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In October 1969, hundreds of young people wielding lead pipes and clad in football helmets marched through an upscale Chicago shopping district, pummeling parked cars and smashing shop windows. Thus began the “Days of Rage,” the first demonstration of the Weathermen, later known as the Weather Underground. Outraged by the Vietnam War and racism in America, this group of former student radicals waged a low-level war against the United States government through much of the 1970s, bombing the Capitol building, breaking Timothy Leary out of prison and finally evading the FBI by going into hiding. In THE WEATHER UNDERGROUND, former...

New police firearms unit confiscates hundreds of gunsRachael Golden/The Gazette Lt. Michael Mancuso (left) and Sgt. Kenneth Berger display some of the weapons the county police's Firearms Investigation Unit has recovered in the past year or so. The unit evolved from the tens of thousands of tips called into police during the 2002 sniper attacks. Police investigators expected to find guns inside a Kensington home when they raided it in April. But they did not expect to find so many. Police found 57 handguns, shotguns, rifles and assault rifles, said Sgt. Kenneth Berger of the county police department's Firearms Investigation...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The FBI warned U.S. law enforcement officials on Wednesday to be on the lookout for clandestine laboratories that can make chemical and biological agents, including highly infectious bacteria and toxins like ricin. In its weekly intelligence bulletin distributed to law enforcement officials across the country, the FBI expanded on last week's bulletin warning to look out for people who may be trying to make improvised chemical weapons. "Recent events, including the January 2003 arrests in the United Kingdom of Algerian extremists apparently attempting to produce ricin toxin in their residence, indicate an ongoing interest among terrorists in...