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Megyn Kelly / Fox News:
Tamerlan Tsarnaev vowed to die for Islam; judge may have prematurely stopped brother's interrogation, sources say — EXCLUSIVE: The mother of Boston Marathon bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaev knew as early as 2011 that her son had been radicalized and sent text messages to family in Russia suggesting …
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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 …
Boston Herald:
Patrick administration refuses to release Tsarnaev brothers' records — By: — The Patrick administration clamped down the lid yesterday on Herald requests for details of Tamerlan Tsarnaev's government benefits, citing the dead terror mastermind's right to privacy.
Stephen F. Hayes / Weekly Standard:
Feds Further Investigating Role of Bomber's Wife — Law enforcement officials are carefully reexamining any possible role that Katherine Russell Tsarnaeva, the wife of Tamerlan Tsarnaev, played in the Boston Marathon bombings on April 15, according to three federal officials with knowledge of the investigation.
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The Daily Caller
U.S. News:
Officials: Boston suspects discussed second attack in Times Square
Officials: Boston suspects discussed second attack in Times Square
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Hot Air and New York Times
Jonathon M. Seidl / TheBlaze.com:
MEGYN KELLY'S SURPRISE REVELATION: FBI WAS ‘SHOCKED’ TO SEE JUDGE ‘WALTZ’ IN AND GIVE SUSPECT MIRANDA RIGHTS
MEGYN KELLY'S SURPRISE REVELATION: FBI WAS ‘SHOCKED’ TO SEE JUDGE ‘WALTZ’ IN AND GIVE SUSPECT MIRANDA RIGHTS
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Weasel Zippers and The Gateway Pundit
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.
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Ezra Klein / Wonkblog:
No, Congress isn't trying to exempt itself from Obamacare — There's a Politico story making the rounds that says that members of Congress are engaged in secret, sensitive negotiations to exempt themselves and their staffs from Obamacare. — Well, they were secret, anyway.
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Bloomberg and Via Meadia
Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:
Congress: ObamaCare for thee, but not for we; Update: Boehner: Only solution is “full repeal”
Congress: ObamaCare for thee, but not for we; Update: Boehner: Only solution is “full repeal”
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Politico, Patterico's Pontifications and The Week
Associated Press:
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.
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Peter Baker / New York Times:
Obama's Delicate Task at Bush Library Event
Obama's Delicate Task at Bush Library Event
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Jeffrey M. Jones / Gallup:
History Usually Kinder to Ex-Presidents
History Usually Kinder to Ex-Presidents
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James Pethokoukis / AEIdeas:
Time to reevaluate Bushonomics
Michael Pearson / CNN:
U.S.: Intelligence points to small-scale use of sarin in Syria — (CNN) — The United States has evidence that the chemical weapon sarin has been used in Syria on a small scale, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said Thursday. — But numerous questions remain about the origins of the chemical …
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Tom Vanden Brook / USA Today:
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” …
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Craig Whitlock / Washington Post:
U.S. intelligence: Syria's Assad used chemical weapons ‘on a small scale’
U.S. intelligence: Syria's Assad used chemical weapons ‘on a small scale’
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Hit & Run, Global Research and Outside the Beltway
Jeremy Herb / The Hill:
US believes Syria used chemical weapons, risking Obama's ‘red line’
US believes Syria used chemical weapons, risking Obama's ‘red line’
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Politico
David Corn / Mother Jones:
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 …
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Andrew Buncombe / The Independent:
Body found in river confirmed as Sunil Tripathi - missing student wrongly linked to Boston marathon bombing — Officials in Rhode Island have confirmed that the body of a man that was found in a river running through the city of Providence is that of a student mistakenly linked with the Boston bombings last week.
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Riehl World News, more at Mediagazer »
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Maria Armental / The Providence Journal:
Body pulled from water in Providence ID'd as missing Brown student
Body pulled from water in Providence ID'd as missing Brown student
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Poynter, The Raw Story, Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion and Guardian
Brittny Mejia / Arizona Daily Wildcat:
‘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.
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ThinkProgress, Wonkette and The Raw Story
Sahil Kapur / Talking Points Memo:
House GOP Freshmen Feel Left Out Of Failed Obamacare Repeal Rituals — Part of the reason House Republicans may not be able to put their futile efforts to repeal Obamacare behind them is that party freshmen won't let them. — Now, four months in to Obama's second term …
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Sahil Kapur / Talking Points Memo:
House Republican Rebranding Effort Suffers Major Setback
House Republican Rebranding Effort Suffers Major Setback
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Meredith Bennett-Smith / The Huffington Post:
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 …
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Politico:
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 …
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First Read, msnbc.com and CNN