Search results for ‘FBI’
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Letter containing ricin sent to President Obama
The US secret service intercepts a letter addressed to President Obama containing traces of ricin, a day after the poison was found in a letter sent to a senator.
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Boston Marathon bombing: does internet sleuthing help?
With no confirmed breakthroughs in the search for whoever was behind the Boston Marathon bombs, do amateur internet sleuths help or hinder police efforts?
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‘Close Guantanamo Bay’ senior US figures tell Obama
Former senior members of the US military and political establishment accuse the country’s most senior officials of contributing to the spread of torture.
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Boston Marathon: police continue to hunt for clues
Investigators continue to scour for leads following yesterday’s Boston Marathon bomb attack that killed three people, including eight-year-old Martin Richard.
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Gold prices stabilise after dramatic fall
The price of gold rises slightly following its biggest one-day fall in 30 years, but the precious metal is likely to come under further pressure from investors.
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‘Pressure cooker bombs used in Boston attack’
Terrorists reportedly used pressure cookers packed with metal and ball bearings to kill three people at the Boston Marathon, according to a source briefed on the attack.
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Pakistani Taliban deny involvement in Boston blasts
A leading Islamist terror group says it was not behind the marathon bombs, as America asks: did the bombers come from home or abroad?
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Yahoo!’s email system hacked by criminal spammers
As the world’s third largest email provider recovers from a hack attack, Technology Producer Geoff White has the details of the scam and how Yahoo! users can protect themselves.
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Banksy: whose art is it anyway?
The people of Wood Green in north London are pleading with a Miami auction house not to sell a Banksy mural which disappeared from a local wall – but is it too late?
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Five-year-old hostage rescued after week long stand-off
Police officers storm an underground bunker in Alabama where a five-year-old boy had been held hostage for nearly a week, rescuing the child and shooting the boy’s captor dead.
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Gun control: What can America learn from Britain?
US conservatives are digging in amid calls for tighter gun laws, with some even claiming Britain is more dangerous than America, despite the lack of firearms here. FactCheck investigates.
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McAfee back in the US after month on the run
Anti-virus millionaire John McAfee has returned to the US. He was deported from Guatemala after fleeing police in Belize, who want to question him over the death of his neighbour.
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Petraeus ‘did not pass on classified info’
With David Petraeus telling a US network he did not pass on classified information to his former lover, Channel 4 News untangles the links between key players in the scandal engulfing the CIA.
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President Obama and the spy scandal
President Obama’s first press conference since re-election begun with the scandal of the spymaster, his mistress, the general, HIS love interest and the FBI agent who took his shirt off.
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Military manoeuvres as the Petraeus sex scandal widens
As another US general becomes embroiled in the scandal involving former CIA director David Petraeus, Felicity Spector sifts through the details of a story that gets more unbelievable by the day.