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Mourners and well-wishers left flowers and other mementos early Tuesday for a loving "all-American" family struck by the Boston Marathon bombings, which claimed the life of their "adorable little boy."Martin Richard, 8, was killed standing by the finish line with his family Monday afternoon.Richard’s mother, Denise, suffered a brain injury in the blast, and his 6-year-old sister reportedly lost a ...
Casting for additional leads, authorities pleaded Tuesday with spectators from the Boston Marathon to send photos and video that may shed light on who set off two shrapnel-studded bombs that killed three people and injured at least 176.Law enforcement officials familiar with the case told NBC News that the bombs appeared to be pressure cookers, packed with explosives and shrapnel and probably trig...
In the wake of Monday’s Boston Marathon explosions that have killed three and injured at least 170 more, NBC News National and International Correspondent Ann Curry took to Twitter and asked people to honor Boston, particularly victim 8-year-old Martin Richard, with acts of kindness. Tag your acts of kindness with hashtag #26Acts2.
#26Acts2: In the wake of Monday’s Boston Marathon explosions that have killed three and injured at least 170 more, NBC News National and International Correspondent Ann Curry took to Twitter and asked people to honor Boston, particularly 8-year-old Martin Richard, with acts of kindness.
On Monday, Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz told a packed crowd at the AFL-CIO headquarters in Washington, D.C., that the United States is paying a high price for the growing inequality facing the country. But, despite the long-thought idea that we have to choose between growth and equality, he said that the two are complements and that we can have both a strong, growing economy and equality.
Dr. Allan Panter felt the first blast as he waited at the finish line to cheer his wife as she completed her 16th Boston Marathon. He saw the people immediately next to him drop.Incredibly, “I was just standing there without a scratch,” the emergency room physician recalled Tuesday for TODAY’s Matt Lauer.“I realized that all the people to what had been to my left had gone down, and just started he...
LONDON -- Former Boston Police Commissioner Bill Bratton said Tuesday that those responsible for the bombing of the city’s marathon should be put to death.Bratton said he had “every confidence” that the authorities would “get to the bottom of this and bring those responsible to justice.”Massachusetts abolished capital punishment in 1984, but Bratton said the federal authorities could take over the...
Casting for additional leads, authorities pleaded Tuesday with spectators from the Boston Marathon to send photos and video that may shed light on who set off two shrapnel-studded bombs that killed three people and injured at least 176.“There has to be hundreds, if not thousands, of photographs, videos and other observations that were made down at that finish line yesterday,” said Timothy Alben, s...
The National Farm Workers' Confederation (CNC) and United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) Canada signed a historic agreement to ensure the rights of migrant agriculture workers are protected and defended in Mexico, Canada and the United States, reports UFCW Canada.
Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-W-Va.) introduced the Medicare Drug Savings Act of 2013 that would produce savings without passing on costs to seniors. The act offers a worthwhile alternative to this approach, strengthening the Medicare program’s fiscal footing while shielding beneficiaries from harmful cost-shifting. The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) estimates that restoration of Medicaid-level drug rebates for low-income Medicare beneficiaries would save the federal government $141 billion over 10 years. As federal budget negotiations continue, we urge you to consider the following critical facts:
