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FBI interviewed dead Boston bombing suspect years ago — The FBI admitted Friday they interviewed the now-deceased Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev two years ago and failed to find any incriminating information about him. — As first reported by CBS News correspondent Bob Orr …

Discussion: Infowars, Blazing Cat Fur, Mother Jones, Business Insider, CANNONFIRE, Gawker, Hot Air, The Jawa Report, CBS Boston, The Reaction and The PJ Tatler

Dee DeQuattro / WLNE-TV:

Report: 3 arrested in New Bedford in connection to bombing suspect — Neighbors say three have been arrested in New Bedford in connection with the Boston Bombing suspect. — Police apprehended suspects from the Hidden Brook Apartments on Carriage Drive in New Bedford.

Discussion: Business Insider, The Gateway Pundit and American Spectator

Kyle Mantyla / Right Wing Watch:

'I Don't Bluff, I Make Promises': Beck Gives Gov't Until Monday to Come Clean About Boston Bombing Cover-Up — Near the end of today's radio broadcast, Glenn Beck declared that the cover-up of the Saudi link to the Boston Marathon bombing makes this the second most important thing (behind 9/11) …

Discussion: American Prospect, CANNONFIRE, Crooks and Liars, The Moderate Voice and TheBlaze.com

Agoldberg / The Smoking Gun:

Hospital Denies Involvement In Leak Of Grisly Post-Mortem Photo Of Boston Marathon Bomb Suspect — A grisly post-mortem photo of one of the suspected Boston Marathon bombers appears to have been taken early today after medical personnel turned the body over to law enforcement officials.

Discussion: Blazing Cat Fur, The Gateway Pundit, Weasel Zippers and Mediaite

Ian Millhiser / ThinkProgress:

What You Need To Know About Why The Boston Bombing Suspect Hasn't Been Read His Miranda Rights — Despite initial reports to the contrary, FBI agents did not read Boston Bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev his Miranda rights immediately after he was taken into custody.

Discussion: Talking Points Memo, CBS Boston, The Verge and Lawyers, Guns & Money

RT:

'They were set up, FBI followed them for years'- Tsarnaevs' mother to RT — As police search for the younger of the two brothers suspected of carrying out the Boston bombings, RT spoke to the pair's parents who are adamant about their sons' innocence, claiming it was a set up.

Discussion: The Gateway Pundit, Guardian, Pat Dollard and BuzzFeed, more at Mediagazer »

International Business Times:

Feiz Mohammad: Radical Muslim Preacher Who Inspired Boston Marathon Bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaev — By GARETH PLATT: Subscribe to Gareth's RSS feed — Feiz Mohammad, the radical preacher cited by dead Boston Marathon bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaev, is a former boxer who blames women for being raped …

Discussion: National Review, New Republic, The Gateway Pundit and Atlas Shrugs

Pierre Thomas / ABCNEWS:

Boston Bomb Suspect Captured Alive in Backyard Boat — The alleged Boston Marathon bomber who hid from authorities for more than 20 hours was captured tonight by police, sending cheers up through the Watertown neighborhood where he was found. — Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 19 …

Discussion: Sense of Events, ABCNEWS, Infowars, Pat Dollard, ABCNEWS, Deadspin and Crooks and Liars

Sy Mukherjee / ThinkProgress:

Boston Bombing Hero Who Identified Suspect Resorts To Online Fundraising To Pay His Medical Bills (UPDATED) — Jeff Bauman, center, promoting the Boston Marathon — In the aftermath of the Boston Marathon bombings on Monday, Jeff Bauman's image was seared into the American consciousness.

Discussion: NY Daily News, Daily Kos, The Boston Globe, The Raw Story, Mashable, Hullabaloo, Joe. My. God. and Gawker

Julie Eich / CBS Boston:

CAPTURED - Boston Marathon Bombing Suspect Caught In Watertown — WATERTOWN (CBS) - A flurry of applause at the scene of a standoff between police and Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev signaled his capture Friday night. — After a nearly two-hour standoff in a Watertown neighborhood …

Discussion: Deadspin, Pundit & Pundette, msnbc.com, U.S. News, The Lonely Conservative, Scared Monkeys, The Week, The Democratic Daily, The Raw Story, ABCNEWS and CBS DC

Fox News:

‘We got him!’ Second marathon suspect in custody after tense standoff — BREAKING: A day-long dragnet for the second of two brothers believed to be behind Monday's Boston Marathon bombing ended Friday night, with police capturing the suspect covered in blood and hiding in a boat in the backyard …

Discussion: Pat Dollard and Wall Street Journal

Josh Gerstein / Reuters:
Next for Boston bomber: Five legal questions

Discussion: Telegraph, Guardian, Slate and Politico

Ben Goad / The Hill:
‘Americans refuse to be terrorized,’ Obama says in weekly address

