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Morning Read: Computer Hacking, Gun Violence

Syracuse Post-Standard. via newseum.org

Understanding Cuomo: He’s more like Rudy than Mario; doesn’t answer questions. [Michael Powell / NY Times]

Anthony Weiner: “Twitter is a kind of verbalization of people yelling at their television sets or gnashing their teeth at the newspaper.” [Ashley Parker / NY Times]

Weiner’s Tweet: Won’t name attorney he’s hired. Schumer “virtually certain he had nothing to do with this.” [Alison Gendar and Michael Feeney / NY Daily News]

Weiner’s Tweet: Hasn’t filed report with capitol police. [Geoff Earle and Kevin Fasick / NY Post]

2012: “Chrysler has become a favorite bragging point with the White House.” [Sharon Terlep and Jeff Bennett / WSJ]

2012: Black conservative Herman Cain “is a lot more like us than anyone who has run for president in our lifetime,” says national Tea Party co-founder Mark Mecckler. [Jason Horowitz / Washington Post]

War Games: Hack U.S. computers, military could respond. [Siobhan Gorman and Juliane Barnes / WSJ]

Israel’s Borders: “The Prime Minister sounded more like a Fox News ‘contributor’ than like the leader of an ally dependent on the United States for its survival.” [Kenrik Hertzberg / New Yorker]

Medicaid: Feds track spending per beneficiary; hospitals measured on “efficiency.” Raske says it’ll “discriminate against inner city hospitals.” [Robert Pear / NY Times]

Healthcare: Costs going up in NY. [Ken Lovett / NY Daily News]

Fracking: Stop worrying. [Bill Hammond / NY Daily News]

State Senate: Neil Breslin and Democratic conference are very calm. [Jimmy Vielkind / Times Union]

Sign Language: Koo and Halloran to introduce bill forcing changes to store signs “if at least 60% of the writing isn’t in English.” [Mark Morales / NY Daily News]

Turnover: Eight Onondaga County legislators not seeking re-election. [Ricky Moriarty / Post Standard]

Money: A banker in Buffalo makes a skeptic proud. [Joe Nocera / NY Times]

Crime: Another fancy hotel, another maid attacked. [Tamer el-Ghobashy / WSJ]

Guns: 29-year-old Bronx mother holding her son was one of three shooting victims in bloody 6-hour stretch. [Pervaiz Shallwani and Tamer el Ghobashy / WSJ]

Guns: Victim’s two-year-old “keeps saying ‘Mommy, mommy’ and pointing to his face where she got shot,” said relative. [NY Daily News]

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