• Boston bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev: 'I have done irreparable damage'; sentenced to death

    Boston bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev: 'I have done irreparable damage'; sentenced to death

    Jun 24, 2015 05:48 PM EDT

    A federal judge has formally sentenced Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev to death for the 2013 attacks that killed three bystanders near the finish line of the annual race. Tsarnaev, 21, and his older brother, Tamerlan, also killed a policeman during a manhunt. The elder Tsarnaev later died in a ...

  • News Wrap: Six arrested for conspiring to join Islamic State

    News Wrap: Six arrested for conspiring to join Islamic State

    Apr 20, 2015 11:17 PM EDT

    ... in a January incident. Last month, a video surfaced that showed him repeatedly punching a black man during a traffic stop. GWEN IFILL: The 119th Boston Marathon was run today amid heavy security two years after a fatal bombing at the finish line. The winner that year, Lelisa Desisa of ...

  • Thomas Menino, Boston's longest-serving mayor, dies at 71

    Thomas Menino, Boston's longest-serving mayor, dies at 71

    Oct 30, 2014 04:29 PM EDT

    ... Boston's historic Faneuil Hall on March 28, 2013. Less than three weeks after that announcement, two bombs exploded at the finish line of the Boston Marathon, killing three people and injuring more than 260. Menino, who had undergone surgery on a broken leg just two days earlier, checked himself ...

  • News Wrap: Obama warns against quarantine policies that could hamper Ebola fight

    News Wrap: Obama warns against quarantine policies that could hamper Ebola fight

    Oct 28, 2014 11:12 PM EDT

    ... attack American interests and to what happened in Canada.  The move affects unspecified sites in Washington and other cities. A college friend of the accused Boston Marathon bomber was convicted today of lying to FBI agents.  A federal jury found Robel Phillipos guilty of not telling the truth about being ...

  • News Wrap: National Guard ordered to begin pulling out of Ferguson

    News Wrap: National Guard ordered to begin pulling out of Ferguson

    Aug 21, 2014 11:17 PM EDT

    ... suspended for pointing a semiautomatic rifle at a crowd of protesters Tuesday night and threatening to kill one of them. A friend of the accused Boston Marathon bomber pleaded guilty today to obstruction of justice charges. Dias Kadyrbayev allegedly removed evidence from a college room, including a backpack holding emptied ...

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    Building a Pressure Cooker Bomb

    May 28, 2013 10:00 PM EDT

    On Tuesday's PBS NewsHour, Miles O'Brien visits the nation's most active explosives test facility, where scientists investigate the bombs that were detonated at the finish line of the Boston Marathon. Screen grabs from PBS NewsHour/NOVA It's a strange phone call to make -- dialing up a ...

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    Letter to Miss. Senator Tests for Ricin

    Apr 17, 2013 01:52 AM EDT

    ... Roger Wicker of Mississippi twice tested positive Tuesday for ricin, a potentially fatal poison, congressional officials said, heightening concerns about terrorism a day after a bombing killed three and left more than 170 injured at the Boston Marathon. One senator, Claire McCaskill of Missouri, said authorities have a suspect in ...

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    Boston Blasts Put Politics On Hold

    Apr 16, 2013 12:57 PM EDT

    ... Marathon," followed by metro reporter Mark Arsenault's lede: Two bomb blasts, 12 seconds apart, rocked the finish line of the 117th running of the Boston Marathon Monday, killing at least three people, including an 8-year-old Dorchester boy, wounding more than 130, and leaving the sidewalks of Boylston ...

  • Suspect in New York truck attack pleads not guilty to murder and terrorism charges

    Suspect in New York truck attack pleads not guilty to murder and terrorism charges

    Nov 29, 2017 02:54 AM EDT

    ... he is found guilty of the charges, though it's not clear whether federal prosecutors will seek it, as they did in the case of Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. The hearing in the historic Thurgood Marshall U.S. Courthouse occurred less than half a mile from the Oct. 31 ...

  • Why are so many from this Russian republic fighting for ISIS?

    Why are so many from this Russian republic fighting for ISIS?

    Jul 12, 2017 11:49 PM EDT

    In the republic of Dagestan, a brutal separatist insurgency has long fought against the Russian state. Now, as many as 5,000 Dagestanis have left to fight for the Islamic State. Why have so many answered the call? As part of our week-long series Inside Putin's Russia, special correspondent Nick Schifrin and producer Zach Fannin report,...