The Vatican has reportedly "approved" a second miracle that can be attributed to the memory of Pope John Paul II, opening the door for him to become a full saint faster than anyone in recent history.
Krystle Campbell went to the Boston Marathon every year. She went on Monday. She was 29. On Tuesday the Arlington resident became the second of three dead identified in the bombing attack, after a harrowing case of mistaken identity led her family to believe that she was still alive.
On the lighter side of news today is a great story in The Wall Street Journal by E.S. Browning about how retirees are partying it up in Florida.
Terror in the United States have evolved since 1970: once the tool of left-wing radicals, then right-wing radicals, terrorist attacks are now uncommon, often unsuccessful, and not nearly as deadly.
Even as the Boston Marathon investigation was in its early stages, a combination of media reports and forensics expertise combine to give us a rough picture of what everyone wants to know besides how everyone's doing and who did this: How did the bombs go off?
Last night New York's support for Boston was evident on a side of a building. Words of support and love for the usually rival city were projected out of a van onto the side of the Brooklyn Academy of Music. So how did those projections come to be?
In the immediate and very strange aftermath, Boston is coping with tragedy, and America with it, however it can. But, eventually, blessedly, not soon enough, that happiest distraction of all will return: the light touch and emotional balance of sports. Because sports are important. We are waiting for the games to begin again.
Tuesday night, in cruel echoes of a stubborn daytime before it, yielded precious but little new information the Boston bombs — and sad remembrances of one, two, and almost three of the dead. The bomber or bombers remained elusive, and President Obama was scheduled to visit the site of "an act of terror" Thursday. Catch up on the day after — and new medical information from Wednesday morning briefings — as authorities prepare for the days ahead.
Boston's Dorchester neighborhood has become a scene of a family so tight knight, a community so close — so shaken by the loss of such a little one, the first victim identified in Monday's attack — that it has become, at least for a little bit today, an epicenter of quiet grief in a city shaken by sudden violence.
We know how we feel about terrorism, deeds that are to be hated, doers of which are evil. And we know the messages that come inevitably following such acts: Don't give them what they want. Those messages have come.
As Mr. Rogers once said, "When I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news, my mother would say to me, 'Look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping.'" These are some of the helpers we've met so far from Patriot Day.
There's a natural question following yesterday's attack in Boston: What would it have taken to keep it from happening? The answer is pretty simple: Far more than we'd want to accept.
Monday's horrific events at the Boston Marathon produced equally horrific images, which in the age of social media news meant a constant, unsolicited bombardment of the gruesome aftermath of a gruesome event.
Across the running paths of America — and certainly across social media today and going forward — the runners are rallying. There are shirts. There are Instagram photos. There are beautiful words. But right now, running is enough. Just run.
It was a strange feeling, to suddenly understand why people react the way they do when horrors like this happen, to feel that helpless immediacy that demands a response, any response.
Nicholas Thompson on what a marathon attack means, John Tlumacki on photographing horror, Patton Oswalt on how tragedy renews our shared humanity, David Weigel on the futility of conspiracy theories, and Whitney Erin Boesel on Vine's role in replaying news.
In the Muslim world there were concerns about who might be blamed; in Britain thoughts turned to their own marathon set to take place Sunday. In its aftermath, the Boston Marathon bombings became a global news story, appearing on front pages in places ranging from Argentina to Turkey.
As images from the carnage in Boston continue to surface — of missing legs, of fallen men — so, too, has the truth behind some of the most memorable among them, however horrific or human. This is the truth we know so far.
A powerful seismic event occurred near the Iran-Pakistan border on Tuesday, and some are expecting it may cause hundreds of deaths.
During the Boston Police Department's final press conference of a confounding and deadly day, someone in the audience asked if Monday's bombing was a "false flag" attack. We can both explain and answer that question.
In the chaos following a pair of explosions in Boston, a wild report suddenly appeared: another, possibly related explosion had gone off at the John F. Kennedy Library. But the "explosion" later turned out to be an unrelated mechanical fire. So how did word of a third explosion spread?
The New York Post is either the most well-sourced newspaper in the country, the luckiest paper in the country, or an awful rag stirring up hate for Muslims. It depends on who you ask today, really.
In all the horror in Boston Monday, there are also heartening stories about how kindness emerged from tragedy: people on Twitter urging others to note the people who run towards the explosions, not a way from them, to help; stories of heroism from runners; journalists who ran the marathon, springing into action to cover the story; the first responders.
President Obama did call the bombing of the Boston marathon "terrorism" in a brief statement on the event Monday, saying instead, "We still do not know who did this or why. People shouldn't jump to conclusions before we have all the facts."
Where the blasts occurred, the race course, reports of other devices.
