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Sorry to all of you looking forward to taking a look at dead Osama bin Laden: A federal appeals court today ruled that the Obama administration’s argument that releasing the gory pics would incite riots and anti-US violence makes sense… which means they will probably not see the light of day. A conservative watchdog group, [read more]

North Korea says an American citizen sentenced to 15 years hard labor has started life at a “special prison.” Kenneth Bae, a Washington state resident, is accused of trying to establish an anti-Pyongyang base in North Korea. Pyongyang said earlier this week that Bae informed his family on Friday that he couldn’t appeal his April [read more]

Tamerlan Tsarnaev has been finally put to the ground, but authorities haven’t said where it is. A funeral home official tells the Boston Globe that the suspected Boston marathon bomber was buried somewhere outside Massachusetts, at a location approved by Tsarnaev’s uncle, who has been representing the family. Tsarnaev’s remains had been at a funeral [read more]

Authorities are “sharpening” their investigation of 24-year-old Katherine Russell, Tamerlan Tsarnaev’s wife, after they found extremist material on her laptop, including al-Qaeda’s Inspire magazine. What they don’t know is whether she called up the material herself or whether her husband borrowed her computer to do so. Dzhokhar Tsarnaev has told investigators that he and his [read more]

The United Nations may have recognized the state of Palestine last year… but the influence won there is now shadowed by an even bigger nod: Google has changed the tag on the home page of its Palestinian edition to read “Palestine” instead of “Palestinian Territories.” The change went into effect at the start of this [read more]

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the 19-year-old suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings, was hospitalized after getting seriously wounded and was unable to speak. But reports are in today that he is awake and responding in writing to questions from authorities Tsarnaev, who is in the intensive care unit of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, is responding sporadically, [read more]

ABC News spoke with the father of suspected Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev from his Russian home today… and it didn’t go very well. “If they killed him, then all hell would break loose,” he warned, though he didn’t give any details on what he meant. Anzor Tsarnaev says his sons are innocent, but urged [read more]

A man has been arrested in the mailing of letters laced with toxin to President Obama and Sen. Roger Wicker, The man was identified as Kenneth Curtis of Tupelo, Mississippi, but not much more is known about him at this point, though both letters were signed, “I am KC and I approve this message.” Each [read more]