Boston bomb suspect hospitalized under heavy guard

Boston bomb suspect hospitalized under heavy guard
Midwestern river cities brace for floodwaters
Red Sox, Bruins back after bombing, manhunt
Some residents allowed back home after Texas blast
Greece's ruling conservatives regain narrow lea: poll
World finance leaders issue sober assessment
Obama: Boston capture closes out a 'tough week'
Florida becomes 4th state to sue BP over oil spill
Hockey returns to Boston, Penguins top Bruins 3-2
Prosecutors move quickly to build Marathon case
Obama, top security officials discuss Boston probe
US, allies seek to boost Syrian opposition
Regional ex-soccer executives accused of fraud
West official: Some residents can come home
Timeline: Boston Marathon bombing suspect captured
Attorney: Scant evidence in Mississippi ricin case
Boston Marathon bombing investigation turns to motive
Small fires stop West residents from going home
Group accuses Egypt's Morsi of ignoring atrocities
Bombs, mortars fail to stop first Iraq vote since U.S. exit
Iraq local election participation 50 percent: election officials
The Finish Line: What the bombing was like
Denver pot holiday bringing crowds, tight security
Iraqis go to polls for first time since US pullout
Napolitano re-elected Italy's president
Arsenal wins to boost Champions League hopes
Boston bombings: a chance for U.S.-Russia cooperation
U.S. public defender in Boston seeks to represent bomb suspect
Russia asked FBI to investigate Boston bomb suspect in 2011: source
Napolitano elected for second term as Italy president
Italy president Napolitano calls for responsibility
FBI interviewed Tamerlan Tsarnaev after 2011 tip
Heavy clashes in Syria near Lebanese border
Official: Small fires erupting at Texas blast site
Syria opposition voices frustration with international backers
Across America, a week of chaos, horror -- and hope
Iran says it will remain loyal to nuclear treaty
NY authorities deal Russian mob a losing hand
US readying aid package for Syrian rebels
Nadal vs Djokovic in Monte Carlo final again

Posted: 20 Apr 2013 01:05 PM PDT

BOSTON (AP) — Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev lay hospitalized in serious condition under heavy guard Saturday as people around the city breathed easier and investigators tried to piece together the who and why of the deadly plot.

Midwestern river cities brace for floodwaters

Posted: 20 Apr 2013 01:02 PM PDT

CLARKSVILLE, Mo. (AP) — The fast-rising Mississippi River was making travel difficult Saturday, both on the river and for those simply trying to get across it.

Red Sox, Bruins back after bombing, manhunt

Posted: 20 Apr 2013 01:00 PM PDT

BOSTON (AP) — A defiant David Ortiz stood on the Fenway Park infield and told the crowd, "Stay Strong," bringing a rousing cheer from Bostonians weary from a week of bombings, stay-at-home orders and a manhunt that locked down the city for a day.

Some residents allowed back home after Texas blast

Posted: 20 Apr 2013 12:59 PM PDT

WEST, Texas (AP) — After days of waiting, the first group of residents who fled their homes when a fertilizer plant exploded in a blinding fireball will be allowed to go home, a town official said Saturday.

Greece's ruling conservatives regain narrow lea: poll

Posted: 20 Apr 2013 12:58 PM PDT

ATHENS (Reuters) - Greece's ruling conservatives have regained a narrow lead over anti-bailout leftists, an opinion poll published on Saturday showed. A survey by Metron Analysis for Sunday's Eleftherotypia newspaper put support for New Democracy at 18.7 percent, giving it a 0.6 percentage-point lead over the Syriza party. Prime Minister Antonis Samaras's New Democracy party, which won elections in June with 29.6 percent of the vote, has been neck-and-neck with the anti-bailout Syriza in recent polls. In a previous Metron Analysis poll in March, New Democracy trailed Syriza by 0. ...

World finance leaders issue sober assessment

Posted: 20 Apr 2013 12:58 PM PDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — World finance leaders meeting in Washington have come out with a somber assessment of the global economy.

Obama: Boston capture closes out a 'tough week'

Posted: 20 Apr 2013 12:55 PM PDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama pledged to seek answers for the victims of the Boston Marathon bombings and acknowledged that the capture of a second suspect ended a trying five days for his presidency and for the nation.