Something terrible has happened in Boston, this is clear from television and from the Internet, from photos on Twitter, from the news reporters on the ground, and from the images of those left bloody and wounded by what's currently being reported as two explosions located near the finish line near Copley Place.
Adding further heartbreak to utter tragedy, the last mile of Monday's Boston Marathon, which was rocked by at least two explosions resulting in an unknown number of injuries and casualties Monday afternoon, was dedicated to the victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary shooting massacre.
For the third time in four years, President Obama greeted head coach Nick Saban and the Alabama Crimson Tide football team to the White House for the annual photo op and gear exchange. "I was thinking about trying to find some cots for them here, they are here so often," the President said.
Even as a city and a nation came together amidst the chaotic scene, there was not much good news in Boston this April 15. Catch up on all the details on the victims, the persons of interest, the moment of horror, and eyewitness accounts with the definitive account of a dark Patriot Day.
On the heels of a family statement claiming that Oscar Pistorius is constantly "mourning" the death of his girlfriend,whom he shot to death on Valentine's Day, there are reports that the Olympic runner was out in Johannesberg drinking with his buddies over the weekend and flirting with several women.
A 13-year veteran of the New York Police Department, Rosette Samuel, apparently shot and killed her boyfriend, her infant son, and herself this morning in Brooklyn.
The suicide of a 42-year-old Texas man at an NRA sponsored Nascar race over the weekend was the cherry on top of a critical maelstrom the racing league faced in the lead-up to the event. But it also brings up an important question: how did he have a gun in the first place?
Samir Naji al Hasan Moqbel on the hunger strike at Gitmo, Jason Farago on New York's housing market, James O'Keefe on taping politicians, Jillian Keenan on abuse in polygamist communities, and Heather Mac Donald on stop-and-frisk.
Because, really, what could go wrong with a man who was fired for evidence of abuse — for kicking his 18-year-old male players, chucking basketballs at their heads, and using anti-gay slurs — moving on to supervise your 12-year-old daughter?
The man who was previously considered a "person of interest" in the murders of two Texas District attorneys, has been upgraded to the chief suspect and is now in jail on other charges.
After disappearing from the public eye for two weeks, America's favorite "artificial" head of state re-emerged at midnight Monday to celebrate the most important holiday in North Korea — albeit a scaled down version without any fireworks, figurative or otherwise.
After 11 years of imprisonment in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, Samir Naji al Hasan Moqbel has never gotten his day in court, but thanks to The New York Times op-ed page, he's finally getting his say in public.
A police sergeant has found himself out of a job after showing up at a training day with a batch of paper shooting targets printed with the iconic image of Trayvon Martin's hoodie on the front.
Jenna Bush Hager gave birth to a healthy baby girl on Sunday. When the young Margaret Laura "Mila" Hager goes home from the hospital she'll sleep under a portrait of a cat painted by her (in)famous grandfather.
New York City isn't necessarily known to be home to the country's friendliest police force, but the NYPD's latest tactics for cutting down on petty theft sound downright mean.
The Northern lights will be on display tonight for the top half of the United States. A small sliver of the mid-Atlantic should get the best view.
According to this EXCLUSIVE report in the New York Post, real estate heiress Joselyn Wohl has been accused of stabbing her life coach in the hand with a fork.
President Obama may want to think twice about that sequester pay cut. His tax returns, released Friday, show that his main source of income -- which used to be royalties from the sale of his books -- is now his presidential salary.
The arrest warrants for two 18-year-olds accused of raping two 13-year-old girls were unsealed late Friday afternoon, two months after the alleged attack, and they paint a very different picture of what happened than the story we've been hearing from the Torrington police — the same story students have been using to blame the alleged victims.
Carnival "Poop" Cruises, tickets for which are cheaper than usual for some reason, will not reimburse the Coast Guard the $780,000 it spent rescuing the crap-encrusted Triumph from itself.
Late this week we learned that the sequester may bring an end to the annual tradition of Fleet Week, in which members of the Navy and Marines swarm New York. Is this a good thing? We discuss, with unadulterated weekend joy — and posters.
An ode to the best sandwich in the land, on its special day. It's grilled, it's cheese.
There is a sad reality to the otherwise hilarious non-time machine "time machine" story that came out of Iran this week: It's making the otherwise legitimate Iranian scientific community look bad, even though it knows — just like you — that the inventor is a total quack.
Three boys have been arrested for assaulting a 15-year-old in California who hanged herself. If that sounds familiar, the arrests came one week after a 17-year-old in Canada hanged herself after an alleged attack by four boys at a party. There were photos. Indeed, if the combination of rape, victim-blaming, and a social media tornado from small towns to national outrage seems like something of a trend this year, perhaps this is the brutal new reality in age of Steubenville, Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.
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