Syria's prime minister, Wael al-Halki, survived a bomb attack on his convoy in Damascus on Monday, underscoring the potency of the rebels in Damascus in their hopes of toppling Bashar al-Assad, Reuters reported. Six people were killed in the blast, the British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
Jessica Heeringa, 25, a cashier at a Norton Shores, near Grand Rapids, Michigan gas station, was reportedly abducted late Friday evening.
The FBI reportedly interviewed Mikhail Allakhverdov, perhaps better known as "Misha," an Armenian teacher suspected of radicalizing Boston Marathon bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaev before he allegedly plant bombs, killing three people and injuring over 200, CNN reported. Allakhverdov denies he ever encouraged a violent take on Islam, and that he taught Tamerlan anything at all, according to a New York Review of Books writer who says he interviewed him.
Authorities in Cincinnati, Ohio responded to reports that a student pulled a gun and shot himself inside a La Salle High School classroom in front of this classmates on Monday morning,. Officials were called to the school on North Bend Road around 9 a.m. In an apparent suicide attempt, the student remains in the hospital.
