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Live updates: Boston Marathon bomber sentencing

Live updates: Boston Marathon bomber sentencing


Live updates: Boston Marathon bomber sentencing

Posted: 24 Jun 2015 10:59 AM PDT

In this courtroom sketch, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, center, is depicted between defense attorneys Miriam Conrad, left, and Judy Clarke, right, during his federal death penalty trial, Thursday, March 5, 2015, in Boston. Tsarnaev is charged with conspiring with his brother to place two bombs near the Boston Marathon finish line in April 2013, killing three and injuring 260 people. (AP Photo/Jane Flavell Collins)Dzhokhar Tsarnaev apologizes in court to the victims of the 2013 attack.


What went wrong for Bobby Jindal

Posted: 24 Jun 2015 04:43 AM PDT

Louisiana Governor and potential Republican presidential candidate Bobby Jindal addresses a legislative luncheon held as part of the "Road to Majority" conference in WashingtonThe latest 2016 contender was supposed to be 'the next Ronald Reagan' - but now he barely registers in 2016 polls.


Former Facebook bad boy Sean Parker trying to do good

Posted: 23 Jun 2015 07:30 PM PDT

Former Facebook president Sean Parker wants to cure cancer and end allergiesAt just 35, Sean Parker has been public enemy No. 1 to the music industry and one of the first "friends" of Facebook, and he's made billions along the way. In 1999, he co-founded Napster, a music-sharing site that attracted millions of users — and enough lawsuits from record labels to shut it down. Five years later, after seeing a site called "The Facebook" on the computer of his roommate's girlfriend at Stanford, he met founder Mark Zuckerberg and soon became the president of Facebook.


Anger, no surprise as US newly accused of spying in France

Posted: 24 Jun 2015 10:44 AM PDT

FILE - In this June 22, 2015, file photo, French President Francois Hollande speaks during a media conference at an EU summit in Brussels. WikiLeaks published documents late Tuesday, June 23, 2015, that it says show the U.S. National Security Agency eavesdropped on the last three French presidents, Hollande, Nicolas Sarkozy and Jacques Chirac, releasing material which appeared to capture officials in Paris talking candidly about Greece's economy, relations with Germany — and, ironically, American espionage. (AP Photo/Michel Euler, File)Leaked documents appear to show that the U.S. spied on the past three French presidents.


As South Carolina honors victims, Alabama lowers its flags

Posted: 24 Jun 2015 10:14 AM PDT

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — The Confederate battle flag was still flying high atop a 30-foot pole outside the South Carolina Statehouse on Wednesday as lawmakers prepared to honor their beloved black colleague with a viewing in the Rotunda. Elsewhere around the nation, leaders were already demoting the historic but divisive symbol.

Prison worker smuggled escape tools in meat

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Joyce Mitchell put hacksaw blades and other tools in hamburger meat, the DA says.


Victims' families confront Boston bomber at sentencing

Posted: 24 Jun 2015 10:04 AM PDT

The defense team, including Judy Clarke (2nd right), arrives before the formal sentencing of convicted Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev at the federal courthouse in BostonBy Scott Malone BOSTON (Reuters) - Parents of the dead and some of the scores wounded in the 2013 attack on the Boston Marathon defiantly confronted bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, calling him "cowardly" at a hearing where he was to be formally sentenced to death. The same federal jury that earlier this year found Tsarnaev, 21, guilty of killing four people and injuring 264 in the bombing and its aftermath voted in May to sentence him to death by lethal injection. Rebekah Gregory, who lost her left leg in one of the highest-profile attacks on U.S. soil since Sept. 11, 2001, addressed Tsarnaev directly.


In new hostage policy, U.S. will not prosecute families for paying ransom

Posted: 24 Jun 2015 08:51 AM PDT

U.S. President Barack Obama announces a change in U.S. policy in the Roosevelt Room at the White House in WashingtonWASHINGTON (Reuters) - The White House on Wednesday released a new policy aimed at becoming more sensitive to the needs of families of U.S. hostages held abroad.


At rural South Carolina flag factory, sadness and pride

Posted: 24 Jun 2015 10:35 AM PDT

Keisha Hardman cuts and sews U.S. flags at Valley Forge's manufacturing facility in Lane, South CarolinaWhen Margaree Mitchum sees the stars and stripes waving atop a flagpole, she feels more than ordinary patriotism. "I look at a flag differently now," she said Tuesday at the Valley Forge Flag factory in Lane, South Carolina, where she has worked for 14 years. Mitchum, 60, is one of more than 100 employees at Valley Forge's South Carolina factory, located about 65 miles north of Charleston on a rural back road among cotton and corn fields.


Arrest video reveals officers’ emotions after capturing Dylann Roof

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Big retailers feel pressure on Confederate flag merchandise

Posted: 23 Jun 2015 04:52 PM PDT

Confederate flag themed stickers are displayed at Arkansas Flag and Banner in Little Rock, Ark., Tuesday, June 23, 2015. Major retailers including Amazon, Sears, eBay and Etsy and Wal-Mart Stores Inc., are halting sales of the Confederate flag and related merchandise. (AP Photo/Danny Johnston)Even as national retailers pull Confederate flags from shelves and websites after the shooting deaths of nine black church members in South Carolina, manufacturers that produce the divisive symbol say that sales are now surging.


SC lawmakers overwhelmingly vote to debate Confederate flag

Posted: 23 Jun 2015 09:49 PM PDT

A Confederate flag flies next to the Alabama Confederate Memorial on the grounds of the Alabama Capitol building in Montgomery, Ala., Monday, June 22, 2015. (Albert Cesare/The Montgomery Advertiser via AP) NO SALES; MANDATORY CREDITFor years, South Carolina lawmakers refused to revisit the Confederate flag on Statehouse grounds, saying the law that took it off the dome was a bipartisan compromise, and renewing the debate would unnecessarily expose divisive wounds.


Confederate controversy spreads well beyond S.C.

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Mistrial declared in rape case against two former Vanderbilt players

Posted: 23 Jun 2015 02:20 PM PDT

Defense Seeks Mistrial in Ex-Vanderbilt Football Players Rape CaseThe decision was made after defense attorneys argued last week that one of the jurors was biased.


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