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Boston and the Modern Manhunt
Did social media help law enforcement identify and track down suspects in last week's deadly attack in Boston? Did news organizations’ mistakes create needless confusion?
By Warren Olney • • 51m ListenAfter releasing photographs from surveillance cameras, the FBI and local police made fast work of identifying and tracking down two suspects in last week's deadly attack on the Boston Marathon. Did social media help more than it hindered? Did mistakes by established news organizations create unnecessary confusion? Why did a million people have to stay indoors with only one wounded fugitive still at large? Also, Israel says Syria used chemical weapons, and the French parliament defied massive street protests and legalized same-sex marriage today. What's the role of politics and a troubled economy?
Banner image: Residents are evacuated as FBI agents search homes for the Boston Marathon bombing suspects in Watertown, Massachusetts April 19, 2013. Photo by Brian Snyder/Reuters
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3 storiesIsrael Says Syria Used Chemical Weapons
Israel's top military intelligence analyst said today the US is among the nations informed that the government of Syria has used chemical weapons against rebel forces, an act the Obama administration has called a "red line" that could prompt American action. Jodi Rudoren is Jerusalem Bureau chief for the New York Times .
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The toll from the Boston Marathon bombings is three dead and 48 still hospitalized with the total number of injured now 264. The surviving suspect's condition is said to be "fair." The motivation behind the atrocity may never be known but, in the meantime, there are many other unanswered questions.
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Despite massive protests that flooded the streets of Paris, the Socialist majority of the French National Assembly legalized same-sex marriage today. France is the fourteenth nation to recognize same-sex marriage and the third in the past two weeks. But conservative opponents promise to continue their protests.
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