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BOSTON (AP) — Attorneys for convicted Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev (joh-HAHR' tsahr-NEYE'-ehv) are expected to argue in the penalty phase that his older brother was the mastermind of the attack. Tsarnaev was convicted nearly two weeks ago of all 30 charges against him, and now he faces either life in prison or the death penalty. The penalty phase of the trial begins today.
BALI, Indonesia (AP) — An Indonesian court has convicted an American man of murdering his girlfriend's mother, whose body was found in a suitcase inside the trunk of a taxi at an upscale Bali hotel. Twenty-one-year-old Tommy Schaefer also has been sentenced to 18 years in prison. The court rule today that Schaefer beat to death 62-year-old Sheila von Wiese-Mack in a hotel room. Also on trial is von Wiese-Mack's 19-year-old daughter Heather Mack, who's charged with helping her boyfriend in the Aug. 12 murder of her mother.
LUENEBURG, Germany (AP) — A 93-year-old man is going on trial in Germany today for allegedly working as a guard at the Auschwitz death camp in Nazi-occupied Poland. Oskar Groening (GRUHR'-ning) faces 300,000 counts of accessory to murder. Prosecutors say he served at Auschwitz between May and June 1944, when some 425,000 Jews from Hungary were brought there and at least 300,000 were almost immediately gassed to death. Groening doesn't deny serving as an Auschwitz guard, but says he committed no crime.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Key U.S. senators say they're close to a deal on an anti-trafficking bill, which could clear the way for a vote to confirm President Barack Obama's attorney general. Republican and Democratic senators say they're working to finalize language resolving a dispute over abortion that has hung up the bill to combat sex trafficking. Republican leaders have refused to bring attorney general-designate Loretta Lynch up for a vote until that happens.
WASHINGTON (AP) — A government task force says women should get a mammogram every two years starting at age 50. But the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force says routine screening brings little benefit to women in their 40s and should be a personal choice. The task force also says there's not enough evidence to tell if new 3-D mammograms are the best option for routine screening, or if women with dense breasts need extra testing to find hidden tumors.
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