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A Boston-area high school student who allegedly threatened to carry out a bombing worse than the Boston Marathon attacks could face 20 years in jail... The Huffington Post http://www.huffingtonpost.com/hunter-stuart/

While the NRA promises that the annual convention will draw more than 70,000 attendees, left unstated is the fact the vast majority of these participants aren't there to attend the organization's annual "meeting of members" but to see the products of the organization's gun industry patrons. Josh Sugarmann http://www.huffingtonpost.com/josh-sugarmann/

CHICAGO — A U.S. district judge in Chicago is scheduled to hear the government's appeal of a decision to release an Illinois teenager accused of... AP http://www.huffingtonpost.com/joseph-erbentraut/

ZEDELGEM, Belgium -- On a Saturday evening two weeks ago in Zedelgem, townsfolk were disturbed by the wail of a siren and the shriek of... AP http://www.huffingtonpost.com/carlo-davis/

OKLAHOMA CITY -- Oklahoma authorities said Thursday that bodies found last month in a hole initially dug for a septic tank were likely those of... AP http://www.huffingtonpost.com/steven-hoffer/

Lindsay Lohan has had quite the eventful 24 hours. She ditched one rehabilitation center in New York for one in California, then left that one... Cavan Sieczkowski http://www.huffingtonpost.com/cavan-sieczkowski/

A man who allegedly stripped naked at a Daytona Beach convenient store told police he didn't know much, but he knew he was a monkey.... Hilary Hanson http://www.huffingtonpost.com/hilary-hanson/

FROM THE AP: ATLANTA -- The Georgia State Patrol says it did not release the video from a state trooper's dash-camera showing a combative Reese... AP http://www.huffingtonpost.com/stephanie-marcus/

Artist Tyree Guyton's Heidelberg Project, which won world renown and acclaim for its re-purposing of abandoned homes on Detroit's East Side, burned early this morning... Ashley Woods http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ashley-woods/

BOSTON -- The lawyer overseeing the Boston Marathon bombings victims' fund says the families of three people who died could each receive more than $1... AP http://www.huffingtonpost.com/eleanor-goldberg/

SCHENECTADY, N.Y. — A 27-year-old upstate New York man has been charged with starting a fire that swept through a second-floor apartment, killing a man... AP http://www.huffingtonpost.com/christopher-mathias/

ISLAMABAD — Gunmen shot to death the Pakistani government's lead prosecutor in a high-profile case involving former military ruler Pervez Musharraf on Friday as he... AP http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jade-walker/

AUSTIN, Texas -- The National Rifle Association has spent much of the past year under siege, ardently defending gun rights following mass shootings in Colorado... AP http://www.huffingtonpost.com/chris-gentilviso/

By Ross Kerber, Jim Finkle and Mark Hosenball BOSTON/WASHINGTON, May 2 (Reuters) - The two brothers suspected of carrying out the deadly attacks on the... Reuters http://www.huffingtonpost.com/reuters/

PHOENIX -- Jodi Arias committed "a very orchestrated killing," and her only defense has been to attack the credibility of her victim, the prosecutor in... David Lohr http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-lohr/

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. -- As one of five Democrats who opposed expanding background checks for firearm sales, U.S. Sen. Mark Pryor of Arkansas is facing... AP http://www.huffingtonpost.com/chris-gentilviso/

In the wake of the Boston bombin, there is one question that should not be asked at all, and that is whether the horrendous attacks in Boston should prompt the United States and other countries to consider immigrants a security threat just because they belong to a certain ethnic group. Simon Saradzhyan http://www.huffingtonpost.com/simon-saradzhyan/

The video of Reese Witherspoon's run-in with the cops has finally leaked--and it's a doozy. (Watch above.) In the short clip, which was put out... Benjamin Hart http://www.huffingtonpost.com/benjamin-hart/

WASHINGTON, May 2 (Reuters) - The number of names on a highly classified U.S. central database used to track suspected terrorists has jumped to 875,000... Reuters http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jade-walker/

The surviving brother of the Boston bombing suspects told interrogators that the pair considered suicide attacks and an assault on July 4th, a law enforcement... The Huffington Post http://www.huffingtonpost.com/andy-campbell/