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BOSTON -- The flow of information that Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was providing to FBI investigators abruptly stopped when a federal magistrate judge showed up at the hospital unannounced and read him his Miranda rights, a source said Thursday.
Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) on Monday promised an exhaustive House inquiry into whether the FBI should have more rigorously investigated terror suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev before last week’s Boston Marathon bombing.
Two people were arrested in Canada over an al-Qaida supported plot to bomb a passenger train, Royal Canadian Mounted Police announced Monday.
Chiheb Esseghaier, 30, of Montreal, and Raed Jaser, 35, of Toronto, took several steps to pursue their plans, including watching Canada's VIA Rail trains in the greater in Toronto area, authorities said.
Four Republican lawmakers who are outspoken on issues of national security and foreign affairs strongly urged the Obama administration Saturday to treat the surviving suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings as an enemy combatant and not as a common criminal.
Say this for Pete King: The pugilistic Long Island Republican isn’t backing down from the good fight.
Already under fire from a loud minority of students opposed to his giving the commencement speech at St. John’s University, King is upping the ante. Those who find his long-standing concern about homegrown terror cells “offensive” will go wiggy with his latest salvo.
Rep. Peter King is asking the Obama administration for a classified intelligence briefing after the FBI revealed on Friday that it had questioned one of the suspects in the Boston Marathon bombing two years ago but found no links to terrorism.
Rep. Peter King is calling for greater law enforcement focus on Muslim communities, arguing that authorities should put aside what is “politically correct” and recognize that America faces major threats from Islamic terrorism.
As authorities continue to search for the bomber -- or bombers -- behind the explosions that detonated near the finish line of the Boston Marathon Monday, killing three and injuring more than 140, some critically, Rep. Peter King said the horrific incident made one thing painfully clear.
They say everyone is Irish on St. Patrick’s Day, and that will be true two days later as well when Capitol Hill makes its toast to the patron saint of the Emerald Isle on Tuesday.