• Explosive devices found in NY, NJ made with easy-to-get materials

    Explosive devices found in NY, NJ made with easy-to-get materials

    Sep 19, 2016 09:01 PM EDT

    ... popularized years ago by Inspire magazine, an English-language online publication produced by an al-Qaida affiliate and used by the brothers who bombed the Boston Marathon in 2013. But while pressure cookers are advocated by terrorist organizations, their use does not necessarily suggest that someone received specialized training or ...

  • View of death penalty is key criteria in jury selection for Tsarnaev case - Part 2

    View of death penalty is key criteria in jury selection for Tsarnaev case - Part 2

    Jan 06, 2015 01:41 AM EDT

    ... been put off for some time now. It was originally supposed to take place in November. But in talking with, for example, a manager at Boston Marathon Sports, which -- windows were blown out during the -- by one of the bombs, he simply said that he would like to focus on ...

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    Judy's Notebook: Witnessing the Events in Boston From 5,000 Miles Away

    Apr 25, 2013 02:07 PM EDT

    Kauai, Hawaii. Photo by Judy Woodruff/PBS NewsHour. When the events at the Boston Marathon unfolded last week, I was about as far away as one could be, and still be in the U.S. Yes, halfway across the Pacific Ocean, in Hawaii. While the reporter in me hates to ...

  • Anything in Washington becomes political, even the Boston bombing

    Anything in Washington becomes political, even the Boston bombing

    Apr 15, 2014 01:15 PM EDT

    Today in the Morning Line: Boston bombing and the year of surveillance scrutiny US-Russia tensions flare over Ukraine Get those taxes in! Health law’s good week Landrieu runs as the insider Boston bombing - one year later: It’s been a year since the Boston bombing, and while at ...

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    Boston on High Alert After Deadly Blasts Rock Marathon Finish Line

    Apr 15, 2013 04:00 AM EDT

    ... several thousand runners still on the course at the time. Marathon organizers sent buses to pick them up.Meanwhile, police said the motive for the bombings remained unclear. They also reported a third explosion at the John F. Kennedy Library, but it may not be related. ED DAVIS, Boston Police ...

  • Trump administration approves sale of $1.3 billion in artillery to Saudi Arabia

    Trump administration approves sale of $1.3 billion in artillery to Saudi Arabia

    Apr 05, 2018 09:57 PM EDT

    WASHINGTON — The Trump administration signed off Thursday on selling more than $1.3 billion in artillery to Saudi Arabia, giving a vote of confidence to the Saudi military as young Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman concludes a marathon tour of the United States. Since Prince Mohammed arrived in the U ...

  • 15 years after 9/11, national security is stronger -- but so are the threats

    15 years after 9/11, national security is stronger -- but so are the threats

    Aug 16, 2016 12:04 AM EDT

    ... mitigation measures, really important, you know, recovery measures if there's an attack. There was a drill in Boston just a few months before the bombing there. And when they did a report about that drill and how that had really helped to save lives after the marathon bombing, he ...

  • Assessing Obama’s speech and strategy on fighting terrorism

    Assessing Obama’s speech and strategy on fighting terrorism

    Dec 08, 2015 12:58 AM EDT

    President Obama set out in an address from the Oval Office on Sunday to reassure Americans about the fight against the Islamic State militant group abroad and protection from terrorism at home. Is the plan enough to keep Americans safe? Gwen Ifill gets two perspectives from former U.S. Attorney General Michael Mukasey and former Assistant...

  • News Wrap: Obama urges Senate to vote on Lynch confirmation

    News Wrap: Obama urges Senate to vote on Lynch confirmation

    Apr 17, 2015 11:22 PM EDT

    In our news wrap Friday, President Obama hosted Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi at the White House, and addressed a list of issues, including the way GOP leaders are handling one of his main cabinet appointments. Also, financial leaders from the world’s major economies gathered to discuss rising challenges and issued a joint communique saying...

  • It wasn’t the ‘Do-Nothing Congress’ after all

    It wasn’t the ‘Do-Nothing Congress’ after all

    Jan 15, 2015 02:10 PM EDT

    We now know just how productive the last Congress was — thanks to one of the more underappreciated reports in U.S. government, the Resume of Congressional Activity.This one-page sheet summarizes the activity of each Congressional year and the report for 2014 is now out.