By Elizabeth Barber BOSTON (Reuters) – The jury weighing whether Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev will be sentenced to death or to life in prison for the deadly 2013 attack began its first full day of deliberations Thursday on his fate. The same 12 people, who last month found the 21-year-old guilty of killing three people and wounding 264 others at the race’s crowded finish line, deliberated for about an
BOSTON (AP) — Jurors began their first full day of deliberations Thursday to decide whether Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev deserves life in prison or the death penalty.
Just because the accident struck close to home does not mean Congress will increase an already shrunken budget for transportation.
Former CIA deputy director Michael Morell tells Yahoo News that Americans are less safe from terrorism than they were when President Barack Obama won reelection in 2012.
Closing arguments are set for today in the federal trial of admitted Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev.
By Nate Raymond NEW YORK (Reuters) – U.S. authorities brought criminal charges on Thursday against an investment banker at Perella Weinberg Partners and his father for allegedly engaging in insider trading ahead of five healthcare mergers. Sean Stewart, who previously worked at JPMorgan Chase & Co, tipped off Robert Stewart, his father, about the mergers, enabling him and a business associate to make $1.16 million, according to a criminal complaint
Indian generic drugmaker Ranbaxy Laboratories Ltd has been sued in a district court in the United States for allegedly manipulating U.S. Food and Drug Administration rules for years to keep rival generic drugs out of the market. Ranbaxy filed “grossly inadequate” applications seeking approval for its drugs and deceived the FDA into granting approvals and giving the company market exclusivity, the class action lawsuit asserts. It was filed by U.S.
By Chris Arsenault ROME (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – A new picture book aims to help show the nearly 100 million children who labor on farms how best to handle the toxic pesticides many are exposed to in their work. “The colorful illustrations are built on local knowledge and refer to very concrete and real situations,” Food and Agriculture Organization official Christine Fuell said in a statement. “They also appeal to
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Agriculture Department has developed a new government certification and labeling for foods that are free of genetically modified ingredients.
By Estelle Shirbon LONDON (Reuters) – Is the Beatles song “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds” a rebellious anthem to wild drug-taking or a touching tribute to a child’s imagination? The question, which has exercised Beatles fans since the song appeared in the seminal 1967 album “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band”, could soon form part of an exam curriculum for British teenagers. Exam board AQA, which sets and marks
