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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 …

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 …

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.

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