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Every news organization with a reporter in Washington should dispatch journalists to demand answers from the attorney general and the White House about who knew what, and when, in the authorization and execution of a subpoena that in all likelihood collected phone numbers of sources for every story—hundreds, if not more—that AP reporters were working on during a two-month period in 2012 in Washington, New York, Hartford and at the House of Representatives.

-Toni Lacy, Journalists beware: You could be next

[Tamerlan] looked at his gun, then threw it at me–hit me in the left bicep here–turned, ran back down the driveway to the street, took a left, running toward the other officers that were on scene. And I holstered up and chased after him and tackled him.

-Sergeant Jeff Pugliese, one of the five Watertown police officers who joined MSNBC in an exclusive interview about the night of the shootout that ended the manhunt for the Tsarnaev brothers

I am deeply troubled by the new report from your department this month finding an estimated 26,000 reported cases of sexual assault took place in the military last year–that’s more than 70 instances of sexual assault every day. But what makes those numbers even more troubling is the other news coming out about how sexual assault prevention is being handled.

-Melissa Harris-Perry, Military sexual assault survivors need more than sound and fury