Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the surviving Boston Marathon bombing suspect, was charged Monday and could face the death penalty. The younger Tsarnaev says he and his brother were motivated by religion, but had no help plotting or executing the attacks.
Law enforcement officials are defending their actions in the face of questions about whether the FBI missed the opportunity to track Tamerlan Tsarnaev. Officials say they didn’t have the legal authority to monitor the elder Tsarnaev brother before and after his return from his six-month trip to Russia last year. The FBI interviewed the elder Tsarnaev brother in 2011, after a tip from Russian intelligence that he was a follower of radical Islam, but the FBI concluded he posed no terrorist threat.
In Canada, police say they foiled a terror plot that would have targeted passenger trains. And the Muslim community helped disrupt the plot.
The Boston Marathon bombings are being used by some in Washington as a reason to put off immigration reform.
If you haven’t yet felt the effects of the sequester and its deep budget cuts, you may soon. That’s because flights will be delayed across the country amid furloughs of air traffic controllers. A new poll finds Democrat Elizabeth Colbert Busch has a sizable lead over former governor Mark Sanford in that special election for Tim Scott’s old House seat in South Carolina.
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