Glenn DePriest/Getty Images(CONCORD, N.H.) -- Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev, who was run over by his brother after a gunfight with police, was named as a victim of gun violence during an event held by Mayors Against Illegal Guns, the anti-gun violence group run by New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg.

Tsarnaev’s name was listed during one of the gun group’s “No More Names” bus events in Concord, N.H., where it read the names of the people who have been killed in connection with gun violence, the New Hampshire Union Leader reported Tuesday.

“Some of the loudest shouts came when a reader spoke the name of Tamerlan Tsarnaev, one of the Boston Marathon bombing suspects who was killed by police during a gunfight,” the Union Leader reported Tuesday.

Several protestors shouted, “He’s a terrorist,” according to the Union Leader.

Mayors Against Illegal Guns used a list compiled by Slate.com, titled “How Many People Have Been Killed by Guns Since Newtown?”  Bloomberg’s gun group called the inclusion of Tsarnaev in its list of gun violence victims a mistake and apologized for the error.

“He was absolutely not a victim, his name should have been deleted before the list was provided to a family member for reading and his name should never have been read,” Mayors Against Illegal Guns said in a statement to ABC News. “It was a mistake, it should not have happened and we sincerely apologize.”

The Slate.com list still includes Tsarnaev’s name.

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Sean Gallup/Getty Images(BERLIN) -- Speaking at Berlin’s historic Brandenburg Gate, President Obama on Wednesday challenged Western democracies not to become complacent in the post-Cold War era, saying “our work is not yet done.”

“Complacency is not the character of great nations. Today’s threats are not as stark as they were half a century ago, but the struggle for freedom and security and human dignity -- that struggle goes on,” the president told a crowd of more than 4,000 in wide-ranging remarks.

“I’ve come here, to this city of hope, because the tests of our time demand the same fighting spirit that defined Berlin a half-century ago,” he said.

The iconic gate, famed for powerful political statements, has become a symbol of this once-divided city’s reunification. Speaking 50 years after President John F. Kennedy delivered his famous “ich bin ein Berliner” speech facing west, Obama on Wednesday addressed the opposite side, speaking to what was once East Germany.

“While I am not the first American president to come to this gate, I am proud to stand on its Eastern side to pay tribute to the past,” he said.

“The wall belongs to history.  But we have history to make as well. And the heroes that came before us now call to us to live up to those highest ideals,” he continued.

The president’s speech was five years in the making. Then-Senator Obama wanted to give a speech at the Brandenburg Gate in 2008, but was denied. The Germans said it was an honor reserved for sitting presidents.

Instead, in what has become one of the most famous images of his first campaign, Obama addressed a crowd of 200,000 people at the nearby Victory Column.

That enthusiasm was hard to match Wednesday. The crowd endured hours in the scorching, 90-plus degree heat waiting for the president to start. Medics zipped through the audience and staffers urgently doled out water to provide relief.

The president was feeling the heat as well.

“Thank you for this extraordinarily warm welcome. In fact, it's so warm and I feel so good that I'm actually going to take off my jacket,” he said. “We can be a little more informal among friends.”

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iStockphoto/Thinktsock(WASHINGTON) -- While the Senate was working to amend the bipartisan immigration bill on the floor, the House Judiciary Committee was busy late Tuesday night passing its piecemeal approach to immigration overhaul.

The first step: making it a federal crime (misdemeanor) to be in the United States with undocumented status and repealing DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals), better known as the DREAM Act, which provides temporary status to people brought to the United States as children and were younger than 31 as of June 15, 2012.

Similar amendments were passed last week as part of the 2014 Department of Homeland Security appropriations bill, so the committee action was no surprise.  But for a Republican Party that is trying to win back Latino voters, it could be trouble.

The committee approved the SAFE Act (Strengthen and Fortify Enforcement Act) by a vote of 20-15, making unlawful presence in United States a federal crime, as well as effectively killing the DREAM Act.