Discussion: CNN, Associated Press and The Hill

Irene / Judicial Watch:
Boston Bomber Could Have Been Deported After 2009 Arrest

Discussion: The Boston Globe, Daily Mail, Hot Air, Business Insider, Weasel Zippers, Patterico's Pontifications, The PJ Tatler, Atlas Shrugs and National Review

Erica Goode / New York Times:
Details of Tsarnaev Brothers' Lives Emerge

Discussion: The Week, Quartz, Business Insider, Washington Post, Daily Kos, The Atlantic Online, Yahoo! News, The Hill, Gawker and FP Passport

Wall Street Journal:
Life in America Unraveled for Brothers

Discussion: Quartz, New Jersey Online, New Atlanticist, New Republic, WorldViews, Business Insider, Hit & Run, CBS Boston, Daniel W. Drezner and RT

Katie Glueck / Politico:
Friend: Suspect ‘a normal pot head’

Discussion: Restoring Liberty and The Daily Caller

Boston Globe:
Relatives of Marathon bombing suspects worried that older brother was corrupting ‘sweet’ younger sibling

Discussion: The Daily Caller

Jesse / CBS New York:
Law Enforcement Finally Tracks Down, Captures Boston Marathon Bombing Suspect

Discussion: CBS Boston, Daily Mail and The Hinterland Gazette

Online NewsHour:
Second Boston Marathon Bombing Suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev in Custody

Discussion: National Review, Telegraph, Booman Tribune, Politico and The Democratic Daily, more at Mediagazer »

Kevin Cirilli / Reuters:
Muslim groups: Resist ‘scapegoating’

Discussion: Politico and CNN

USA Today:
Russia's Chechnya has long terrorist connections

Discussion: Fox News, Alan Colmes' Liberaland, Washington Post, National Post and Firedoglake

Washington Post:
Tamerlan Tsarnaev and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev were refugees from brutal Chechen conflict

Discussion: Twitchy, Reuters, Online NewsHour, Alan Colmes' Liberaland, Mashable, Ed Driscoll, The Spectacle Blog and CNN

mzv.cz:

Statement of the Ambassador of the Czech Republic on the Boston terrorist attack — As many I was deeply shocked by the tragedy that occurred in Boston earlier this month. It was a stark reminder of the fact that any of us could be a victim of senseless violence anywhere at any moment.

Discussion: Deadspin, FP Passport, AMERICAblog, Balloon Juice and PoliticusUSA

Mike Lillis / The Hill:

Boston bombing suspects enter into immigration debate — A powerful senator warned Friday that this week's Boston marathon bombings should give Congress pause as it attempts to overhaul the nation's immigration system. — Sen. Chuck Grassley (Iowa), senior Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee …

Discussion: Restoring Liberty, The Hill and Washington Post

Jennifer Rubin / Right Turn:
Sen. Lindsey Graham: Boston bombing “is Exhibit A of why the homeland is the battlefield”

Discussion: The Atlantic Online, Mother Jones, The Verge, The Hill, Hullabaloo and The Huffington Post

Peter Foster / Telegraph:

Boston bombs: Obama lulled America into false confidence over terror threat — The war on terror cannot be fought at an arm's length - and the attacks on Boston have brought uncertainty back to American streets, writes Peter Foster. — In his State of the Union address to the American people earlier …

Discussion: Pat Dollard

Bedford / The Daily Caller:

New York Times shows sympathy for Boston terrorist suspects — A New York Times feature story on the suspected Boston terrorists showed the possible terrorists in a sympathetic light, with the headline “Far from war-torn homeland, trying to fit in” and a black-and-white picture of one of the men.

Discussion: The Jawa Report, Pat Dollard, Weasel Zippers, National Review, The PJ Tatler and Ed Driscoll

Mark K. Updegrove / PARADE Magazine:

President George W. and Laura Bush Reflect on the Twins, Bush's Newfound Passion for Painting, and More — The first lady in the library's soon-to-bloom Texas Rose Garden. Ben Baker — In this Sunday's issue of PARADE, the former first couple, George W. and Laura Bush …

Discussion: Trail Blazers Blog

Mark K. Updegrove / PARADE Magazine:
PARADE's Exclusive Interview: President George W. and Laura Bush

Discussion: The Caucus, Firedoglake, Mediaite, The Hill and Post Politics

Ryan Broderick / BuzzFeed:

This Is Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's Actual Twitter Account — His last tweet was on April 17, and he wrote, “I'm a stress free kind of guy.” — “I would confirm this as to being his Twitter account. Those users went to my high school,” said Stefanie Gardner, of the Rindge class of 2011.