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2:50 AM ET, April 25, 2013

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Greg Miller / Washington Post:
CIA pushed to add Boston bomber to terror watch list  —  The CIA pushed to have one of the suspected Boston Marathon bombers placed on a U.S. counterterrorism watch list more than a year before the attacks, U.S. officials said Wednesday.  —  Russian authorities contacted the CIA in the fall …
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Justin Sink / The Hill:   Bush was ‘deeply concerned’ Boston bombings were an organized attack
James Hohmann / Politico:
George W. Bush library: More 9/11, less Cheney and Rove
Discussion: Booman Tribune
Washington Post:
Officials: Boston suspect had no firearm when barrage of bullets hit hiding place
Discussion: Post Politics
Politico:
Lawmakers, aides may get Obamacare exemption  —  Congressional leaders in both parties are engaged in high-level, confidential talks about exempting lawmakers and Capitol Hill aides from the insurance exchanges they are mandated to join as part of President Barack Obama's health care overhaul, sources in both parties said.
Discussion: naked capitalism
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Sahil Kapur / Talking Points Memo:
House Republican Rebranding Effort Suffers Major Setback
Ian Swanson / The Hill:
ObamaCare fix bill headed for climactic ending in House
Discussion: The PJ Tatler
The Boston Globe:
Tsarnaev brothers appeared to have scant finances  —  The older brother liked to look like a man of means, once posing for a photo in front of a gleaming Mercedes sporting a long wool scarf and white leather slip-on shoes.  But Tamerlan Tsarnaev, 26, was a stay-at-home dad …
Discussion: The Democratic Daily and The Week
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New York Post:
Boston bombers planned ‘to party’ in Big Apple after blast: Ray Kelly
Discussion: Gothamist and Politico
Breanna Edwards / Politico:
Anthony Weiner 'can't say' if other pics exist  —  Anthony Weiner admitted in an interview Wednesday that there might be other embarrassing photos of him out there that have yet to surface.  —  In the one-on-one with RNN-TV, Weiner didn't deny that there was a possibility there could be other photos …
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Justin Sink / The Hill:
Weiner warns of more inappropriate pictures
Discussion: Hot Air and Wake up America
Zack Ford / ThinkProgress:
Rhode Island Becomes 10th State To Approve Marriage Equality  —  The Rhode Island Senate just voted 26-12 to approve marriage equality, guaranteeing that The Ocean State will be the 10th state to allow same-sex couples to legally marry.  Because the Senate made some revisions to the bill …
Discussion: Associated Press and WPRI-TV
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Chris Geidner / BuzzFeed:
Rhode Island Senate Passes Marriage Equality
Randal Edgar / The Providence Journal:
R.I. Senate approves same-sex marriage 26 to 12
Discussion: The Raw Story and Daily Kos
Jim Hoft / The Gateway Pundit:
Breaking: Saudi Student Alharbi Visited the White House Several Times  —  HOLY CRAP-  —  Saudi student Abdul Rahman Ali Issa Al-Salimi Al-Harbi was injured in the Boston Marathon Bombings.  —  He was once a “person of interest” in the bombings.  He was put on a terror watch list after the bombings.
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Laura Bassett / The Huffington Post:
Steve Kush, New Mexico GOP Official, Calls 19-Year-Old Labor Advocate ‘A Radical B*tch’  —  Steve Kush, the chairman of Bernalillo County Republican Party in New Mexico, called a 19-year-old Working America volunteer a “radical bitch” on Twitter Tuesday night after she testified …
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Aviva Shen / ThinkProgress:
New Mexico GOP Official Calls 19-Year-Old ‘A Radical Bitch’
Chicago Tribune:
Illinois shootings: Suspect helped wounded girl after killing 5  —  Brad Teeter, whose mother-in-law and niece were among the five people fatally shot in Manchester, Ill., today discusses the crime.  —  After he shot his way into a home in the small town of Manchester …
Wall Street Journal:
GE Capital Cuts Off Lending to Gun Shops  —  General Electric Co. is quietly cutting off lending to gun shops, as the company rethinks its relationship to firearms amid the fallout from the school shooting in Newtown, Conn.  —  This month, Glenn Duncan, owner of Duncan's Outdoor Store in Bay City …
Associated Press:
Escapee from psychiatric hospital slashes rabbi, son with box-cutter outside Paris synagogue  —  PARIS — An escapee from a psychiatric institution slashed a rabbi and his son with a box-cutter on Tuesday, prompting witnesses to tackle and subdue the attacker after a chase through a Paris synagogue, officials said.
WALA-TV:
Fourth explosion in fuel barge fire  —  MFRD: More explosions a concern  —  MOBILE, Ala (WALA) - UPDATE: 10:07 p.m. - Mobile Mayor Sam Jones said Mobile Fire-Rescue will let the fire burn out on its own to prevent further injuries.  —  9:50 p.m. - A fourth explosion just occurred around 9:50 p.m …
Eli Saslow / Washington Post:
In Florida, a food-stamp recruiter deals with wrenching choices  —  FORT PIERCE, Fla. — A good recruiter needs to be liked, so Dillie Nerios filled gift bags with dog toys for the dog people and cat food for the cat people.  She packed crates of cookies, croissants, vegetables and fresh fruit.
Jennifer Valentino-Devries / Wall Street Journal:
Judge Denies FBI Request to Hack Computer in Probe  —  A judge in Texas denied a request by the Federal Bureau of Investigation this week for what he describes as a warrant to remotely “hack a computer suspected of criminal use,” raising questions about the legal requirements for the government …
Discussion: Lawfare and AllThingsD
Andrew Harris / Bloomberg:
Obama Deportation Progam Likely to Be Blocked, Judge Says  —  A court challenge by federal immigration agents seeking to block President Barack Obama's deferred-deportation initiative will probably succeed, a judge said.  —  U.S. District Judge Reed O'Connor in Dallas today put off …
Discussion: Hot Air, Colorlines and Wake up America
Brad Stone / Businessweek:
Here Comes Amazon's Kindle TV Set-Top Box  —  Amazon (AMZN) is making e-readers and tablets and will likely soon introduce a smartphone.  As it works to build all types of connected devices, that leaves a natural next step: a television set-top box.  The e-commerce giant is planning …
David A. Fahrenthold / Washington Post:
Feds spend at least $890,000 on fees for empty accounts  —  If you are a federal worker on furlough this week — or an airline passenger delayed by federal furloughs — you might save your blood pressure, and go read another story.  —  This one is about all the money the U.S. government spends on . . . nothing.
Discussion: Mother Jones and The Daily Caller
 
