There are conflicting reports on who was responsible for the subway blast, which killed 11 people and injured around 50.
Russian President Vladimir Putin places bouquet of roses at memorial for victims of St. Petersburg subway explosion. https://t.co/JwhaITNYC8 pic.twitter.com/61TpFDVfGb
— ABC News (@ABC) April 3, 2017
Ten people killed in St. Petersburg metro station blast: authorities. Here's what we know: https://t.co/aBYfOxFXKp pic.twitter.com/QZzrFqClyk
— Reuters (@Reuters) April 3, 2017
Latest on deadly St Petersburg metro explosion:https://t.co/T39ByS69bU pic.twitter.com/YX9KfrNmf7
— BBC Breaking News (@BBCBreaking) April 3, 2017
Where the St. Petersburg metro explosion occurred https://t.co/PgMZ2k4Rer pic.twitter.com/nBN9VofXnf
— The New York Times (@nytimes) April 3, 2017
“The Train Didn’t Stop.”
Petersburg is shaken but strong after Monday’s deadly subway bombing. Read our report. https://t.co/VSI5HnjEq4 pic.twitter.com/FMSjQIzUb2
— The Moscow Times (@MoscowTimes) April 3, 2017
"This was clearly a well orchestrated and organised attack & not the work of a lone wolf." Russia expert Oksana Antonenko #newsnight pic.twitter.com/kntHgdEigK
— BBC Newsnight (@BBCNewsnight) April 3, 2017
Tragedy in St. Petersburg. Once again "unknown terrorists" perfectly timed to serve Putin's political agenda. Forget protests, back to fear.
— Garry Kasparov (@Kasparov63) April 3, 2017
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THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION
Senate headed for ‘nuclear’ showdown over Gorsuch https://t.co/ibXgjhNc5n @SunlenSerfaty reports on #TheLead
— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) April 3, 2017
Spicer: Dems setting "dangerous precedent" on SCOTUS vote https://t.co/nE2aZY6thn pic.twitter.com/wZQG57aCO4
— The Hill (@thehill) April 3, 2017
‘Far from idle speculation’: Dem. senator says ‘looming’ impeachment is reason to filibuster Gorsuch https://t.co/qXsHgweif8 pic.twitter.com/wRsCypUgJj
— Raw Story (@RawStory) April 3, 2017
McConnell admits "no justices in a president's last year" really meant "no justices in Obama's last year" https://t.co/JeX73YgCby pic.twitter.com/FX2rHH6jyy
— Jonathan Chait (@jonathanchait) April 3, 2017
Honestly, do Republicans think the American people are total fools? pic.twitter.com/mb8ETt3PhW
— Matt McDermott (@mattmfm) April 3, 2017
WaPo SCOOP: Blackwater founder Erik Prince held secret Seychelles meeting to establish Trump-Putin back channel https://t.co/TBdvxNkeUk
— Matea Gold (@mateagold) April 3, 2017
NBC News has confirmed some of the details in WaPo's Seychelles scoophttps://t.co/5RcirjQHM1
— Bradd Jaffy (@BraddJaffy) April 3, 2017
BREAKING: Prince's domestic conspiracy stole the election. _Now_ WaPo says he was part of a foreign conspiracy, too. https://t.co/JlZxdzhDZZ
— Seth Abramson (@SethAbramson) April 3, 2017
Erik Prince, when not serving as Seychelles backchannel… is setting up a Chinese mercenary army https://t.co/OUz4aTzh9C
— Ben Smith (@semaforben) April 3, 2017
Expert: Russians have stockpile of hacked US information https://t.co/k0OranVvVj #TheLead
— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) April 3, 2017
Carter Page met with a Russian spy https://t.co/09bShK5g1l pic.twitter.com/l4CcwqsdWE
— Judd Legum (@JuddLegum) April 3, 2017
Kushner Iraq trip part of wider Pentagon outreach to Trump https://t.co/sN4eZ60hXJ via @BryanDBender pic.twitter.com/V800B72jMo
— POLITICO (@politico) April 3, 2017
CBS reporter grills Sean Spicer on Jared Kushner: ‘White House isn’t meant to be run as a family business’ https://t.co/FLTeqR28Co pic.twitter.com/eiXVSr97yg
