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JUST IN - Biden will deliver a statement on the U.S. Supreme Court's immunity ruling at 7:45pm, the White House says.

A clip of President Biden mumbling through his comments during Israeli President Isaac Herzog’s visit to the White House renewed many Twitter users’ concerns over his mental fitness. While addressing the visiting leader, Biden gave a few words on the United States’ relationship with Israel. However, as he touted progress between the two countries, he began looking down and mumbled his words. "We got a lot more to do, but there's progress. Last year, we can be the largest gathering of Arab Israelis in a decade together form, and we resolved the maritime boundary dispute between Israel and Lebanon, which...

DETROIT (WWJ) – The mayor of Boston is drawing criticism for recent comments he made about Detroit. In an interview with the New York Times, Mayor Thomas Menino was asked if he could live in any other city in America other than Boston, where would he choose. He at first said he’d never thought of living in any other city, but then added: “Detroit is a place I’d love to go.” When the reporter asked Menino what he’d do in Detroit, the mayor responded: ”I’d blow up the place and start all over.”

The 19-year-old suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings is reportedly awake and responding in writing to questions from authorities. Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is unable to speak after being shot in the throat during a gunfight with police, and is currently in intensive care in a Boston hospital. This morning America's ABC and NBC networks reported that he was responding in writing to questions from law enforcement officials. Earlier Boston mayor Tom Menino said he feared authorities may never be able to question Tsarnaev because of the nature of his injuries. The 19-year-old was captured after hiding in a boat in a...

Boston Mayor Tom Menino said on Sunday authorities may never be able to question the Boston Marathon bombing suspect, who lies seriously injured and unable to speak after eluding police for 24 hours.

full title....Bomber 'put gun in his mouth and fired as he was cornered in boat' and wounds mean he may NEVER be able to be quizzedThe alleged Boston Marathon bomber may have tried to kill himself rather than surrender after he was cornered by police - but failed in his suicide attempt, it has been revealed. A new report says Dzhokhar Tsarnaev shoved his pistol in his own mouth and pulled the trigger as SWAT officers and federal agents closed in on the boat where he was hiding in Friday night. However, instead of killing him, the bullet simply passed...

Mayor Thomas M. Menino is expected to announce tomorrow that he will not run for re-election — passing up on the possibility of a historic sixth term amid ongoing health woes — sources tell the Herald. Already the city’s longest-serving mayor, Menino is expected to make the announcement at a press conference tomorrow afternoon. Menino, 70, was hospitalized for two months last fall with a variety of aliments, including a blood clot, a spinal fracture, and diabetes. Speculation has swirled since then about whether the mayor would run. So far, only City Councilor John Connolly has announced for the race....

After months of speculation, Mayor Thomas M. Menino is set to endorse Senate hopeful Elizabeth Warren at an event in Roslindale tomorrow, sources close to the mayor told the Herald. Menino has balked at endorsing the Harvard professor for months as speculation swirled that he may sit on the sidelines in her heated race to unseat U.S. Sen. Scott Brown. The mayor, whose political clout in the city could significantly help Warren, will formally endorse her at a public event at 4 p.m. tomorrow, a person close to the mayor told the Herald today. Developing...

Howie thread for the week starting with his Sunday Boston Herald column about "Mumbles" Menino speaking at DNC

Boston Mayor Thomas M. Menino will head to the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte Monday where he’ll speak at the Time Warner Cable Arena on Wednesday. “I’ve been asked to say a few words on Wednesday evening at the start of the convention,” Menino told the Herald today. The mayor said he’s scheduled to speak at 5 p.m. at the convention hall. He’ll also speak at another event being sponsored by the John F. Kennedy Library, he said. The mayor, who is an at-large delegate at the DNC, will be part of a slate of Massachusetts speakers at the convention,...

