INVESTIGATORS TRY TO DETERMINE IF ACCUSED NEW YORK BOMBER HAD HELP
U.S. authorities investigated on Wednesday whether anyone helped an Afghan-born American citizen charged with carrying out bombings in New York and New Jersey, while the city's top federal public defender asked for access to the man. Police in New York City also said they had not yet been cleared to speak to Ahmad Khan Rahami, 28, who was arrested on Monday after a gunfight with police in Linden, New Jersey. He has been charged with wounding 31 people in a Saturday night bombing in New York that investigators regard as terrorism.