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ABCNEWS:
Teen: I Am Not the Boston Marathon Bomber — The teenage boy authorities once investigated as possibly being connected to the Boston Marathon bombing told ABC News today he was shocked to see his face pop up on television and all over social media. — Salah Barhoun, 17 …
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The Lede:
New, Higher-Resolution Image of Boston Marathon Suspect Emerges — Shortly after finishing the Boston Marathon this week David Green, 49, was walking to meet friends when two bombs exploded in front of him as he faced east on the corner of Fairfield and Boylston Streets.
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Little Green Footballs, Telegraph, Taylor Marsh, Business Insider, AMERICAblog, Gawker and Riehl World News
MyFoxBoston:
FBI releases images of two marathon bombing suspects — The FBI released images and surveillance video of two suspects in the Boston Marathon bombings. — In a press conference Thursday, FBI officials said the public will play a critical role in identifying the men accused of committing the bombings.
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The Gateway Pundit, Pat Dollard, The Right Scoop and Weasel Zippers
Josh Margolin / New York Post:
Two men probed in Boston Marathon bombings cleared by investigators — Investigators have now cleared the two men whose pictures were circulated last night in an email among law enforcement officials, sources told The Post today. — Authorities determined neither had any information or role …
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New York Times, Politico, The Raw Story, Mediaite, Infowars, Right Wing Watch, The Week and Poynter, more at Mediagazer »
Barry Petchesky / Deadspin:
The Boston Bombing Witch Hunt Bags Another Innocent Kid — On Monday, the New York Post doggedly stuck to its claim that 12 were killed in the Boston Marathon bombings. On Tuesday, CNN (among others) reported that a suspect had been arrested, before walking that all the way back.
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The Reaction, American Power, Gawker, Techdirt, NPR, No More Mister Nice Blog, The Week, Salon, Zandar Versus The Stupid, Charles Apple, Poynter, Business Insider, The Hinterland Gazette, CBS DC, Joe. My. God., The Dish, Pat Dollard, Capital New York, Riehl World News, Shakesville and Taylor Marsh
New York Times:
F.B.I Releases Video of Boston Bombing Suspects
F.B.I Releases Video of Boston Bombing Suspects
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The Democratic Daily, Outside the Beltway, Crooks and Liars and Mashable
New York Post:
Authorities circulate photos of two men spotted carrying bags near site of Boston bombings
Authorities circulate photos of two men spotted carrying bags near site of Boston bombings
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ABCNEWS, Poynter, Infowars, Little Green Footballs, USA Today, The League of Ordinary …, Boston Globe, Mediaite, Business Insider, Riehl World News, Hot Air, Guardian, Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion, JustOneMinute, The Hill, The Gateway Pundit, Michelle Malkin, Israel Matzav, Atlas Shrugs, Los Angeles Times, Jihad Watch, Blazing Cat Fur, Doug Ross, New York Times, Weasel Zippers and Capital New York
Fox News:
FBI releases video, photos of Boston Marathon bombing suspects
FBI releases video, photos of Boston Marathon bombing suspects
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Doug Ross, Blazing Cat Fur, Riehl World News, Infowars and The Reaction
Daniel D'Addario / Salon:
Post editor on “Bag Men” cover: “We did not identify them as suspects”
Post editor on “Bag Men” cover: “We did not identify them as suspects”
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Guardian, Gawker, Mediaite, Poynter and Capital New York, more at Mediagazer »
Todd Eastham / Reuters:
George Soros, enigmatic financier, liberal philanthropist dies at XX — (Reuters) - George Soros, who died XXX at age XXX, was a predatory and hugely successful financier and investor, who argued paradoxically for years against the same sort of free-wheeling capitalism that made him billions.
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Taylor Bigler / The Daily Caller:
Reuters accidentally publishes George Soros obituary — Publications often prepare obituaries for famous living individuals, particularly ones who are near death. Publications don't, however, generally prematurely publish them. — Thursday evening, Reuters accidentally published …
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Patterico's Pontifications
Robert Farago / The Truth About Guns:
BREAKING: President Readying Executive Orders on Gun Control — “Vice President Biden told White House allies in the gun control fight Thursday that President Obama will be announcing new executive actions on gun violence in the days after the Senate voted down a gun violence bill,” buzzfeed.com reports.
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Alan Colmes' Liberaland and protein wisdom
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Evan McMorris-Santoro / BuzzFeed:
Biden Pledges More Executive Action On Guns “Later This Week” — On conference call with stakeholders, Biden says Obama will carry the gun control fight forward on his own. Updated: The White House says it is only implementing some of the executive actions Obama announced in January.
Anne Bartlett / Post Politics:
Reid pulls gun bill from consideration
Reid pulls gun bill from consideration
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Althouse, Weasel Zippers, The PJ Tatler, Hot Air, The Spectacle Blog, Lynn Sweet, The Hinterland Gazette and Washington Post
Tarini Parti / Politico:
Harry Reid: ‘Pause and freeze’ on gun control
Harry Reid: ‘Pause and freeze’ on gun control
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CNN and The Plum Line
Carlo Muñoz / The Hill:
Syria no-fly zone a possibility says Clapper
Syria no-fly zone a possibility says Clapper
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Hot Air and Weasel Zippers
Senator Max Baucus / Mike Pompeo:
Pompeo writes to Senator Baucus about Obamacare “Train Wreck” — “No one in the country bears more responsibility for the complexity of this law than you.” — 107 Cannon House Office Building — Washington, DC 20515 — 511 Hart Senate Office Building — Washington, DC 20510
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National Review, Hit & Run, Michelle Malkin, Hot Air, The Hill, Great Falls Tribune and Politico
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Kevin Drum / Mother Jones:
Obamacare Has Its Problems, But It's Basically On Track
Obamacare Has Its Problems, But It's Basically On Track
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Hit & Run, The PJ Tatler, Via Meadia, The Hill and Eschaton
Brian Stelter / New York Times:
On MSNBC, a Gun Debate That Fox Doesn't Seem to Worry About — President Obama hadn't finished his first sentence on Wednesday when the Fox News Channel cut away from his Rose Garden remarks about the Senate's defeat of a measure that would have expanded background checks for gun buyers.