Florida becomes 4th state to sue BP over oil spill

Posted: 20 Apr 2013 12:52 PM PDT

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — The state of Florida filed a lawsuit Saturday against oil company BP and cement contractor Halliburton over the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, becoming the fourth state to seek damages for the 2010 disaster.

Hockey returns to Boston, Penguins top Bruins 3-2

Posted: 20 Apr 2013 12:48 PM PDT

BOSTON (AP) — Hockey returned to Boston after the manhunt following the marathon bombings, and Jarome Iginla scored the tiebreaking goal that gave the Pittsburgh Penguins a 3-2 win over the Bruins on Saturday and home-ice advantage throughout the Eastern Conference playoffs.

Prosecutors move quickly to build Marathon case

Posted: 20 Apr 2013 12:45 PM PDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration has a range of legal options in the Boston Marathon bombings, and they could include seeking the death penalty against the 19-year-old suspect in the case.

Obama, top security officials discuss Boston probe

Posted: 20 Apr 2013 12:38 PM PDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama has met with top national security officials to discuss the Boston Marathon investigation and the capture of the second suspect.

US, allies seek to boost Syrian opposition

Posted: 20 Apr 2013 12:30 PM PDT

ISTANBUL (AP) — Foreign ministers from the main supporters of the rebels trying to topple the Syrian government worked Saturday to increase pressure on President Bashar Assad, but the opposition demanded direct military involvement.

Regional ex-soccer executives accused of fraud

Posted: 20 Apr 2013 12:23 PM PDT

PANAMA CITY, Panama (AP) — A report by the ethics and integrity committee of soccer's regional governing body claims former secretary general Chuck Blazer enjoyed luxury apartments, a military-style Hummer vehicle and car insurance for a girlfriend as part of a lifestyle financed by the organization's money.

West official: Some residents can come home

Posted: 20 Apr 2013 12:19 PM PDT

WEST, Texas (AP) — A town official says the area impacted by a fertilizer plant blast is safe and some residents will be allowed to return to their homes.

Timeline: Boston Marathon bombing suspect captured

Posted: 20 Apr 2013 12:19 PM PDT

(Reuters) - Authorities were investigating whether two ethnic Chechen brothers suspected in the Boston Marathon acted alone as they prepared to file charges against the surviving suspect. Following a tense 24 hours for the Boston area, the manhunt ended Friday with 19-year-old suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev cornered, captured and taken into custody. Here is a timeline of events: * Thursday, April 18, about 5:10 p.m. - The FBI releases photographs and video of two men suspected of planting the pressure cooker bombs that killed three people and injured 176 at the Boston Marathon on Monday. ...

Attorney: Scant evidence in Mississippi ricin case

Posted: 20 Apr 2013 12:07 PM PDT

OXFORD, Miss. (AP) — Federal authorities have produced scant evidence linking a Mississippi man to the mailing of ricin-laced letters to the president and a senator, his attorney says.

Boston Marathon bombing investigation turns to motive

Posted: 20 Apr 2013 12:03 PM PDT

By Ben Berkowitz and Ross Kerber BOSTON (Reuters) - With the surviving suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings lying seriously wounded in a hospital, investigators worked on Saturday to determine a motive and whether the ethnic Chechen brothers accused in the attack acted alone. Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 19, was captured late on Friday after a gunfight with police that ended a daylong manhunt and sent waves of relief and jubilation throughout Boston. His brother Tamerlan, 26, was killed on Thursday in a shootout with police. ...

Small fires stop West residents from going home

Posted: 20 Apr 2013 12:00 PM PDT

WEST, Texas (AP) — Gas tanks damaged by a massive explosion at a Texas fertilizer plant are leaking and have triggered small fires that are keeping displaced residents from returning to see what's left of their homes, officials said Saturday.

Group accuses Egypt's Morsi of ignoring atrocities

Posted: 20 Apr 2013 11:58 AM PDT

CAIRO (AP) — Some members of a high-level commission that issued a report detailing security abuses and atrocities during and after Egypt's 2011 uprising accused President Mohammed Morsi on Saturday of ignoring their findings.

