The Senate on Thursday passed an overhaul of U.S. immigration laws that would clear the way for millions of undocumented residents to have a chance at citizenship, attract workers from all over the world and devote unprecedented resources for security along the U.S.-Mexico border.
The surviving Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev faces a 30-count indictment by a federal grand jury charging him with using weapons of mass destruction and killing 4 people. The indictment alleged that Tsarnaev, inspired by Al-Qaeda publication (specifically Inspire) had allegedly left a confession in the boat where he was captured in a Watertown Massachusetts backyard writing, "I don't like killing innocent people," but had been justified because of U.S. government actions abroad.
The state of Texas executed its 500th inmate since it resumed carrying out capital punishment in 1982. Kimberly McCarthy was put to death Wednesday evening for the murder of her 71-year-old neighbor. McCarthy was also the first woman executed in the U.S. in nearly three years. The 57-year-old McCarthy was executed for the 1997 robbery, beating and stabbing death of retired psychology professor Dorothy Booth.
Rachel Jeantel, a teenage friend of Trayvon Martin, was forced to admit that she did not write a letter that was sent to the victim's mother describing what she allegedly heard on a phone call with him moments before he was shot.
