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11:55 AM ET, May 2, 2012

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Byron York / Campaign 2012:
The curious resignation of Richard Grenell  —  The political world is buzzing over the sudden resignation of Richard Grenell, the former spokesman for John Bolton at the UN who had signed on to serve as foreign policy spokesman for Mitt Romney's presidential campaign.  Grenell was scheduled to begin work Tuesday, May 1.
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Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
EXCLUSIVE: Richard Grenell hounded from Romney campaign by anti-gay conservatives  —  Richard Grenell, the openly gay spokesman recently hired to sharpen the foreign policy message of Mitt Romney's presidential campaign, has resigned in the wake of a full-court press by anti-gay conservatives.
B. Daniel Blatt / GayPatriot:
Richard Grenell steps down from Romney campaign
Discussion: The Daily Dish and msnbc.com
Evan McMorris-Santoro / 2012.talkingpointsmemo.com:
TPM2012  —  Gay Republicans Dismayed As Openly Gay Romney Staffer Resigns
Rachel Weiner / Washington Post:
Richard Grenell, Mitt Romney spokesman, resigns
Discussion: MLive.com and BuzzFeed
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Pam Spaulding / Firedoglake:
Wife of NC State Senator: Amendment One Needed ‘To Protect the Caucasian Race’  —  I don't even know where to begin to unpack this trash.  Chad Nance who is a freelance journalist in Winston-Salem and is covering the election here in NC, recorded the wife of NC Sen. Peter Brunstetter confirming …
Jordan Green / The YES! Weekly Blog:
Racialized remark about marriage amendment attributed to state senator's wife  —  Chad Nance, a Winston-Salem freelance journalist who is currently active in electoral campaigning, says poll workers outside the early voting site at the Forsyth County Government Center in downtown Winston-Salem reported …
Susan Page / USA Today:
USA TODAY interview: Gingrich ready to support Romney  —  WASHINGTON - Former House speaker Newt Gingrich, on the eve of suspending his roller coaster presidential bid, said in an interview with USA TODAY that he will embrace Mitt Romney's candidacy Wednesday and is ready to campaign for his former rival.
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Joel Siegel / Yahoo! News:
Newt Gingrich $4 Million in Debt; Staffers and Creditors Fume  —  Newt Gingrich ends his White House dream today with his political committee facing a mountain of debts — owing about $4 million to scores of businesses and campaign workers around the country who fear they will never get paid.
Alicia M. Cohn / The Hill:
New Obama campaign video uses Gingrich to attack Mitt Romney
Discussion: CNN
Newt Gingrich / CNN:
New Obama campaign video: Gingrich vs. Romney in his own words
Discussion: ABCNEWS
ABCNEWS:   Newt Gingrich's Greatest Campaign Hits
Michael Barbaro / New York Times:
Obama and Romney Vie for Mayor Bloomberg's Endorsement
Discussion: NY Daily News, ABCNEWS and The Caucus
Vanity Fair:
Becoming Obama  —  When Barack Obama met Genevieve Cook in 1983 at a Christmas party in New York's East Village, it was the start of his most serious romance yet.  But as the 22-year-old Columbia grad began to shape his future, he was also struggling with his identity: American or international?
BuzzFeed:
New York Post Mocks Obama's Afghanistan Trip  —  Two schools of thought: Obama is at risk of being seen as politicizing national security.  Or, any day spent talking about Osama Bin Laden, and not the economy, is a good one.
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Andrew Malcolm / Investor's Business Daily:
Obama's Afghan trip: 14,000 miles for brief remarks lacking one crucial word
Discussion: Politico, msnbc.com and Time
BuzzFeed:
How The White House Smothered The News Of Obama's Trip To Afghanistan
John Hinderaker / Power Line:
Washington Post Rebuts Obama's Malicious Lie  —  Barack Obama never lets truth get in the way of political advantage.  Nothing new about that; mendacity has been a consistent theme of his 3 1/2 years in office.  But it seems that more media outlets are willing to call the president on his falsehoods these days.
Discussion: Betsy's Page
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Glenn Kessler / Washington Post:
Obama's whopper about an Ohio River bridge  —  (LARRY DOWNING/REUTERS) “I sent them a jobs bill that would have put hundreds of thousands of construction workers back to work repairing our roads, our bridges, schools, transit systems, along with saving the jobs of cops and teachers and firefighters …
Michelle Washington / HamptonRoads.com:
A beating at Church and Brambleton  —  The Virginian-Pilot  —  Wave after wave of young men surged forward to take turns punching and kicking their victim.  —  The victim's friend, a young woman, tried to pull him back into his car.  Attackers came after her, pulling her hair …
utsandiego.com:
Man abandoned in DEA cell steps forward  —  He screamed.  He kicked madly at the door.  He cried like a baby.  Then, locked inside a five-by-10-foot windowless cell and seemingly forgotten, the hallucinations crept in.  —  Daniel Chong said nothing made sense.
Discussion: ABCNEWS
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Washington Post:
A better case for Keystone XL  —  THE CASE FOR ultimately approving the Keystone XL pipeline — always strong — has grown stronger.  —  A key environmentalist argument against Keystone XL has been that the project would encourage the extraction of bitumen, a particularly dirty oil-like substance, from the “oil sands” in Alberta.
Discussion: The Volokh Conspiracy
Jane Perlez / New York Times:
Blind Chinese Dissident Leaves U.S. Embassy for Medical Treatment  —  BEIJING — Chen Guangcheng, the blind Chinese dissident who fled house arrest last month in a dramatic escape from security forces, left the American Embassy in Beijing on Wednesday after securing assurances from the Chinese government …
Leah Schnurr / Reuters:
Private-sector hiring slows in April  —  (Reuters) - Companies hired a far fewer than expected 119,000 people in April, the smallest gain in seven months and adding to concerns that the economy has lost some of its momentum.  —  The ADP National Employment Report released …
The White House:
Presidential Proclamation — Loyalty Day, 2012  —  BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA  —  More than two centuries ago, our Founders laid out a charter that assured the rule of law and the rights of man.  Through times of tranquility and the throes of change …
Discussion: Hit & Run and Vox Popoli
Wbastone / The Smoking Gun:
“Occupy” Movement Was Infiltrated By FBI Informant In Cleveland Bridge Bombing Probe  —  Buster  —  The federal probe that resulted last night in the arrest of five purported anarchists for allegedly plotting to bomb an Ohio bridge began last year at an Occupy Wall Street rally in Cleveland …
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