: 16 Apr 2013 09:25 AM PDT Yesterday's horrific events at the Boston Marathon produced horrific images which in the age of social media news means an inescapable constant, unsolicited, bombardment of the gruesome aftermath of a gruesome event. While Twitter offered the fastest, most up-to-date, and accurate information, it also served as an unfiltered chronicle of the most distressing imagery, which can have lasting mental and physical effects.

Shrapnel-packed pressure cookers: The deadly explosives at the Boston Marathon Posted: 16 Apr 2013 09:23 AM PDT Investigators believe a surprisingly common terror tool was used in the deadly attacks

For Obama, a Rising Tide of Rage Posted: 16 Apr 2013 08:59 AM PDT If it's a little tough for Americans to adjust to the reality of the Boston bombing, it's because nothing like this has happened to us for a very long time—since around 9/11, in fact. In the 11 and a half years since then, despite repeated waves of overseas terrorism from Iraq to the Middle East to Europe, experts say the only other well-known and successful domestic terrorist attacks have been the anthrax attacks of October 2001, the November 2009 massacre at Fort Hood by Army Maj. ...

Saying Something About Boston Posted: 16 Apr 2013 08:19 AM PDT Just across the street from where the bombs went off yesterday is the Copley Library, the main branch of the Boston Public Library system. The newer building, a modern monolith that looks vaguely like a prison with all its fluorescent light and plain carpeting, is smooshed up against the old one, the research and administrative wing with all the dark wood and white stone and arches and academic grandeur. ...

Muslim Brotherhood Leader Pens Bizarre Boston Bombing Note Pointing to Widespread Conspiracy Posted: 16 Apr 2013 07:18 AM PDT "Who funded the violence?"

The Stories Behind the Most Indelible Images of the Boston Bombing Posted: 16 Apr 2013 07:08 AM PDT As photos and images from the carnage began surfacing up yesterday, one in particular kept making the rounds—a man in grey, sat in a wheelchair and clutched the spindly remains of his legs while being pushed by first responders.

Previous attacks on sports events Posted: 16 Apr 2013 06:45 AM PDT April 16 (Reuters) - Previous attacks on sports events, and failed plots, in recent decades, after Monday's bomb blasts that killed three people at the Boston Marathon: Sept. 5, 1972 - Eight members of the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) splinter group Black September raided the Israeli team's quarters in the Olympic village in Munich, killing a weightlifter and a wrestling coach almost immediately. They took nine athletes and officials hostage and demanded the release of more than 200 prisoners held in Israel. ...

HairPlaceNYC Continues Tradition of Charity with Recent Donation of Human Hair Wig to Injured Iraqi Girl Posted: 16 Apr 2013 06:04 AM PDT Young Girl and Iraq War Survivor Receives 14" Long Human Hair Wig from HairPlaceNYCNew York, NY (PRWEB) April 16, 2013 HairPlaceNYC, a leading New York City salon specializing in hair care and hair replacement solutions, today announced it has continued its long-standing tradition of giving and philanthropy by donating a cut and styled 14" long hand-tied human hair wig to Teeba Furat Fadhil Marlowe, a courageous 11-year-old girl severely injured in Iraq. ...

Two U.S. Commercial Service Strategic Partners Announce Alliance Posted: 16 Apr 2013 06:02 AM PDT Escrow.com, a leading Internet escrow company, is pleased to announce an alliance with Glo-BIS.com, a provider of credit reports and due diligence worldwide, to collaborate on increasing U.S. exports by lowering the risks of non-payment from international buyers.Orange County, CA (PRWEB) April 16, 2013 Escrow.com, the world's leading Internet escrow company, is pleased to announce an alliance with Glo-BIS.com, a provider of credit reports and due diligence worldwide, to collaborate on increasing U.S. exports through lowering the risks of non-payment by international buyers. ...

A Salute to Silence: National Tinnitus Awareness Week is May 19-25, 2013 Posted: 16 Apr 2013 06:00 AM PDT PORTLAND, Ore., April 16, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The American Tinnitus Association (ATA) announced today that National Tinnitus Awareness Week (TAW) will be celebrated May 19 - 25, 2013. This year, ATA is saluting members of the United States military and all our veterans who have selflessly served, because they suffer from tinnitus disproportionately from the rest of the civilian population. For the past five years, tinnitus has been the number one service-connected disability for veterans from all periods of service and is particularly prevalent in Iraq and Afghanistan veterans. ...

Fiction Pulitzer returns and Adam Johnson wins it Posted: 16 Apr 2013 05:50 AM PDT Adam Johnson's "The Orphan Master's Son," a labyrinthine story of a man's travails in North Korea, has won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction, restoring a high literary honor a year after no fiction ...

6 heroes who emerged from the Boston Marathon tragedy Posted: 16 Apr 2013 04:40 AM PDT Against the backdrop of a sickening attack, we saw many examples of humanity at its best

The Boston Marathon bombing: Reactions from around the world Posted: 16 Apr 2013 03:45 AM PDT America's friends express an outpouring of sympathy. Its enemies react with undisguised glee

Officials: Car bombs in Iraq kill 9 people Posted: 16 Apr 2013 03:27 AM PDT BAGHDAD (AP) — Officials say two car bombings in Iraq have killed nine people and wounded 27.

S_47P::::10 Things to Know for Today Posted: 16 Apr 2013 03:08 AM PDT Your daily look at late-breaking news, upcoming events and the stories that will be talked about today:

U.S. soldier sentenced to prison in Alaska espionage case Posted: 16 Apr 2013 01:42 AM PDT By Yereth Rosen ANCHORAGE (Reuters) - A U.S. soldier was sentenced to 19 years in prison for attempted espionage and related charges after he admitted to trying to pass on classified information to someone he believed was a Russian agent, federal officials said. Army Specialist William Colton Millay, 24, was sentenced late on Monday after a military hearing at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson in Anchorage, where he was stationed when he was arrested in October 2011. ...

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