Rep. Bob Goodlatte, R-Va., and Rep. Trey Gowdy, R-S.C., are co-sponsors of the SAFE Act.

The SAFE Act has been compared to Arizona’s SB 1070 with a provision that allows states to enforce and enact their own immigration laws, as well as allowing state or local police “specific congressional authorization to assist in the enforcement of federal immigration law.”

The bill also makes it a crime to overstay a visa by as little as one day.

Protestors chanting “shame, shame, shame, stop the pain” and “Si, se puede” (“Yes, It Can Be Done”) caused a momentary pause in the committee at the beginning of the proceedings.

After they escorted protestors out of the room, Capitol police were asked to remove them from the hall because their chants were still “disruptive.”

After the initial disruption, additional members of the audience put on blue graduation caps and gowns.

Goodlatte recognized their attire, saying they are showing “us they are graduates of high school or college,” but added that “if you are intent upon staying and listening to this very important debate, you are welcome to stay,” but without protesting.

He said the legislation was necessary because “liberal courts give us no alternative if we want to allow state and local law enforcement to assist in the enforcement of our immigration laws.”

Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa., said the need for the legislation was Obama’s fault.  

“The president has defied the law…that’s a big reason why we are here today,” he said.

But Rep. Zoe Lofgren,  D-Calif., said the legislation makes “being alive and breathing” in the United States a crime.

“I cannot support making mere presence a crime in America,” she said.

John Conyers, D-Mich., added, “This is not only a terrible proposal but an inhumane policy as well.”

Rep. Spencer Bachus, R.Ala., offered an amendment that would have delayed criminalization until 2015, thereby allowing time for immigration overhaul and the estimated 11 million undocumented immigrants to be considered legal and thereby exempt.

But that failed even among the handful of GOPers -- including Goodlatte and former House “Gang of 8″ member Rep. Raul Labrador, R-Idaho -- voting for the delay.

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iStockphoto/Thinkstock(WASHINGTON) -- The House of Representatives voted Tuesday evening to pass legislation to ban abortion after 20 weeks, except in what Democrats assailed as “narrow” cases of incest of a minor, rape, and health of the mother, prompting a partisan debate on the House floor as lawmakers grappled over the question of how soon a fetus is able to detect pain in the womb.

The bill, H.R. 1797 – Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act, passed by a vote of 228-196. Six Republicans opposed the measure, while six Democrats crossed the aisle to support it.

Republicans contend that a fetus is capable of detecting pain well before the current cut-off for abortions, at 24 weeks.

“These aren’t just fetuses, science now tells us that they can feel pain. These babies are just like the ones we see in Neonatal Intensive Care Units in hospitals in our area struggling for life, needing love,” Rep. Joe Barton, R-Texas, said in support of the bill. “This law will protect children.”

“As a republic founded on the notion of the inherent right to life of every human being, we have an abiding responsibility to ensure that the innocent and most vulnerable are adequately protected from the gravest and most appalling of injustices, especially murder,” Rep. Mike Kelly, R-Pa., added. “That is what today’s legislation seeks to accomplish and I am proud to grant it my complete support.”

Democrats, on the other hand, called the legislation an assault on women’s reproductive rights and an attempt to override the Supreme Court’s 1973 ruling in Roe v. Wade.

“It is unconstitutional, and it is dangerous to the health and safety of American women,” Rep. Zoe Lofgren, D-Calif., said. “It’s a direct challenge to Roe v. Wade when the Court held that prior to viability, abortions may be banned only if there are meaningful exceptions to protect a woman’s life and health.”

“Republicans have repeatedly demonstrated a lack of understanding about basic women’s healthcare, and this bill is just one more example of their continuing attack on women’s rights,” Rep. Dina Titus, D-Nev., added during debate on the bill. “It is a step backward for women’s health.”

The bill was tweaked after the committee markup to allow exceptions for rape and incest of a minor. Those changes led some of the most conservative Republicans to abandon support for the bill.