 
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Travis Waldron / ThinkProgress:
Just Four Lawmakers Show Up To Congressional Hearing On Long-Term Unemployment
Sam Baker / The Hill:
No furloughs for ObamaCare officials
Doug Stanglin / USA Today:
5 reported dead in Illinois shooting
Mark Landler / New York Times:
U.S. Sees No Conclusive Evidence of Chemical Arms Use by Syria
Discussion: FP Passport
Robert Winnett / Telegraph:
David Cameron recruits Boris's brother for Number 10
Discussion: BBC and Spectator
Wall Street Journal:
Flying the Government Skies
 Earlier Items: 
Justin Sink / The Hill:
Obama orders flags half-staff in honor of West, Texas explosion victims
Discussion: Politico
Pete Kasperowicz / The Hill:
Reid bill would require background checks to purchase explosives
The Week:
The White House Correspondents' Dinner and the startling ascendance of nerd culture
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Andrew Cohen / The Atlantic Online:
Executing the Mentally Handicapped Is Illegal—Except When It Isn't
Discussion: ThinkProgress
Jonathan Easley / The Hill:
Biden rails against ‘twisted, perverted, knock-off jihadists’ who attacked Boston
Donovan Slack / Politico:
44 calls 43 ‘gracious,’ ‘patriotic’
 

 
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