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Sunday 20 September 2020
Patrick Downes completed the course in five hours, 56 minutes and 46 seconds.
A photo of Victoria McGrath became widely used in the days and weeks after the bombing.
21 year-old Dzhokhar Tsarnaev will receive his formal death sentence later today.
The couple targeted a packed Canada Day celebration with their pressure-cooker bombs.
Is capital punishment right?
Some are opposed to the sentence while others support it.
One prosecutor says it shows Dzhokhar Tsarnaev as “unconcerned, unrepentant, and unchanged.”
Judge George O’Toole Junior dismissed the jury after a little more than seven hours of deliberations.
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev could be put to death.
Jury selection is expected to take three weeks with jurors allowed excuse themselves if they object to the death penalty.
Hundreds have been summoned for jury selection.
Robel Phillipos was convicted of two counts for lying.
Part of an image of bombing victim James Costello was used to illustrate a story about a rival.
Federal death penalty cases are relatively rare in the United States, and are often reserved for the most heinous and notorious crimes.
Meb Keflezighi, who gave the Boston fans their first American men’s champ in more than three decades, wore the names of four victims on his running bib.
About 36,000 runners have registered for the race — the second-largest field in its history.
Everyone’s talking about a teenager drowning in a reservoir, a Dublin shooting, and tensions in Ukraine…
It is unfortunate that, sometimes, it takes a tragedy of this magnitude to vitiate differences and to remind us of our common humanity, writes Larry Donnelly.
Tissues. Grab all of the tissues.
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev (20) has pleaded not guilty.
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev had been shot in the face and also had a fractured skull a doctor found after he gave himself up to police following a stand-off in a Boston suburb in April.
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is in court for the first time since the April bombing that killed three people and wounded more than 260.
Both defence and prosecution attorneys have petitioned the court to postpone the hearing so that that they could have more time to prepare.
The very best of the week’s writing from around the web.
Tamerlan Tsarnaev, who was killed during his capture, was known to have been in contact with a Dagestan militants.
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev has told investigators his brother was the leader in last week’s deadly attacks, and that no international terrorist groups were involved.
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev remains in a serious condition in a Boston hospital, under armed guard.
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 19, was found by a homeowner in a boat where he had taken refuge.
Good morning! Here are the nine things you need to know as you kick off your Saturday.
MORE THAN THREE-quarters of people would support the government looking into the prospect of a four-day work week, according to a new survey.
This means doing the same job for the same salary, but over four days rather than five.
There have been calls for this idea to be explored already and the Four Day Week Ireland campaign today released details on its public attitude survey conducted last month.
Two out of three respondents said a four-day work week is “realistic and achievable” in the medium term.
67% of employers said they support the idea and 46% said it would be “feasible” to trial in their workplace.
“The four-day week, with no loss of pay, offers the potential of a genuinely better future for workers and employers alike,” said Joe O’Connor, director of campaigning with Fórsa trade union.
What may once have seemed like a radical concept is now, for many, a reasonable and rational ambition. The Covid-19 pandemic has further disrupted societal and workplace norms, while illustrating the potential for very different models of work.
So today we’re asking: Would you support a four-day work week?
Poll Results:
Share your story: voices@thejournal.ie
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