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A burglar in Romania was arrested—after he called the cops himself. Marius Ionescu, 31, apparently got scared by a noise while looting a house; fearing another robber at work, he dove under the bed and called police to save him, the Metro reports. They arrived to find no one...

When Zubeidat Tsarnaeva first got word that her two sons were accused of carrying out the Boston Marathon bombings, she "was just really mad and angry at America," she tells Channel 4 News . "Somebody did this, somebody set this up, not my kids. ... I know that my kids have nothing...

Federal investigators haven't found any ricin, any ricin ingredients, or even any devices that could have been used to make ricin, "like a blender or something," in suspect Paul Kevin Curtis' home, an FBI agent testified in a hearing yesterday, according to the AP . Nor did Curtis' computer search history...

Yesterday, Canadian authorities said they foiled an alleged terrorist plot —the "first known al-Qaeda plan of attack that we’ve experienced," one detective says—and they have a Toronto imam to thank for the bust. More than a year ago, the still-anonymous imam told authorities he was concerned about the behavior...

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev has confessed to the Boston bombings but told interrogators that his dead brother was the driving force behind the attacks, a government source tells CNN . The 19-year-old, who has been charged with using weapons of mass destruction and told he could face the death penalty, is being questioned...

The Russian tip to the FBI about Tamerlan Tsarnae v two years before the Boston bombings was a result of his frequent visits to a mosque known for producing extremists, Time finds. Tsarnaev came to the attention of Russian security forces after becoming a regular at the Salafist mosque on...

The two brothers suspected of bombing the Boston Marathon appear to have been motivated by their religious faith but do not seem connected to any Muslim terrorist groups, US officials said today after interrogating the severely wounded Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. Two US officials said preliminary evidence from an interrogation suggests Dzhokhar...

Police in Nicaragua have detained a US man who was on the FBI's 10 most-wanted fugitives as a suspect in a child pornography investigation, authorities confirmed today. Former school teacher Eric Justin Toth was detained Saturday in Esteli, a city near Nicaragua's border with Honduras, said Nicaragua's National Police. Toth's...

US Army Sgt. John Russell pleaded guilty today to intentionally murdering five fellow servicemen and women in Iraq in 2009, as part of a deal that will allow him to avoid the death penalty. The judge hasn't decided whether or not to accept the plea deal yet, though he did...

In the search for answers on the Boston bombing suspects, one new question: Was Tamerlan Tsarnaev involved in a still-unsolved 2011 triple murder? A rep for the DA in Middlesex County (home to Watertown) confirms to ABC News that the "possible connection" is being investigated. How the narrative is unfolding:...

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev has been charged with using a weapon of mass destruction in the Boston Marathon bombings and could face a death sentence. The 19-year-old, who is in serious but stable condition, had an initial court appearance in his hospital room today, before a magistrate judge, the AP reports. The...

Conservatives jumped all over a Salon columnist who wrote a piece last week headlined, "Let's Hope the Boston Marathon Bomber Is a White American" —and when the suspects were revealed, conservatives gloated that they were not, in fact, white Americans. But the Tsarnaev brothers "are quite literally Caucasian, as in...

After hijacking a car, the Boston bombing suspects chose not to kill its driver—because he's not an American, he told police. Pete Williams of NBC reported the news, picked up by Politico ; it matches a police report obtained by the Wall Street Journal . That report alleges the Tsarnaev brothers...

A driver in Vietnam was arrested over some unusual cargo. His car was slithering with snakes—53 cobras in green sacks, to be specific, police say. The driver reported being paid less than $50 to haul the animals, whose meat is a delicacy in the country, the AP reports. If...

The FBI wants to know what suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev's wife knew about the Boston bomb plot, a police insider tells the New York Post . Federal officials have visited Katherine Russell's parents multiple times but have yet to interview her, says family lawyer Amato DeLuca. He maintains that "Katherine is innocent,...

The Tsarnaev brothers apparently got quite chatty with the driver whose Mercedes SUV they allegedly carjacked: Not only did they reportedly admit their role in the Boston Marathon bombings to him, they also told him they were planning to go to New York, a senior US official tells the New...

When Tamerlan Tsarnaev went to Dagestan for six months, a period of time the FBI is scrutinizing in the wake of the Boston Marathon bombings, he didn't seem like an extremist looking for guidance. Rather, according to people who spent time with him there, he seemed like a young man...

In the wake of brutal gang rapes , the rape of a 5-year-old girl , and surging sex crimes, India is looking at banning pornography completely. The country's Supreme Court took up the controversial issue last week, the New York Times reports, after a petition claiming porn leads to sexual violence was...

In the years before the Boston Marathon bombing, the Tsarnaev family was ripped apart as eldest son Tamerlan and his mother Zubeidat embraced a stricter version of Islam, the Wall Street Journal finds. Zubeidat says she pushed Tamerlan to embrace Islam during a period of personal turmoil that included a...

Ffve people were shot to death, including a suspect who was shot by arriving officers, after gunfire erupted at an apartment complex in a city south of Seattle, police say. Officers responding to an emergency call at the apartments in Federal Way last night, found two injured men on the...