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When the Mail Is Used to Stoke Panic

Officials have intercepted explosive items bound for an array of high-profile targets ahead of next month’s midterm elections.
Source: Carlo Allegri / Reuters

Updated at 2:14 p.m. ET on October 24, 2018.

First it was George Soros, then in quick succession Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, and CNN. This week a number of potential explosive devices made their way into the U.S. mail system, each disarmed before anyone was injured.

In Soros’s case, that the device was likely hand-delivered to his mailbox, where it was found by an employee and ; police similarly found and removed “what appeared to be a live explosive device” from

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