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The twin bombings at the Boston Marathon and the manhunt for the Tsarnaev brothers captivated the nation in the last weeks of April 2013. Nearly a dozen years after 9/11, a great U.S. city was once ag...
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For most U.S. citizens, terrorism became an issue of focus in the wake of the Al Qaeda attacks on September 11, 2001. However, for many countries around the world, terrorism has been an issue that the...
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The Boston Marathon bombing, subsequent manhunt, and current investigation are unprecedented—due not only to the nature of the attack but because of how much information has been available to law en...
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In today’s world, it is nearly impossible to avoid the constant presence of social media and society’s obsession with it. It is all around us. Smartphones, computers, and tablets provide an indivi...
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A shooting on the street
A fire at a residence
An emergency medical technician treating a wounded civilian
Taken separately, each of these incidents hardly gathers national attention. They ar...
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In a recent Gallup poll, less than one-half of one percent of respondents ranked terrorism as the most important issue facing the United States.1 Contrast this with a similar poll taken months after 9...
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In October 2010, someone deliberately fired a number of rounds at the National Museum of the Marine Corps in Triangle, Virginia. This was the beginning of a series of shootings that targeted multiple ...
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On Friday, November 16, 2012, Adis Medunjanin was sentenced to life in federal prison for his involvement in a plot to bomb the Manhattan subway system in New York City on the eighth anniversary of th...


