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In this March 5, 2015 file courtroom sketch, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, center, is depicted between defense attorneys Miriam Conrad, left, and Judy Clarke, right, during his federal death penalty trial in Boston.(Photo: Jane Flavell Collins, AP)
1. Now the real trial: Deciding if Tsarnaev lives or dies
The same jury that convicted Dzhokhar Tsarnaev on all 30 charges involved in the Boston Marathon bombing will decide if he lives or dies. The sentencing phase of the trial begins Tuesday, one day after the second marathon since the bombing and a few days after the two-year anniversary of the attacks that killed three people and left 260 injured. A fourth person, an MIT officer, was killed in the manhunt that followed. Massachusetts does not have the death penalty, but because this is a federal case, capital punishment is in play.
Jenna Dziedzic, left, of Boston, stands with Sabrina Dellorusso, center, also of Boston, and Jillian Boynton, right, of Manchester, N.H., during a moment of silence at one of the two blast sites near the finish line of the Boston Marathon in Boston. The women were close to a blast site near the finish line of the Boston Marathon in 2013 where a friend, Roseann Sdoia, lost a limb.<span style="color: Red;">*</span>(Photo: Steven Senne, AP)
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2. 'Mobilegeddon' could affect your business
Search giant Google, which has a 65% market share of Internet searches, is changing the way it ranks websites today, offering better results on smartphones to sites that are "mobile friendly." That means a site that loads quickly and is easy to navigate on a mobile phone may show up in Google search results higher than sites that don't. Check out your website and see if it passes the mobile-friendly Google test.
Google will favor mobile friendly websites; some call it Mobilegeddon.<span style="color: Red;">*</span>(Photo: Jefferson Graham)
3. Genetic datashare aims to save more women from breast and ovarian cancer
In a first-of-its kind genetic datashare program, more scientists and labs will look at test results in an effort to improve predictions about which individuals are at risk of developing hereditary breast and ovarian cancer. U.S.-based Quest Diagnostics announced Tuesday that it is pairing with the French public health institute to launch BRCA Share. BRCA 1 and 2 are genes that if inherited in a mutated form could predispose some carriers to develop breast or ovarian cancer.
Breast cancer survivor Megan Schanie of Louisville kisses daughter Adison goodnight in 2007, while she was undergoing treatment for the disease.<span style="color: Red;">*</span>(Photo: File photo by Kylene Lloyd, The (Louisville) Courier-Journal)
4. Mom and Dad are Millennials' go-to bank
Today's young adults are three times as likely to say they got a lot of financial help from their parents when they were starting out, compared to what their parents say they got at the same age – 36% vs. 12% – a USA TODAY/Bank of America Better Money Habits survey finds. Millennials aren't moochers – it's just a lot harder for them to become financially independent at the same pace their parents did, the survey shows.
Two millennials eat at a restaurant.<span style="color: Red;">*</span>(Photo: IHOP)
5. Technology opens the door to a new era of baseball stats
The theory that there can never be too many statistics for baseball fans will be put to the test when the MLB Network reveals the future of baseball analytics during its broadcast of the St. Louis Cardinals' game at the Washington Nationals. Thanks to tens of millions of dollars in new cameras and sensors capable of capturing 120,000 bits of data per second that have been installed in all 30 big-league ballparks, fans will soon be able to look up hitters' exit velocity, fielders' route efficiency, speed and distance, pitchers' spin rates and arm extension and a host of other stats they never before knew they wanted or needed to know.
Bob Bowman, president of MLB Business and Media, explains new baseball statistics and how they might be displayed during a broadcast at a news conference in New York on Monday.<span style="color: Red;">*</span>(Photo: Seth Wenig, AP)
What else is on our reading list this morning:
Armour: Another Tim Tebow try that is certain to fail
How 'the blob' caused USA's weird weather
Pensions have a $296.1B problem
And, the essentials:
Weather: Severe storms will lash the southern Plains while chilly temperatures spread over the Great Lakes.
Stocks:U.S. stock futures were higher Tuesday.
TV Tonight: Can't decide what to watch tonight? TV critic Robert Bianco looks at The Flash, Forever and a special on the National Mall.
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Contributing: The Associated Press
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