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Guardsman charged with leaking classified documents ordered held
Jack Teixeira, 21, a member of Massachusetts Air National Guard, was formally charged in US District Court in Boston on Friday with the leak of classified documents online.

Read the criminal complaint against Teixeira

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Boston Globe photographer John Tlumacki remembers the events of the Boston Marathon bombing a decade ago, and how he captured the devastation with his camera.
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