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Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev participated in a 2011 triple homicide outside Boston along with a Chechen killed Wednesday during a confrontation, a federal law enforcement official told CNN.

Pounding rain soaked tornado-ravaged Moore, Oklahoma, on Thursday morning, hindering recovery efforts. And heavy winds were expected, bringing a slight possibility of an isolated twister.

Attention cruise passengers: You now have more protection when things go awry. On Wednesday, Cruise Lines International Association announced the adoption of a new passenger bill of rights.

The jury in the Jodi Arias trial has one decision left to make: Should she live or die?

Howard Kurtz says with scandals over IRS, Benghazi and, especially, the administration's scrutiny of AP phone records, the press has turned on the president.

Bruce Schneier says our government has lots of unneeded and ineffective security measures.

A field trip turned tragic for a group of fourth-graders in Minnesota when gravel drenched by rain gave way, killing one child and injuring two others. A fourth child remains missing.

The eyes of the country will be upon Texas on Thursday.

Peter Bergen says there's a great deal of misinformation about the counterterrorism policies President Obama will address in a speech Thursday.

The options for people fleeing from tornadoes have grown since Dorothy and Toto failed to make it into the storm shelter, but one of the most basic protections is scarce in Moore, Oklahoma.

From the targeted killing of Americans overseas to the future of the military prison at Guantanamo Bay, President Barack Obama will lay out the framework and legal rationale for his administration's counterterrorism policy in a widely anticipated speech on Thursday.

The Army has suspended the top general at Fort Jackson in South Carolina due to allegations of adultery and assault, an Army spokesman says.

A top AEG executive referred to Michael Jackson as "a freak" and another called him "creepy" just hours before their company signed the pop icon to a huge concert deal.

Parents already on court notice to provide medical care for their children have been charged with third-degree murder in the death of their infant son, Philadelphia authorities announced Wednesday

Police in New York are stepping up their presence in neighborhoods with large gay and lesbian communities after a string of recent attacks on residents based on their sexual orientation.

The Chicago Board of Education voted Wednesday to close 50 schools in the city, according to a statement from the school district.

The rebuilding process begins after a deadly tornado, some Oklahoma teachers are hailed as heroes, and an IRS official pleads the Fifth in front of Congress.

Eric Garcetti won the Los Angeles mayoral race, and will become the first Jewish mayor of the nation's second-largest city.

Kaiba Gionfriddo suffered from a rare obstruction in his lungs called bronchial malacia and stopped breathing daily. He was three months old when doctors tried an experiment using a "body part" created on a 3-D printer.

Counterterrorism drone strikes have killed four Americans overseas since 2009, Attorney General Eric Holder acknowledged on Wednesday.