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Authorities stand outside a home on Sunset Drive in Belmont while investigating an undisclosed crime; Friday, May 24, 2013. ANDREA MORALES / Monitor staff

UPDATE: AG’s office, state police conducting death investigation in Belmont

Friday, May 24, 2013

4:43 p.m.: Jeff Strelzin, head of the attorney general’s homicide unit, has confirmed that his office is conducting a death investigation at a home on Sunset Drive in Belmont. He declined to provide details – such as whether the investigation is into a single or multiple deaths – and said it would be several hours before further information is available. … 0

U.S. House votes to avert jump in student loan interest rate

Friday, May 24, 2013

By a vote of 221-198, the House passed legislation that would reset interest rates on federal student loans and avert a scheduled doubling of rates this summer. The bill, HR 1911, would peg new student loan interest rates to yields on the 10-year Treasury note, meaning that the rates would fluctuate. It would also set maximum caps on those variable rates. The proposal … 1

Boston suspect under scrutiny in unsolved killings

Friday, May 24, 2013

A year and a half before the Boston Marathon bombing, the man Tamerlan Tsarnaev called his best friend died in a grisly crime: He was one of three men found nearly decapitated in an apartment, their throats slashed ear to ear, marijuana sprinkled over their bodies. Now, in an offshoot of the marathon investigation, authorities are trying to determine whether the now-dead Tsarnaev … 0

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A torn flag wraps around its pole after a year of braving the elements. Civil Air Patrol cadets and volunteers replace the flags at Blossom Hill cemetery, May 18, 2013. (ANDREA MORALES / Monitor staff) PHOTOS: Replacing the American flags at Blossom Hill Cemetery
More than 2,500 students from 64 high schools attended the New Hampshire Scholars program graduation at the State House Plaza in downtown Concord; Wednesday, May 22, 2013. TAEHOON KIM / Monitor staff PHOTOS: New Hampshire Scholars Graduation
From left: Sybil Dupuis, House Speaker Terie Norelli, Gov. Maggie Hassan and David Berry cut a New Hampshire-shaped cake at the "New Hampshire Presidential Primary 100th Anniversary" celebration in the State House in Concord; Tuesday, May 21, 2013. Dupuis is the great-granddaughter of Stephen Bullock, author and sponsor of House Bill 430, which created New Hampshire's first official presidential primary. "This is one of the biggest honors of my life," Dupuis, who resides in Wells, Maine, said about being asked to speak at the celebration. (TAEHOON KIM / Monitor staff) PHOTO: New Hampshire primary at 100
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President Barack Obama talks about national security, Thursday, May 23, 2013, at the National Defense University at Fort McNair in Washington. Declaring America at a "crossroads" in the fight against terrorism, the president revealed clearer guidelines for the use of deadly drone strikes, including more control by the U.S. military, while leaving key details of the controversial program secret. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Obama defends drone strikes, but sets more stringent guidelines

Friday, May 24, 2013

President Obama said yesterday that the United States has reached a “crossroads” in the fight against terrorism and that it is time to redefine and recalibrate a war that will eventually end. Far from repudiating the controversial use … 0

Rendering of Millennium Gaming's proposed casino at Rockingham Park in Salem, presented on Wednesday, May 08, 2013.

BREAKING: N.H. House kills bill legalizing single casino

Wednesday, May 22, 2013

After months of debate and lobbying from all sides, the House voted 199-164 this afternoon to kill a bill legalizing a single casino. Gov. Maggie Hassan, who campaigned on a plan to use casino revenue to restore deep … 6

Man linked to Boston suspects killed by law enforcement

Thursday, May 23, 2013

A Chechen man linked to one of the Boston Marathon bombing suspects was shot and killed early yesterday in an unusual encounter with the FBI and other law enforcement officers inside his apartment in Orlando, Fla. According to federal law enforcement officials, the man was being interviewed about … 0

Obama gets green win as Tesla repays Romney’s loan for ‘losers’

Thursday, May 23, 2013

Tesla Motors Inc., labeled a “loser” by Mitt Romney during the election, is giving President Obama’s green-energy strategy its biggest win after almost two years of failures pounced upon by Republicans. The maker of the electric Model S car is poised to become the first recipient of a … 1

Cameron says ‘strong indications’ London murder was terrorism

Thursday, May 23, 2013

Two assailants hacked a man to death on a busy southeast London street yesterday before delivering a rant about Islam to bystanders, leading Prime Minister David Cameron to cut short a diplomatic trip in Paris to deal with what he described as a likely terrorist attack. If confirmed … 0

Lockeed Martin senior research scientist Maya Cooper shows a vegan pizza developed at NASA's Advanced Food Technology Project at Johnson Space Center in Houston Tuesday, July 3, 2012. NASA is currently planning a mission to Mars, which has gravity, so more options for food preparation, like chopping vegetables, are available as opposed to the dehydrated fare of current space missions. (AP Photo/Michael Stravato)

Replicators? NASA mulls 3-D printers for food

Thursday, May 23, 2013

NASA can send robots to Mars, no problem. But if it’s ever going to put humans on the Red Planet, it has to figure out how to feed them over the course of a years-long mission. So the … 0

Bill McKibben, founder of 350.org, right, speaks to a crowd of college students and supporters at a rally to support fossil fuel divestment outside of City Hall in San Francisco, Thursday, May 2, 2013. Hayden Higgins, left, rides a Rock The Bike "One Bike/One Speaker," a bicycle that generated power for the sound system at the rally. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)

College fossil-fuel divestment movement builds

Thursday, May 23, 2013

Student activists at more than 200 colleges are trying a new tactic in hopes of slowing the pace of climate change: They are asking their schools to stop investing in fossil fuel companies. The Fossil Free campaign argues … 0

In this picture publicly provided by the Cancer Center and Institute of Oncology in Gliwice, Poland, a 33-year-old Polish man whose face was torn off by stone-cutting machinery gives a thumbs-up gesture on Tuesday May 21, 2013, six days after undergoing a total face transplant in Gliwice, Poland. Doctors at the Cancer Center and Institute of Oncology in Gliwice described the surgery at a news conference on Wednesday, saying it was the first time a life-saving face transplant was carried out soon after a recipient suffered damage. There have been several other transplants in recent years but in those cases doctors had months or years to prepare. The Polish patient suffered his accident on April 23, 2013.(AP Photo/Cancer Center and Institute of Oncology in Gliwice)

Polish man gets quick face transplant after injury

Thursday, May 23, 2013

A 33-year-old Polish man received a face transplant just three weeks after being disfigured in a workplace accident, in what his doctors said yesterday is the fastest time frame to date for such an operation. It was Poland’s … 0

Bernanke says premature tightening would endanger recovery

Thursday, May 23, 2013

Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said yesterday the U.S. economy remains hampered by high unemployment and government spending cuts, and raising interest rates or reducing asset purchases too soon would endanger the recovery. “A premature tightening of monetary policy could lead interest rates to rise temporarily but would … 0

Over protests, Israel makes plans to double prayer space at Western Wall

Thursday, May 23, 2013

In a city where three major faiths guard their holy places with quarrelsome zeal and moving a single stone can have deep religious and geopolitical implications, a new proposal to double the area for Jewish prayer along the iconic Western Wall represents dramatic change for a place that … 0

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