memeorandum: Boston on lockdown as details pour in: Suspects told carjack victim they were marathon bombers (U.S. News)

3:15 PM ET, April 19, 2013

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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.

Bianna Golodryga / ABCNEWS:

Boston Bomb Suspect's Dad Tells Him to Surrender, Warns ‘ Hell Will Break Loose’ if Son Dies — The father of suspected Boston Marathon bomber called on his son today to give up peacefully, but warned the U.S. that if his son is killed “all hell will break loose.”

Discussion: ABCNEWS, Weasel Zippers, Wonkette, The Jawa Report, Mediaite, Taylor Marsh, nation.foxnews.com and Business Insider

New York Times:

One Boston Bombing Suspect Is Dead — By KATHARINE Q. SEELYE, RICHARD A. OPPEL Jr. and JESS BIDGOOD — BOSTON — The Boston region was in the grip of a security emergency as police pursued one of the suspects believed to be responsible for the Monday bombings at the Boston Marathon.

Adam Serwer / Mother Jones:

Did Boston Bombing Suspect Post Al Qaeda Prophecy on YouTube? — Authorities have identified the deceased suspect in the bombing of the Boston marathon, which killed three and injured more than 170, as Tamerlan Tsarnaev. A user by that name has posted a video to his YouTube playlist extolling …

Discussion: WorldViews, USA Today, Mediaite, The Spectacle Blog, FP Passport, Watchdog.org, The Daily Caller, Power Line, The Democratic Daily, The Dish, National Review, democracyarsenal.org, Pat Dollard, Conservative Intelligence …, Hullabaloo, nation.foxnews.com and Booman Tribune

U.S. News:

One Boston Marathon suspect killed; second suspect, his brother, on loose after firefight — 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 …

David Weigel / Slate:

Tamerlan Tsarnaev, Dead Bombing Suspect: “I Don't Have a Single American Friend” — MYSLATE — Follow all Blog articles. — Follow the Weigel blog. — Follow stories by David Weigel. — MySlate is a new tool that lets you track your favorite parts of Slate.

Discussion: Yahoo! News, Guardian, Hot Air, Washington Monthly, msnbc.com, Atlas Shrugs, The Dish, Scared Monkeys, The Hinterland Gazette, Taylor Marsh, Business Insider and Riehl World News

Chris Geidner / BuzzFeed:

What We Know About Boston Marathon Bomb Suspects Dzhokhar And Tamerlan Tsarnaev — AP and NBC reported that Dzhokhar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev came to the U.S. from or near Chechnya, but both have apparently spent several years in Cambridge, Massachusetts. — Dzhokhar Tsarnaev — Via: vk.com

Discussion: Judicial Watch, Gawker, Talking Points Memo, Business Insider, Mediaite, Riehl World News, The PJ Tatler, Jack Shafer, Hit & Run, Towleroad News #gay and National Review

Timothy Burke / Deadspin:

Everything We Know About Tamerlan Tsarnaev, Dead Bombing Suspect — Authorities are now confirming the two suspects sought in Monday's Boston Marathon bombing are two Russian-born (as reported by the AP) Chechen brothers, Tamerlan and Dzhokhar A. Tsarnaev. Tamerlan, the older brother, is dead.

Discussion: The Daily Caller, U.S. News, Telegraph, 24Ahead, Business Insider, The Gateway Pundit, Israel Matzav, Pat Dollard, The Jawa Report and The Huffington Post

Arsen Mollayev / bigstory.ap.org:

Boston suspect's father says he's a ‘true angel’ — You are here — Home » Russia » Boston suspect's father says he's a ‘true angel’ — This photo released Friday, April 19, 2013 by the Federal Bureau of Investigation shows a suspect that officials identified as Dzhokhar Tsarnaev …

Discussion: Los Angeles Times, The Gateway Pundit, Israel Matzav, Business Insider, CNN and Quartz

Adrian Chen / Gawker:

‘Stay Safe People’: Here Is The Fugitive Boston Marathon Bombing Suspect's Twitter Account — A cached profile photo that matches his picture, and tweets from other users he's interacted with suggest that this is the twitter account of 19-year-old Dzhokhar A. Tsarnaev, the fugitive suspect #2 in the Boston Marathon bombings: @J_tsar.

