Boston Mayor Martin Walsh hosted an impromptu ceremony in honor of Venezuelan Jewish marathoner Maickel Melamed, whose medical condition severely restricts his mobility.
In a speech to the Anti-Defamation League, U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder urged Americans to protect the rights of Muslims and other minorities in the wake of the Boston Marathon bombing.
Tamerlan Tsarnaev, one of two brothers suspected of carrying out the Boston Marathon bombing, told a relative he was seeking a copy of the “Protocols of the Elders of Zion.”