“As a medical doctor, I believe it is my duty to protect children at all stages of life,” Rep. Paul Broun, a Senate hopeful who removed himself as a cosponsor of the legislation after the changes were added to the bill, said in opposition to the legislation. “I am extremely disappointed that House Republican leadership chose to include language to subject some unborn children to needless pain and suffering. I will not support legislation that harms innocent children, and I will continue in my efforts to protect all unborn children by making abortion illegal at all stages of pregnancy.”

The legislation stands no chance to pass the Democratic-controlled Senate, and the White House had vowed that the president would veto the bill if it reached his desk.

“Women should be able to make their own choices about their bodies and their health care, and Government should not inject itself into decisions best made between a woman and her doctor,” read a statement of administration policy Monday. “The Administration is committed to the protection of women’s health and reproductive freedom and to supporting women and families in the choices they make.”

The six Democrats supporting this legislation are Reps. Henry Cuellar (Texas), Dan Lipinski (Illinois), Jim Matheson (Utah), Mike McIntyre (North Carolina), Collin Peterson (Minnesota) and Nick Rahall (West Virginia).

The six Republicans opposing the bill are Reps. Paul Broun (Georgia), Charles Dent (Pennsylvania), Rodney Frelinghuysen (New Jersey), Richard Hanna (New York), Jon Runyan (New Jersey) and Rob Woodall (Georgia).

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Mark Wilson/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- Vice President Joe Biden spoke at the White House Tuesday about continued effort to address gun violence, pledging that he and President Obama have not given up the effort to pass legislation expanding background checks.
 
Biden, who was introduced by Steve Barton, a 22-year-old survivor of the Aurora movie theater shooting massacre, announced the release of new reports outlining steps the schools and places of worship could take to prevent and respond to gun violence.
 
“So I’m here to tell ya, that the most important message to take here today is the president and I and our team have not given up. Our friends in the Senate have not given up,” Biden said.
 
“Although we have yet to succeed in the House and Senate -- but we will -- he moved forward on what was within his power with executive actions he could take."
 
Biden said that of the 23 executive actions Obama announced to address gun control in the wake of the Sandy Hook shooting, 21 of them have been completed or are nearly complete.
 
“The set of guidelines we’re releasing today to give schools and communities the tools they need to protect their children,” the vice president said. “I bet you your police department got a call from about every school in your district saying, ‘What do I do if that happens in my school.’”
 
But he said that Congress must still act on legislation to expand the country’s background check system.
 
“We pushed Congress to pass common sense legislation to reduce gun violence and a majority of the Senate stepped up,” Biden said. “Because of the invocation of a perverted filibuster rule requiring 60 votes for everything in order to get a vote, we lost.”
 
He urged Congress to allow the federal government to collect information on gun violence that could aid with prevention.
 
“Why are we afraid of information? An informed society should not be afraid of the facts,” Biden said, adding,  “As proud as the president is, as proud as I am of the progress that we’ve made, we need Congress to act. The American people are demanding it. As I’ve said before we need to make sure that the voices of those we lost, are the loudest ones we here in this fight. We need to make sure that everyone in this country knows that this fight isn’t over. Far from it.”
 
Biden warned that the politics of gun legislation has changed and the country is prepared to punish lawmakers who don’t vote in support of gun control legislation.
 
“I would yield to my friends in the House and the Senate, but I assure you, the one thing that each of us have been hearing from our colleagues in the House and the Senate about these votes is the country has changed. You will play a price a political price for not getting engaged and playing with gun safety.”
 
“What changed in Sandy Hook is -- the straw that broke the camel’s back -- is those people who support rational measures say this will be a defining issue for me.”
 
“It will make a difference in who I vote for. That is a fundamental change in the political calculus.”
 
He added that members of Congress who voted against the first background check bill have contacted him asking how they can work on a revised version that can get more bipartisan support.
 
