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BBC:
UK ‘wakes up to hung Parliament’ — With more than 500 general election results in out of 650, the BBC is predicting a hung Parliament with the Tories as the largest party. — Labour cannot now win a majority, but it is not clear which party will be in a position to form a government.
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First hung parliament in UK for decades — The Conservatives have won the most MPs in the UK general election but fallen short of a majority, leading to the first hung parliament since 1974. — As counting continues the Tories have gained 92 seats, Labour have lost 86 and the Lib Dems six …
CNBC:
Stock Selloff May Have Been Triggered by a Trader Error — In one of the most dizzying half-hours in stock market history, the Dow plunged nearly 1,000 points before paring those losses—all apparently due to a trader error. — According to multiple sources, a trader entered a “b” …
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Wall Street Journal:
Dow Takes Harrowing 1,010.14-Point Trip — Biggest Point Fall, Before a Snapback; A Data Jumble — Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange May 6. — A bad day in the financial markets was made worse by an apparent trading glitch, leaving traders and investors nervous …
Fox News:
Navy SEAL Found Not Guilty of Assaulting a Suspected Terroristyeah, — Military jury found a Navy SEAL not guilty on charges of punching a suspected Iraqi terrorist.
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Michelle Oddis / Human Events:
BREAKING: Navy SEAL McCabe Found Not Guilty — NORFOLK, Va. - Navy SEAL Officer 2nd Class Matthew McCabe was found not guilty Thursday evening on charges of assaulting detained terrorist Ahmed Hashim Abed, dereliction of duty, and impeding an investigation based on a false statement.
Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Breaking: Last Navy SEAL acquitted of abusing Iraqi terrorist; Video: SEAL interview added — He was the only one of the three charged with actual assault, and even so, it took just an hour and 40 minutes to acquit him. Why so quick? Because the prosecution's case collapsed:
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Andy McCarthy / The Corner on National Review Online:
Disgraceful Leaking — By: Andy McCarthy — As I explained in this post last evening, there seems to have been no good reason to file the arrest complaint against Faisal Shahzad publicly, and to have done so in a way that showed he was cooperating. All that does is alert co-conspirators …
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New York Times:
Times Square Suspect Drew Inspiration From Militant Cleric — WASHINGTON — The Pakistani-American man accused of trying to detonate a car bomb in Times Square has told investigators that he drew inspiration from Anwar al-Awlaki, a Yemeni-American cleric whose militant online lectures …
Andrew Romano / Newsweek Blogs:
Why the Media Ignored the Nashville Flood
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Sarah Palin / Facebook:
Let's shake it up in California! — I'd like to tell you about a Commonsense Conservative running for office in California this year. She grew up in a modest home with a school teacher dad, worked her way through several colleges, and then entered an arena where few women had tread.
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Paul Krugman / New York Times:
A Money Too Far — So, is Greece the next Lehman? No. It isn't either big enough or interconnected enough to cause global financial markets to freeze up the way they did in 2008. Whatever caused that brief 1,000-point swoon in the Dow, it wasn't justified by actual events in Europe.
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The Huffington Post:
Senate Votes For Wall Street; Megabanks To Remain Behemoths — What's Your Reaction: … A move to break up major Wall Street banks failed Thursday night by a vote of 61 to 33. — Three Republicans, Richard Shelby of Alabama, Tom Coburn of Oklahoma and John Ensign of Nevada …
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Brian Beutler / TPMDC:
Vote On Fed Audit Delayed To Accommodate Bennett — A last minute snag tonight temporarily delayed a vote on Bernie Sanders' amendment—still expected to pass overwhelmingly—to force an audit of the Federal Reserve. — Republican Sen. Bob Bennett is in his home state of Utah today, in the last days of a tough primary campaign.
Nicholas Wade / New York Times:
Signs of Neanderthals Mating With Humans — Neanderthals mated with some modern humans after all and left their imprint in the human genome, a team of biologists has reported in the first detailed analysis of the Neanderthal genetic sequence. — The biologists, led by Svante Paabo …
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Political Punch:
White House Gives Chilly Reception to Lieberman's Citizenship-Stripping Bill — White House press secretary Robert Gibbs today indicated no one in the White House supports the legislation introduced today by Sens. Joe Lieberman, I-Conn., that would give the State Department the power to revoke …
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Joe Weisenthal / Silicon Alley Insider:
THE MOST EXCITING MOMENT IN CNBC HISTORY: Jim Cramer Saves The Market — If you missed it, here's the instant-classic video of Erin Burnett and Jim Cramer going nuts together as the Dow collapsed and then rebounds — Check our more artistic version of the day's events …
Spencer Ackerman / The Washington Independent:
Pentagon Bans Four Journalists From Guantanamo Bay for Reporting Interrogator #1's Name — GUANTANAMO BAY — Two weeks' worth of proceedings in the pre-trial hearing of Omar Khadr found an unexpected meta-conclusion this afternoon as the public affairs shop in the Office of the Secretary …
Alex Isenstadt / The Politico:
DCCC to ‘re-evaluate’ Hawaii special — The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee is re-evaluating whether to continue to spend money in this month's Hawaii special election, Chairman Chris Van Hollen told POLITICO Thursday. — With former Democratic Rep. Ed Case …
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