Bombs, mortars fail to stop first Iraq vote since U.S. exit

Posted: 20 Apr 2013 11:51 AM PDT

By Patrick Markey BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Bomb attacks and mortar fire failed to prevent Iraqis voting on Saturday in the first nationwide elections since the last U.S. troops left more than a year ago. The provincial elections will measure political parties' strength before a parliamentary election in 2014 to chose a new government in a country deeply divided along sectarian lines. A dozen small bombs exploded and mortar rounds landed near polling centers in cities north and south of the capital. Three voters and a policeman were injured by mortars in Latifiya, south of Baghdad, police said. ...

Iraq local election participation 50 percent: election officials

Posted: 20 Apr 2013 11:37 AM PDT

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Voter participation in Iraq's provincial election on Saturday was 50 percent of eligible voters, the country's electoral authorities said after poll stations closed. Election officials said including results from a special vote a week earlier for members of the armed forces, total participation would be more than 51 percent. Turnout in the last local vote in 2009 was 51 percent. Official preliminary results are not expected for several days, but the local vote will be a key test of political parties' strength before the parliamentary elections in 2014. ...

The Finish Line: What the bombing was like

Posted: 20 Apr 2013 11:31 AM PDT

The woman wearing bib No. 19,255 was a flute instructor from Utah, listening to her son singing through her headphones as if the sound of his voice could somehow will her body the last few yards to the finish line.

Denver pot holiday bringing crowds, tight security

Posted: 20 Apr 2013 11:29 AM PDT

DENVER (AP) — A crowd of marijuana smokers expected to swell to 80,000 gathered Saturday in Denver to mark the counterculture holiday known as 4/20 on the first celebration since Colorado and Washington made pot legal for recreation use.

Iraqis go to polls for first time since US pullout

Posted: 20 Apr 2013 11:28 AM PDT

BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraq carried out its first election since the U.S. military withdrawal without major bloodshed Saturday in a major test for Iraqi security forces as they face a reviving al-Qaida insurgency. But delayed elections in two provinces wracked by anti-government protests and complaints about missing names on voter rolls overshadowed the vote.

Napolitano re-elected Italy's president

Posted: 20 Apr 2013 11:26 AM PDT

ROME (AP) — Italy's Parliament on Saturday re-elected Giorgio Napolitano as the nation's president to an unprecedented second term after party leaders persuaded the aging head of state to serve again in hopes of easing the hostile political climate that has thwarted formation of a new government for the economically stagnant eurozone member.

Arsenal wins to boost Champions League hopes

Posted: 20 Apr 2013 11:24 AM PDT

LONDON (AP) — Arsenal moved into third place in the English Premier League, winning 1-0 at Fulham behind Per Mertesacker's goal on a 43rd-minute header, and Sunderland, Stoke and Norwich came away with victories Saturday that boosted their hopes to avoid relegation.

Boston bombings: a chance for U.S.-Russia cooperation

Posted: 20 Apr 2013 11:21 AM PDT

By Timothy Heritage MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin may have been tempted to tell Barack Obama "I told you so" when U.S. officials blamed two ethnic Chechens for the Boston Marathon bombings. He has long said the United States underestimates the security threat posed by Islamist militants in Russia's volatile North Caucasus, and has rejected criticism that Moscow's use of force in the region has been heavy-handed. But the Kremlin leader has kept silent in public since U.S. ...

U.S. public defender in Boston seeks to represent bomb suspect

Posted: 20 Apr 2013 11:21 AM PDT

BOSTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Federal Public Defender Office in Boston is seeking to be appointed to represent Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings. The office commonly defends individuals who cannot afford their own attorneys in criminal cases. An official there, Charles McGinty, said its attorneys have not spoken to Tsarnaev and will have to be appointed to represent him by a federal judge. "That's why we're trying to advance the appointment to be as soon as possible," he said. ...

Russia asked FBI to investigate Boston bomb suspect in 2011: source

Posted: 20 Apr 2013 11:21 AM PDT

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Russia asked the FBI to investigate Boston Marathon bomb suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev in 2011, a U.S. law enforcement source told Reuters on Saturday. The FBI said on Friday that its interview of Tsarnaev, following a tip from a foreign government two years ago, and checks of travel records, Internet activity and personal associations, "did not find any terrorism activity" at that time. Tsarnaev, 26, was killed on Thursday in a shootout with police and his brother Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 19, was captured late on Friday after daylong manhunt. ...

