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3:25 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.
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 …
Justin Sink / The Hill:
Report: FBI to release video of two suspects in Boston bomb attack
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?
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
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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Dallas Morning News:
Cleanup begins, search for survivors continues after massive fertilizer plant explosion in West
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: Crooks and Liars and Rumproast
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Igor Volsky / ThinkProgress:   Gun Violence Victims Detained, Put Through Background Check For Yelling ‘Shame On You’ At Senators
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
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.  —  Via: Yuri Gripas / Reuters  —  WASHINGTON — Vice President Biden told White House allies in the gun control fight Thursday …
Discussion: Weekly Standard and Weasel Zippers
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
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” …
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 …
Cheryl Sullenger / LifeNews.com:
Kermit Gosnell Reused Blades From Abortions, Causing Women STDs  —  Two witnesses took the stand yesterday in the capital murder case of Kermit Gosnell, providing testimony from the perspectives of a patient and an employee of substandard conditions and illegal practices at Gosnell's “House of Horrors” clinic at 3801 Lancaster.
Discussion: Right Turn and Hot Air
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Garance Franke-Ruta / The Atlantic Online:
Kermit Gosnell and the Anti-Abortion Movement's Intelligence Failure
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 …
Mickey Kaus / The Daily Caller:
Krauthammer Got Played  —  Gang of 8 Fakery, Part 1: Remember that wacky Charles Krauthammer column from a month ago-the one that began by shredding the Marco Rubio amnesty plan but wound up endorsring it?  Krauthammer's reasoning at the time was strange, but (barely) defensible.
Discussion: Mediaite
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 …
 
 
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Associated Press:
AP-GfK poll: Public lacks faith in government, opposes changes to Medicare, Social Security
Discussion: Politico
Helen Pidd / Guardian:
Right-to-die: paralysed builder to carry on Tony Nicklinson's battle
Discussion: LifeNews.com
Tarini Parti / Politico:
Nancy Pelosi says gun control push not over
Discussion: Weasel Zippers and The PJ Tatler
Jordy Yager / The Hill:
Napolitano pleads for patience, says Boston probe is not an ‘NCIS’ episode
Jason Howerton / TheBlaze.com:
EXCLUSIVE: SAUDI NATIONAL ONCE CONSIDERED ‘PERSON OF INTEREST’ …
Patrick Gavin / Politico:
Phillies pitcher Jonathan Papelbon: Obama out for guns
Discussion: Detroit Free Press
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