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A 2011 Center for Investigative Reporting investigation revealed that since 9/11, $34 billion in grants from the Department of Homeland Security were allocated to states to procure military-grade weapons and other security defenses.
© Associated Press/Gil MontanoA woman holds up images of President-elect Nicolas Maduro and the late Hugo Chavez as supporters gather outside the Parliament building where Maduro's inaugural ceremony takes places, in Caracas, Venezuela, Friday, April 19, 2013. The opposition boycotted the ceremony, hoping that the ruling party's last-minute decision to allow an audit of nearly half the vote could change the result in a the bitterly disputed presidential election
The red-jacketed man appeared to be trying to address the crowd instead of attacking President Nicolas Maduro, but the interruption raised instant fears of assassination.
"He could have shot me here," Maduro said, dressing down his security detail before continuing with his address.
Barely five minutes into the speech, the man in a red, long-sleeved jacket ran on stage and said "Nicolas, my name is Jenry" before security converged from all sides.
The broadcast on state television cut away, then returned to the lectern and Maduro, who continued his speech.
The incident marred the ceremony in which Venezuela's ruling party to cement its grip on power. The socialist government packed thousands of red-clad supporters into the streets outside the inauguration of late leader Hugo Chavez's hand-picked successor, who is battling to establish his own authority.
© instagram.comIn a Russian-language statement on Instagram, the Russian-backed president of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, criticized American authorities for killing one of the two Chechen-born men suspected in the Boston bombing, and blamed the United States — not Chechnya — for shaping the bombers.
"Tragic events have taken place in Boston. A terrorist attack killed people. We have already expressed our condolences to the people of the city and to the American people. Today, the media reports, one Tsarnaev was killed as [police] tried to arrest him. It would be appropriate if he was detained and investigated, and the circumstances and the extent of his guilt determined. Apparently, the security services needed to calm down the society by any means necessary," says Chechen president Ramzan Kadyrov, according to BuzzFeed.
"Any attempt to draw a connection between Chechnya and Tsarnaevs - if they are guilty - is futile. They were raised in the United States, and their attitudes and beliefs were formed there. It is necessary to seek the roots of this evil in America. The whole world must struggle against terrorism - that we know better than anyone else. We hope for the recovery of all the victims, and we mourn with the Americans."
© Reuters/Andrew BurtonThe V-22 Osprey arrives for the Marines from the 1st Battalion 9th Marines Charlie Company 2nd Platoon during a tactical demonstration as a part of Fleet Week in New York, May 26, 2012.
The deal, more than a year in the making through a series of coordinated bilateral negotiations, would result in the sale of V-22 Osprey aircraft, advanced refueling tankers and anti-air defense missiles to Israel and 25 F-16 Desert Falcon jets worth nearly $5 billion to the United Arab Emirates.
The UAE and Saudi Arabia also would be allowed to purchase weapons with "stand-off" capabilities - those that can be used to engage the enemy with precision at a greater distance, defense officials said.
The deal marks the first time the United States has offered to sell tilt-rotor Ospreys to another country, and the "stand-off" weapons would give Saudi Arabia and the UAE a more advanced capability than they have had in the past, said the defense officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity.
© AP/The Lowell Sun & Robin YoungThis combination of undated photos shows Tamerlan Tsarnaev, 26, left, and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 19.
The FBI removed a computer and other evidence Friday from the home in West New York, N.J., of Ailina Tsarnaeva.
Police identified the woman Friday evening. They say she told agents she hadn't been in contact with her brothers for a long time.
The suspects were identified by law enforcement officials and family members as Dzhokhar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev, brothers from a Russian region near Chechnya.
West New York Police Director Michael Indri says the focus of the investigation was to confirm there was no contact. He says he's confident the FBI confirmed that.
Alina Tsarnaeva, sister of the alleged Boston Marathon bombers, brothers Tamerlan Tsarnaev and Dzhokhar A. Tsarnaev, speaks to media from behind a man who identified himself as her husband at their West New York, New Jersey, apartment on Friday, April 19, 2013. (Video by Frances Micklow/The Star-Ledger)
© GettyCambridge, Massachusetts earlier today.
Mayor Michael Bloomberg may have canceled his morning radio appearance today in response to the ongoing manhunt for a suspect involved in Monday's deadly bombing attack on the Boston Marathon, but another top New York official, Governor Andrew Cuomo, scheduled his own radio interview on The Capitol Pressroom soon after. Mr. Cuomo directly addressed the high-profile situation in the Bay State by employing a phrase he previously used to describe climate change in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy: "the new normal."
"It's a terrible situation in Boston. And, unfortunately, ... one gets the sense that this is more reflective of the 'new normal,' if you will," he explained. "So much of society is changing so rapidly. We talk about a 'new normal' when it comes to climate change and adjusting to a change in the weather patterns. 'New normal' when it comes to public security in a post-9/11 world. Where these random acts of violence, which at one time were implausible, now seem all-too-frequent."
© David L. Ryan | The Boston Globe | Getty ImagesA Black Hawk searches above the locked down Watertown neighborhood.
Anxiety was rising as SWAT teams and troops hunted door to door for the fugitive - and for more bombs - with more than a million people told to hunker down behind locked doors. Friday night's scheduled Red Sox and Bruins games and Big Apple Circus performance were canceled. Amtrak service between Boston and New York was suspended.
Tsarnaev, 19, remained on the lam hours after he and brother, Tamerlan, 26, made a desperate effort to flee the city following the FBI's release of their photos Thursday evening.
They killed a campus security officer, carjacked a man, and led police on a wild chase that ended in a firefight in which more than 200 rounds were exchanged, police said. The older brother, who had a bomb strapped to his body, was killed but the younger one escaped, though he may have been wounded, law enforcement sources said.
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"All these pictures are on the computer," Maret Tsarnaeva told reporters in a press conference that was aired by CNN.
"I have to see them. You have to have a motive first - something that would drive you to some actions. They cannot go crazy or mad or sick just for one day. As far as I know, they are fine."
"I don't trust the FBI," she added. "Show me evidence."
She was asked who she thinks set them up.
"Whoever needs this," she said, shrugging. "Whoever is looking for those who need to be blamed for these attacks."
That was a different take from the one expressed by an uncle of the suspects who spoke with reporters in an angry press conference earlier Friday. Ruslan Tsarni called both of the suspects "losers," and he urged Dzhokar to turn himself in.
"What I think was behind it: Being losers," he said.
Here's the video of the suspects' aunt with reporters
Comment: Actually what Alina says in the video is that she doesn't know whether her brothers were involved in the bombings, and adds, "In the news, you guys say whatever you want. No one knows the truth."