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7:55 PM ET, May 2, 2012

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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?
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Dylan Byers / Politico:
Obama: ‘New York girlfriend’ was composite  —  One of the more mysterious characters from President Obama's 1995 autobiography Dreams From My Father is the so-called ‘New York girlfriend.’ Obama never referred to her by name, or even by psuedonym, but he describes her appearance, her voice, and her mannerisms in specific detail.
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.
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Ginger Gibson / Politico:
Newt Gingrich drops out: ‘Truly wild ride’ is over  —  ARLINGTON, Va. — Newt Gingrich finally called it quits.  —  For all intents and purposes, his campaign was over months ago.  —  In a hotel ballroom steps from a Washington D.C.-area subway stop Wednesday afternoon …
Felicia Sonmez / Washington Post:
Newt Gingrich brings campaign to a close, with swipes at Obama, jokes at his own expense
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 …
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Igor Volsky / ThinkProgress:
VIDEO: Wife Of Key Legislator Behind North Carolina's Anti-Gay Amendment Claims It Would Protect ‘Caucasian’ Race  —  The wife of a prominent North Carolina state senator and supporter of Amendment 1 — a proposed ballot initiative that would outlaw same-sex marriage, civil unions …
Discussion: www2.journalnow.com
Jordan Green / The YES! Weekly Blog:
Racialized remark about marriage amendment attributed to state senator's wife  —  UPDATE: National media pickups at Huffington Post, Talking Points Memo, The Daily Beast and Daily Kos.  Still no word from the Brunstetters.  —  ORIGINAL POST: Chad Nance, a Winston-Salem freelance journalist …
ABCNEWS:
Designer of Ann Romney's $1K Shirt Says It's Off The Rack  —  CHANTILLY, Va. — The fashion house that makes the nearly $1,000 blouse worn by Ann Romney on morning television earlier this week tells ABC News that they had nothing to do with the wardrobe choice, remarking that they'd prefer to stay out of politics.
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Hillary Chabot / Boston Herald:
Warren: I used minority listing to make friends  —  Democratic Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren, fending off questions about whether she used her Native American heritage to advance her career, said today she enrolled herself as a minority in law school directories for nearly a decade …
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Howie Carr / Boston Herald:
White and wrong: On the reservation with Elizabeth Warren
Discussion: Washington Monthly
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.
Discussion: The Last Tradition
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Mark McKinnon / The Daily Beast:
GOP Attacks on Obama's Bin Laden Ad Misguided
Frances Robles / MiamiHerald.com:
George Zimmerman's crude Myspace page from 2005 uncovered  —  While it includes photos of an ethnically diverse group of friends, the murder defendant's 2005 web presence includes disparaging remarks about Mexicans.  —  FROBLES@MIAMIHERALD.COM  —  SANFORD — Just as George Zimmerman's attorney pushes …
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Nick R. Martin / tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com:   TPMMuckraker  —  Unearthed: George Zimmerman's MySpace Page
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: Guardian
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Bill Clinton / New York Times:
‘The Passage of Power,’ Robert Caro's New L.B.J. Book  —  “The Passage of Power,” the fourth installment of Robert Caro's brilliant series on Lyndon Johnson, spans roughly five years, beginning shortly before the 1960 presidential contest, including the Bay of Pigs, the Cuban missile crisis …
Washington Post:
Chen Guangcheng leaves U.S. embassy; deal to guarantee his safety may be unraveling, friends say  —  BEIJING — Blind activist Chen Guangcheng, who fled de facto house arrest last month and sought refuge for six days at the U.S. Embassy, left the diplomatic compound on Wednesday …
Steve Kornacki / Salon:
It's starting to look over for Dick Lugar  —  Welcome to the permanent era of Tea Party politics  —  It sure doesn't look like Richard Lugar is long for the political world.  The news that the major super PAC supporting his candidacy is bailing on him a week before the Republican primary reinforces …
Discussion: FiveThirtyEight
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Indianapolis Star:
Indiana senator: What is driving this race? It's all about Lugar, his missed chances
Discussion: msnbc.com
Jonathan Easley / The Hill:
‘Saturday Night Live’ creator: Romney won't be on show this season  —  Saturday Night Live creator Lorne Michaels said presumptive Republican nominee Mitt Romney will not be on the show this season, but left the door open to Romney making an appearance when it returns in the fall.
Discussion: Deadline.com and HotAirPundit
John Sides / FiveThirtyEight:
Is Obama More Popular Than He Should Be?  —  It's well known that presidential approval ratings are a powerful predictor of election outcomes.  President Obama's current 47 percent approval rating would be among the lowest approval ratings of any incumbent president who went on to be re-elected.
Marquette Law School Poll:
Marquette Law School Poll shows Barrett leads Falk in recall primary; Walker and Barrett within single percentage point  —  Milwaukee, Wis. - With less than a week until the primary in the historic Wisconsin gubernatorial recall election, a new Marquette Law School Poll shows Tom Barrett …
Discussion: Washington Post, msnbc.com and Politico
Nicholas Confessore / New York Times:
Obama's Not-So-Hot Date With Wall Street  —  In late January, Brad Thompson, the Obama campaign's chief liaison to major donors in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut, called some of his contacts in the area, most of them Wall Street executives.  The president's next trip to town would be in early March.
Michelangelo Signorile / The Huffington Post:
The Richard Grenell Fiasco: How a Cynical Political Move Blew Up in Mitt Romney's Face … Elections 2012 , Richard Grenell , Richard Grenell Mitt Romney , Richard Grenell Resigns , Richard Grenell Romney , Gay Voices News  —  A week ago a Washington reporter contacted me to discuss Mitt Romney's hiring …
 
 
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CNN:
‘No Swiss Mitt’  —  Washington (CNN) - About 10 people from …
Discussion: NewsBusters.org
Joel Gehrke / Campaign 2012:
Pelosi denies lying about waterboarding
Fergal O'Brien / Bloomberg:
European Unemployment Rate Rises to Highest in Almost 15 Years
Eli Yokley / PoliticMo:
Gay Republican wants party to drop 'don't say gay' bill
BuzzFeed:
Document: How The Obama Administration Is Selling Health Care Law
Discussion: The Policy Page
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Sahil Kapur / tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com:
TPMDC  —  There may not be much President Obama can do to improve …
Discussion: Hot Air
Ed O'Keefe / Washington Post:
Secret Service employees paid 9 of the 12 women involved in Colombia sex scandal, agency says
Discussion: msnbc.com and Politico
ABCNEWS:
Romney, In Cell Phone Video, Opines on Wealth
Tom Maguire / JustOneMinute:
A Paper Of Cowards  —  Drudge links to a Virginian-Pilot …
Discussion: Datechguy's Blog
Ian Millhiser / ThinkProgress:
No, Kathleen Sebelius Does Not Need A Legal Memo To Ignore False Anti-Contraception Legal Arguments
Andrew Feinberg / The Hill:
Ethics watchdog asks FCC to revoke Fox's broadcast licenses
 

 
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Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
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Donald Trump announces that Sriram Krishnan, until recently a general partner at a16z, will serve as senior policy advisor for AI at the White House OSTP

Financial Times:
Sources: Palantir and Anduril are in talks with OpenAI, SpaceX, and more to form a consortium to bid for US defense contracts and plan to announce it in January
 
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