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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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Megyn Kelly / Fox News:
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 …
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Weasel Zippers, NO QUARTER USA NET, “The Lid”, Mediaite and Jammie Wearing Fools
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.
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Power Line, Rush Limbaugh and Jammie Wearing Fools
Associated Press:
Officials: Tsarnaev's Name Was in US Terrorist Database — WASHINGTON (AP) — The federal government added the name of the dead Boston Marathon bombing suspect to a terrorist database 18 months before the deadly explosions, U.S. officials told The Associated Press on Wednesday.
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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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Sahil Kapur / Talking Points Memo:
House Republican Rebranding Effort Suffers Major Setback
House Republican Rebranding Effort Suffers Major Setback
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The Plum Line, New York Times, The Moderate Voice, The Mahablog and ThinkProgress
Ian Swanson / The Hill:
ObamaCare fix bill headed for climactic ending in House
ObamaCare fix bill headed for climactic ending in House
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The PJ Tatler
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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James Hohmann / Politico:
George W. Bush library: More 9/11, less Cheney and Rove — UNIVERSITY PARK, Texas — George W. Bush was a wartime president, and his new museum won't let you forget it. — High ceilings mean visitors can hear the wail of sirens on Sept. 11 across adjoining rooms, as Bush bellows resolutely: “Today our nation saw evil.”
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No More Mister Nice Blog, msnbc.com, Booman Tribune and Washington Post
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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Peter Baker / New York Times:
Obama's Delicate Task at Bush Library Event — DALLAS — President Obama has left little mystery about how he views his predecessor. “The failed policies of George W. Bush” wiped away a budget surplus and “squandered the legacy” of bipartisan foreign policy.
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Associated Press, First Read and The Caucus
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 …
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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.
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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
Weiner warns of more inappropriate pictures
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Hot Air and Wake up America
Soyoung Kim / Reuters:
Exclusive: Verizon eyes $100 billion bid for Vodafone's Wireless stake — (Reuters) - Verizon Communications has hired advisers to prepare a possible $100 billion cash and stock bid to take full control of Verizon Wireless from its partner Vodafone, two people familiar with the matter said.
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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’
New Mexico GOP Official Calls 19-Year-Old ‘A Radical Bitch’
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New Mexico Telegram, Main Street and Shakesville
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 …
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New York Times, The Political Carnival, Weasel Zippers, Ed Driscoll and The PJ Tatler
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 …
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Los Angeles Times, Philly.com and The Hinterland Gazette
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 …
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Chris Geidner / BuzzFeed:
Rhode Island Senate Passes Marriage Equality
Rhode Island Senate Passes Marriage Equality
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Taylor Marsh and Lawyers, Guns & Money
Mark Landler / New York Times:
U.S. Sees No Conclusive Evidence of Chemical Arms Use by Syria — WASHINGTON — The Obama administration shares the suspicions of several of its allies that the Syrian government has used chemical weapons, a senior official said Wednesday, but it lacks the conclusive evidence that President Obama …
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ThinkProgress, Associated Press and FP Passport
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 …
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Lawfare and AllThingsD