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Boston and the modern Manhunt.

Hello again, I'm Orrin Alney, and this is To the Point from Public Radio International.

A daily look at the issues Americans care about most.

Cell phones, surveillance cameras, and crowdsourcing all help police to identify and locate Monday's

marathon bombers by Thursday. But not before social media and professional news organizations

had reported false information like this story on Wednesday.

You're getting more information, exclusive reporting. What else are you learning?

That an arrest has been made. The media and public officials reinforced each other for both better

and worse. Did shutting down all of Boston give amateur terrorists extra impact? Was it a preview of

what's to come? On reporter's notebook later on, France is disrupted by same-sex marriage. First, here's the news.

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After releasing photographs from surveillance cameras, the FBI and local police made fast work of identifying and tracking down two suspects in last week's deadly attack on the Boston Marathon.

Did social media help more than it hindered?

Did mistakes by established news organizations create unnecessary confusion?

Why did a million people have to stay indoors with only one wounded fugitive still at large?

On reporter's notebook, the French parliament defied massive street protests and legalized same-sex

marriage today. What's the role of politics and a troubled economy? First, this news update. Israel's top

military intelligence analysts said today the U.S. is among the nations informed that the

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