Newseum FBI exhibit has a "new" look.

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"Inside Today's FBI: Fighting Crime in the Age of Terror," a revised version of Newseum's popular Federal Bureau of Investigation exhibit, features never-before-displayed evidence and artifacts from some of the Bureau's biggest cases. The FBI's mission of combating terrorism is a major focus of the exhibition, which displays more than 45 new artifacts, including the Toyota Corolla abandoned by 9/11 hijackers at Dulles Airport outside Washington, D.C., and a Nissan Pathfinder that was rigged with explosives in a failed attempt to bomb New York's Times Square in 2010. The alarm clocks, propane tanks, pressure cooker pot, and other components of the homemade bomb will be on display inside the SUV.

The FBI has been making headlines for more than 100 years, and the exhibition explores the sometimes cooperative, sometimes combative relationship between the press and the Bureau.

"The exhibit vividly illustrates the dramatic story of the FBI's changing mission after 9/11 and explores debates over national security and privacy in this new age of global fear," says Cathy Trost, senior vice president of exhibits and programs. "With an unprecedented display of evidence, the exhibit takes visitors behind the investigations of some of the FBI's biggest cases, including stories about terrorism and cybercrime ripped from today's headlines."

The exhibition also displays artifacts from the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing, including the handcuffs that restrained bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev...

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