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6:30 PM ET, May 6, 2013

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Sharyl Attkisson / CBS News:
Diplomat: U.S. Special Forces told “you can't go” to Benghazi during attacks  —  The deputy of slain U.S. Ambassador Christopher Stevens has told congressional investigators that a team of Special Forces prepared to fly from Tripoli to Benghazi during the Sept. 11, 2012 attacks was forbidden …
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Fox News:
Clinton sought end-run around counterterrorism bureau on night of Benghazi attack, witness will say  —  On the night of Sept. 11, as the Obama administration scrambled to respond to the Benghazi terror attacks, then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and a key aide effectively tried to cut …
Brian Stelter / New York Times:
Behind the Scenes at Fox  —  A few days before the presidential election last November, Roger Ailes, the chief executive of Fox News, ordered that Geraldo Rivera's microphone be cut off after Mr. Rivera angrily defended the Obama administration against charges levied by others on Fox.
Igor Volsky / ThinkProgress:
They've Lost Fox And Friends: GOP Claims Of Benghazi ‘Cover Up’ Collapses  —  Fox News' morning show, Fox & Friends, is taking a surprisingly skeptical approach to GOP claims that the Obama administration and the entire U.S. government engaged in a massive cover-up of the attacks …
The Lead with Jake Tapper:
Former Deputy Chief of Mission in Libya: U.S. military assets were told to stand down  —  In an interview with congressional investigators, the former top diplomat in Libya expressed concern that more could have been done by the military on the night of September 11, 2012 and morning of September 12 …
Justin Sink / The Hill:
Chaffetz: We were ‘misled every step of the way’ on Benghazi
Discussion: Hit & Run and Fox News
Jamie Dettmer / The Daily Beast:
Al Qaeda Headquarters in Libya
Discussion: Via Meadia
Stephen F. Hayes / Weekly Standard:
U.S. Military in Tripoli Ordered Not to Go to Benghazi
Discussion: Rush Limbaugh and Hot Air
Bloomberg:
Gore Is Romney-Rich With $200 Million After Bush Defeat  —  In 1999, Al Gore, then U.S. vice president and a Democratic candidate for president, sold $6,000 worth of cows.  —  The former senator, who spent most of his working life in Congress, had a net worth of about $1.7 million and assets …
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Steve Fishman / New York Magazine:
Al Gore's Golden Years
Discussion: TVNewser and E2-Wire
Sharon Waxman / The Wrap:
Who Will Run Al Jazeera America? Who's In, Who's Out, Who Passed (Exclusive)
Ed Kilgore / Washington Monthly:
None Dare Call It Treason  —  As Brother Benen notes this morning, the National Rifle Association's new president, James Porter of Birmingham, Alabama, likes to talk about the importance of the Second Amendment as a way to ensure the American people will be able to “resist tyranny”—i.e. …
Discussion: Mother Jones and BuzzFeed
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Sara Fischer / CNN:
NRA has record conference turnout, new president
Discussion: Weasel Zippers
Heritage Foundation:
The Fiscal Cost of Unlawful Immigrants and Amnesty to the U.S. Taxpayer  —  By Robert Rector and Jason Richwine, Ph.D.  —  Executive Summary  —  Unlawful immigration and amnesty for current unlawful immigrants can pose large fiscal costs for U.S. taxpayers.
Bill Keller / New York Times:
Syria Is Not Iraq  —  IN the search for an American response to the civil war in Syria, the favorite guidebook seems to be our ill-fated adventure in Iraq.  We have another brutal Middle East autocrat holding power on behalf of a sectarian minority.  We have another dubious cast of opposition factions competing for foreign patronage.
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Stephanie Nebehay / Reuters:
U.N. has testimony that Syrian rebels used sarin gas: investigator
Andrew Kirell / Mediaite:
Mediaite Learns: 'Vast Majority Of National Advertisers Now Refuse To Air Ads During Limbaugh's Show'  —  As we reported earlier this morning, Rush Limbaugh is allegedly in the midst of a battle with Cumulus Media, the distributor of his radio show.  The company's CEO has blamed ad revenue losses …
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David Hinckley / NY Daily News:
Rush Limbaugh: Don't blame me for WABC's declining ad sales
Stephen C. Webster / The Raw Story:
Rick Perry compares rejecting LGBT people to fighting slavery  —  Texas Gov. Rick Perry (R) said Sunday that he believes rejecting LGBT people is similar to fighting slavery during the pre-Civil War era.  —  Appearing on the Family Research Council's program “Stand With Scouts Sunday,” …
Kirsten Powers / The Daily Beast:
Abortion Rights Community Has Become the NRA of the Left  —  The abortion clinic of alleged killer Kermit Gosnell was not illegal.  But any talk of more government regulation unleashes an NRA-style assault from the abortion rights contingent, says Kirsten Powers.  —  What should we learn from the Kermit Gosnell trial?
Alyssa Rosenberg / ThinkProgress:
Justin Bieber Breaks Istanbul Concert For Muslim Call To Prayer  —  Justin Bieber has had what might be politely termed an awkward spring so far, whether he was joking about whether Anne Frank would have been a fan of his—an idea brilliantly satirized in the New Yorker by Yoni Brenner …
Discussion: New Yorker and Weasel Zippers
Michael Wolff / Guardian:
Twitter is ready to be a true news operation  —  Twitter is hiring a ‘head of news’ in its bid to be even more indispensable to global media, but will it work?  —  There are fewer and fewer jobs in journalism, but last week an ultimate job was posted.  Twitter, fast becoming the basic source …
Ambrose Evans-Pritchard / Telegraph:
German euro founder calls for ‘catastrophic’ currency to be broken up  —  Oskar Lafontaine, the German finance minister who launched the euro, has called for a break-up of the single currency to let southern Europe recover, warning that the current course is “leading to disaster”.
Andy Greenberg / Forbes:
Meet The ‘Liberator’: Test-Firing The World's First Fully 3D-Printed Gun  —  “Alright.  One...two...”  —  Before “three” arrives, a shot reverberates across the overcast central Texas landscape.  A tall, sandy blond engineer named John has just pulled a twenty-foot length of yellow string tied …
Associated Press:
Germany Arrests 93-Year-Old Alleged Former Auschwitz Guard  —  BERLIN (AP) — German authorities say they have arrested a 93-year-old alleged former Auschwitz guard who once lived in the United States on suspicion of accessory to murder.  —  Hans Lipschis was taken into custody Monday …
Arlington, Va.:
Air Force Officer Accused of Sexual Battery  —  The Chief of the Sexual Assault Prevention and Response branch of the U.S. Air Force was arrested and charged with sexual battery in Arlington over the weekend.  —  Lt. Col. Jeff Krusinski is accused of fondling a woman in a Crystal City parking lot early Sunday morning.
Jordy Yager / The Hill:
Rep. Mike Rogers pushed for FBI chief  —  The FBI's union is urging President Obama to nominate Rep. Mike Rogers (R-Mich.) to be the bureau's next director.  —  The FBI Agents Association said Rogers — a former FBI agent and chairman of the House Intelligence Committee …
Discussion: CNN
 
