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What We Know About 'The Act Of Terrorism' In Boston

2:34pm April 16, 2013

Less than 24 hours after two explosions rocked the finish line at the Boston Marathon and there are still more questions than answers about what happened. Three people were killed and more than 170 were injured. The FBI is investigating the event as an act of terrorism.

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Politics & Government

The Immigration Bill's Chances In Congress

2:16pm April 16, 2013

The Senate's Gang of Eight will roll out comprehensive immigration reform legislation Wednesday. The law is expected to create a path to citizenship for the estimated 11 million individuals living in the U.S. illegally, beef up border security and enhance the country's legal immigration system.

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Adoption Case Brings Rare Family Law Dispute To High Court

2:04pm April 16, 2013

by Nina Totenberg

After a South Carolina couple adopted a baby girl, her biological father sought full custody. Normally, the Supreme Court does not hear such disputes, but this case tests a federal law meant to stop Native American children's being improperly taken from their families.

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Dallas exonerees Christopher Scott (center) and Richard Miles, accompanied by Scott's girlfriend, Kelly Gindratt, prepare to be honored in the state Capitol in Austin, Texas, in March.

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Exoneree Detectives Fight For Those Still Behind Bars

9:35am April 16, 2013

by Michael May

Dallas is home to more than 40 people who've been released from prison for wrongful convictions. Some of those men have formed not just a support group, but a detective agency devoted to getting other innocent people out of prison.

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Life After Exoneration, For The Victims On Both Sides

3:34pm April 15, 2013

According to the National Registry of Exonerations, more than a thousand individual have been exonerated in the U.S. since 1989. After a wrongful conviction, the lives of both the accused and the victim are permanently altered.

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Sue Reams campaigned to change California's three-strikes law and help set free her son, Shane.

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A Mother's Fight Against 3 Strikes Law 'A Way of Life'

7:19pm April 10, 2013

by Ina Jaffe

Shane Reams owes his freedom from prison in no small part to his mother's 17-year campaign to change California's tough three strikes sentencing law. Sue Reams' work is not done, she says, not when people are still in prison "for stupid things" like stealing baby food.

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Court: Exxon Mobil Guilty In N.H. Contamination Suit

6:09pm April 10, 2013

by Sam Evans Brown

Exxon Mobil has been ordered to pay more than $200 million to clean up groundwater contaminated with the gasoline additive known as MTBE. New Hampshire won the lawsuit in state court. Exxon argues the federal government approved MTBE to reduce air pollution and should be blamed for the consequences.

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Some Public Defenders Warn: 'We Have Nothing Left To Cut'

7:20am April 10, 2013

by Carrie Johnson

Around the country, budget cuts are bringing some federal public defenders to the breaking point. "We can't not pay the rent, and ... everything else is personnel. We can't send a computer to court," says Washington, D.C., public defender A.J. Kramer.

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A Look Inside White Supremacist Prison Gangs

2:38pm April 09, 2013

Members of white supremacist prison gangs are among the suspects in the killings of law enforcement officials in Texas and Colorado, putting a spotlight on the organization and other prison gangs. The Aryan Brotherhood of Texas is known for organizing crimes from inside prison walls.

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Osama Bin Laden's Son-In-Law Set To Appear In N.Y. Court

10:32am April 08, 2013

by Dina Temple-Raston

Former al-Qaida spokesman Sulaiman Abu Ghaith was captured by U.S. officials in February. His arrest is significant, analysts say, because the Obama administration has decided to try him in a federal court instead of using a military commission at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

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