— Raw Story (@RawStory) April 3, 2017
NEW: Trump trust's been quietly revised to say he can take his biz's profits anytime, & he doesn't have to tell us.https://t.co/gB62XGVRyc
— ProPublica (@propublica) April 3, 2017
Tillerson to chair U.N. meeting on North Korea nuclear program https://t.co/ZMLLIoXTkV
— Reuters (@Reuters) April 3, 2017
Donald Trump has dropped the hammer on on Silicon Valley's efforts to hire workers from outside the U.S.https://t.co/BDvxuNRJws
— Mashable (@mashable) April 3, 2017
The top 10 reasons Trump refused to throw out the first pitch of baseball season: https://t.co/bkLDoSi8E1 pic.twitter.com/oJ6mHqH0So
— Slate (@Slate) April 3, 2017
BREAKING: "Impeach #Trump" banner dropped during Washington Nationals game on #OpeningDay pic.twitter.com/OnxtVfKeGg
— Alex Rubinstein (@RealAlexRubi) April 3, 2017
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BREXIT BRITAIN
Britain has plan to blow up the Channel Tunnel with a nuclear bomb if Brexit goes wrong https://t.co/ouQgc2Js6Z
— The Independent (@Independent) April 3, 2017
Just when you thought it couldn’t get any more embarrassing…
Tuesday's SUN front page: 'Up Yours Senors!' #bbcpapers #tomorrowspaperstoday pic.twitter.com/Ay0L7Jt1lc
— Allie Hodgkins-Brown (@AllieHBNews) April 3, 2017
@DUPleader has phoned Gibraltar's Chief Minister "to pledge support for his desire for Gibraltar to remain as a British overseas territory."
— David Blevins (@skydavidblevins) April 3, 2017
Theresa May defends UK ties with Saudi Arabia https://t.co/fgnOpaSwwD
— BBC News (UK) (@BBCNews) April 3, 2017
https://twitter.com/NewtonEmerson/status/849007410345914368
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WORLD
There's nothing but sadness & desolation in #Mocoa. It has seen death of at least 210 people, including 47 children, since fatal mudslides pic.twitter.com/i2fVSGblOp
— China Xinhua News (@XHNews) April 3, 2017
Colombia President Santos Points to Climate Change as 230 Die in Mudslides https://t.co/HLuXuN9MLm #Mocoa pic.twitter.com/4PS2FeB4aP
— Democracy Now! (@democracynow) April 3, 2017
Iraqi Man’s 14 Relatives Killed in a Single Airstrike https://t.co/IFowxMpVGT
— TIMEWorld (@TIMEWorld) April 3, 2017
Venezuela's Money Supply Soars By A Record 200% https://t.co/vjqPnkjwrR
— zerohedge (@zerohedge) April 3, 2017
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MEDIA
Fox News and Bill O'Reilly are out of excuses https://t.co/uOw9yJ09qd pic.twitter.com/cFmJuGDMvj
— HuffPost Media (@HuffPostMedia) April 3, 2017
Fox News exec vice president of human resources just sent this memo to entire staff about reporting concerns to management or Paul Weiss pic.twitter.com/ybo4jm69og
— Oliver Darcy (@oliverdarcy) April 3, 2017
Mercedes Benz drops O'Reilly, says his show is not a "good environment in which to advertise our products right now" https://t.co/IAe4BBy1cU
— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) April 3, 2017
"Morning news wars"! Once newspapers, now podcasts https://t.co/YZfXoS5f8q via @cjr
— Steve Inskeep (@NPRinskeep) April 3, 2017
From Jan 2001 to Sep 2016, newspaper publishing lost over half its employment, from 412k to 174k. https://t.co/JaNUTk8g2U pic.twitter.com/6f7WDLXy8q
— Catherine Rampell (@crampell) April 3, 2017
"local reporting in NYC is at the lowest depth that I have experienced since I started as a reporter in 1974"" https://t.co/sL2NLq8sXE
— AziPaybarah on Threads (@Azi) April 3, 2017
https://twitter.com/stevekovach/status/848978601626267648
But hey..
Peak white people pic.twitter.com/DpA1krf2ca
— Sid Verma (@_SidVerma) April 3, 2017
The Overnight Note 