“I will not mention the names, but look at those who voted no and look at what their polling numbers are,” he said.  “The country has changed.”
 
“Nothing we’re asking for, nothing we continue to pursue is inconsistent with the constitutional rights Americans have.”
 
Biden said, “So far I am optimistic because I’ve gotten those phone calls from those members of Congress, many of whom voted no.”

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iStockphoto/Thinkstock(WASHINGTON) -- The immigration reform bill drawn up by the Senate "Gang of Eight" would boost the economy and lower the deficit, the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office says in a report out Tuesday.

The newly released, and highly anticipated, report from the government’s non-partisan bookkeeper comes as the Senate debates the bipartisan immigration legislation offered by the Gang of Eight and the House moves forward on a more piecemeal approach.

The report, “The Economic Impact of S. 744, the Border Security, Economic Opportunity, and Immigration Modernization Act,” says overall the legislation would lead to increases in the labor force, wages, and productivity.

Along with that, the CBO report says, there would be a huge decrease in the federal budget deficits over the first 10 years of implementation: $197 billion. The second decade after implementation the bill would save roughly $700 billion, with an additional $300 billion deficit reduction possible through what the report called “economic impacts not included in the cost estimate.”

The cost of enacting the immigration overhaul would be far less than the financial benefits, according to the report. Implementation would cost an estimated $22 billion over the 2014-23 period and $20 billion to $25 billion over the period 2024-33.

The report also projects the legislation would increase the GDP by 3.3 percent within the first 10 years after being signed into law (2023) and by 5.4 percent by 2033.

After the announcement of the CBO report, Gang of Eight member Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., took to the Senate floor to say the report “contains some very positive news for comprehensive immigration reform.”

“At the beginning we made an important promise, our bill will not add to the deficit,” he said. “CBO found we kept our promise and then some… (CBO) debunks the idea that immigration reform is anything other than a boom to our economy and robs the bill’s opponents of one of their last remaining arguments. Immigration reform is not only the right thing to do to stay true to our nation’s principles, it will also boost our economy, reduce the deficit and create jobs.”

And while the report found that unemployment rate would be slightly raised through 2020 due to an expanded labor force, the added population will lead to an increase in need for services and a longer-term demand for labor; and will also lead to an increase in overall wages by 2025 and thereafter.

In a statement to ABC News, Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., said the report “confirmed what most conservative economists have found: reforming our immigration system is a net benefit for our economy.”

“The CBO report offers encouraging evidence that the status quo is unacceptable and we can end it without burdening our already burdened taxpayers,” he said. “In fact, reduce the deficit over the next 20 years.”

The White House said in a statement that the report “made clear that passage of the immigration bill would not only reduce the deficit, it would increase economic growth for years to come.”

Last month the Social Security Administration’s chief actuary found the Senate’s proposed bill would strengthen Social Security’s longer-term outlook.

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Win McNamee/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- The director of the National Security Administration on Tuesday told Congress that more than 50 potential terrorist attacks have been thwarted by two controversial programs tracking more than a billion phone calls and vast swaths of Internet data each day.

The attacks on would-be targets such as the New York Stock Exchange were prevented by caching telephone metadata and Internet information, including from millions of Americans since Sept. 11, 2001, Gen. Keith Alexander said during a hearing at the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence.

Alexander had been less specific in testimony last week when he said "dozens" of possible attacks were foiled.

He testified Tuesday: "In recent years, these programs, together with other intelligence, have protected the U.S. and our allies from terrorist threats across the globe to include helping prevent the potential terrorist events over 50 times since 9/11."

He appeared in a rare public hearing of the House Intelligence Committee with officials from the FBI and Justice Department to discuss the phone and Internet programs that were disclosed in June by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden in the British Guardian newspaper and also The Washington Post.

Lawmakers had previously disclosed that about a dozen attacks were believed to have been thwarted as a result of the programs.

Alexander said the full list of thwarted attacks will be provided to members of the House Intelligence committee Wednesday, but the intelligence community has decided to release only two of those events publicly.

