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New York Times:
U.S. Braced for Fights With Pakistanis in Bin Laden Raid — WASHINGTON — President Obama insisted that the assault force hunting down Osama bin Laden last week be large enough to fight its way out of Pakistan if confronted by hostile local police officers and troops, senior administration and military officials said Monday.
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Declan Walsh / Guardian:
US's Bin Laden deal with Pakistan — US forces were given permission to conduct unilateral raid inside Pakistan if they knew where Bin Laden was hiding, officials say — The US and Pakistan struck a secret deal almost a decade ago permitting a US operation against Osama bin Laden …
Times of India:
Record sale of Osama posters in Pakistan — ISLAMABAD: There has been a record sale of posters of Osama bin Laden in Pakistan after the al-Qaida leader was gunned down in a daring US commando raid May 2 in the country, a media report said on Tuesday. — More than 100,000 posters …
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Elizabeth Palmer / CBS News:
Pakistan grants U.S. access to bin Laden widows
Pakistan grants U.S. access to bin Laden widows
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The Daily Beast, Hot Air and New York Magazine
Mark Z. Barabak / Los Angeles Times:
Arnold Schwarzenegger, Maria Shriver announce separation — The former first lady has moved out after 25 years of marriage. Maria Shriver helped bolster Arnold Schwarzenegger's campaign against charges that he groped women during his movie career. — Arnold Schwarzenegger and Maria Shriver …
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Carl Hulse / New York Times:
Boehner Outlines Demands on Debt Limit Fight — WASHINGTON — Speaker John A. Boehner said Monday that Republicans would insist on trillions of dollars in federal spending cuts in exchange for their support of an increase in the federal debt limit sought by the Obama administration to prevent a government default later this year.
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Russell Berman / The Hill:
Boehner's hard line on debt ceiling gets cool reception from Wall St. — NEW YORK - House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) on Monday laid down an aggressive new marker in the debt limit fight, calling for spending cuts that exceed any additional borrowing authority that Congress approves.
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Molly K. Hooper / The Hill:
House GOP leaders skeptical of plan to hike debt limit in steps
House GOP leaders skeptical of plan to hike debt limit in steps
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Jake Sherman / The Politico:
John Boehner: Cut ‘trillions’ as debt limit nears
John Boehner: Cut ‘trillions’ as debt limit nears
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Michael O'Brien / The Hill:
Boehner to Pakistan on terror fight: You're 'all in, or you're not in'
Boehner to Pakistan on terror fight: You're 'all in, or you're not in'
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Sheryl Gay Stolberg / New York Times:
Gingrich Set to Run, With Wife in Central Role — WASHINGTON — Callista Bisek's friends from rural Wisconsin were stunned when, well over a decade ago, she confided that she was secretly dating an older, married man: Newt Gingrich. — Still in her 20s when they met …
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Joe Williams / The Politico:
President Obama, Congressional Black Caucus on solid ground? — If President Barack Obama and the Congressional Black Caucus defined their relationship on Facebook, there's little doubt what the status would be: It's complicated. — This week, Obama will meet privately with the caucus …
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Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
Beyond Obama's Bin Laden Bounce — A week after the news broke of the American raid that killed Osama bin Laden, bettors at Intrade, a political futures market, are barely any more likely to think that Barack Obama will win re-election. — As of this writing, Mr. Obama's Democrats are given …
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Alexander Bolton / Healthwatch:
Republican rift widens on Medicare — A deep rift is opening wider and wider in the Republican Party over controversial proposals to cut Medicare. — Senate Republicans have decided to avoid jeopardizing their chances of capturing the upper chamber in next year's elections and will not echo …
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ThinkProgress and Prairie Weather
Neil Munro / The Daily Caller:
‘Burn a Bush’? Michelle Obama invites rapper Common to a poetry reading — First Lady Michelle Obama has scheduled a poetry evening for Wednesday, and she's invited several poets, including a successful Chicago poet and rapper, Lonnie Rashid Lynn, Jr., AKA “Common.”
