It's that time of year when people begin to ask you, "What are your plans this summer?" So, what are your plans this summer? Will you be traveling? Or will you be embarking on the most beautiful travel plan of all, the one in which you vacation to your own home?
A 14-year-old middle school student appears to be staging some sort of intriguing political protest in Logan, West Virginia, where he was recently charged with causing a disruption after wearing an NRA T-shirt to school.
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev regained consciousness and began answering written questions from police on Sunday night. Authorities have now released the full transcript of Monday's bedside hearing with a federal judge.
One of the most interesting details from the Washington Post's steller tick-tock of the F.B.I. investigation into the Boston Marathon bombings has to be the reason they decided to release the photos of Dzhokhar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev: to fend off Reddit and the New York Post.
As the days press on, the investigation into the brothers Tsarnaev is turning up fewer and fewer leads explaining why they would decide to bomb innocent citizens at the Boston Marathon and then engage law enforcement in two days of intense firefights before being captured or killed.
When the police received a tip that Dzhokhar Tsarnaev might be hiding out in a Watertown boat, there was obviously some worry: how do you safely check to see if he's there when he's been carrying explosives this whole time? You use a police helicopter's thermal camera, of course.
As the Massachusetts city slowly returns to normal life after Friday night's events, Boston's three most important sports teams played Saturday and helped breath a semblance of normal life back into the exhausted citizens.
David Henneberry is the most beloved boat owner in America. For it was his boat -- a 20-footer resting in his driveway, under a tarp, waiting for the harbor to thaw enough for sailing season to begin -- that led to the capture of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the 19-year-old accused of bombing the Boston marathon.
The last Boston Marathon bombings suspect sought by authorities was captured Friday evening in a dramatic two hour stand off with police in Watertown, a community just outside of Boston. The day after, Saturday morning's newspapers offers a look at a state that was brought to its knees, now standing tall once again.
A week of uneasy, unanswered questions came to an end Friday evening as Boston authorities were finally able to capture the only surviving suspect allegedly behind the Boston Marathon bombings, but only after another intense firefight with police. Now the nation looks for answers.
Should Dzhokhar Tsarnaev survive his wounds, he will most likely face charges and prosecution. But from a civilian or a military court?
A city that's been under siege for five days is now breathing a huge sigh of relief.
Two days after a fertilizer plant in West, Texas, caught fire and exploded, 60 people remain unaccounted for in the town of 2,807 as of Friday night.
It's not always shooters. Chemical leaks, refinery problems, and fires have all prompted authorities to ask citizens not leave their homes. Today's shutdown of Boston and surrounding towns is exceptional in scope — but the request itself isn't that uncommon.
In the most crowdsourced terror investigation on American soil, we have come a long way this week in the neverending game of amateur investigation on social media. Here are the few — if ominous — things we've learned about ourselves, and about a man who was, it seems minutes ago, just a stranger.
One of the strangest things about watching heavily-armed tactical teams sweep through Watertown, Massachusetts in search of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the fugitive Boston marathon bomber, was seeing all this war pouring through quaint suburban streets.
The same week that the New York Post first falsely reported the Boston bombing suspect was a Saudi national then falsely put a Moroccan-American track runner on its cover, it accurately reported on Friday an attack on an innocent Bangladeshi man living in the Bronx who some "idiots" mistook for an Arab.
In April 2002, Anzor Tsarnaev apparently arrived in the United States on a tourist visa with his sons Tamerlan and Dzhokhar. Dzhokhar became a citizen. Here's how that process worked — and why it would likely have been impossible to predict what happened next.
D.B. Grady on the high-definition coverage of the Boston bombers, Joan Walsh on Ruslan Tsarni's televised outburst, Jack Shafer on the New York Post's irresponsible bombing coverage, John Kass on the information gathering of the Boston bombings, and Joan Wickersham on the words of trauma.
On a Friday filled with suspense as the world began filling in the details on marathon bombing suspects Dzhokhar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev, their uncles appeared in Boston for ;impromptu on-camera statements amidst the manhunt for Dzhokhar — and one of them restored a blip of humanity.
When CNN became the butt of jokes for its erroneous reporting Wednesday, NBC's Pete Williams' clear, careful, accurate reporting in a sea of media confusion had made him the most lauded television news reporter working on the Boston Marathon bombing story.
As soon as Boston Police revealed the identities of the two Boston bombers — Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 19, and Tamerlan Tsarnaev, 26 — an intense focus shifted to the two brothers' geographical origin: the war-torn Chechen Republic, a constituent entity of Russia. Here's what you need to know.
He became another victim of the Boston Marathon bombing suspects in the overnight mayhem in Cambridge before it turned to Watertown.
Here's everything else we think we know about "Suspect No. 2" — the one in the white hat, the one on the loose in a chaotic scene in Boston — and his dead brother, Tamerlan, based on the flood of incoming reports.
A series of violent events culminated in Watertown, Massachusetts late Thursday night after two unidentified suspects engaged with as many as 100 police officers. Fleeing in a stolen Mercedes SUV and armed with explosives and firearms, the suspects in the SUV lost control and crashed the vehicle and made their way out of the situation by tossing a bomb towards authorities.
