Live updates: Boston Marathon bomber sentencing

Live updates: Boston Marathon bomber sentencing
What went wrong for Bobby Jindal
Former Facebook bad boy Sean Parker trying to do good
Anger, no surprise as US newly accused of spying in France
As South Carolina honors victims, Alabama lowers its flags
Prison worker smuggled escape tools in meat
Victims' families confront Boston bomber at sentencing
In new hostage policy, U.S. will not prosecute families for paying ransom
At rural South Carolina flag factory, sadness and pride
Arrest video reveals officers’ emotions after capturing Dylann Roof
Big retailers feel pressure on Confederate flag merchandise
SC lawmakers overwhelmingly vote to debate Confederate flag
Confederate controversy spreads well beyond S.C.
Mistrial declared in rape case against two former Vanderbilt players

Posted: 24 Jun 2015 10:59 AM PDT

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

The 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

At 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

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

By 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

WASHINGTON (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

When 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

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

For 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.