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The largest city in North Dakota suddenly has a million extra sandbags on its hands.Earlier this month, expecting a catastrophic flood season, the city of Fargo called out a volunteer army to fill the bags. The effort included three enormous, spider-shaped, sand-spewing machines and deputized middle-school kids.It was a huge success: Fargo wound up with more than 1.1 million sandbags. But now the ...
A Homeland Security officer assigned to the FBI's Joint Terrorism Task Force in Boston was alerted by email that Tamerlan Tsarnaev was traveling to Russia in January 2012, according to a U.S. counterterrorism official and a congressional investigator briefed on the investigation.But the email — sent because Tsarnaev's name was on a Homeland Security watch-listing database — generated no further sc...
