Sen. Grassley goes off over (accurate) charges he and others are exploiting the Boston bombings to try to derail immigration reform. Watch.

Rand Paul has already concluded, based on available information, that the Boston bombings represent a failure of our immigration system.

Grassley and Schumer get in heated exchange over the politicization of the Boston bombings to derail immigration reform. Watch.

Immigration reform opponents (and some who were hedging) are using the Boston bombings as a foothold to try to derail reform.

Apparently Tamerlan Tsarnaev’s wife is not eager to talk to the cops. Not surprising that she’s not looking forward to it. Assuming no knowledge or involvement, it’s hard to imagine what she’s going through. What surprises me is that I don’t think of federal officials taking no for an answer in these sorts of cases.

Five dead in shooting at apartment complex south of Seattle.

I’m sure someone must have recorded it. And there are undoubtedly official recordings. But I’d really be interested to re-hear the police scanner traffic from just before midnight running about the next hour and a half late Thursday into Friday morning. Listening to it live was one of the more surreal things I think I’ve ever heard. Read More

The Boston bombing suspects — who allegedly engaged in a fierce gunfight with police on Thursday night, did not have gun permits, police in Massachusetts say — and, at 19 years old, the surviving suspect would have been too young to get one.

With more information now available, a good, deep narrative of events from Monday afternoon to capture on Friday evening.

Police release video of final moments before Boston bombing suspect’s capture.