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6:20 PM ET, April 25, 2013

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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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Jonathon M. Seidl / TheBlaze.com:
MEGYN KELLY'S SURPRISE REVELATION: FBI WAS ‘SHOCKED’ TO SEE JUDGE ‘WALTZ’ IN AND GIVE SUSPECT MIRANDA RIGHTS  —  Regular viewers of Fox News are used to seeing popular host Megyn Kelly on their televisions every afternoon, but on Thursday morning Kelly made a special appearance during the morning …
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.
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 …
bigstory.ap.org:
Police: Boston suspects planned to attack New York  —  You are here  —  Home » Boston » Police: Boston suspects planned to attack New York  —  FILE - This combination of undated file photos shows Tamerlan Tsarnaev, 26, left, and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 19.
Discussion: The Week, Mediaite and emptywheel
The Boston Globe:
2 separate watch lists named Boston suspect
Discussion: The Week
Washington Post:   Is the FBI focused enough on the real bad guys?
U.S. News:
Officials: Boston suspects discussed second attack in Times Square
bigstory.ap.org:
Officials: Suspect described plot before Miranda
Discussion: Jihad Watch and Hot Air
Noah Shachtman / Wired:
Syrian Blood Tests Positive for Sarin Gas, U.S. Spies Say  —  The U.S. intelligence community has uncovered strong evidence that chemical weapons have been used in Syria.  Several blood samples, taken from multiple people, have tested positive for the nerve agent sarin, an American intelligence source tells Danger Room.
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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” …
Jonathan Easley / The Hill:
McCain: White House looking for excuses not to intervene in Syria
Discussion: The PJ Tatler and National Review
Jeremy Herb / The Hill:
US believes Syria used chemical weapons, risks Obama's ‘red line’
Discussion: Politico
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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Amie Parnes / The Hill:
Obama uses Bush library dedication ceremony to push immigration reform
Discussion: CNN
First Read:
First Thoughts: Re-examining Bush
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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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.
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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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.
Russell Berman / The Hill:
Judiciary to start piece-by-piece approach to immigration reform  —  Leaders of the House Judiciary Committee announced Thursday they would begin introducing “standalone” pieces of immigration reform, choosing not to wait for a bipartisan coalition to reach agreement on comprehensive legislation.
Discussion: The Plum Line
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Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
McCain, Schumer warn House: Bill lacking path to citizenship a ‘nonstarter’
Daniel Bates / Daily Mail:
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.
 
 
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Bob Johnson / MLive.com:
Buena Vista Township clerk defends use of racial slur about supervisor (with audio)
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James Kirchick / The Daily Beast:
The Ron Paul Institute: Be Afraid, Very Afraid
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Jeff Poor / The Daily Caller:
A tale of two Scarboroughs: From rabid gun rights crusader to gun control advocate
Discussion: Riehl World News
Jonathan Weisman / New York Times:
House Majority Leader's Quest to Soften G.O.P.'s Image Hits a Wall Within
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Rich Lowry / Politico:
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Susan Davis / USA Today:
Boehner-led cost-cutting saving millions in the House
Discussion: ABCNEWS and National Review
Matthew Yglesias / Slate:
Different Places Have Different Safety Rules and That's OK
Amanda Filipacchi / New York Times:
Wikipedia's Sexism Toward Female Novelists
Discussion: ThinkProgress and The Raw Story
Meredith Bennett-Smith / The Huffington Post:
Mars Rover ‘Draws’ Penis On Red Planet & NASA Picture Goes Viral (PHOTO, VIDEO)
Politico:
What we've learned about Bush since he left town
Discussion: First Read and msnbc.com