"If we give all those out, we give all the secrets of how we're tracking down the terrorists as a community," Alexander said. "And we can't do that."

But he and other intelligence officials have pointed specifically to the case of Najibullah Zazi, the Afghan-born man who pleaded guilty in 2012 to plotting a terror attack against the New York City subway system. He is awaiting sentencing.

FBI Deputy Director Sean Joyce testified Tuesday that "In the fall of 2009, NSA, using 702 authority [granted to intercept communication], intercepted an email from a terrorist located in Pakistan. That individual was talking with the individual located inside the United States talking about perfecting a recipe for explosives."

"Through legal process, that individual was identified as Najibullah Zazi. He was located in Denver, Colorado. The FBI followed him to New York City. Later, we executed search warrants with the New York Joint Terrorism Task Force and NYPD and found bomb- making components and backpacks. Zazi later confessed to a plot to bomb the New York subway system with backpacks," Joyce said.

The plot was previously disclosed.

It has been argued by Snowden and others that the coded email message that foiled Zazi's plot could have been uncovered without the controversial PRISM electronic surveillance program, which apparently collects data from everyone for later dissection and not just suspected terrorists.

Snowden, who has said he has more information to leak, accused administration officials and members of Congress in an online chat with The Guardian Monday of exaggerating claims about the success of the data collection programs in arresting terrorists, specifically Zazi.

Joyce also said the NSA was able to provide the FBI with a previously unknown telephone number of Adis Medunjanin [who was convicted along with Zazi], which helped disrupt "the first core al Qaida plot since 9/11, directed from Pakistan."

He said the NSA monitored a known extremist in Yemen, who was in contact with an individual in the United States, Khalid Ouazzan, which led to detection of "a nascent plot to bomb the New York Stock Exchange."

Joyce also cited the case of David Headley, a U.S. citizen living in Chicago later convicted for his involvement in the 2008 Mumbai attacks in which more than 160 people died. Joyce said the NSA, through 702 coverage of an al Qaida-affiliated terrorist, found that Headley was working on a plot to bomb a Danish newspaper office that had published cartoon depictions of the prophet Muhammad.

"Lastly, the FBI had opened an investigation shortly after 9/11," Joyce said, without further identifying specifics of the potential attack. "We did not have enough information nor did we find links to terrorism, so we shortly thereafter closed the investigation."

"However, the NSA, using the business record FISA [Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act], tipped us off that this individual had indirect contacts with a known terrorist overseas. We were able to reopen this investigation, identify additional individuals through a legal process and were able to disrupt this terrorist activity," he added.

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Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call(WASHINGTON) -- The House will face pressure to pass immigration reform no matter what John Boehner says, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid told reporters on Tuesday.

“I have talked to my four Democrats, the Gang of Eight. And I have told them, ‘Concentrate on the Senate. Don’t, at this stage, worry about what’s going to happen in the House.’ And I say that no matter what statements the speaker may have given,” Reid said at his Tuesday media stakeout.

Earlier in the day, House Speaker John Boehner had suggested he won’t bring an immigration bill to the House floor unless it’s backed by a majority of House Republicans.

“I don’t see any way of bringing an immigration bill to the floor that doesn’t have the majority support of Republicans,” Boehner told reporters at his own press conference on Tuesday, saying he would “maybe” lose his job as speaker of the House if he brought the Senate’s bill up for a vote.

If Boehner holds to that guideline, known as the “Hastert rule,” it could pose significant trouble for “comprehensive” immigration reform as Democrats and some Republicans would like to enact it: A pathway to citizenship for undocumented immigrants will likely be a tough sell among House Republicans.

Reid said that when the time comes, the House will face pressure to act.

“No matter what he has said, there’s going to be significant national pressure on the House to do something on immigration. I’m only worried about what’s going to happen here [in the Senate],” Reid told reporters. “And I’m not going to say how I really feel about it, OK?”

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