Originally published on Mon April 22, 2013 6:26 am
Hundreds of Boston-area residents gathered Sunday to pray, to sing and to remember the victims of bombs and other violence in the city this week.
Six churches organized an interfaith service near the intersection of Boylston and Berkeley streets, close to the cordoned-off area where investigators are examining the crime scene created when two bombs tragically altered the finish of the 2013 Boston Marathon.
Checkout 78" x 108" â based on an image of the checkout aisle of the North Bergen, N.J., Wal-Mart.
Credit Courtesy of Brendan O'Connell
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Checkout 78" x 108" â based on an image of the checkout aisle of the North Bergen, N.J., Wal-Mart.
Credit Courtesy of Brendan O'Connell
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Snacks 72" x 84"
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Wonderbread 48" x 72"
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Blond with Yams
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Blond with Yams
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O'Connell also crowdsources the photographs he uses as fodder for his paintings. This piece, which shows men buying candies and Valentine's Day cards for their sweethearts, was based on a submission.
Originally published on Mon April 22, 2013 1:30 pm
Most people would be hard-pressed to call Wal-Mart a source of artistic inspiration. A place to purchase peanut butter, cereal and other mundane necessities? Yes. But a rendezvous spot with transcendence? Hardly.
U.S. Attorney Carmen Ortiz said Friday that Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, suspected of carrying out a bombing attack on the Boston Marathon, will not be read his Miranda rights before he is questioned.
Originally published on Sun April 21, 2013 2:06 pm
Boston bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev has not yet been questioned — but officials' decision not to read him his Miranda rights before interrogation is the subject of much debate.
Keep your eye on the sky Sunday evening; the Lyrid meteor shower is expected to peak. It's the first meteor shower of the spring season.
The Lyrid shower is caused by Earth passing through the orbit of a comet known as Thatcher, though the comet itself hasn't been seen since 1861. Dust particles from the comet will be seen as flashes of light as they burn up in our atmosphere.
London Marathon runners stand in a silent, pre-race tribute Sunday to the victims of the Boston Marathon bombings. The police presence was increased for the London event.
Originally published on Sun April 21, 2013 1:24 pm
The London Marathon observed 30 seconds of silence before the race got underway Sunday, in a show of solidarity with the victims of Monday's attack at the Boston Marathon. Many runners and spectators wore black ribbons to honor the three people killed and the more than 170 injured in two bombings.
People gather at a makeshift memorial for victims of the Boston Marathon bombings at the edge of the still-closed section of Boylston Street. The surviving suspect in the case, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, remains in the hospital.
Originally published on Mon April 22, 2013 6:26 am
(Most recent update: 4:20 p.m. ET)
Investigators are still waiting to interview Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, whose wounds reportedly include injuries to his neck and leg. An official tells CNN that Tsarnaev has been "intubated and sedated," rendering him unable to speak with them.
Workers repair the Cafe Hillel in front of candles for the victims of a suicide attack in west Jerusalem on Sept. 10, 2003. Eight people, including the bomber, died and several dozen were wounded by the explosion that went off near the popular cafe.
Originally published on Sun April 28, 2013 7:50 am
As reporters in Jerusalem a decade ago, my wife, Jennifer Griffin, and I covered more than 100 suicide bombings over several blood-soaked years. The carnage defined our lives as we raced to blast sites, interviewed battered survivors in emergency rooms and tracked down the extremists behind the deadly attacks.
At an 11-nation meeting in Turkey this weekend, there was one thing the United States, European and Arab states could agree on: With more than 70,000 killed and millions of people displaced, the Syrian crisis, as Secretary of State John Kerry says, is "horrific."
In response, the Obama administration is doubling its non-lethal assistance to the Syrian opposition, Kerry announced at the meeting.
A dispute over Texas' access to the Kiamichi River, which is located in Oklahoma, has started a longer legal battle that is headed to the Supreme Court.
On Tuesday, Oklahoma and Texas will face off in the U.S. Supreme Court. The winner gets water. And this is not a game.
The court will hear oral arguments in the case of Tarrant Regional Water District v. Herrmann, et al. The case pits Oklahoma against Texas over rights to water from the river that forms part of the border between them. Depending on how the court decides, it could impact interstate water-sharing agreements across the country.
An infrared photograph taken from a police helicopter shows Tsarnaev in the boat's cockpit.
Credit Massachusetts State Police
An infrared photograph taken from a police helicopter shows bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev in the boat's cockpit area Friday night.
Credit Massachusetts State Police
A view from a police helicopter shows a law enforcement vehicle being used to investigate the boat that held Boston bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev on Friday night.
Watertown, Mass., resident David Henneberry's name was on many people's lips Saturday, as the hero who called police to say bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev might be hiding in his back yard. Massachusetts State Police have now released images that show what the authorities saw from a police helicopter as a wounded Tsarnaev hid under a tarp.
Kay Bailey Hutchison was the first woman elected to represent Texas in the United States Senate, serving from 1993 to 2013. She lives in Dallas with her family.
Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison knows what it means to be a pioneering female figure in her home state. In 1993, she became the first woman elected to represent Texas in the U.S. Senate.
Now, the former senator has written a book about the women who came before her, Unflinching Courage: Pioneering Women Who Shaped Texas.
In the book, Hutchison profiles several women who broke barriers and made history in the Lone Star State. Many of those women left a life of luxury and "moved to nothing," she tells All Things Considered host Jacki Lyden.
