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Brian Beutler / Talking Points Memo:
How To Lose The Sequestration Fight — Last night, the Senate proved it can fix big problems for real Americans — so long as they're rich, or relatively rich, or fly for business or what have you. — The short version is that late last night it took a break from its regular schedule …
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Jonathan Weisman / New York Times:
House Joins Senate in Passing Bill to Ease Flight Delays — WASHINGTON — The House gave quick and overwhelming approval Friday to legislation to give the secretary of transportation enough financial flexibility to bring the nation's air traffic control system back up to full strength and end …
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American Prospect, Mediaite and TomDispatch.com
Travis Waldron / ThinkProgress:
12 Programs Congress Refuses To Save From Automatic Spending Cuts
12 Programs Congress Refuses To Save From Automatic Spending Cuts
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The Fix, Outside the Beltway and The Huffington Post
Pete Kasperowicz / The Hill:
House passes bill to end FAA furloughs in victory for GOP
David A. Graham / The Atlantic Online:
Politicians Will Only Roll Back Parts of the Sequester That Hurt Them, Naturally
Politicians Will Only Roll Back Parts of the Sequester That Hurt Them, Naturally
Noam Scheiber / New Republic:
Senate Democrats' Shameful Cave on Flight Delays
Senate Democrats' Shameful Cave on Flight Delays
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Sheldon Alberts / The Hill:
Senate passes measure to end airport delays
Senate passes measure to end airport delays
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Eric Moskowitz / Boston Globe:
Carjack victim recounts his harrowing night — The 26-year-old Chinese entrepreneur had just pulled his new Mercedes to the curb on Brighton Avenue to answer a text when an old sedan swerved behind him, slamming on the brakes. A man in dark clothes got out and approached the passenger window.
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CNN:
Suspect separated from Boston victims — (CNN) — The surviving suspect in the Boston Marathon bombing has been moved from a Boston medical center to a federal Bureau of Prisons hospital about 40 miles away. — Dzhokhar Tsarnaev had been receiving treatment for a variety of wounds …
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Eric Moskowitz / The Boston Globe:
Carjacking victim describes harrowing night
Carjacking victim describes harrowing night
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News Desk, The Lede, Guardian, Boston Globe and First Read
Peggy Noonan / Wall Street Journal:
The Presidential Wheel Turns — Disaffection for Bush gave us Obama. That explains the new affection for Bush. — Barack Obama was elected president in 2008 because he was not George W. Bush. In fact, he was elected because he was the farthest thing possible from Mr. Bush.
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Brian Mansfield / USA Today:
George Jones, country superstar, has died at 81 … NASHVILLE, Tenn. — George Jones, whose supple Texas voice conveyed heartbreak so profound that he became perhaps the most imitated singer in country music, died Friday at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville after being hospitalized …
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Jon Pareles / New York Times:
George Jones, Admired and Copied Country Singer, Dies at 81
George Jones, Admired and Copied Country Singer, Dies at 81
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Andrew Dansby / Houston Chronicle:
Country legend George Jones dies
Country legend George Jones dies
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U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis:
National Income and Product Accounts — Gross Domestic Product, First Quarter 2013 (advance estimate) — Real gross domestic product — the output of goods and services produced by labor and property located in the United States — increased at an annual rate of 2.5 percent in the first quarter of 2013 …
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Wall Street Journal:
First-Quarter Growth, at 2.5%, Misses Expectations
First-Quarter Growth, at 2.5%, Misses Expectations
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Catherine Rampell / New York Times:
U.S. Economy Speeds Up, but Less Than Forecast
U.S. Economy Speeds Up, but Less Than Forecast
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Jared Bernstein, Outside the Beltway, Gothamist, ThinkProgress and americanthinker.com
Patrick Gavin / Politico:
Tom Brokaw says ‘no thanks’ to White House Correspondents' Dinner — Tom Brokaw blames it all on Lindsay Lohan. — Last year, Brokaw became one of the biggest critics of the annual White House Correspondents' Dinner after he saw Washington buzzing around and about the troubled Hollywood actress …
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Roger Simon / Reuters:
Hey, White House Correspondents' Dinner critics: Relax, enjoy
Hey, White House Correspondents' Dinner critics: Relax, enjoy
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Yahoo! News and ABCNEWS
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
The 1 Percent's Solution — Economic debates rarely end with a T.K.O. But the great policy debate of recent years between Keynesians, who advocate sustaining and, indeed, increasing government spending in a depression, and austerians, who demand immediate spending cuts, comes close — at least in the world of ideas.
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Leisa Zigman / KSDK-TV:
Former Congressman Todd Akin breaks silence: talks comeback, takes on Karl Rove — ST. LOUIS (KSDK) - Could Todd Akin be the new comeback kid? — The 65-year-old former congressman says don't rule him out. Nearly six months after losing the Senate race he continues to be attacked from all sides of the political spectrum.
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Sharon LaFraniere / New York Times:
Farm Loan Bias Claims, Often Unsupported, Cost U.S. Millions — In the winter of 2010, after a decade of defending the government against bias claims by Hispanic and female farmers, Justice Department lawyers seemed to have victory within their grasp. — Ever since the Clinton administration agreed …
Carol Kuruvilla / NY Daily News:
Was this hottie deported from Saudi Arabia for being ‘too handsome’? — Religious police in the conservative country allegedly feared that three men from the United Arab Emirates were so handsome that ‘female visitors could fall for them.’ Whether or not Omar Borkan Al Gala is one of those three …
Robert Pear / New York Times:
Democratic Senators Tell White House of Concerns About Health Care Law Rollout — WASHINGTON — Democratic senators, at a caucus meeting with White House officials, expressed concerns on Thursday about how the Obama administration was carrying out the health care law they adopted three years ago.
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New York Times:
Debt, Growth and the Austerity Debate — IN May 2010, we published an academic paper, “Growth in a Time of Debt.” Its main finding, drawing on data from 44 countries over 200 years, was that in both rich and developing countries, high levels of government debt — specifically …
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Jeremy Herb / The Hill:
Pelosi: Time for ‘next step’ in Syria — House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said Friday that it was time for the United States to “take it to the next step” in Syria in response to possible chemical weapons use, although she said that did not include putting “troops on the ground.”
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Eli Lake / The Daily Beast:
Rebels Charge That Assad Continues to Use Chemical Weapons
Rebels Charge That Assad Continues to Use Chemical Weapons
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Eric W. Dolan / The Raw Story:
Fox guest Michelle Malkin links Grover Norquist to Boston Marathon bombing — During an appearance on Fox News on Wednesday night, conservative commentator Michelle Malkin alleged that influential anti-tax crusader Grover Norquist was indirectly linked to the Boston Marathon bombing.
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The Moderate Voice, Alan Colmes' Liberaland, The Hinterland Gazette and Booman Tribune
Jessica Chasmar / Washington Times:
U.S. female sailor beats Dubai rapist bus driver into submission — An off-duty U.S. navy sailor wrestled a Dubai bus driver to the ground and beat him into submission after he tried to rape her at knifepoint on Jan. 19, a courtroom heard Wednesday. — The woman, 28, was on 24-hour shore leave …
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New York Post:
President's pick for French ambassador folded over ties to poker ring: sources — The Manhattan billionaire President Obama wanted to appoint ambassador to France turned down the prestigious position over ties to an alleged Russian mob-run poker ring that was laundered through a Carlyle hotel art gallery, sources told The Post.
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