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4:55 AM ET, May 24, 2011

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Jana Winter / Fox News:
EXCLUSIVE: Strauss-Kahn Told Maid 'Don't You Know Who I Am?'  During Alleged Sex Attack  —  Dominique Strauss-Kahn told a New York City hotel maid, “Don't you know who I am!  Don't you know who I am?” while pinning her down during the alleged sexual assault, law enforcement sources close to the investigation told FoxNews.com.
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Dominique Strauss-Kahn / Telegraph:
DNA samples confirm sperm traces on maid's dress  —  DNA samples taken in the Dominique Strauss-Kahn case have confirmed traces of sperm on the maid's dress, according to reports.  —  Mr Strauss-Kahn has been indicted on seven charges.  If he is convicted, he would face up to 25 years in prison
Ross Douthat / New York Times:
Who Will Play Strauss-Kahn?
Jacob Tomsky / New York Times:
Behind Closed, Sequentially Numbered Doors
Discussion: Balloon Juice and Mother Jones
Daniel Strauss / The Hill:
GOP lawmaker says Sen. Scott Brown ‘should be ashamed of himself’  —  Rep. Joe Walsh (R-Ill.) scolded the senator for opposing the House GOP budget from Rep. Paul Ryan.  —  An Illinois Republican on Monday said Sen. Scott Brown (R-Mass.) should be “ashamed of himself” for opposing Rep. Paul Ryan's (R-Wis.) budget plan.
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Russell Berman / The Hill:
Cantor nudges Rep. Ryan to jump into 2012 White House race  —  Count House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) as one top Republican who'd like to see Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wisc.) jump into the presidential race.  —  Cantor responded immediately when asked Monday whether Ryan …
Erik Wasson / The Hill:
Budget director: Debt ceiling will be raised before it's reached
Discussion: FrumForum
The Politico:
Republicans ignored warnings on Paul Ryan plan
Aharding / CNN:
Top Republican says Paul Ryan should run for president
David G. Savage / Los Angeles Times:
Supreme Court orders California to release tens of thousands of prison inmates  —  The 5-4 decision represents one of the largest prison release orders in U.S. history.  The court majority says overcrowding has caused ‘suffering and death.’ In a sharp dissent, Justice Antonin Scalia warns ‘terrible things are sure to happen.’
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Adam Liptak / New York Times:
State Secrets Block Resolution of Contractors' Suit, Justices Say  —  WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Monday unanimously ruled that national security considerations made it impossible for it to take sides in a multibillion-dollar dispute between military contractors and the government.
Adam Liptak / New York Times:
Justices, 5-4, Tell California to Cut Prisoner Population  —  WASHINGTON — Conditions in California's overcrowded prisons are so bad that they violate the Eighth Amendment's ban on cruel and unusual punishment, the Supreme Court ruled on Monday, ordering the state to reduce its prison population by more than 30,000 inmates.
Associated Press:
FACT CHECK: Not the whole truth in Pawlenty claims  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — “Truth” was Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty's buzzword Monday when he announced his campaign for the Republican presidential nomination.  He said he will tell the truth about hard choices facing the nation while others …
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Taegan Goddard's Political Wire:
Pawlenty Campaign Already Dead?
Discussion: The Blotter
Eric Kleefeld / TPMDC:
Pawlenty In Iowa: Phase Out Ethanol Subsidies
Chris O'Shea / FishbowlNY:
White House Adds New Position to Deal with Unfavorable Online Media  —  The White House has named Jesse Lee to a new position within its communications department titled Director of Progressive Media & Online Response.  According to The Huffington Post, Lee will essentially be responsible …
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Sam Stein / The Huffington Post:
White House Beefs Up Online Rapid Response … White House , Jesse Lee Staff , New Media White Hosue , Obama Administration Response , Online Response Jesse Lee , Online White House , White House Jesse Lee , White House Online Response , White House Staff , Politics News
Michael O'Brien / The Hill:
Poll: Romney way ahead of GOP field in New Hampshire  —  Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney (R) enjoys more than triple the support of his next closest competitor in New Hampshire's Republican primary, according to a poll released Monday.  —  Thirty-two percent of New Hampshire's Republican voters …
Discussion: HotAirPundit and FrumForum
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Aharding / CNN:
