Dzhokhar Tsarnaev Pleads Not Guilty For Boston Marathon Bombing

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was charged with 30 counts, including the use of a weapon of mass destruction to kill.

by Alexander Besant

Tsarnaev Brothers: Mounting Evidence Of Triple Murder Connection

Authorities say there is “mounting evidence” that the Tsarnaev brothers may have been involved in an unsolved triple murder in 2011. Massachusetts law enforcement told ABC News that there were “forensic hits” that show potential involvement of Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev in the grisly murder of Tamerlan’s friend Brendan Mess and two others. It is […]

Authorities say there is "mounting evidence" that the Tsarnaev brothers may have been involved in an unsolved triple murder in 2011. Massachusetts law enforcement told ABC News that there were "forensic hits"

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Anatomy Of A Blame Game: Boston Bombing Suspect’s Friends Charged

As the media obsesses over charges against a group of 19-year-olds, some wonder what the societal function of finger-pointing is, or isn’t.

One month after the detonation of two improvised explosive devices at the 2013 Boston Marathon left three people dead and more than 200 wounded, the network of individuals thought to be involved in the attack continues to expand. Three friends of bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev have been accused of obstructing justice.

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Frederick Reese

Frederick Reese is lead staff writer for Mint Press specializing in race, poverty, congressional oversight and technology. An award winning data journalist and creative writer for over 15 years, Frederick has written about and worked for social advocacy projects and personal awareness efforts. Frederick is a jack-of-all-trades, with work experience as a teacher, a pastry chef and a story writer. Frederick has publication credits with Yahoo!, B. Couleur, and more. A native New Yorker, Frederick graduated from Colgate University in 1999 and Johnson & Wales University in 2003. Frederick started his journalistic career writing for his university’s newspaper, “The Colgate Maroon-News,” before starting and heading his own magazine, “The Idealist.” Most recently, Frederick received a data journalism award from the International Center for Journalists for his minimum wage coverage for MintPress. Follow Frederick on Twitter: @frederickreese

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3 Friends Of Boston Bombing Suspect Charged

Two are charged with conspiring to destroy evidence linking their friend to the deadly blasts; the third, with lying to investigators.

BOSTON — Just hours before one of the Boston Marathon suspects and his brother allegedly gunned down a campus police officer, authorities say he exchanged a series of text messages with a friend who'd become suspicious after seeing what looked like a familiar face being flashed on television. Dias Kadyrbayev, a student at the University of

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When Counterterrorism Is Terrorism, Who Deems The State Radical: Rationalizing Government Radicalization

Edward Rhymes The past few days we have heard a great deal about radical Islam and the supposed radicalizing of the Tsarnaev brothers. Much has been said, for example, about the influence of “radical Islam” in Chechnya in the evolution of these two young men from laid-back characters to alleged killers. There has even been […]

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The past few days we have heard a great deal about radical Islam and the supposed radicalizing of the Tsarnaev brothers. Much has been said, for example, about the influence of “radical Islam” in Chechnya in the evolution of these two young men from laid-back characters to alleged killers. There has even been

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Journalism Could Be Vehicle For Peace and Justice — Boston Bombing Coverage Proves Otherwise

Carissa Wyant If it’s not confirmed, don’t report it. It’s one of the very first rules that aspiring journalists learn to live by. So if this is one of the cardinal rules of journalism, why in recent tragedies such as the Boston Marathon bombing, has the media gotten so many details wrong in reporting on […]

Carissa Wyant

If it’s not confirmed, don’t report it. It’s one of the very first rules that aspiring journalists learn to live by.

So if this is one of the cardinal rules of journalism, why in recent tragedies such as the Boston Marathon bombing, has the media gotten so many details wrong in reporting on the event?

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