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CNN's Tom Foreman explores what things the FBI may have looked for in identifying suspects in the Boston Marathon attack.

Paul Waldman says background checks legislation may have failed, but in the debate the paranoia and deception of NRA-backed gun advocates was exposed to Americans

Police and the FBI have responded to reports of gunshots on the campus of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, which is adjacent to Boston, according to MIT. They have surrounded and cordoned off one building.

Two men suspected in the Boston Marathon bombings that killed three people might have terrorized the area overnight. One is dead; the other is on the run.

If this all shakes out the way authorities say it will, the deaths of two local prosecutors, the panic that gripped a city and a massive manhunt that ensued may all stem from the theft of some computer monitors and a disgraced lawman that held a grudge the size of Texas.

After explosives killed three people and wounded about 180 others during the Boston Marathon, details continue to trickle in as investigators sort through evidence.

Test results were expected Thursday on letters possibly contaminated with the deadly poison ricin that were sent to President Barack Obama and Sen. Roger Wicker this week.

Suspect arrested in the ricin case is also accused of sending a suspicious package to a local Mississippi judge.

A man charged with drunk driving won his case at the U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday, after the justices concluded police should have first obtained a warrant before conducting a blood test against his will, shortly after arrest.

The wife of a former justice of the peace is being held on a capital murder charge in connection with the killings of a Kaufman County District Attorney, his wife and a top prosecutor, a newspaper reports.

CNN's Dana Bash reports police believe the timing of the Boston Marathon attack and the ricin letter is coincidental.

The HLN After Dark jury is asked weather they believe Jodi Arias planned an alibi for the killing of Travis Alexander.

The investigation of Monday's deadly twin bombings in Boston will rely to an extraordinary extent on crowdsourced surveillance, provided by Marathon spectators' cellphone photos, Vine videos, and Instagram feeds.

The Supreme Court made it harder Wednesday for foreign victims of torture and other crimes against humanity to press their legal claims against corporations and others in U.S. federal courts.

Investigators have released some new information in the Boston Marathon explosions, but they still don't know whether it was a foreign attack or domestic.

The FBI is trying to rebuild the bombs that exploded in Boston, and it's also asking the public for help in identified the person or people responsible for the deadly blasts.

As investigators combed through what Boston's top police official described as "the most complex crime scene we've dealt with in the history of our department," leaders vowed to emerge unbowed from the terror attack.

A former Kaufman County, Texas, justice of the peace is accused of using his home computer to send a terrorist threat to police investigating the murder of the top county prosecutor and his wife, a sheriff's affidavit says.

Rebecca Campbell says rape is a crime of power and dominance, and social media provides new ways to hurt victims.