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NewsBusters and Mediaite, more at Mediagazer »
Jason Howerton / TheBlaze.com:
EXCLUSIVE: SAUDI NATIONAL ONCE CONSIDERED ‘PERSON OF INTEREST’ MAY BE DEPORTED ON ‘SECURITY’ GROUNDS — AND HOW IT'S SUPPOSED TO BE FRAMED — Editor's note: Please see the Editors' UPDATES we will be placing in order of most-recent below. TheBlaze's Jonathon M. Seidl contributed to this report.
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Infowars, Pat Dollard, Atlas Shrugs, Walid Shoebat, The Daily Caller, BuzzFeed, The Gateway Pundit, Right Wing Watch, protein wisdom and Jihad Watch
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Ian Swanson / The Hill:
Saudi student hurt in Boston bombing not a suspect, not being deported
Saudi student hurt in Boston bombing not a suspect, not being deported
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Little Green Footballs, BREITBART.COM and The Daily Caller
Jake Tapper / The Lead with Jake Tapper:
Confusion over Saudis in Boston following marathon attack
Confusion over Saudis in Boston following marathon attack
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Salon, The PJ Tatler and Hullabaloo
Jonathan Cohn / New Republic:
The Angriest Obama We've Ever Seen — After the Senate failed to expand gun background checks, the president flashes anger — The compromise on background checks died today in the Senate. And President Obama is as angry as we've ever seen him. — Late this afternoon …
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Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
Modeling the Senate's Vote on Gun Control — The failure of the Senate on Wednesday to pass a variety of gun control measures is yielding its share of second-guessing. How close was President Obama to seeing the bills meet the 60-vote super-majority required for approval?
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New York Times, Taegan Goddard's … and The Reaction
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Bloomberg:
Boston Bombing Victim in Iconic Photo Helped Identify Attackers — FBI Releases Images of Two Boston Bombing Suspects — Minutes before the bombs blew up in Boston, Jeff Bauman looked into the eyes of the man who tried to kill him. — Just before 3 p.m. on April 15 …
Discussion:
Quartz, Patterico's Pontifications and Little Green Footballs
Dylan Byers / Politico:
Gun debate triggered media bias — If you thought President Obama was outraged after the Senate killed the plan to expand background checks on guns, you should have seen some members of the press. — Even by the standards of today's partisan media environment, the response has been noteworthy.
Discussion:
Hot Air and Weasel Zippers
James Hohmann / Politico:
Media shrug at Boston blunders — The inaccurate report by CNN and other news organizations about an arrest in the Boston bombing case was arguably one of the most flagrant errors on a story of major national consequence in years. — When the news organizations later corrected their mistakes …
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LewRockwell.com Blog
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Holder gets stormy reception from House panel — The fact there is no love lost between Attorney General Eric Holder and House Republicans was on clear display again Thursday afternoon at a stormy House appropriations panel hearing which culminated with the subcommittee's chairman declaring …
Evan Hurst / Truth Wins Out:
Former ‘Ex-Gay’ Superstar John Paulk Finally Renounces His ‘Ex-Gay’ Past — Paulk Must Now Begin The Hard Work Of Atoning For The Damage He Has Done To LGBT People, And Anne Paulk And The Religious Right Must Stop Peddling The Lie Of The Paulks' “Fairy-Tale ‘Ex-Gay’ Marriage” Immediately, Says Truth Wins Out
Discussion:
Joe. My. God. and Good As You
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Adam Clark Estes / The Atlantic Wire:
An Officer's Been Killed and There's a Shooter on the Loose at MIT — Updated 12:02 a.m.: MIT issued an emergency alert at 10:48 on Thursday night reporting shots fired on the university campus. MIT's school newspaper, The Tech, reports, “Shots fired near 32 Vassar St (Stata Center), police officer down.
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ABC News, Mediaite, Riehl World News, Crooks and Liars and Gawker
Jim White / emptywheel:
John Galt Kills Texans in Massive Fertilizer Plant Explosion — Google Maps satellite view of West Fertilizer and its proximity to West Middle School, along with many houses and apartments. — Who needs pesky safety regulations or zoning laws when there is money to made running a fertilizer plant?
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CANNONFIRE, CBS Dallas, The Week and Washington Monthly
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Bryce Covert / ThinkProgress:
West Texas Fertilizer Plant Hadn't Been Inspected In The Past Five Years
West Texas Fertilizer Plant Hadn't Been Inspected In The Past Five Years
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The Week, ABCNEWS, New Republic, msnbc.com, Crooks and Liars, The Impolitic and susiemadrak.com
Scott Wong / Politico:
Roger Wicker had hired ‘Elvis’ facing threat charges — Sen. Roger Wicker said he had once hired and met the Elvis impersonator who was charged Thursday with sending poison-laced letters to President Barack Obama and the senator. — Wicker, a Mississippi Republican, told reporters the suspect …
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The Greenroom, Hot Air and Ed Driscoll
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Daniel Strauss / The Hill:
Ricin suspect charged, faces up to 15 years
Ricin suspect charged, faces up to 15 years
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Pat Dollard, CNN and Alan Colmes' Liberaland