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The little sister of the 8-year-old boy killed at the Boston Marathon has had surgery 11 times, and doctors only this week closed the wound created when one of the bombs blew off part of her left leg, her family said Thursday.The girl, Jane Richard, could not communicate for the first two weeks after the attack, and she woke up “with difficult questions that needed to be answered,” the family said...
A baby girl who hasn't been seen for more than a week and whose mother was found slain with two men on a Kansas farm is presumed dead, officials said Thursday. The body of 18-month-old Lana Leigh has not been found, and investigators are still searching the farm and other locations for it.Officials also announced an arrest in the case Thursday: Kyle Flack, 27, who was taken into custody and booked...
Income inequality is the defining issue of our time, Rep. Keith Ellison (D-Minn.) told a group of young progressive activists at the AFL-CIO headquarters yesterday. Ellison joined a panel of distinguished guests that included AFL-CIO Secretary-Treasurer Elizabeth Shuler, Rep. Kevin Killer (D-S.D.), Special Assistant to the President for Labor and Workforce Policy Portia Wu and Executive Director of the Asian Pacific American Labor Alliance (APALA) Gregory Cendana, at the Youth Economic Policy Forum (YEPF) hosted by the AFL-CIO in Washington, D.C., Wednesday.
A burial site has been found for Boston bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev, and his body was moved Thursday from the Massachusetts funeral home where it had been for a week.Police in Worcester, Mass., did not disclose the location of the final resting place for the remains."A courageous and compassionate individual came forward to provide the assistance needed to properly bury the deceased," police...
