Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev could escape the death penalty if a federal appeals overturns the sentence because of pre-trial social media postings of jurors suggesting they may have been biased.
An Obama appointee on the First Circuit of the U.S. Court of Appeals in Boston had what the Associated Press called a "lengthy exchange" with prosecutors on Thursday, December 12 during which he sounded skeptical about the inclusion of two jurors in the trial.
U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren's proposed 2 percent wealth tax on very-high-net-worth people would shrink the U.S. economy, a new study found.
According to CNBC, "Warren's wealth tax would also impose a 2% tax on net worth between $50 million and $1 billion and scale upward by wealth brackets until the final 6% rate." However, analysis from the nonpartisan Penn Wharton Budget Model released Thursday contradicts Warren's claims of how the tax would affect the country.
