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  • Bill Iffrig, 78, lies on the ground as police officers react to a second explosion at the finish line of the Boston Marathon in Boston, Monday, April 15, 2013. Iffrig, of Lake Stevens, Wash., was running his third Boston Marathon and near the finish line when he was knocked down by one of two bomb blasts. (AP Photo/The Boston Globe, John Tlumacki)

    Stunned Americans grieve as portraits of Boston Marathon bombing victims emerge

    The Neighborhood House Charter School has to bring in counselors for children who will never again see their 8-year-old classmate Martin Richard. The mother of Krystle Campbell, a 29-year-old restaurant manager, said it "doesn't make any sense" that she is gone. And 27-year-old Jeff Bauman Jr. — the man in a widely distributed photo — had to have both lower limbs removed at Boston Medical Center because of extensive vascular and bone damage.


  • Traffic drives past Wrigley Field after the baseball game between the Milwaukee Brewers and Chicago Cubs was postponed due to inclement weather on Wednesday, April 10, 2013, in Chicago. (AP Photo/Jim Prisching)

    Curses! Goat's head sent to Wrigley's Field, resurrecting Cubs' 1945 fears

    An unidentified man driving an unmarked truck dropped a package containing a severed goat's head at Chicago's Wrigley Field on Wednesday, triggering fears that a curse placed on the ball club in 1945 is very much alive and well.


  • 'That's 1 MILLION times bigger than 9 TRILLION!'

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  • **FILE** Then-Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton speaks on American leadership at the Council on Foreign Relations in Washington on Jan. 31, 2013. (Associated Press)

    Hillary Rodham Clinton to charge $200K per speech

    Hillary Rodham Clinton will make more money from a two-hour lecture than she ever did in an entire year as secretary of state, according to a report Monday.


  • ** FILE ** In this Nov. 14, 2012 photo, U. S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton speaks during a news conference at the annual Australia-United States Ministerial Consultations in Perth, Australia. Clinton was released from a New York hospital on Wednesday, Jan. 2, 2013 three days after doctors discovered a blood clot in her head. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, Pool)

    Clinton rests, prepares to return to work next week

    Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, sidelined for almost a month by a string of medical problems, is upbeat and planning to return to work next week, the State Department said Thursday.


  • Secretary of State Hillary Clinton (center) is transported on the New York Presbyterian Hospital complex in New York on Jan. 2, 2013. Officials say Clinton, who was admitted to the New York hospital three days prior, continues to be treated with blood thinners to dissolve a clot in the vein behind the right ear. Doctors found the clot during a follow-up exam stemming from a concussion she suffered in early December. (Associated Press)

    Clinton talking to staff as she recovers from clot

    Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton has been speaking with staff and reviewing paperwork from the New York hospital where she is recovering from a blood clot in her head, the State Department said Wednesday.


  • Joanne and Bill Brunetti of Newtown, Conn., part of a group monitoring memorials around the clock, take an early morning shift on Dec. 25, 2012, in Newtown, near a memorial for Sandy Hook Elementary School students and teachers. Gunman Adam Lanza walked into the school on Dec. 14 and opened fire, killing 26, including 20 children, before killing himself. (Associated Press)

    Well-wishers console Newtown, Conn., residents on Christmas

    This Christmas was unlike any other in Newtown. When a gunman wiped out nearly an entire first-grade class and killed students and adults in two other first-grade classrooms just 11 days before Christmas, it made it impossible for the holiday to be the same this year.


  • Christmas stockings with the names of the victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting hang from a railing near a makeshift memorial near the town Christmas tree in the Sandy Hook village of Newtown, Conn., on Wednesday, Dec. 19, 2012. In the wake of the shooting, the grieving town is trying to find meaning in Christmas. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)

    Newtown, Conn., marks Christmas amid signs of mourning

    Newtown, Conn., observed Christmas amid snow-covered teddy bears, stockings, flowers and candles left in memory of the 20 children and six educators gunned down at an elementary school just 11 days before the holiday.


  • BOOK REVIEW: ‘The Expats’

    Kate Moore is the kind of woman who can kill, and who has killed, in-between being a mother to her two small sons and a wife to her rather nondescript husband, Dexter. Only one killing seems to haunt her, but she has been well trained to control her emotions.


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