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BOSTON (AP) — Prosecutors are expected today to wrap up their case against Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev (joh-HAHR' tsahr-NEYE'-ehv) with testimony from medical examiners who'll describe the fatal injuries to two people, including an 8-year-old boy. During opening statements, Tsarnaev's lawyer admitted his client participated in the bombings, but said his older brother, Tamerlan, was the mastermind of the terror attack that killed three people and wounded more than 260. Tamerlan was killed during the manhunt.
MONTABAUR, Germany (AP) — A French prosecutor says the family of Germanwings co-pilot Andreas Lubitz (an-DRAY'-us LOO'-bihtz) has not been questioned yet about last week's plane crash in the French Alps "out of decency and respect for their pain." Authorities are trying to understand what made Lubitz lock his fellow pilot out of the cockpit and ignore his pleas to open the door before slamming the plane into a mountain on what should have been a routine flight from Barcelona, Spain to Duesseldorf, Germany. Lubitz and 149 others were killed.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Current and former intelligence officials tell The Associated Press that the National Security Agency considered abandoning its secret program to collect and store American calling records in the months before leaker Edward Snowden revealed the practice. They say officials believed the costs outweighed the meager counterterrorism benefits. But after the leak, NSA leaders strongly defended the phone records program to Congress and the public, without disclosing the internal debate.
WASHINGTON (AP) — A new survey says economists are expecting much stronger growth this year and next. The National Association for Business Economics survey finds a median forecast of 3.1 percent growth in real gross domestic product in 2015, compared to a 2.4 percent gain in real GDP last year. NABE President John Silvia, who's also the chief economist of Wells Fargo, says there's promising news for jobs too. The panelists' median forecast is for net job creation to average approximately 250,000 per month in 2015 and 216,000 per month next year.
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Attorneys for Robin Williams' wife and three children are headed to court this morning in their battle over the late comedian's estate. The attorneys are scheduled to appear before a San Francisco probate judge as they argue over who should get some of Williams' clothes and other personal items. Williams' widow says in court papers filed in December that some of those items were taken from the comedian's home without her permission following his death.
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