memeorandum: Hand back your benefits, Iain Duncan Smith urges wealthier pensioners (Patrick Hennessy/Telegraph)

10:55 AM ET, April 28, 2013

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The 20-lb. swag bag from People/Time's White House Correspondent's party — Pictured below: a disgorged swag bag from the Time/People pre-WHCD cocktail party. It weighed in at 20.6 lbs on an Post bathroom scale (very technical stuff, here). — Whoa, isn't the media industry struggling with hard times?

Discussion: Taylor Marsh, The Impolitic and Firedoglake

Kyle Balluck / The Hill:

Obama tells correpondents: ‘I still make rookie mistakes’ — President Obama spoke to the White House Correspondents' Association dinner Saturday night, poking fun at his administration and the press corps, while also paying tribute to the victims of the recent tragedies in Boston and West, Texas.

Discussion: Politico

Michael Livingston / The Reliable Source:

WATCH: President Barack Obama's White House Correspondents' Dinner one-liners — Here are the best one-liners from President Barack Obama's White House Correspondents' Dinner speech: — On the passage of time: “I look in the mirror. I'm not the strapping young Muslim socialist I used to be. . . I still make rookie mistakes though.

Discussion: JustOneMinute

Gabrielle Bluestone / Gawker:

All the Dumb Questions Politico Writers Are Asking Celebrities Tonight — How dumb is the WHCD? This dumb. You're looking at The Politico's White House Correspondents Dinner memo, left behind at a party last night and obtained by Gawker. — Above, the lengthy section of the memo focused …

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Bradley Klapper / Associated Press:

Obama Is Not The ‘Strapping Young Muslim Socialist’ He Used To Be — WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama joked Saturday that the years are catching up to him and he's not “the strapping young Muslim socialist” he used to be. — Obama poked fun at himself as well as some of his …

Jedd Rosche / Politico:
White House correspondents partiers say Tom Brokaw's got it wrong

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Patrick Hennessy / Telegraph:

Hand back your benefits, Iain Duncan Smith urges wealthier pensioners — Better-off pensioners should voluntarily pay back their taxpayer-funded benefits, the Work and Pensions Secretary declares. — Iain Duncan Smith says he “would encourage” elderly people who can well afford to pay …

Discussion: BBC, Guardian, Spectator and Althouse

Jeremy Herb / The Hill:

Rep. Schiff defends reading Boston attack suspect Miranda rights — Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) on Sunday defended the decision to read the Boston bombings suspect his Miranda rights, saying that there was no basis for law enforcement to continue questioning him under the public safety exemption.

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Dan Nowicki / Arizona Republic:

Biden, McCain discuss gun control, foreign policy in Sedona — FONT: — SEDONA — Vice President Joe Biden said Friday in an appearance with Sen. John McCain that Americans' views on gun control have shifted despite the recent Senate defeat of a bipartisan compromise on gun-buyer background checks.

Discussion: Weasel Zippers and The Hill

John McCain / CNN:
Biden: Economic collapse kept McCain from the White House

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Associated Press:

APNewsBreak: Russia caught bomb suspect on wiretap — WASHINGTON (AP) — Russian authorities secretly recorded a telephone conversation in 2011 in which one of the Boston bombing suspects vaguely discussed jihad with his mother, officials said Saturday, days after the U.S. government finally received details about the call.

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Ariane de Vogue / ABCNEWS:

Justice Breyer Hospitalized After Accident — Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer has been hospitalized following a bicycle accident yesterday in Washington, D.C., a court spokesperson said today. — “Associate Justice Stephen Breyer underwent reverse shoulder replacement surgery …

Discussion: Gawker

Robbie Ward / Reuters:

Mississippi man targeted in ricin letters investigation arrested — (Reuters) - Federal agents arrested a Mississippi martial arts instructor on Saturday after his home and a former business were searched as part of an investigation into ricin-laced letters sent to President Barack Obama and two other public officials.

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JB Clark / Tupelo Daily Journal:
UPDATES: James Everett Dutschke arrested following ricin letters invesgiation

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Ibrahim Mshelizza / Reuters:

Nigerian senator says 228 killed in gunfight with Islamists — (Reuters) - A gunbattle between security forces and Islamist insurgents in Nigeria a week ago killed 228 people, a local senator said on Saturday, putting the death toll six times higher than the government's estimate.

Discussion: Weasel Zippers

Scott Wooledge / The Huffington Post:

StudentsFirst Selects Author of Tennessee's 'Don't Say Gay' Bill as ‘Reformer of the Year’ — Right, Michelle Rhee, CEO and Founder of StudentsFirst, inset, educational “reformer of the year” Rep. John Ragan. — StudentsFirst, a very prominent and controversial educational political action …

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Asaunders / CBS Detroit:

Police Give ‘All Clear’ After Mandatory Evacuation Due To Explosion At Marathon Refinery — DETROIT (WWJ/AP) - 8:37 P.M. Police in Melvindale are giving residents the ‘all clear’ to return to their homes after a mandatory evacuation order was issued due to an explosion at a near-by oil refinery.

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