Boston: The three young men arrested in connection with the Boston Marathon bombings are accused of obstructing justice and destroying evidence. Azamat Tazhayakov and Dias Kadyrbayev, both 19, are citizens of Kazakhstan who came to the US as students. Robel …

GitMo: President Obama in a news conference renewed his call to shut the terrorist holding center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. “It hurts us in terms of our international standing, it lessens cooperation with our allies on counter-terrorism efforts, it is …

 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 …

Bombers: The parents of the Boston bombing suspects have given up a plan to come to the US to recover the body of their dead son, Reuters reports. The news service says they spoke to the parents in a remote …

 Call Your Mother: The NY Times reports that the Russian warning about Tamarlan Tsarnaev in 2011 was the result of two intercepted phone calls with his mother discussing “jihad”, the term for religious war or struggle. The Times says the …

World: Police arrested two of the factory owners in the Bangladesh building collapse. About 340 people are dead and 75 have been pulled from the rubble that housed five factories. Authorities ordered the arrest of the building and garment factory …

 Thin Red Line: The White House reports that with “varying degrees of confidence” US intelligence agencies believe Syrian President Bashar al-Assad used chemical weapons against his own people. But a statement said the US needed conclusive proof before taking action. …

Boston: Investigators told a House panel yesterday that the Boston Marathon bombs were triggered with the kind of radio-remote used for toy cars, leading some authorities to wonder whether Tamerlan Tsarnaev had instruction in more sophisticated bomb making. But the …

Boston: Investigators say that so far it appears that the Boston Marathon bombing suspects acted alone. But investigators are also following leads in Russia where Tamarlan Tsarnaev spent six months. Tamarlan bought large fireworks in New Hampshire. In the week …

 Boston: Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 19, known as suspect #2, was charged by federal prosecutors yesterday as he lay in a Boston hospital bed. He’s accused of using and conspiring to use a weapon of mass destruction and could …