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A friend of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev charged with lying to federal investigators after the Boston Marathon bombings was placed on house arrest Monday after posting $100,000 bail.The friend, Robel Phillipos, was ordered released into the custody of his mother. He will have to wear an electronic monitoring bracelet and submit to drug testing. He will not be allowed to leave home except for court appearance...    

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A small team of Special Forces operatives was ready to fly from Tripoli to Benghazi last year after Libyan insurgents attacked the U.S. mission there, but was told it was not authorized to board the flight by regional military commanders, according to a career State Department official scheduled to testify before Congress on Wednesday.Gregory Hicks, then deputy chief of the U.S. diplomatic mission...    

Federal officials believe a localized "terror attack" was thwarted when an FBI raid on a Minnesota man's mobile home turned up Molotov cocktails, pipe bombs and several firearms.Buford Rogers, 24, was apprehended Friday after the raid of his Montevideo, Minn., home.“The FBI believes that a terror attack was disrupted by law enforcement personnel and that the lives of several local residents were p...    

The funeral director stuck with the body of Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev said Monday that he wants the State Department to step in and have the remains flown to Russia."Everyone wants him sent back to Russia," said Peter Stefan of Graham Putnam & Mahoney Funeral Parlors in Worcester, Mass."I'm gonna get on the phone with the necessary people and say, 'We need help with thi...