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2:50 PM ET, April 18, 2013

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New York Post:
Authorities circulate photos of two men spotted carrying bags near site of Boston bombings  —  Investigators probing the deadly Boston Marathon bombings are circulating photos of two men spotted chatting near the packed finish line, The Post has learned.  —  In the photos being distributed …
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Boston Globe:
Authorities have clear video images of two suspects in Boston Marathon bombings, official says  —  Authorities have clear video images of two separate suspects in the Boston Marathon bombings carrying black bags at each explosion site and are planning to release the images today in an appeal …
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.
Max Read / Gawker:
The Post's ‘Person of Interest’ Is a Local High-School Track Runner  —  “BAG MEN,” the New York Post's front cover brays this morning, underneath a photo of two Boston Marathon spectators.  “Feds seek these two pictured at Boston Marathon.”  After its embarrassing performance on Monday …
Justin Sink / The Hill:
Report: FBI to release video of two suspects in Boston bomb attack  —  Law enforcement officials plan to release images of two suspects in the bombing of the Boston Marathon, the Boston Globe reported Thursday.  —  According to the paper, the suspects were seen separately on video gathered …
Frank Smyth / msnbc.com:
How the gun lobby has already blocked Boston's bombing investigators
Discussion: Hot Air and The Daily Caller
Gabrielle Giffords / New York Times:
A Senate in the Gun Lobby's Grip  —  SENATORS say they fear the N.R.A. and the gun lobby.  But I think that fear must be nothing compared to the fear the first graders in Sandy Hook Elementary School felt as their lives ended in a hail of bullets.  The fear that those children who survived …
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Rebecca Schoenkopf / Wonkette:
‘Instapundit’ Tells Whats-Her-Name, That Lady Who Got Shot In The Face, To Stop ‘Bullying’ People  —  Of the many, many, many fine citizens who have sorely tested our hippie nonviolent ways this week, we may have finally found a winner.  See that tweet up there?
Jennifer Steinhauer / New York Times:
Gun Control Effort Had No Real Chance, Despite Pleas
Michael Tomasky / The Daily Beast:
A Shameful Day in the Senate  —  The NRA got its victory …
John Hinderaker / Power Line:
A Lame Duck Squawks, But Why?
Discussion: Washington Times
Washington Post:
President Obama's remarks on failure of Manchin-Toomey background check plan (TRANSCRIPT)
Discussion: JustOneMinute and National Review
Meredith Shiner / Roll Call:
After Gun Defeat, Where Does Obama Go From Here?
Discussion: Instapundit and Hot Air
KWTX-TV:
EMS Director Says 60 To 70 Dead In West Explosion  —  West EMS Director Dr. George Smith says as many as 60 or 70 people died and hundreds were injured Wednesday night in a fertilizer plant explosion in West.  —  A rescuer earlier said he knew of five deaths.
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Selwyn Crawford / Dallas Morning News:
Live video: Fertilizer plant explosion injures dozens in West, near Waco
Dallas Morning News:
Cleanup begins, search for survivors continues after massive fertilizer plant explosion in West
Jason Howerton / TheBlaze.com:
MIND-BOGGLING DETAILS EMERGE ABOUT RICIN LETTER SUSPECT: 'I'M ON THE HIDDEN FRONT LINES OF A SECRET WAR'  —  Paul Kevin Curtis, 45, of Tupelo, Miss., has been arrested in connection with ricin letters that were sent to both Sen. Roger Wicker (R-Miss.) and President Barack Obama," The New York Times reports.
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Daniel Strauss / The Hill:
Ricin suspect charged, faces up to 15 years  —  The suspect arrested for sending ricin-laced letters to Sen. Roger Wicker (R-Miss.) and President Obama was charged with using mail to threaten the president and others.  —  The suspect, Paul Kevin Curtis of Corinth, Miss. …
Discussion: Associated Press, Politico and CNN
Aviva Shen / ThinkProgress:
Morning Joe Host Shames Senators Who Killed Gun Reform: 'We're The 90 Percent And We're Going To Win'  —  The morning after the U.S. Senate failed to pass a bipartisan compromise to expand background checks to gun shows and online sales, MSNBC's ‘Morning Joe’ host Joe Scarborough raged against the lawmakers who blocked the bill.
Discussion: Rumproast
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Igor Volsky / ThinkProgress:   Gun Violence Victims Detained, Put Through Background Check For Yelling ‘Shame On You’ At Senators
Jonathan Cohn / New Republic:
The Angriest Obama We've Ever Seen
Chicago Tribune:
Sinkhole swallows 3 cars on Southeast Side: ‘I am lucky’  —  A sinkhole on the Southeast Side of Chicago swallowed three cars this morning, one of which was caught on tape.  (WGN-TV)  —  Staff report  —  One person was hospitalized after a sinkhole swallowed three cars in the South Deering neighborhood …
Brian Stelter / New York Times:
One Wednesday last month, Ann Curry, camouflaged in a hat and trench coat, trudged into the art-deco lobby of 30 Rockefeller Plaza.  It had been nine months since she was pushed out as co-host of the “Today” show.  Curry was now NBC's “national and international correspondent” …
Politico:
Gang of Eight aims to stop conservative attacks  —  The Senate's Gang of Eight is mounting an aggressive lobbying campaign with one major goal: weaken the conservative opposition to a sweeping immigration overhaul.  —  Hours after the bill was unveiled after 2 a.m. Wednesday …
Jason Zengerle / New York Magazine:
How Savvy Jenny Sanford Sabotaged Ex-Husband Mark's Political Comeback  —  Obama Delivers Emotional Condemnation of Senate Republicans After Gun-Control Defeat  —  A couple of months ago, when I was reporting a feature on Mark Sanford's political comeback and the ongoing soap opera between …
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
Kevin Diaz / Minneapolis Star Tribune:
Former chief of staff to break silence on Michele Bachmann  —  WASHINGTON - GOP operative Andy Parrish, a former chief of staff to U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann, is expected to tell an Iowa Senate ­ethics panel that her 2012 presidential campaign made improper payments to its state chairman.
 
 
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Mickey Kaus / The Daily Caller:
Krauthammer Got Played
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Tarini Parti / Politico:
Nancy Pelosi says gun control push not over
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Jordy Yager / The Hill:
Napolitano pleads for patience, says Boston probe is not an ‘NCIS’ episode
Garance Franke-Ruta / The Atlantic Online:
Kermit Gosnell and the Anti-Abortion Movement's Intelligence Failure
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Phillies pitcher Jonathan Papelbon: Obama out for guns
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