VIDEO: Tsarnaev Brothers Originally Planned Suicide Attack On July Fourth

Investigators now searching in and around Dartmouth, Massachusetts, FBI says

2013-05-03

By Ben Brumfield and Steve Almasy CNN

It could have been July Fourth. Live on television. The brothers believed responsible for the bloody Boston Marathon bombings originally planned a suicide attack on the city's massive Independence Day celebration, surviving bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev told investigators, a U.S. law enforcement official regularly briefed on the investigation told CNN. Read the complete article

VIDEO: In Mexico Obama Pledges Cooperation on Economy, Immigration, and Drug War

2013-05-03

By Dan Merica and Catherine E. Shoichet CNN

obamaPresident Barack Obama said Friday he came to Mexico to break down stereotypes between the United States and its neighbor to the south. Speaking at the Museum of Anthropology in Mexico City, Obama said that too often the relationship between the United States and Mexico is “trapped in old stereotypes,” where Mexicans see America as trying to wall itself off from Mexico and Americans see Mexico through the sensational headlines of violence in the war on drugs. Read the complete article

VIDEO: Northern Ireland Man Acquitted In Killing Of British Soldiers

Conviction is quashed after judge finds DNA evidence unconvincing

2013-05-03

Peter Taggart CNN

A 47-year-old man from Northern Ireland was found not guilty Friday of murder in the 2009 killings of two British soldiers at an army base in Northern Ireland. Read the complete article

VIDEO: Bhutto Case Prosecutor Chaudhry Zulfiqar Ali Gunned Down In Pakistan

An anti-Taliban politician and his son were also murdered

2013-05-03

By Nasir Habib and Ben Brumfield CNN

Benazir BhuttoGunmen in Pakistan killed a leading prosecutor working on high-profile terrorism cases and the death of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto and an anti-Taliban politician and his son, the latest violence ahead of next week's national elections. Read the complete article

VIDEO: Forbidden Voices Film Tells Stories of Female Dissident Bloggers Around World

Kidnapped threatened and beaten they discovered the courage to be free

2013-05-03

By Hazel Pfeifer CNN

farnazForbidden Voices documentary tells stories of female dissident bloggers across the globe. Bloggers like Farnaz Seifi, who was arrested as she waited to fly out of a Tehran airport in 2007. Her crime? A blog calling for women's equality in the Islamic Republic of Iran. But she was charged with spying for Western countries. Read the complete article

VIDEO: Turkish Airline Tells Flight Attendants Not to Wear Bright Red and Pink Lipsticks

Critics take to social media to voice outrage over new dress code

2013-05-03

By Gul Tuysuz CNN

rihannaTurkey's main airline is banning certain shades of lipstick and nail polish among flight attendants. And the cabin crew is not happy about it. Outrage spilled into social media, sparking newspapers columns and a movement after Turkish Airlines announced the new dress code this week. Read the complete article

Security Dominates Talk of U.S.-Mexico Relations

Mexico is a major trading partner with the U.S.

2013-05-02

Mariano Castillo CNN

(CNN) -- Ahead of their meetings in Mexico City this week, President Obama and Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto hinted that they wanted to put economic ties atop their agenda. Read the complete article

FBI Adds Joanne Chesimard AKA Assata Shakur to 10 Most Wanted Terrorists List

The former Black Panther who gained asylum in Cuba claims political prisoner status

2013-05-02

The Skanner News

The FBI have added Joanne Chesimard, better known to many as Assata Shakur, to its Most Wanted Terrorist List.  Read the complete article

Maryland Governor Signs Death Penalty Repeal

The legislation goes into effect October 1

2013-05-02

Joe Sutton CNN

(CNN) -- Maryland's governor signed a bill Thursday repealing the death penalty. Read the complete article

New York School Goes All-Vegetarian

Active Learning's student body is 85 percent Asian and 10 percent Hispanic

2013-05-02

Brittany Brady CNN

NEW YORK (CNN) -- Asked which school meals were their favorites, students at a public school in the New York borough of Queens don't say chicken fingers or meatballs. Instead, they name rice and kidney beans, black bean quesadillas or tofu with Chinese noodles. Read the complete article