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This Is Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's Twitter Account

Our friends at Gawker have found the real Twitter account used by Dzhokhar Tsaranev. His handle is @J_tsar, and it is listed under a simplified version of his name, "Jahar." The account has been active since the day of the marathon bombing, but as far as we can tell, his feed offers little insight o...

Eerie Photos Of Boston On Lockdown

Boston is closed for business. Buses, trains and taxis are not running. Residents have been urged to stay indoors and lock their doors. The city looks like a ghost town....

In Fiery Press Conference, Bomb Suspects' Uncle Calls Them "Losers"

Ruslan Tsarni, the uncle of marathon bombing suspects Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, gave an impromptu press conference outside his Maryland home today. He was pissed....

Here's How Tamerlan Tsarnaev Was Killed After A Shootout With Police

A chaotic firefight early this morning on a residential street in Watertown, Mass., resulted in the shooting death of one of the Boston bombing suspects, who reportedly was also run over by a vehicle....

Everything We Know About Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, The Still-At-Large Suspect

Police are still looking for 19-year-old Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the Boston Marathon bombing suspect who remains at large after his older brother and alleged accomplice Tamerlan was killed in a shootout last night. This is everything we know so far about Dzhokhar....

Authorities Concerned Bombing Suspect Could Leave The State [UPDATE]

This morning, Connecticut State Police put out a bulletin to be on the lookout for a car that might be occupied by Dzhokar Tsarnaev, the surviving suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings. [UPDATE: The car has been recovered in Boston.] Meanwhile, conflicting reports have swat teams in Watertown sur...

MIT Officer Killed By Bombing Suspects Identified

The MIT security officer killed last night has been identified as Sean Collier, 26....

Scenes From The Watertown Manhunt

A manhunt for the two suspects in the Boston Marathon bombing, Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, spilled into Watertown, Mass., late last night. After Tamerlan was killed a shootout, a search for Dzhokar continued into this morning. These are photos that were taken from the scene of the ongoing manhun...

1 Bombing Suspect Dead; 1 On The Run: A Guide To This Morning's Chaos

One of the suspects in the Boston Marathon bombings is dead this morning, the other the focus of a massive manhunt, after a wild night including a chase and a firefight that killed one police officer and injured another. The suspects have been identified as Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, Chechen br...

Transit Cop Injured In Gun Battle Has Been Identified

Authorities have released the name of the MBTA transit police officer who was shot and injured by the Boston bombing suspects. He is Richard H. Donohue Jr., 33, and he has been a transit cop for three years. He is reportedly in critical condition at Mount Auburn Hospital....

Everything We Know About Tamerlan Tsarnaev, Dead Bombing Suspect

Authorities are now confirming the two suspects sought in Monday's Boston Marathon bombing are two Russian-born (as reported by the AP) Chechen brothers, Tamerlan and Dzhokhar A. Tsarnaev. Tamerlan, the older brother, is dead. Here's what we know about him....

Here's A Custom Map Of Everything That Has Happened Today So Far

There's way too much happening to attempt to cover what's still a developing situation, but here's a crowdsourced attempt to tell the story of what happened last night at MIT and this morning in Watertown. For your in-the-moment updates, browse over to Gawker....

The FBI Is Seeking These Two Suspects In The Boston Marathon Bombing

At a press conference today, the FBI released a number of images of two men identified as suspects in the Boston Marathon bombing. Those images are in the video above....

Boston, Newtown, Challenger: How To Talk To Kids About Awful Things

I was in fourth grade at Myrtle Schumann Elementary School in Orono, Minn., when the Challenger exploded. I didn't see the shuttle explode live on TV. We were in our class doing our usual lessons as word of the disaster spread. I remember a little kid named Jason broke the news to me personally....

Jon Stewart: CNN Has "Figured Out A Way To Shit In Their Own Mouths"

CNN's Boston bombings derpfest was ripe last night for The Daily Show's picking: "Just out of curiosity, did any of your sources end their tip-offs to you with the phrase, 'A Baba Booey'?"...

The Boston Bombing Witch Hunt Bags Another Innocent Kid

On Monday, the New York Post doggedly stuck to its claim that 12 were killed in the Boston Marathon bombings. On Tuesday, CNN (among others) reported that a suspect had been arrested, before walking that all the way back. Today, the Post wrests back the "what the fuck are you doing?" crown by puttin...

The Bruins Drop The Puck On An Emotional Night In Boston

Back to hockey....

Watch As The Crowd Sings The National Anthem At The Boston Bruins Game

With the Bruins hosting the Sabres in Boston's first professional sporting event since Monday's marathon bombings, it figured to be an emotional evening at TD Bank Garden. And so it is....

Today's Boston Bombing Media Shitshow, In 90 Seconds

Our friends at Gawker already took a stab at this, but we thought we'd condense today's mess of media reporting into something easily consumable for the crowd that may have been working and thus wasn't privy to the disaster taking place on television airwaves....

"Heroes are never in short supply in a catastrophe...but neither are cowards and egoists and creeps who have decided to wallow in melodrama and fear, restless miserablists whose only mile-markers in life are the tragedies that have befallen them." Go read Cord Jefferson on the national response to t...