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Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the remaining suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings assured his parents in a phone conversation that he and his slain brother were innocent, his mother Zubeidat Tsarnaeva told the Associated Press.

Eleven young people were kidnapped in broad daylight from an after-hours bar in Mexico City's Zona Rosa, a district filled with restaurants, dance clubs and offices. The mass abduction happened sometime between 10 a.m. and noon on Sunday, just off the city's main boulevard Paseo de la Reforma, near the Angel of Independence monument, about 1 ½ blocks from the U.S. Embassy.

Yanira Maldonado, the Arizona mother of 7 who was held in a Mexican Jail on a marijuana charge, was freed Thursday evening. After the court reviewed her case, including key security footage the showed Yanira and her husband Gary boarding the bus carrying only blankets, bottles of water and her purse, the authorities realized that the charges against her were false, and dismissed her case.