Bombers: Investigators say they found female DNA on one of the Boston Marathon bombs and they’ve taken a sample from Tamerlan Tsarnaev’s widow to see if it matches. Authorities searched the family home of Katherine Russell in Rhode Island and took away several bags, some of them marked as DNA. Although Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev are believed to be the primary figures in the bombings, the FBI is still trying to find out whether anyone else had a hand in it.

In Bounds: Twelve-year NBA veteran Jason Collins has come out as the first active professional male athlete to say he’s gay. “I’m a 34-year-old N.B.A. center. I’m black and I’m gay,” Collins wrote in the May 6 edition of Sports Illustrated. A handful of other pros have admitted they are gay only after retiring. Collins finished the season with the Washington Wizards and becomes a free agent in July. Never a star, his playing days may be over.

GitMo: The military is bringing in 40 additional medical personnel to help with force-feeding prisoners on hunger strike at Guantanamo Bay. One hundred of the 166 prisoners are refusing to eat and 21 are “approved” for feeding through a tube. The detainees suspected of terrorism have been held without trial for more than ten years.

World: A powerful bomb killed 13 people today in a busy commercial area of Damascus, Syria. Cars burned and windows were blown out. Yesterday six people died but the target survived in a bomb attack on Syria’s prime minister in Damascus. The two bombings show that Syrian rebels are now a threat in the country’s capital city.

➢Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands, 75, abdicated her throne and stepped aside for her son this morning in a brief ceremony in Amsterdam. Prince Willem-Alexander, 46, was sworn as country’s first king since Willem III, who died in 1890. His wife Maxima is an Argentine-born investment banker who becomes queen consort. They are a handsome, yuppie-looking couple. Beatrix was queen for 33 years.

Big Rose: NASA has issued photos of a gigantic stationary storm hanging over Saturn’s north pole. They call it “The Rose” because of its shape and patterns. The eye of the storm is 1,250 miles wide and clouds circling the outer edge move at 330 miles per hour.

Shoot: Arizona’s Gov. Jan Brewer signed a law requiring cities that hold gun buyback programs to re-sell the guns to the public rather than destroy them. A letter of support from the NRA said, “this measure would ensure that taxpayer resources are not utilized to pursue a political agenda of destroying firearms.”

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