Discussion: Good As You and Daily Kos

U.S. News:
Boston on lockdown as details pour in: Suspects told carjack victim they were marathon bombers

Discussion: New York Times, Outside the Beltway, Hot Air, Capital New York, First Read, The Raw Story, Doug Ross, Telegraph and The Week

Greg Sargent / The Plum Line:
The Morning Plum: Foes of immigration reform pounce on Boston bombing

Discussion: Mother Jones, The Moderate Voice, Democracy in America, NationalJournal.com, Business Insider, msnbc.com, Washington Monthly and New York Times

Anna Palmer / Politico:
How Boston is already shaping politics

Discussion: Alan Colmes' Liberaland

Rosie Gray / BuzzFeed:
Chechen President Blames American Upbringing For Suspected Boston Bombers

Discussion: Weekly Standard

Joshua Keating / FP Passport:
Chechen leader on Boston suspects: ‘Seek the roots of evil in America’

Discussion: Power Line, Roger L. Simon, msnbc.com, The Hill, The Daily Caller, Weasel Zippers and Pat Dollard

RT:
Boston bombing suspects identified as Tsarnaev brothers from Russia, near Chechnya

Discussion: CNN, Jihad Watch, Business Insider, Infowars, Guardian, Macleans.ca, CBS New York, Yahoo! News, The PJ Tatler, nation.foxnews.com, The Gateway Pundit, Booman Tribune, The Hinterland Gazette and msnbc.com

Fox News:
Explosions inside home as Boston police hunt second marathon bomb suspect

Discussion: Instapundit, Business Insider, The Shark Tank, The Lonely Conservative and Pundit & Pundette

CNN:
Boston bombing suspect tweeted ‘stay safe’

Discussion: Mediaite and This Just In

Stevesaleeba / CBS Boston:
Bombing Suspects' Uncle: They Do Not Deserve To Live On This Earth

Discussion: Washington Monthly, CBS DC, Mediaite, Taylor Marsh, NPR, Business Insider, CBS New York and Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion

Patricia Wen / The Boston Globe:
College friend shocked by charge he is Boston Marathon bomber

Discussion: Politico, The Hill and Crooks and Liars

Washington Post:
Details emerge on suspected Boston bombers

Discussion: Twitchy, Online NewsHour, Ed Driscoll, Mashable and The Spectacle Blog

Thomas Joscelyn / Weekly Standard:
Boston Bomber Posted Video on ‘The Black Flags From Khorasan’

Discussion: BuzzFeed and National Review

Hayes Brown / ThinkProgress:
What You Need To Know About Chechnya And The Boston Bombing Suspects

Discussion: Yahoo! News, Washington Monthly, National Review, Salon, WestportNow.com and Alan Colmes' Liberaland

Wall Street Journal: A Look at Brothers Suspected in the Boston Bombing

Garance Franke-Ruta / The Atlantic Online:
A Terrible Day for an Immigration-Reform Hearing

Discussion: ThinkProgress, The Week and Quartz

Rosie Gray / BuzzFeed:
Former Classmates Shocked By Boston Bombing Suspect's Crimes

Discussion: neo-neocon, Hit & Run, Deadspin, FP Passport and Macleans.ca

Peter Graff / Reuters:
Boston suspect's web page venerates Islam, Chechen independence

Discussion: nation.foxnews.com, AEIdeas and No More Mister Nice Blog

David Weigel / Slate:
No, You Didn't Just Find Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's Secret Twitter Account

Discussion: Mother Jones, Quartz, Mediaite and BuzzFeed

Gideon Lichfield / Quartz:
On Instagram, Chechnya's president criticizes America's handling of the Boston manhunt

Discussion: Mediaite, WorldViews and Business Insider

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: Politico, Guardian, Weasel Zippers, Daily Kos, Crooks and Liars, Gawker, ABCNEWS, nation.foxnews.com and Patterico's Pontifications

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.

Discussion: U.S. News, Telegraph, Gawker, Online NewsHour, The Week, susiemadrak.com, Taylor Marsh, Riptide 2.0, Business Insider and Israel Matzav, more at Mediagazer »

Atossa Araxia Abrahamian / Reuters:

U.S. Boy Scouts set to end ban on gay members : spokesperson — (Reuters) - The Boy Scouts of America called to end a long-standing ban on openly gay members, a spokesman said on Friday, but the organization's board must still vote in May on whether to ratify the resolution.

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David Crary / ABCNEWS:
Boy Scouts Proposing to Lift Gay Ban for Youth

Discussion: CNN, Hot Air, Taking Note and The Raw Story

John Stanton / BuzzFeed:

Republican Senator Says Boston Terror Attack Should Impact Immigration Reform — “It will help shed light on the weaknesses in our system ... [and] how can we beef up security checks on people who would enter the United States,” Iowa's Chuck Grassley says.

Discussion: American Prospect, The Daily Caller and FP Passport

Benjy Sarlin / Talking Points Memo: Rush To Rubio: Isn't GOP ‘Committing Suicide’ Through Immigration Reform?

Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
Scary Cruz control

Discussion: Prairie Weather

Dylan Byers / Politico:

MSNBC comes perilously close to Brian Ross-level blunder — Chuck Todd may have saved MSNBC from an enormous blunder this morning when he stopped one of the network's analysts from speculating on “the electronic trails” of the Boston Marathon bombing suspects.

Discussion: Mediaite

Ryan Broderick / BuzzFeed:

This Is Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's Actual Twitter Account — His last tweet was on April 17, and he wrote, “I'm a stress free kind of guy.” — “I would confirm this as to being his Twitter account. Those users went to my high school,” said Stefanie Gardner, of the Rindge class of 2011.

Discussion: Mashable