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    Did you hear -- there was an explosion at the White House and President Obama was injured! Oh wait, no, that's a false rumor. But wait -- a terrorist organization threatened to detonate bombs planted in the White House unless the U.S. declares war on North Korea! Oh wait, no ...

    A hacker group has been stirring up public paranoia this afternoon. First, they hacked the AP's Twitter account and posted a false tweet that the White House had been bombed: "Two Explosions in the White House and Barack Obama is injured." Within 15 minutes the tweet was caught and Twitter suspended the AP's account, but not before about 4,000 retweets happened. As for the White House bomb threat, that actually did happen. But it was an empty threat -- just another stupid case of swatting.

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    It felt like the whole world was watching the takedown of Boston bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. At one point there were some 130,000 people tuned in to one UStream account broadcasting a local police scanner for the outside world to hear, and hundreds of thousands more were tuned in to the various TV networks, all waiting with bated breath. Now police have decided to give us an inside look at how it all went down with the release of video footage from an infrared camera trained on the now famous boat in that Watertown backyard.

    Mostly black and white, the heat-sensing images are eerie. We can see the injured 19-year-old bombing suspect moving around inside that boat, the flash bangs set off by cops in an attempt to disorient him, and a robot working around the boat. But it's what we don't see that is the real story of this video.

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    As everyone who has been following the aftermath of the Boston Marathon bombing case knows, the second suspect, 19-year-old ethnic Chechnyan and University of Massachusetts student Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, was taken alive into custody. Authorities are hoping that he can provide answers as to his motivation, whether he and his brother, Tamerlan, who was killed, are working with anyone else, and whether there are other terrorist plots afoot. Here are 12 questions answered about the suspects.

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    Parts of Boston were a war zone Thursday night after a robbery at a convenience store in Cambridge, Massachusetts led to a shootout on the MIT campus that killed one police officer and resulted in a carjacking and a chase into Watertown, Massachusetts. Reports say that the two men involved in these incidents are the Boston Marathon bombing suspects.

    As it stands now, some are reporting that suspect number one (the man in the black hat) is dead and that suspect number two (the man in the white hat) is on the loose and considered very dangerous.

    Residents were being asked to stay inside and "shelter in place." Boston police weren't releasing the names of the suspects, but information is coming quickly, though it's just breaking and often conflicting. What we do know at this time is that there is an MIT police officer dead and another police officer critically wounded. The second officer is currently in the hospital. Police are calling these men "terrorists."

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    It's been over two hours since the horrific explosions occurred at the Boston Marathon finish line. While we're just starting to get some concrete facts about the explosions' cause, news reports have basically just been taking a stab in the dark trying to hypothesize what happened. Now, we know the blasts were caused by twin bombs, but for a while there, we had no idea, and yet anchors were referring to "bombs," "attacks," making mention of "Al Qaeda." So, so wrong.

    What's more, various outlets persisted in showing gratuitious, graphic photos of the injured and the scene. The one still of the sidewalk splattered with shattered glass and blood is just the tip of the iceberg of the horror show many news stations have been hell bent on showing us -- on repeat. Why is that necessary?!

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    Another deadly school attack may have been thwarted. Police say an Alabama teen planned on using homemade bombs to attack students at his high school.

    Seventeen-year-old Derek Shrout was taken into custody after his alleged murder plot was discovered in the most surprising way.

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    Cellphone video from 2011 of a Tampa, Florida teenager, Jared Cano, outlining his plot to kill teachers and students at Freedom High School with bombs, was just released by prosecutors offers a frightening view into the mind of a would-be bomber.

    Seventeen at the time, he wrote a manifesto that detailed his plans for an attack in August 2011 on the first day of school. Police arrived at his mother’s home to arrest the teen. They recovered bomb-making material, weapons, and the manifesto.

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    University of Texas students and faculty were on high alert this morning after a possible Al Qaeda bomb threat. Just days after starting the new semester -- and three since the anniversary of 9/11 -- they were greeted with a terrifying message from the administration via Twitter:

    Evacuation due to threats on campus immediately evacuate all buildings get as far away from the buildings as possible. More to come.

    Though Texas' 50,000 students were not alone in their fears. Hours later, North Dakota State University officials also began ordering students to evacuate after receiving a similar threat.

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    In what sounds like the plot for the latest summer blockbuster, a terrorist attack was thwarted by a double agent, who alerted the CIA to al Qaeda’s shenanigans. Actually, I’m pretty sure I saw that episode of 24. Jack Bauer eats terrorists for breakfast.

    This isn’t a movie or television set though – this is real life and it’s downright scary. Saudi Arabia intelligence was able to infiltrate al Qaeda in Yemen, where an agent posing as a wannabe suicide bomber gained access to a newer, slimmed-down version of the underwear bomb worn by Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab on Christmas day in 2009.

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    Rather than gifting neighbors with small baskets of treats this May Day, the Occupy Wall Street crowd (yes, they’re still around) decided to wreck havoc in major cities across the nation. Nothing says, “I’m a serious adult” quite like vandalism. 

    Occupy Oakland got started early with vandalism in San Francisco. Participants smashed store windows and cars during a mile-long trek through the city. They also slashed tires and threw bags of paint at buildings.

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