memeorandum: One Boston Bombing Suspect Is Dead (Ravi Somaiya/New York Times)

6:20 AM ET, April 19, 2013

Top Items:

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.

Discussion: Online NewsHour, Israel Matzav, Telegraph, AMERICAblog, Taylor Marsh, Business Insider, Gawker, The Jawa Report, Riehl World News, Little Green Footballs and The Other McCain

The Boston Globe:

One suspect in custody, another remains on the loose — WATERTOWN — One suspect in Monday's Boston Marathon bombings has been captured, according to an official with knowledge of the investigation. Another remains on the loose in Watertown after a firefight with police.

Discussion: U.S. News, The Moderate Voice, Israel Matzav, Balloon Juice, Firedoglake, The Agonist, Bloomberg, News Desk, Twitchy, The Week, AMERICAblog, Ed Driscoll, The Gateway Pundit, Pat Dollard, Joe. My. God., Atlas Shrugs and Macleans.ca

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: Patterico's Pontifications and Quartz

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 …

Discussion: The Smoking Gun, Telegraph, The Big Picture, Business Insider, ABCNEWS, Daily Kos, The Week, BuzzFeed, Outside the Beltway, Mediaite, Pat Dollard, Guardian, The PJ Tatler, Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion, Michelle Malkin, Gawker and Jihad Watch, more at Mediagazer »

U.S. News:

One Boston Marathon suspect dead, another still on run, officials say — The two marathon bombing suspects. The man in the white hat is still believed to be at large. — With a bomb strapped to his chest, one of the Boston Marathon suspects was killed early Friday after he and the other suspect robbed …

Discussion: BuzzFeed, Guardian, The BRAD BLOG, Infowars, Atlas Shrugs and CANNONFIRE

Ravi Somaiya / New York Times:

One Boston Bombing Suspect Is Dead — One of two suspects wanted in Monday's deadly Boston marathon bombing was killed early Friday in a violent standoff with the police in a quiet residential neighborhood just west of Boston. The second suspect remained at large following what authorities described …

Discussion: CBS Boston, The Gateway Pundit, The PJ Tatler, Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion, CBS New York, Quartz, The Democratic Daily, AMERICAblog, Riehl World News, The Moderate Voice, The Lonely Conservative, Mediaite, Associated Press, msnbc.com, CBS DC, Gawker, Blogs of War and Daily Kos

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.

Discussion: The Gateway Pundit, Pat Dollard 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 …

Discussion: New York Times, Politico, The Raw Story, CANNONFIRE, Mediaite, Right Wing Watch, Infowars, Jihad Watch, The Week, Atlas Shrugs, Israel Matzav and The Boston Globe, more at Mediagazer »

Jade Walker / The Huffington Post:
Watertown Police Chase: Gunfire, Explosions Reported On Scanner (LIVE UPDATES)

Discussion: Taylor Marsh, Mashable and Most Recent

New York Times:
F.B.I Releases Video of Boston Bombing Suspects

Discussion: The Democratic Daily, Outside the Beltway, Crooks and Liars and Mashable

Jonathan Easley / The Hill:
Romney: Boston Marathon bombers ‘demented’

Discussion: CNN and Politico

Tom Scocca / Gawker:
Is the New York Post Edited by a Bigoted Drunk Who F**ks Pigs?

Discussion: Joe. My. God., FP Passport, Poynter, Deadspin and Business Insider

Barry Petchesky / Deadspin:
The Boston Bombing Witch Hunt Bags Another Innocent Kid

Daniel D'Addario / Salon:
Post editor on “Bag Men” cover: “We did not identify them as suspects”

Discussion: Mediaite, Guardian, Infowars, The League of Ordinary … 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.

Discussion: Quartz, Mediaite, Taylor Marsh, The Lonely Conservative, Weasel Zippers, Weekly Standard, Mashable, Outside the Beltway, The Dish, Business Insider, Ed Driscoll and FP Passport

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 …

Discussion: 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.

Discussion: Alan Colmes' Liberaland and protein wisdom

Politico:

Gun control: President Obama's biggest loss — The gun control groups central to Obama's push never lost faith in the White House and praised its efforts even as it was clear the push would fail. — “Bribery isn't what it once was,” said an official with one of the major gun-control groups.

Discussion: National Review

Evan McMorris-Santoro / BuzzFeed:
Biden Pledges More Executive Action On Guns “Later This Week”

Discussion: American Power, The Gateway Pundit, The Lonely Conservative, Infowars, Hot Air, Weasel Zippers, Mediaite, Pat Dollard, Washington Monthly and Weekly Standard

Anne Bartlett / Post Politics:
Reid pulls gun bill from consideration

Discussion: Althouse, Weasel Zippers, The PJ Tatler, The Spectacle Blog, Hot Air, Lynn Sweet, The Hinterland Gazette and Washington Post

Carlo Muñoz / The Hill:
Syria no-fly zone a possibility says Clapper

Discussion: Hot Air, Weasel Zippers and CNN

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.

Discussion: NewsBusters and Mediaite, more at Mediagazer »

Chris Ariens / TVNewser:
The Hits and Misses of the Gun Debate on Cable News

Discussion: Weasel Zippers and Mediaite

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.

Discussion: Daily Mail, The Moderate Voice, Guardian, ABC News, Crooks and Liars, Gawker, Mediaite, The Hinterland Gazette, The Lede and Riehl World News

Alliance for Justice / Justice Watch:

Scalia's latest: Unethical or merely appalling? — We've all seen it before: — Justice Antonin Scalia makes comments that are appalling in their racial insensitivity. — Justice Antonin Scalia skates right up to the line of ethical impropriety. — But this time Scalia managed …

Discussion: The Huffington Post, Daily Kos, Weasel Zippers and theGrio

Spencer Overton / The Huffington Post:
Justice Scalia's Latest ‘Racial Entitlement’ Remark

Discussion: ACS Blog, Alan Colmes' Liberaland, msnbc.com, Talking Points Memo and ThinkProgress

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

Discussion: National Review, Hot Air, Hit & Run, The Hill, Michelle Malkin, Great Falls Tribune and Politico

Kevin Drum / Mother Jones:
Obamacare Has Its Problems, But It's Basically On Track

Discussion: Hit & Run, The PJ Tatler, Via Meadia, Eschaton, Washington Wire and The Hill

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

Ian Swanson / The Hill:

Saudi student hurt in Boston bombing not a suspect, not being deported — A Saudi student questioned in connection to the bombing of the Boston Marathon is not being deported, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano told a House panel Thursday. — “I am unaware of anyone who is being deported …