Marathon bomber passed US citizenship test, records show

Marathon bomber passed US citizenship test, records show

BOSTON (AP) — Boston Marathon bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaev passed the U.S. citizenship test and denied terrorism links just months before he and his younger brother detonated two pressure cooker bombs that killed three people at the race's finish line and injured hundreds more.

The revelations were found in hundreds of heavily redacted Department of Homeland Security documents provided to The Boston Globe.

Trump draws barbs over response to David Duke
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Trump draws barbs over response to David Duke

Associated Press

LEESBURG, Va. (AP) — The final-days sprint to Super Tuesday has erupted into a feud over a white supremacist as Donald Trump's Republican rivals scramble to halt the billionaire New York businessman from becoming an "unstoppable" force in the 2016 presidential contest.

Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio continued to hammer the GOP front-runner's character and lack of policy specifics in a series of attacks Sunday while courting voters across the South. But it was Trump's refusal to denounce an implicit endorsement from former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke that dominated the narrative less than two days before Republican voters across 11 states head to the polls.

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