Daniels adviser: VP bid unlikely, but not ‘off the table’
Daily Mail:
Codename ‘smart alec’: British police label Obama with ‘mildly offensive’ Punjabi word for visit to UK  —  More than one person has wanted to call Barack Obama a ‘smart alec’, and now British police will get the chance to do so without getting reprimanded.  —  That's because Scotland Yard …
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Daily Mail:
The best-protected car in the world... defeated by an Irish ramp: Obama's limo ‘The Beast’ gets stuck at U.S. Embassy
Discussion: msnbc.com, Hot Air and The Other McCain
Cornell Law School:
SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES  —  EDMUND G. BROWN, J r ., GOVERNOR OF CAL-  —  IFORNIA, et al ., APPELLANTS v. MARCIANO  —  PLATA et al.  —  on appeal from the united states district courts for the eastern district and the northern district of california
Lydia Saad / Gallup:
Americans Still Split Along “Pro-Choice,” “Pro-Life” Lines  —  Majorities believe abortion is morally wrong, legal access to it should be restricted  —  PRINCETON, NJ — Americans are closely divided between those calling themselves “pro-choice” and those who are “pro-life,” now 49% and 45% …
Mary Clare Jalonick / Associated Press:
House GOP Proposes Budget Cuts To Domestic, Foreign Food Aid … John Boehner , Budget Cuts , Gop , Federal Budget , Boehner Budget Cuts , Domestic Aid Budget Cuts , Federal Budget Cuts , Food Aid Budget Cuts , Foreign Aid Budget Cuts , Gop Budget Cuts , House Gop Budget Cuts …
Discussion: Firedoglake and FrumForum
Katherine Dorsett / CNN:
Does having children make you happy?  —  Do kids bring happiness?  Sociologists find that parents experience emotional distress more often than childless adults.  —  (CNN) — Thirty-one-year old Jessica Copeland says she knew by the time she was in high school that she never wanted to be a parent.
Discussion: The Right Coast and Shakesville
Tanya Somanader / ThinkProgress:
Wisconsin Orders Recall Election For Three GOP State Senators  —  Despite massive protests, procedural obstacles, and restraining orders, the Wisconsin GOP hustled Gov. Scott Walker's (R) anti-union bill into law in March.  Now, they're paying a steep political price.
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htrnews.com:
Wisconsin OKs recall elections for GOP Sens. Randy Hopper, Luther Olsen, Dan Kapanke
Discussion: Firedoglake
Steven Levingston / Washington Post:
‘Blind Allegiance to Sarah Palin,’ by former staffer Frank Bailey  —  By Frank Bailey with Ken Morris & Jeanne Devon  —  Howard.  383 pp.  $26  —  Frank Bailey joined Sarah Palin's campaign for governor of Alaska in its earliest days, showing up at her shabby headquarters in Anchorage with a paintbrush …
Jeremy W. Peters / Media Decoder:
Frank Bruni Named Times Op-Ed Columnist  —  Frank Bruni, whose writing career at The New York Times has spanned two presidential campaigns, a pope and more than five years as chief restaurant critic, has been named an op-ed columnist.  —  Andrew Rosenthal, editor of the Opinion Pages …
Colby Hall / Mediaite:
New York On Media Matters: ‘Responsible Arbiters’ Who ‘Deserve Credit’ For Glenn Beck's Exit?  —  In the political debates regularly covered here at Mediaite, this New York Magazine story would fairly be described as “the other story.”  Not the explosive one on Roger Ailes and Fox News that we have …
 
 
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Mike Lillis / The Hill:
Reid breaks with Obama on Israeli borders condition for peace settlement
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Sam Baker / Healthwatch:
Tort reform bill takes fire from right
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Jonathan Chait / The New Republic:
Boehner, The Debt Ceiling, And The Young Guns Of August
Discussion: Washington Monthly
Ron Radosh / Pajamas Media:
Eric Cantor Gives AIPAC Delegates a Lesson on which Political Party Really Supports Israel …
The Atlantic Online:
Tornado Ravages Joplin, Missouri
Discussion: USA Today and Shakesville
 Earlier Items: 
Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
Special Election Warrants Caution for Forecasters — and for Republicans
Jim Rutenberg / The Caucus:
Fox News Executives Dispute Quote About Palin
Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
Truth outweighs consistency
Governor Arne Carlson:
THE PRESIDENCY: A BIT SHORT IS PAWLENTY
Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blog:
Biden tells donors: Keep me in mind for 2016
 

 
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Jack Dunn / Variety:
Trump appoints Mark Burnett, the British TV executive who created and produced the reality show The Apprentice, as a special envoy to the UK

Jessica Toonkel / Wall Street Journal:
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