Napolitano elected for second term as Italy president

Posted: 20 Apr 2013 11:08 AM PDT

By Naomi O'Leary and Gavin Jones ROME (Reuters) - The Italian parliament on Saturday re-elected 87-year-old President Giorgio Napolitano to serve a second term in an attempt to resolve the political stalemate following February's inconclusive election. Napolitano was overwhelmingly elected by the 1,007 parliamentarians and regional representatives in a sixth round of voting after they had failed to find a mutually acceptable candidate in the previous attempts. He is now expected to push for a broad coalition government. ...

Italy president Napolitano calls for responsibility

Posted: 20 Apr 2013 11:08 AM PDT

ROME (Reuters) - Italy's newly re-elected President Giorgio Napolitano called on divided political parties on Saturday to act responsibly in the days ahead as he tries once more to resolve the stalemate created by February's deadlocked election. "I strongly hope that in the next few weeks, starting in the next few days, all sides will fulfill their duties, with the aim of strengthening the institutions of the state," he said in a brief address at his offices in the Quirinale Palace. ...

FBI interviewed Tamerlan Tsarnaev after 2011 tip

Posted: 20 Apr 2013 11:05 AM PDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Russian FSB intelligence security service told the FBI in early 2011 about information that Tamerlan Tsarnaev, one of the brothers suspected in the Boston Marathon bombings, was a follower of radical Islam, two law enforcement officials said Saturday.

Heavy clashes in Syria near Lebanese border

Posted: 20 Apr 2013 11:03 AM PDT

BEIRUT (AP) — Syrian troops backed by pro-government gunmen captured at least one village in heavy fighting Sunday in a strategic area near the Lebanese border, activists and state media reported.

Official: Small fires erupting at Texas blast site

Posted: 20 Apr 2013 10:56 AM PDT

WEST, Texas (AP) — Officials are telling residents displaced by the massive fertilizer plant explosion in Texas that tanks on site are leaking gas and causing small fires.

Syria opposition voices frustration with international backers

Posted: 20 Apr 2013 10:51 AM PDT

By Mariam Karouny and Nick Tattersall ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Syrian opposition figures voiced frustration with their international backers on Saturday in the face of reluctance from some to supply the rebels with weapons and a call for them to distance themselves from extremist forces. Speaking at a meeting of the Friends of Syria in Istanbul, German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle said Germany was skeptical about supplying weapons to the rebels but said the subject should be discussed by the European Union. ...

Across America, a week of chaos, horror -- and hope

Posted: 20 Apr 2013 10:40 AM PDT

Moment after nail-biting moment, the events shoved us through a week that felt like an unremitting series of tragedies: Deadly bombs. Poison letters. A town shattered by a colossal explosion. A violent manhunt that paralyzed a major city, emptying streets of people and filling them with heavily armed police and piercing sirens.

Iran says it will remain loyal to nuclear treaty

Posted: 20 Apr 2013 10:35 AM PDT

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran's foreign ministry says the country is a committed signatory to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and will continue cooperating with the U.N. nuclear watchdog agency.

NY authorities deal Russian mob a losing hand

Posted: 20 Apr 2013 10:33 AM PDT

NEW YORK (AP) — It's a case teeming with colorful characters: a reputed Russian mob boss once accused in an Olympic scandal, a wealthy art world impresario who hung out with Leonardo DiCaprio and a woman named Molly Bloom who gained a celebrity following by hosting them at high-stakes poker games.

US readying aid package for Syrian rebels

Posted: 20 Apr 2013 10:27 AM PDT

ISTANBUL (AP) — The U.S. readied a package Saturday of up to $130 million in nonlethal military aid to Syrian opposition forces while European countries consider easing an arms embargo, moves that could further pressure the Assad government.

Nadal vs Djokovic in Monte Carlo final again

Posted: 20 Apr 2013 10:26 AM PDT

MONACO (AP) — Novak Djokovic will have a crack at toppling Rafael Nadal in the Monte Carlo Masters final for a second straight year.