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Larry O'Connor / Breitbart.tv:
This Guy Has Been Invited to White House Poetry Event by Michelle Obama
This Guy Has Been Invited to White House Poetry Event by Michelle Obama
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Associated Press:
Suspect in flight disturbance had Calif. ID — SAN FRANCISCO - The passengers sat stunned as they watched a man walk quickly toward the front of American Airlines Flight 1561 as it was descending toward San Francisco. He was screaming and then began pounding on the cockpit door.
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Wall Street Journal:
Microsoft Near Deal to Acquire Skype — Software Giant Could Pay Nearly $8 Billion for Company — Microsoft Corp. is close to a deal to buy Internet phone company Skype Technologies SA for between $7 billion and $8 billion—the most aggressive move yet by Microsoft to play …
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Mark Murray / msnbc.com:
Poll: Economy fears temper Obama's bin Laden bump — But president sees significant jump in questions about leadership, national security, foreign affairs — Below: — Deputy political director — WASHINGTON — In the days after Barack Obama ordered the successful mission to kill Osama bin Laden …
Philip Christofanelli / Big Government:
‘Introduction to Labor Studies’ - My First-Hand Account — My name is Philip Christofanelli. I was a student in the University of Missouri's “Introduction to Labor Studies” course. The class was taught simultaneously by Professor Don Giljum of University of Missouri-Saint Louis (UMSL) …
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Winnie Hu / New York Times:
In Reversal, City University Trustees Approve Honorary Degree for Tony Kushner — In a hastily convened meeting of their executive committee, City University of New York trustees approved an honorary degree for Tony Kushner on Monday night to try to quell widespread criticism over the board's decision …
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Guardian:
Kushner honour restored by CUNY
Kushner honour restored by CUNY
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Michael Gerson / Washington Post:
Ron Paul's land of second-rate values — Before last week's South Carolina Republican debate, Ron Paul supporters complained that their candidate was not getting the first-tier attention his polling and fundraising should bring. It is true that Paul has often been overlooked and dismissed, as one might treat a slightly dotty uncle.
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Wall Street Journal:
National Health Preview — RomneyCare's bad outcomes keep coming. — The ObamaCare preview that Massachusetts has been conducting for the last several years grows more ominous by the month, not that anyone in Washington is paying attention. So let's check on the Bay State's latest warning …
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Joshua Green / The Atlantic Online:
The Tragedy of Sarah Palin — From the moment Sarah Palin's acceptance speech electrified the Republican convention, she was seen as an unbending, hard-charging, red-meat ideologue—to which soon was added “thin-skinned” and “vindictive.” But a look at what Palin did while in office in Alaska …
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C. J. Chivers / New York Times:
With Help From NATO, Libyan Rebels Gain Ground — QARYAT AZ ZURAYQ, Libya — Rebel fighters made significant gains Monday against forces loyal to Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi in both the western and eastern areas of the country, in the first faint signs that NATO airstrikes may be starting to strain the government forces.
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Emily Miller / Washington Times:
Obama's illegal alien nation — Administration fails to enforce program to deport criminals — President Obama is in El Paso Tuesday to give a speech on what he calls “the broken immigration system.” He'd know because he's the one helping break it. Nowhere is this more apparent …
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The Lonely Conservative
Vos Iz Neias:
Brooklyn, NY - After Outrage Hasidic Newspaper Issues Statement On Altered White House Photo — Brooklyn, NY - Much has been written about a controversial altered photograph of the White House situation room published by Der Tzeitung, a Chareidi newspaper, based out of Brooklyn.
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Daily Mail:
Gunter Sachs, the playboy who married Brigitte Bardot, kills himself at 78 — Millionaire playboy Gunter Sachs, the German-born former husband of Brigitte Bardot, has killed himself at the age of 78. — He is reported to have shot himself at his home in the Swiss resort of Gstaad.