 
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Brooks Barnes / New York Times:
Solving Equation of a Hit Film Script, With Data
Discussion: The Verge
Terri Judd / The Independent:
Inside Guantánamo: An unprecedented rebellion leaves a notorious detention centre in crisis
Kevin Bohn / CNN:
$1 million raised after gun vote by Giffords' group
Discussion: The Hill, Politico and The Plum Line
Paul Bedard / Washington Examiner:
Bush 4.0: George P. making rounds in D.C.
Discussion: Politico and Trail Blazers Blog
Jim Hoft / The Gateway Pundit:
Today We Lost a Dear Friend and Patriot - Rest in Peace, Chip Gerdes
Eric Lach / Talking Points Memo:
Vendor That Pulled ‘Obama’ Target At NRA Convention Also Sells ‘The Ex’ Target
Discussion: Feministing
 Earlier Items: 
Boston Herald:
Frustrated embalmer wants Deval Patrick to intervene
Discussion: Weasel Zippers and Politico
CBS News:
Stories behind Robin Hood's 12-12-12 concert
Discussion: Politico and PoliticusUSA
Nancy Ditomaso / Opinionator:
How Social Networks Drive Black Unemployment
David Jackson / USA Today:
Obama to launch new jobs tours
Trip Gabriel / New York Times:
Kentucky Town Rejects Girl's Gun Death as a Symbol
Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
Sanford has momentum in SC-1
 

 
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Katie Robertson / New York Times:
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Joshua Benton / Nieman Lab:
Around 75% of the largest US newspapers aren't endorsing anyone for president this year, as publishers try not to annoy any sliver of their remaining customers

Todd Spangler / Variety:
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