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1:40 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: 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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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:   Is the FBI focused enough on the real bad guys?
Washington Post:
Officials: Boston suspect had no firearm when barrage of bullets hit hiding place
Discussion: News Desk and Hot Air
CBS News:
Drugs sales may have financed Boston terror plot
Discussion: Money Jihad and TalkLeft
bigstory.ap.org:
Officials: Suspect described plot before Miranda
Discussion: The Jawa Report
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 and Wonkette
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Peter Baker / New York Times:
Obama's Delicate Task at Bush Library Event
Jeffrey M. Jones / Gallup:
History Usually Kinder to Ex-Presidents
USA Today:
Five living presidents toast new Bush library
Discussion: Guardian and Gawker
First Read:
First Thoughts: Re-examining Bush
Discussion: ThinkProgress, Yahoo! News and The Week
James Pethokoukis / AEIdeas:   Time to reevaluate Bushonomics
Ashley Killough / CNN:
Barbara Bush on Jeb in 2016: 'We've had enough Bushes'
Discussion: Taegan Goddard's …
John King / CNN:
Bush 43: 'History will ultimately judge ... I'm a content man'
Discussion: msnbc.com and Althouse
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 GOP Freshmen Feel Left Out Of Failed Obamacare Repeal Rituals
Discussion: BuzzFeed, Wonkette and Daily Kos
Ezra Klein / Wonkblog:
No, Congress isn't trying to exempt itself from Obamacare
Discussion: Via Meadia
Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:
Congress: ObamaCare for thee, but not for we; Update: Boehner: Only solution is “full repeal”
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’  —  ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates - U.S. intelligence agencies have preliminarily concluded that forces loyal to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad used chemical weapons “on a small scale,” Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said Thursday.
Discussion: Hit & Run and Outside the Beltway
Jeremy Herb / The Hill:
US believes Syria used chemical weapons, crossing ‘red line’
Discussion: 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 …
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 …
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Andrew Buncombe / The Independent:
Body found in river confirmed as Sunil Tripathi - missing student wrongly linked to Boston marathon bombing
Discussion: Riehl World News
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.
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 …
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.
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, msnbc.com and CNN
Rich Lowry / Politico:
The FAA fiasco  —  The air traffic controller furloughs are the White House tours of the sky.  —  From time immemorial, a government that doesn't want to tighten its fiscal belt finds high-profile ways to inconvenience the public in the hopes of turning it against spending cuts.
Discussion: Betsy's Page
 
 
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Susan Davis / USA Today:
Boehner-led cost-cutting saving millions in the House
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Different Places Have Different Safety Rules and That's OK
Amanda Filipacchi / New York Times:
Wikipedia's Sexism Toward Female Novelists
Discussion: The Raw Story
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
McCain, Schumer warn House: Bill lacking path to citizenship a ‘nonstarter’
Discussion: Politico
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