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AP - Federal prosecutors have asked a judge to limit Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's access to gruesome autopsy photos of the three people killed in the attack. In court documents filed Monday, prosecutors say Tsarnaev should not be allowed to see autopsy photos that will not be used at his trial...

A Massachusetts congressman says the House Homeland Security Committee plans to hold a hearing in Boston this spring with victims of and first responders to the Boston Marathon bombings. U.S. Rep. William Keating says the committee is working on wrapping up its report on the April 15 bombings, which killed three people and injured more than 260 near the race's finish line...

A judge has set a November trial date for Boston Marathon suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. Judge George O'Toole Jr. said in U.S. District Court Wednesday that he has set the trial for Nov. 3, 2014. Earlier this week, Tsarnaev's lawyers had filed a report requesting that the trial start no earlier than September 2015...

Prosecutors say the trial of Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzkokhar Tsarnaev is expected to last three months, plus another six weeks if he is convicted and a jury then has to decide whether he should get the death penalty. The trial estimate was included in a joint status report filed in court Monday by federal prosecutors and Tsarnaev's lawyers ahead of a court hearing scheduled Wednesday... R

As attorney general, Eric Holder has approved pursuing the death penalty in at least 34 criminal cases, upholding a long-ago pledge to Congress that he would vigorously enforce federal law even though he's not a proponent of capital punishment...

FBI agents continue to scour parts of Dartmouth, apparently in search of more evidence linked to the Boston Marathon Bombings.