Citing an anti-“same sex marriage” stance by its corporate ownership, Boston Mayor Thomas Menino has vowed to block Chick-fil-A restaurants in Beantown, the Boston Herald reported Thursday. “Chick-fil-A doesn’t belong in Boston. You can’t have a business in the city of Boston that discriminates against a population. We’re an open city, we’re a city that’s at the forefront of inclusion,” the Herald quoted the mayor. “It doesn’t send the right message to the country. We’re a leader when it comes to social justice and opportunities for all.” That would be for all except those who disagree with the mayor’s political...

Boston Mayor Tom Menino's disgraceful comments regarding illegal aliens created quite a stir yesterday, with our posts on it receiving nearly 3,000 comments in just a few hours on Facebook. To recap, Menino said that car theft by illegals wasn't serious enough to warrant deportation, and thus he would try to yank Boston from the outstanding and effective 'Secure Communities' program whereby fingerprints of arrested illegals are sent to ICE, increasing their chances of being deported. Let's first review what Menino said: Most comments on the website ran against Menino. Today, the Mayor apologized for his comments by bizarrely saying...

Mumbles Menino has learned a new word, and it’s quite impressive. I bet he spent the whole weekend working on getting it right. Tsunami. T-S-U-N-A-M-I. As in Tsunami Scott Brown. “There’s a tsunami, that’s what it was,” Mumbles was saying yesterday at the Parkman House after the new senator-elect made a call on him. “It just got rollin’ and it’s very difficult to stop. And ya know he had the best TV ads, he just had the momentum.” Not bad, Mumbles. A big word - a foreign word - and then some standard boilerplate analysis. But then, he had almost...

The castle was founded by William de Londres in the early 12th Century and is considered one of the finest in the area. The first major archaeological dig to take place at a medieval castle near Swansea is underway. Experts and volunteers are hoping to uncover artefacts along with clues as the original layout... They will be on site digging and examining trenches for three weeks... The dig is focusing on an area outside the west tower where archaeologists are looking for an outer wall and a ditch. They are also examining the knoll after a geophysical survey commissioned by...

I'm listening to Billy Joe Shaver/And I'm reading James Joyce/Some people tell me I got the blood of the land in my voice," Bob Dylan sings in a leathery growl, capturing the essence of his forthcoming studio album — raw-country love songs, sly wordplay and the wounded state of the nation — in “I Feel a Change Coming On," one of the record's 10 new originals. Set for late April, the as-yet-untitled album arrives a few months after Dylan's outtakes collection Tell Tale Signs, and it “came as a surprise," says a source close to Dylan's camp. Last year, filmmaker...

The detective son of Mayor Thomas M. Menino moonlights as a “safety engineer” for a politically wired construction powerhouse that has landed millions in city contracts and regularly turns to the mayor’s team for necessary permits, the Herald has learned. Detective Thomas M. Menino Jr., a 13-year Hub cop, landed the plum, 20-hour-a-week post with Suffolk Construction in January 2008, even as he pulls down a taxpayer-funded $86,000 annual base salary in the department’s intelligence unit. In 2007, he made $137,000 as a police officer with overtime and detail pay, records show.

Howie thread beginning with his Sunday Herald column

Mumbles Menino is so desperate to grab some of that new meals tax money, he’s starting to sound like Popeye’s old friend Wimpy. The mayor of Boston goes out Friday talking about hamburgers, and how this proposed tax increase would only cost you 18 cents on a $9 bacon double cheese with fries, which will work out great down the road because your property taxes will go down by thousands of dollars because of that extra 18 cents. In short, Mumbles will gladly give you a tax cut Tuesday for an 18-cent hamburger tax today. It’s a scam of course....

Howie Carr live thread. Column below!

Mayor Thomas M. Menino is chastising shock jocks Opie & Anthony and WBCN for broadcasting a live "Homeless Shopping Spree" yesterday where homeless people were given money and were taken to a New Jersey mall... "This so-called "shopping spree" is a sick and twisted exercise that degrades the most vulnerable members of our society," Menino. "This is wrong, and we need the public . . . who care about the homeless and about basic human decency to stand up and tell them so." According to a live broadcast of the program yesterday, more than 2,000 people showed up at the...