• How does the U.S. refugee system work?

    How does the U.S. refugee system work?

    Mar 23, 2024 07:12 PM EDT

    ... were the children of asylees, including the 2016 Manhattan bomber, whose father had been an Afghan refugee, and the Tsarnaev brothers, who carried out the Boston Marathon bombing and whose parents fled war-torn Chechnya. Trump administration officials often voiced concerns over the vetting process for incoming refugees. But Biden ...

  • News Wrap: Deadly conflict, airstrikes erupt in Sudan’s capital city

    News Wrap: Deadly conflict, airstrikes erupt in Sudan’s capital city

    Apr 15, 2023 09:45 PM EDT

    In our news wrap Saturday, Sudan’s army and a rival paramilitary force engaged in fierce fighting in Khartoum, Japan’s prime minister was evacuated from a campaign event after an explosion, France’s president signed a controversial pension reform into law, and families of Boston Marathon bombing victims laid ...

  • How to help kids cope with the violence they hear about on the news

    How to help kids cope with the violence they hear about on the news

    Jul 18, 2022 09:59 PM EDT

    No matter how much parents or caregivers try to shield children, then, they are likely to come upon the news. The news as a catalyst for fear Several studies have examined children’s fear responses to news. Six months after the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing, Boston-area parents reported that ...

  • AP report: Capitol Police rejected offers of federal help to quell mob

    AP report: Capitol Police rejected offers of federal help to quell mob

    Jan 07, 2021 11:10 PM EDT

    ... He admitted to police that he made statements about rioting in the District of Columbia, local officials said. Both Acevedo and Ed Davis, a former Boston Police commissioner who led the department during the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing, said they did not fault the responses of clearly overmatched front-line ...

  • On screen and on stage, disability continues to be depicted in outdated, cliched ways

    On screen and on stage, disability continues to be depicted in outdated, cliched ways

    Nov 02, 2020 11:03 PM EDT

    ... of Future Past.” Then there are inspirational cripples, whose roles equate to what disability rights activist Stella Young calls “inspiration porn.” These stories center on disabled people accomplishing basic tasks or “overcoming” their disability. We see this in “Stronger,” which retells the story of Boston Marathon bombing survivor Jeff Bauman.

  • Biden’s character, party unity on display on DNC Night 4

    Biden’s character, party unity on display on DNC Night 4

    Aug 21, 2020 06:36 PM EDT

    ... he cares about our government and what people are saying.” Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren remembered remarks Biden gave on the one-year anniversary of the Boston Marathon bombing. “At some point in that speech he shifted to the parent who had lost a child, to the man who had lost ...

  • AP Exclusive: Feds to seek death sentence for Boston bomber

    AP Exclusive: Feds to seek death sentence for Boston bomber

    Aug 20, 2020 11:18 PM EDT

    WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department will seek to reinstate a death penalty for Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the man who was convicted of carrying out the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing, Attorney General William Barr said Thursday. In an interview with The Associated Press, Barr said the Justice Department would appeal the court ...

  • Court overturns Boston Marathon bomber's death sentence

    Court overturns Boston Marathon bomber's death sentence

    Jul 31, 2020 08:12 PM EDT

    A federal appeals court Friday threw out Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s death sentence in the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing, saying the judge who oversaw the case did not adequately screen jurors for potential biases. A three-judge panel of the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ordered a new penalty ...

  • Ex-Boston slugger David Ortiz shot at Dominican Republic bar

    Ex-Boston slugger David Ortiz shot at Dominican Republic bar

    Jun 10, 2019 05:50 PM EDT

    ... Boston renamed a bridge and a stretch of road outside Fenway Park in his honor. He maintains a home in Weston, on the outskirts of Boston.Ortiz galvanized the city after the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing that left three people dead, bellowing through a megaphone at Fenway Park: "This is ...

  • Coverage of mass killings is bad for mental health -- yet makes people seek more

    Coverage of mass killings is bad for mental health -- yet makes people seek more

    Apr 17, 2019 11:30 PM EDT

    ... is a gold standard for measuring acute stress and post-traumatic stress symptoms.” Her team found that the people who consumed more media surrounding the Boston Marathon bombing were more likely to exhibit symptoms of post-traumatic stress six months later. A year after the bombing, those subjects also reported ...