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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.
Washington Post:
Officials: Boston suspect had no firearm when barrage of bullets hit hiding place  —  Although police feared he was heavily armed, the suspect in the Boston Marathon bombing had no firearms when he came under a barrage of police gunfire that struck the boat where he was hiding, according to multiple federal law enforcement officials.
Discussion: News Desk and Hot Air
Washington Post:   Is the FBI focused enough on the real bad guys?
CBS News:
Drugs sales may have financed Boston terror plot
Discussion: Gothamist, Money Jihad and TalkLeft
bigstory.ap.org:
Officials: Suspect described plot before Miranda
Discussion: The Jawa Report
New York Times:
Officer's Killing Spurred Pursuit in Boston Attack
Associated Press:
Officials: Tsarnaev's Name Was in US Terrorist Database
Discussion: Associated Press and Shakesville
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.
Discussion: Washington Monthly
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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.
Ashley Killough / CNN:
Barbara Bush on Jeb in 2016: 'We've had enough Bushes'
Discussion: Althouse and Taegan Goddard's …
James Pethokoukis / AEIdeas:   Time to reevaluate Bushonomics
Justin Sink / The Hill:
Barbara Bush on Jeb WH run: 'We've had enough Bushes'
Discussion: Politico
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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Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:
Congress: ObamaCare for thee, but not for we; Update: Boehner: Only solution is “full repeal”
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 …
Maria Armental / The Providence Journal:
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 …
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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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 …
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 …
Discussion: First Read, CNN and msnbc.com
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.
Amanda Filipacchi / New York Times:
Wikipedia's Sexism Toward Female Novelists  —  I JUST noticed something strange on Wikipedia.  It appears that gradually, over time, editors have begun the process of moving women, one by one, alphabetically, from the “American Novelists” category to the “American Women Novelists” subcategory.
Discussion: The Raw Story
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 …
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 …
Susan Davis / USA Today:
Boehner-led cost-cutting saving millions in the House  —  WASHINGTON — The House of Representatives will spend 15% less on its own operations this year than it did three years ago under a cost-cutting effort launched by Speaker John Boehner that is on pace to save taxpayers more than $400 million by the end of this year
Discussion: ABCNEWS and National Review
 
 
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The Santa Fe New Mexican:
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Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
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Courier-Journal:
Environmental lawyer Tom FitzGerald is considering a campaign to oust U.S. Sen. Mitch McConnell in the 2014 election.
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Travis Waldron / ThinkProgress:
Just Four Lawmakers Show Up To Congressional Hearing On Long-Term Unemployment
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Associated Press:
Escapee from psychiatric hospital slashes rabbi, son with box-cutter outside Paris synagogue
Jennifer Valentino-Devries / Wall Street Journal:
Judge Denies FBI Request to Hack Computer in Probe
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