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Marathon bombings mastermind Tamerlan Tsarnaev was living on taxpayer-funded state welfare benefits even as he was delving deep into the world of radical anti-American Islamism, the Herald has learned. State officials confirmed last night that Tsarnaev, slain in a raging gun battle with police last Friday, was receiving benefits along with his wife, Katherine Russell Tsarnaev, and their 3-year-old daughter. The state’s Executive Office of Health and Human Services said those benefits ended in 2012 when the couple stopped meeting income eligibility limits. Russell Tsarnaev’s attorney has claimed Katherine — who had converted to Islam — was working up to...

The claim that Jews have a secret plan to rule the world was popularized by a 100-year-old book called "The Protocols of the Elders of Zion." The book allegedly was a transcript of a secret conference of Jewish leaders. While the notion of a Jewish conspiracy has long been discounted, the idea refuses to go away. A new book seeks to debunk the myth once and for all. "The Lie That Wouldn't Die" reveals that the man behind "The Protocols" was a Russian secret agent who plagiarized the text from a book of imaginary dialogues written nearly half a century...

The "Protocols of the Elders of Zion" have come to Los Angeles. On its 100th anniversary, the vicious, primitive forgery has struck again, this time in a Russian-language tabloid circulated in the heavily Russian Jewish neighborhoods around West Hollywood. First published on August 28, 1903, the "Protocols" have been translated and published all over the world — including the United States — in dozens of languages. They have been exposed again and again as forgeries by courts, by investigative reporters of respectable publications and by scholarly analyses conducted by reputable scholars. The original sources from which this abomination was copied...