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The New York Police Department is defending itself in a federal civil rights lawsuit over its surveillance of Muslims. It says in a new court filing that nothing it has done violated surveillance guidelines imposed by a federal judge in a previous case.

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As he hid in a boat in Watertown, the Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev wrote a note on the interior wall of the boat blaming the attack on "what the U.S. did to Muslims in Afghanistan and Iraq."

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American Muslim organizations are condemning the Boston Marathon bombings and urging Americans of all faiths to join them in praying for the victims and their families.

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Here is a list of some of the worst bombings in the U.S. dating to the 1800s, including some famous attempts that failed:

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New Jersey's attorney general has visited another mosque as part of an ongoing effort to improve relations with the Muslim community.

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We here in the land of the free don’t really get the idea of religious persecution. However it does happen in plenty of places around the world. Coptic Christians persecuted in Egypt for instance; and in Indonesia, the persecution of Christians by Muslims

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Civil rights lawyers urged a judge Monday to stop the New York Police Department from routinely observing Muslims in restaurants, bookstores and mosques, saying the practice violates a landmark 1985 court settlement that restricted the kind of surveillance used against war protesters in the 1960s and '70s.

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New Jersey Muslims who have sued New York City over its police-run surveillance of Muslims say the city's request that the lawsuit be dismissed is without merit.

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A disturbed woman accused of shoving a man in front of a New York City subway train to his death last month says she did it because she was having a bad day.

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A caller to my show brought this up to me during the week, but I hadn’t heard the full story until this morning on Jim’s show.

And I think it’s interesting, because it brings up the debate as to whether we can bring up the subject of God in any context in a public school setting

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