memeorandum: Source: Marathon bombing suspect admitted to authorities that he and brother detonated bombs (Kevin Cullen/Boston Globe)

4:00 AM ET, April 24, 2013

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bigstory.ap.org:

Bomb suspect influenced by mysterious radical — You are here — Home » Government and politics » Bomb suspect influenced by mysterious radical — FILE - This combination of undated file photos shows Tamerlan Tsarnaev, 26, left, and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 19.

Discussion: BuzzFeed, Alan Colmes' Liberaland, Deadspin, The Gateway Pundit, Weasel Zippers, Gawker, Hot Air, Mediaite, Gothamist, Riehl World News, Religion Dispatches, EBL and Associated Press

Washington Post:

Boston bombing suspect cites U.S. wars as motivation, officials say — The 19-year-old suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings has told interrogators that the American wars in Iraq and Afghanistan motivated him and his brother to carry out the attack, according to U.S. officials familiar with the interviews.

Discussion: Los Angeles Times, The Other McCain, CBS Boston, No More Mister Nice Blog, Firedoglake, Wired, U.S. News, Hot Air, Guardian, EBL, Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion, The Daily Caller, Rubin Reports, Little Green Footballs, emptywheel, Business Insider and Mother Jones

Travis Waldron / ThinkProgress:

Why Boston Marathon Bombing Suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev's Autopsy Should Include A Check For CTE — Could the amateur boxing career of Tamerlan Tsarnaev, the deceased suspect in last week's Boston Marathon bombings, have had a role in the massacre? That's a question leading brain researchers …

Discussion: NewsBusters, The PJ Tatler, The Daily Caller, Weasel Zippers, The Right Scoop and FP Passport

Rosie Gray / BuzzFeed:

Alex Jones Downplays Connection To “Boston Bomber” — Tamerlan Tsarnaev reportedly listened to the conspiracist radio host. “My show is anti-terrorism.” — Via: The Lowell Sun & Robin Young, File / AP — WASHINGTON — Alex Jones is not surprised that the media is reporting …

Discussion: Mediaite, Sky Dancing, The Gateway Pundit and Gawker

Kevin Cullen / Boston Globe:

Source: Marathon bombing suspect admitted to authorities that he and brother detonated bombs — A source told the Globe that the desperate Tsarnaev brothers, Tamerlan and Dzhokhar, told their carjacking victim, 'We just killed a cop. We blew up the marathon. And now we're going to New York.

Discussion: TalkLeft, Washington Post, CNN, WBSM, Business Insider, The Lede, Outside the Beltway, The Lead with Jake Tapper and The Right Scoop

U.S. News:

Search of Tsarnaevs' phones, computers finds no indication of accomplice, source says — The two brothers accused of setting off bombs at the Boston Marathon are believed to have acted entirely on their own, using instructions for bomb making from an online magazine. NBC's Pete Williams reports.

Discussion: Riehl World News, The Reaction and msnbc.com

Miketoole / CBS Boston:
Miller: Tsarnaev Brothers Killed MIT Officer Because They Needed A Gun

Discussion: PJ Media, Scared Monkeys, Mother Jones, The Gateway Pundit, Hot Air and The Right Scoop

New York Times:
Bombing Suspect Cites Islamic Extremist Beliefs as Motive

Discussion: Washington Post, Tim Blair, Yahoo! News, The Week, Business Insider, Democracy in America, Post Politics, Mother Jones, Wall Street Journal, Slate, The Hill and CNN

Hunter Walker / Talking Points Memo:

Former GOP Candidate Reacts After Man He Allegedly Framed For Ricin Poisoning Is Released — A former Republican candidate for Mississippi's House of Representatives named J. Everett Dutschke expressed disbelief and dismay Tuesday shortly after a man he was accused of framing for mailing letters …

Discussion: Tupelo Daily Journal, Slate, U.S. News, Crooks and Liars, Associated Press, Little Green Footballs and The Maddow Blog

Washington Post:
Charges dropped against Miss. man in ricin case as FBI searches second home

Discussion: Daily Mail, The Fix and Power Line

Tupelo Daily Journal:
Tupelo home being searched in ricin case, according to resident

Discussion: Talking Points Memo, Los Angeles Times and The Mississippi Press

Joe Picard / The Hill:
Charges against ricin suspect dismissed; no evidence found

Discussion: Politico

CNN:
Ricin suspect freed, marshals say

Discussion: The Week and Outside the Beltway

Sahil Kapur / Talking Points Memo:

Reid Tests GOP Outrage Over Airport Delays With Plan To Pay Down Sequestration For Five Months — Amid GOP complaints about airport delays caused by sequestration, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) said he intends to promptly introduce legislation to use war savings to pay down automatic …

Discussion: The Week, Daily Kos and The Huffington Post

Travis Waldron / ThinkProgress:
After Demanding Senate Pass A Budget, GOP Refuses To Enter Budget Negotiations

Discussion: The Hill and Hullabaloo

Erik Wasson / The Hill:
Reid will try to replace sequester with war savings from Afghan drawdown

Discussion: CNN and Politico

Dylan Byers / Politico:

Turbulence at The Times — One Monday morning in April, Jill Abramson called Dean Baquet into her office to complain. The executive editor of The New York Times was upset about the paper's recent news coverage — she felt it wasn't “buzzy” enough, a source there said — and placed blame on Baquet, her managing editor.