London Mills, Illinois is being evacuated after flooding turned from bad to worse on Thursday. No, we're not talking about a few blocks of the town. Police are ordering the entire town out their homes.
It's been a pretty tough week for everybody in America, but it's been other-worldly for Joe Berti — and not in a good way either. The Texas native witnessed both the Boston Marathon bombing and the Waco explosion.
Despite a small mountain of incriminating evidence stacking up in front of him, Paul Kevin Curtis isn't miffed. The ricin suspect's lawyer said on Thursday that he "maintains [his innocence] 100 percent."
Unlike the the 17-year-old track star of Moroccan descent featured on the front page of Thursday's New York Post, the immediate reaction to the FBI's release of photos of the two suspects in the Boston Marathon bombing was how normal these guys looked. Which, after two days of false reports, sounded a lot like code for: they don't look Middle Eastern.
At 5:41 p.m. on Thursday afternoon, the 162-year-old news agency accidentally published a prewritten obituary for Soros, complete with dummy text for the place and time of his future death. And it was pretty harsh!
Since being launched into space in March 2009, NASA's Kepler spacecraft has been searching the Milky Way for planets that might sustain liquid water. Witness its latest discovery.
How should we feel about the flavored new varietals that are coming down the pike, with which manufacturers hope to win over women and "novice drinkers"? Should flavored whisky exist? We discuss.
For the the past four days, the insulated world of economics has been thoroughly captivated by an otherwise stuffy-sounding 26-page paper titled "Does High Public Debt Consistently Stifle Economic Growth? A Critique of Reinhart and Rogoff." Here's why.
A profane and occasionally ALL-CAPS email to the sorority's listserv offers a compelling (and funny) portrait of a woman driven into social anxiety and paranoia by her club's middling social success, no matter which way success has been measured at UM and beyond since the letter went public.
A placid announcement from the U.S. Chemical Safety Board that it's heading to Texas to investigate the fertilizer plant explosion shouldn't be remarkable. But it is. Such deployments are rare — largely thanks, the agency claims, to the Deepwater Horizon accident.
As expected, former justice of the peace Eric Williams has been charged with capital murder for killing three people in Kaufman County, Texas, earlier this year.
The latest in a series of dangerous sounding deliveries to the Beltway arrived in Arlington, Virginia, where a military facility was evacuated late Thursday morning after personnel discovered an envelope containing white powder, according to the Navy.
Gabrielle Giffords on the Senate's rejection of background checks, Michael Moynihan on media coverage of the Boston bombings, Atul Gawande on how Boston hospitals saved lives, Heidi Moore on the toppled heroes of economics, and Ayesha Siddiqi on the cultural importance of Spring Breakers.
And it could have been worse: Just over ten percent of Americans can block any federal legislation from moving forward, according to our compilation of data.
People have tattoos. The New York Times has noticed! But a lot of people are still hiding their tattoos, even though they got them and they like them. This is because of the office.
The FBI has released images of two suspects in the Boston Marathon attack, and the public investigation was on — until a late-night situation unfolded in Watertown, the FBI released two more photos, and a report surfaced that a suspect had been captured.
More details have emerged about the Mississippi man arrested for allegedly sending ricin-tainted letters to elected officials. Prepare to update your domestic terrorist profile to include Elvis impersonators battling gangs of organ-harvesters.
Since the first cases of the deadly H7N9 bird flu strain appeared in Shanghai earlier this month, Chinese health officials told the world not to panic because they couldn't find solid evidence of human-to-human transmission in any of what have grown into 82 reported infections. They maintained that until, well, guess what China's health experts are saying for the first time today?
Federal agents took a man from Corinth, Mississippi into custody on Wednesday evening under suspicion of sending letters covered in ricin to the president and Mississippi Sen. Roger Wicker.
On a day when confusion reigned, anonymous sourcing could have come from one of dozens of organizations and agencies and elected officials' offices involved in some part of the Boston Marathon bombin investigation. Here's the scope of what "law enforcement sources" look like in this case.
The National Republican Congressional Committee announced they would not be contributing another cent to Mark Sanford's campaign in South Carolina Wednesday afternoon because of his trespassing charge.
Nobody finds Funny or Die's very unfunny new feature length film less funny than all the Apple nerds who were very quick to point out all of the movie's techie inaccuracies within hours of its debut on the comedy site late Tuesday night.
David Sirota on the Boston bomber, Charles C.W. Cooke on the children of Newtown, Judith Grossman on the unintended effects of Title IX, Carl M. Cannon on covering the Gosnell trial, and Jonathan Chait on the inaccuracies of Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff.
As part of a tense day in Washington, the FBI reported that a second ricin-contaminated envelope sent to a mail processing facility in Washington, D.C. Its intended recipient appears to have been the president. At another point, two Senate office buildings were locked down, one due to a person who apparently was carrying suspicious envelopes. Here's everything you need to know.
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