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Shame on you! Shame on you!
Lori Haas, whose daughter was wounded in the April 2007 shooting at Virginia Tech, and Patricia Maisch, who knocked an ammunition magazine out of the hands of Jared Loughner in Jan. 2011, to U.S. senators after they voted 54-46 to defeat an amendment on gun background checks. (via nedhepburn)
Read our full story here.
UPDATE 2: An arrest has been made, according to CNN.
UPDATE: Boston bombing suspect identified using surveillance footage.
(Pictured above, what appears to be a security camera on top of a Lord & Taylor near the bombing site— h/t @YousefMunayyer.)
Comfort dogs make it to Boston. - @krupali
Chinese victim of Boston attack posted photo of final breakfast: One of the last things the Chinese graduate student did before she was killed in the attack on the Boston Marathon was to upload a photo that reflected the simple pleasures of her life.
The picture, of a bread and fruit salad, bore the title “My wonderful breakfast” and was posted on her microblog just hours before she was killed by the explosions near the finish line of the race.
The photo here is purported to be the last photo uploaded to the Chinese social network Weibo on April 15. (via Weibo, Storyful)
The rucks were filled with Camelbacks of water, extra uniforms, Gatorade, changes of socks—and first-aid and trauma kits. It was all just supposed to be symbolic.
Mother Jones has the story of a group of soldiers who ran the Boston Marathon wearing 40-pound packs, then saved lives.
[Photo: Military Friends Foundation]
In our darkest times, our nation can always count on baseball to help bring us back.
Carlos Arredondo, the Boston Marathon hero in a cowboy hat, tells us what he saw yesterday.
“As law enforcement authorities investigate today’s explosions in Boston, I ask all New Yorkers to keep the victims and their families in your thoughts and prayers. I have spoken with Police Commissioner Ray Kelly, and the NYPD has stepped up security at strategic locations and critical infrastructure, including our subways. Some of the security steps we are taking may be noticeable, including deployment of Critical Response Vehicles and additional police personnel, and others will not be. We have 1,000 members of the NYPD assigned to counter-terrorism duties, and they – along with the entire NYPD and the investments we have made in counter-terrorism infrastructure – are being fully mobilized to protect our city.” - Mayor Bloomberg
Reports of multiple devices found at the Boston Marathon explosion site. Get the latest updates here.
[Photo: WBZ TV, via AP]
I am very pleased to announce that Nico Hines has joined The Daily Beast as London Editor. Expanding our UK and European coverage at this critical time in world affairs is an exciting prospect, and we are thrilled to be doing so with someone of Nico’s talent and experience. Nico worked for The Times (of London) for seven years, most recently as Washington correspondent, spending last year on the campaign trail covering the U.S. presidential election.
Nico is a first-rate reporter whose wit and flair will be right at home on The Beast.
Please join me in welcoming Nico!
Tina
Yes, Congressman Steve Stockman of Texas tweeted this new campaign bumper sticker yesterday.
After Rehtaeh Parsons was raped and cyberbullied, police dropped the case. Then she killed herself. Now Anonymous is demanding justice.
The Montreux Palace Hotel was built in an age when it was thought that things would last. It is on the very shores of Switzerland’s Lake Geneva, its balconies and iron railings look across the water, its yellow-ocher awnings are a touch of color in the winter light. It is like a great sanitarium or museum. There are Bechstein pianos in the public rooms, a private silver collection, a Salon de Bridge. This is the hotel where the novelist Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov and his wife, Véra, live. They have been here for 14 years. One imagines his large and brooding reflection in the polished glass of bookcases near the reception desk where there are bound volumes of the Illustrated London News from the year 1849 to 1887, copies of Great Expectations, The Chess Games of Greco and a book called Things Past, by the Duchess of Sermoneta.
![The rucks were filled with Camelbacks of water, extra uniforms, Gatorade, changes of socks—and first-aid and trauma kits. It was all just supposed to be symbolic.
Mother Jones has the story of a group of soldiers who ran the Boston Marathon wearing 40-pound packs, then saved lives.
[Photo: Military Friends Foundation]](http://24.media.tumblr.com/5c25c45a4000c47e01edc43d1d434717/tumblr_mld7ntXBHT1qg4lyzo1_500.jpg)
![Reports of multiple devices found at the Boston Marathon explosion site. Get the latest updates here.
[Photo: WBZ TV, via AP]](http://25.media.tumblr.com/e9090e6a401d2a0cf047f4a7234bc3ee/tumblr_mlbd2mvuh01qg4lyzo1_500.jpg)
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