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Authorities ID person of interest as Saudi national in marathon bombings, under guard at Boston hospital — Investigators have a suspect — a Saudi Arabian national — in the horrific Boston Marathon bombings, The Post has learned. — Law enforcement sources said the 20-year-old suspect …
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Jim Hoft / The Gateway Pundit:
PHOTOS of SAUDI NATIONAL Person of Interest in Boston Custody ...Update: Saudi Ruled Out as Suspect — Here is the Facebook page of the Saudi national guarded by federal agents at a Boston hospital. — Abdulrahman Ali Alharbi — The name was released by Townhall and Free Republic.
Greg Miller / Washington Post:
Injured Saudi is a witness, not a suspect, in Boston bombing — U.S. law enforcement officials said Tuesday that a Saudi national injured in the Boston Marathon bombing is regarded as a witness, not a suspect. — The Saudi, who is recuperating at a Boston hospital, is in his 20s …
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Mark Landler / New York Times:
Bomb Details Emerge in Boston Case — BOSTON — The explosives used to kill three people and injure 176 at the Boston Marathon on Monday were likely some kind of “pressure-cooker” devices that sent sharp bits of shrapnel flying into victims in the vicinity of the blast, several law enforcement officials said Tuesday.
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Yahoo! News:
Second Boston Marathon victim identified: Krystle Campbell — A second victim in the Boston Marathon bombings has been identified: Krystle M. Campbell, a 29-year-old originally from Medford, Mass. — Her father, William A. Campbell Jr., told Yahoo News he's in shock that his daughter was killed.
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Larry Celona / New York Post:
FBI grills Saudi man in Boston bombings — ‘Smells of gunpowder’ — An FBI investigator examines a bag inside an apartment in Revere, in a building on the street where a man being questioned in the bomb attack lives. — Police took a 20-year-old Saudi national into custody near the scene …
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Mark Arsenault / The Boston Globe:
3 killed, more than 130 hurt by bombs at Marathon — Two bomb blasts, 12 seconds apart, rocked the finish line of the 117th running of the Boston Marathon Monday, killing at least three people, including an 8-year-old Dorchester boy, wounding more than 130, and leaving the sidewalks of Boylston Street covered in blood.
Daily Mail:
Pictured: Boy, 8, who was waiting to give his runner father a hug at finish line is named as one of three Boston Marathon bombing victims along with woman in her twenties while 152 are injured and 17 left in critical condition — Martin Richard, 8, and woman in 20s among three confirmed dead …
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Bridget Johnson / The PJ Tatler:
An Al-Shabaab Link to Boston Marathon Bombings? — A series of Twitter gloats today raised questions about the possible involvement of Somali terror group Al-Shabaab in the Boston Marathon bombing. — No person or group has yet directly taken responsibility for the attack that killed three and wounded 176, 17 of those critically.
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Kate Kowsh / New York Post:
Roommate calls Saudi national ‘quiet and clean;’ number of injuries rises to over 170
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John Miller / CBS News:
Authorities question Saudi national in Boston attack
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Israel News Agency:
Hamas, Islamic Jihad, Hezbollah Celebrate Boston Terror Attack
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Associated Press:
AP source: Boston Marathon bombs built out of pressure cookers packed with shrapnel
Carl Weiser / Politics Extra:
Schmidt: 'I've never been so close to death'
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USA Today:
Boston bombs were pressure cookers filled with metal
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Roger Robinson / Guardian:
The Boston Marathon's spirit of openness horribly abused | Roger Robinson
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Patricia Wen / The Boston Globe:
Brothers watching Boston Marathon each lose a leg
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Mike Konczal / nextnewdeal.net:
Researchers Finally Replicated Reinhart-Rogoff, and There Are Serious Problems. — In 2010, economists Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff released a paper, “Growth in a Time of Debt.” Their “main result is that...median growth rates for countries with public debt over 90 percent of GDP …
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Matthew Yglesias / Slate:
Is The Reinhart-Rogoff Result Based on a Simple Spreadsheet Error? — So this is huge. Or, rather, it won't matter even a tiny little bit but it ought to be a big deal anyway. You've probably heard that countries with a high debt:GDP ratio suffer from slow economic growth.
peri.umass.edu:
Does High Public Debt Consistently Stifle Economic Growth? A Critique of Reinhart and Rogof — Abstract: — Herndon, Ash and Pollin replicate Reinhart and Rogoff(2010a and 2010b) and find that coding errors, selective exclusion of available data, and unconventional weighting …
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Daniel Halper / Weekly Standard:
Barney Frank: ‘No Tax Cut Would Have Helped Us Deal With This’ — Barney Frank discussing the Boston marathon bombing on CNN this morning: — “We are talking about recovery here all morning, as this city, as this state tries to bounce back from this,” the CNN host said to Frank, a former congressman from that state.
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Daniel Halper / Weekly Standard:
Axelrod: Obama Thinks Boston Bombings Could Be Related to ‘Tax Day’
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Scott Shane / New York Times:
U.S. Practiced Torture After 9/11, Nonpartisan Review Concludes — WASHINGTON — A nonpartisan, independent review of interrogation and detention programs in the years after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks concludes that “it is indisputable that the United States engaged in the practice of torture” …
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Jeff Flake · 19,330 like this — In a previous post I said that I wanted to study the Manchin-Toomey proposal before commenting on it. — Here are a few thoughts: Manchin-Toomey would expand background checks far beyond commercial sales to include almost all private transfers …
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Politico:
Gun control bill in peril
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Daniel Strauss / The Hill:
Mark Kelly threatens to back challenger to Flake over gun votes
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David Weigel / Slate:
Why the Conspiracy Theorists Will Have a Tough Time With Boston — Shortly before 9 p.m. I got out of a much-needed, much-delayed catch-up with a friend who shared my desire to escape — briefly — the news from Boston. It was unescapable. A bar next door had turned a flatscreen toward the street …
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Alex Seitz-Wald / Salon:
Alex Jones: Boston explosion a government conspiracy
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Katherine Connell / National Review:
After Boston, Congressman Urges Caution on Immigration Reform — Representative Steve King of Iowa, a prominent House conservative, says Congress should be cautious about rushing immigration reform, especially after Monday's bombing in Boston, where three people were killed.
Tom Kington / Los Angeles Times:
Pope Francis reaffirms crackdown on U.S. nuns — The pontiff backs a Vatican assessment last year that the Leadership Conference of Women Religious was promoting ‘radical feminist themes.’ — A nun watches Pope Francis hold Mass in Vatican City last month before his first Easter message.
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Laurie Goodstein / New York Times:
Pope Upholds Reprimand of American Nuns' Group
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Jeffrey Goldberg / Bloomberg:
Obama's Second Term Already Looks Like a Failure — President Barack Obama's second term has so far been a story of high liberal hopes and scant liberal achievements. — The president has been re-elected, demographic trends favor the growth of his coalition, his party has a technological edge …
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James Chapman / Daily Mail:
Obama's snub to Thatcher: President won't send envoy to funeral - and leaves it to her old allies from the Reagan era — President Obama made decision not to send a member of his administration before yesterday's bombings in Boston — Instead, Reagan's former Secretary of State George Shultz …
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