Discussion: Gawker and Riehl World News, more at Mediagazer »

John Hudson / FP Passport:

Ron Paul fans furious over Rand Paul's drone flip-flop — Ron Paul's vibrant fan base is in open rebellion today over Rand Paul's perceived reversal on domestic drone strikes. The Kentucky senator, whose famous 13-hour Senate floor filibuster did much to strengthen his ties …

Discussion: Hit & Run and The Daily Caller

Katie Glueck / Politico:
Rand Paul: Suspect not enemy combatant

Discussion: Mediaite, Liberal Values, CNN, CANNONFIRE, The Raw Story, The Huffington Post, Reuters and Post Politics

Apple:

Apple Reports Second Quarter Results — 37.4 Million iPhones Sold; 19.5 Million iPads Sold — Apple® today announced financial results for its fiscal 2013 second quarter ended March 30, 2013. The Company posted quarterly revenue of $43.6 billion and quarterly net profit of $9.5 billion, or $10.09 per diluted share.

Discussion: New York Times, TechCrunch, AllThingsD, Business Insider, Mashable, The Week, Mother Jones and The Verge

Pew Social & Demographic Trends:

A Rise in Wealth for the Wealthy; Declines for the Lower 93% — An Uneven Recovery, 2009-2011 — OVERVIEW — During the first two years of the nation's economic recovery, the mean net worth of households in the upper 7% of the wealth distribution rose by an estimated 28% …

Discussion: ParaPundit, The Democratic Daily, ThinkProgress and Business Insider

Oren Dorell / USA Today:

Mosque that Boston suspects attended has radical ties — Terror suspects, fugitives and radical speakers have passed through the Cambridge mosque that the Tsarnaev brothers are known to have visited. — BOSTON — The mosque attended by the two brothers accused in the Boston Marathon bombing …

Discussion: Atlas Shrugs, Weasel Zippers and Jihad Watch

Ed Kilgore / Washington Monthly:

Careers Taking a Turn For the Worse — It's surely a coincidence that Max Baucus' retirement came so soon after an April 6 article by the New York Times' Eric Lipton about the twenty-eight former Baucus staffers who have been registered to lobby on tax issues during the Obama years.

Discussion: New Republic, Slate, Daily Kos, Booman Tribune and The Impolitic

Anne Bartlett / Post Politics:
Baucus to retire rather than seek reelection in 2014, strategists say

Scott Keyes / ThinkProgress:

Conservative Group Photoshops Out Minorities In Mailer Opposing Pro-Voting Legislation — A conservative group connected to Colorado's Secretary of State has been sending political mailers — including a picture of a darker-skinned woman whose face was digitally removed and replaced …

Discussion: ColoradoPols.com

John Celock / The Huffington Post:

Stella Tremblay, New Hampshire Legislator, Says U.S. Government Planned Boston Bombing — A Republican state legislator in New Hampshire is claiming that the United States government is responsible for the Boston Marathon bombing. — State Rep. Stella Tremblay (R-Auburn) …

Discussion: Foster's Daily Democrat, Gawker, Alan Colmes' Liberaland and The Raw Story

Martin Wolf / Financial Times:

Austerity loses an article of faith — The UK industrial revolution shows the Reinhart-Rogoff thesis on debt is not always right — In 1816, the net public debt of the UK reached 240 per cent of gross domestic product. This was the fiscal legacy of 125 years of war against France.

Discussion: Economix

RealClearPolitics Video Log:

Chris Matthews On Bombers: “What Difference Does It Make Why They Did It?” — MSNBC's Chris Matthews is not that interested in finding out a motive for last week's bombing of the Boston Marathon, but instead focused on prosecuting Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, a 19-year-old ethnic Chechen who was apprehended by authorities on Saturday.

Discussion: Jihad Watch, NewsBusters, Atlas Shrugs and Weasel Zippers

Noah Rothman / Mediaite:

Limbaugh: Boyhood Pictures Of Tsarnaev Show Media Trying To Do To Him ‘What They Did To Trayvon’ — Conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh called out a variety of media outlets on Tuesday for trying to “to Dzhokhar [Tsarnaev] what they did to Trayvon Martin.”

Discussion: ThinkProgress and theGrio