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Boston authorities held a press conference after taking Dzhokhar Tsarnaev into custody.

Laura Sullivan tells Robert Siegel that she has been learning more about the older suspect, Tamerlan Tsarnaev. She's been talking with three women who knew him when they were in college — and they paint a dark picture.

The Massachusetts state police held a press conference on the latest developments in the Boston Marathon bombing investigation.

Twenty years ago, federal agents clashed with David Koresh's Branch Davidian community near Waco, Texas. The standoff ended with a raid and fire in which some 80 children, women and men perished. It's remembered as one of the darkest chapters in American law enforcement.

The violinist, vocalist and composer says that writing a piece like her prize-winning Partita for 8 Voices begins with "having a sound in your head that you really want to hear."

Now that one suspect in the Boston bombings is captured and the other dead, the quest for answers begins and investigators look for motives. Weekend Edition Saturday host Scott Simon talks with NPR's Tom Gjelten about what's next for Boston.

With the capture Friday night of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the 19-year-old surviving suspect in the bombings at the Boston Marathon, the story moves into a new phase — one of trying to answer critical questions. In particular, are there more bombs and are other people involved?

NPR's Daniel Zwerdling reports on what's known about the two brothers suspected in the Boston Marathon bombing, Dzhokhar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev.

A Justice Department official said the Boston Marathon bombing suspect, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, was not read his Miranda rights before being taken into custody because of a public safety exception. Counterterrorism correspondent Dina Temple-Raston speaks with host Jacki Lyden about the history of the public safety exception and how it will be used in this case.

James Fallows, national correspondent for The Atlantic, talks with Host Jackie Lyden about the Boston bombings, the immigration plan and the gun debate.