Tamerlan Tsarnaev vowed to die for Islam; judge may have prematurely stopped brother's interrogation, sources say  —  EXCLUSIVE: Boston Marathon bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaev sent text messages to his mother as early as 2011 suggesting he was willing to die for Islam, the FBI told lawmakers …

Barbara Bush on Jeb run: 'We've had enough Bushes'  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — Amid the celebration surrounding the opening of son George W. Bush's presidential library Thursday, former first lady Barbara Bush brushed aside talk of a Jeb Bush run for the White House in 2016.

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.

Hagel: Syria likely used chemical weapons  —  ABU DHABI — Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said the intelligence community believes the Syrian government has used chemical weapons against its people.  —  The intelligence community, Hagel said, has determined with “varying degrees of confidence” …

Secret Tape: Top GOP Consultant Luntz Calls Limbaugh “Problematic”  —  At a talk to college students, Republican pollster Frank Luntz would only chastise Rush Limbaugh and right-wing radio off the record.  —  Frank Luntz, the media-friendly Republican consultant and word wiz …

Body pulled from water in Providence ID'd as missing Brown student  —  PROVIDENCE, R.I. — A body pulled from the water Tuesday at India Point Park has been identified as that of Sunil Tripathi, a Brown University student last seen March 15.  —  A forensic dental examination confirmed the identification …

‘You Deserve Rape’ sign causes controversy on UA campus  —  A student holding a sign that read “You deserve rape” ignited outrage across campus Tuesday, on the same day of a sexual assault awareness event, but administrators declined requests to remove him or his sign.

Mars Rover ‘Draws’ Penis On Red Planet & NASA Picture Goes Viral (PHOTO, VIDEO)  —  NASA's high-tech Curiosity rover may be getting a little cheeky over there on Mars.  —  In a photo of Curiosity's track patterns, published on the robotics section of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory site …

Mom wore a burka to go undercover in Egypt and take back her son, 12, who was kidnapped by his father and forced to live as a Muslim  —  A mother dressed up in a burka and flew to Egypt to take back her son who had been kidnapped by his father and forced to live as a Muslim.

What we've learned about Bush since he left town  —  DALLAS — The one duty we owe to history, said Oscar Wilde, is to rewrite it.  —  Four years after leaving office, the history of George W. Bush's presidency is being rewritten — ever-so-slowly, and not yet in ways that fundamentally …

The FAA fiasco  —  The air traffic controller furloughs are the White House tours of the sky.  —  From time immemorial, a government that doesn't want to tighten its fiscal belt finds high-profile ways to inconvenience the public in the hopes of turning it against spending cuts.