News Headlines - 17 April 2013

▽Video Points Investigators Toward Suspect in Boston Bombings - NYTimes.com

In the first major break in the hunt for the Boston Marathon bomber, F.B.I. personnel on Wednesday found security video clips that showed a man they believe may have played a role in planting the explosives that killed three people and injured more than 170 on Monday.

▽Drive for Gun Control Blocked in Senate - NYTimes.com

A wrenching national search for solutions to the violence that left 20 children dead in Newtown, Conn., all but ended Wednesday after the Senate defeated several measures to expand gun control.

▽Pentagon to Boost Presence in Jordan - WSJ.com

The U.S. will send an Army command team to Jordan to work with Jordanian forces, increasing the number of American forces on the Syrian border, defense officials said.

▽Reinhart-Rogoff Acknowledge Mistake in 2010 Paper Cited by Ryan - Businessweek

Harvard University economists Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff acknowledged today that they had made a mistake in a 2010 paper that has been used to justify fiscal consolidation in the U.S. and Europe, while arguing that the error didn’t change the basic findings of their research.

▽Fed and Bank of Japan caused gold crash - Telegraph

Commodity prices have been falling since September, culminating in a rout over the past two weeks. That is a classic warning for the global economy.