Vox Sentences: What we know about the Charlie Hebdo shooting suspects

1. Paris, day two

Charlie Hebdo shooting suspects Saïd and Chérif Kouachi. (Direction centrale de la Police judiciaire via Getty Images)

• One of the suspects in yesterday's attack on the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, 18-year-old Hamyd Mourad, turned himself in to French authorities at the Belgian border.

  [Vox / Dara Lind, Amanda Taub, Libby Nelson, and German Lopez]

• Two other suspects, the brothers Saïd Kouachi and Chérif Kouachi, remain at large.

• Saïd received terrorist training from al-Qaeda's Yemen affiliate in 2011.

  [NYT / Eric Schmitt and Michael Schmidt]

• Chérif was convicted in 2008 on terrorism charges in France; both brothers have been on the US no-fly list for years.

  [NPR / Eyder Peralta]

• We still don't know if they acted alone or at the direction of a terrorist group.

• European far-right leaders like France's Marie Le Pen are treating the attack as a vindication of their Islamophobia.

  [Washington Post / Adam Taylor]

• Two French mosques were attacked in the aftermath of the shooting.

  [Huffington Post / Antonia Blumberg]

• In Russia, a conspiracy theory about US intelligence pulling off the attack is spreading.

  [Vox / Max Fisher]

• Matt Yglesias: defending the right to blaspheme is necessary, but Muslims in Europe will suffer.

  [Vox / Matt Yglesias]

2. Boxer out

(Bill Clark / CQ-Roll Call Group / Getty)

• California Senator Barbara Boxer is retiring.

  [Vox / Andrew Prokop]

• This sets up a rare open seat in a state with a lot of ambitious Democratic politicians.

• Lt. Governor Gavin Newsom and Attorney General Kamala Harris are the most hyped names, but they have to weigh this race against a potential gubernatorial bid in 2018.

  [Washington Post / Aaron Blake and Chris Cillizza]

• Los Angeles mayor Eric Garcetti has ruled himself out.

  [Reid Wilson]

• So have Arnold Schwarzenegger, Republican Rep. Darrel Issa, and Boxer's 2010 opponent Carly Fiorina.

  [WSJ / Rebecca Ballhaus and Alejandro Lazo]

• Garcetti's predecessor Antonio Villaraigosa is expected to skip the race to run for governor.

  [Sacramento Bee / David Siders]

• Facebook exec Sheryl Sandberg would have been an interesting outside contender, but doesn't look interested.

  [Seema Mehta]

• As for Boxer herself: she'll be remembered for her work on environmental legislation, as one of the Senate's most stalwart abortion rights defenders, and as one half of the first all-female Senate delegation ever.

  [National Journal / Lucia Graves]

3. Misc.

• We're going to need a lot more chainsaws to survive after the nuclear apocalypse.

  [Joshua Pearce to Nautilus / Yvonne Bang]

• Researchers at Northeastern say they've found a new antibiotic that bacteria can't mutate to resist.

  [The Atlantic / Cari Romm]

• Death penalty opponents are barred from the Boston marathon trial jury. That's a problem.

  [Bloomberg View / Noah Feldman]

4. Verbatim

• "You know what the real problem with Bourdieu was? The real problem with Bourdieu was that he was a schmuck."

  [Howard Becker to the New Yorker / Adam Gopnik]

• "Overall, that song is about sympathy for disease, trying to forgive disease, seeing it as just another thing in the universe that's trying to survive."

  [Noah Lennox to Pitchfork / Philip Sherburne]

• "Obama has been far more effective than either Carter or Clinton. That obviously makes him seem more effectively liberal than his predecessors."

  [Mother Jones / Kevin Drum]