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Christie reveals secret stomach surgery to lose weight — New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie secretly underwent lap-band stomach surgery to aggressively slim down for the sake of his wife and kids, he revealed to The Post last night. — The Garden State governor agreed to the operation …
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Berry, DeJesus, Knight found alive, police source confirms — Cheers as Amanda Berry, Gina Dejesus, MIchelle Knight found alive — CLEVELAND, Ohio — Long-missing Amanda Berry, Gina DeJesus and Michelle Knight have been found alive. — Berry called police Monday afternoon and frantically told …
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Rick Pearson / Chicago Tribune:
Brady resigns as Illinois GOP chairman amid gay marriage controversy — Pat Brady, the chairman of the Illinois GOP announced his resignation amid controversy over his support for gay marriage legislation. (WGN-TV) — Pat Brady, the chairman of the Illinois Republican Party …
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CNN:
Illinois GOP chair resigns, cites support for same-sex marriage as a reason — Washington (CNN) - Illinois Republican Party Chairman Pat Brady resigned Tuesday, citing a handful of reasons including an ongoing struggle with several members of the state GOP over his support for same-sex marriage.
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Glenn Kessler / Washington Post:
The Benghazi talking points: What's known and unknown — “I wasn't involved in the talking points process.... As I understand it, as I've been told, it was a typical interagency process where staff, including from the State Department, all participated, to try to come up with whatever …
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Marc A. Thiessen / Washington Post:
A Benghazi bombshell — The Obama administration wants to consign the Benghazi terrorist attack to the history books, but this week three State Department officials will tell Congress that the Obama administration's version of history is false — and that the falsehoods it told the American people were willful and deliberate.
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Paul Mirengoff / Power Line:
Hillary Clinton — culpable for Benghazi from beginning to end
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Dana Bash / CNN:
Flake willing to support background checks, with changes to internet sales — Washington (CNN) - Republican Sen. Jeff Flake told CNN he is willing to reverse his opposition to expanding background checks for guns if the Senate bill's sponsors change a provision dealing with internet sales.
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Spencer Ackerman / Wired:
Air Force Brochure Tells Sexual Assault Victims to ‘Submit’ — An Air Force brochure on sexual assault advises potential victims not to fight off their attackers. — “It may be advisable to submit [rather] than resist,” reads the brochure (.pdf), issued to airmen at Shaw Air Force Base in South Carolina …
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Arlington County Newsroom:
Crime Report: May 6, 2013 — SEXUAL BATTERY, 05/05/13, 500 block of S. 23rd Street.
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Jackie Calmes / New York Times:
G.O.P. Is Readying a New Offensive Over Health Care Law — WASHINGTON — As the administration struggles to put in place the final, complex piece of President Obama's signature health care law, an endeavor on a scale not seen since Medicare's creation nearly a half-century ago …
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David Brown / Washington Post:
Linguists identify 15,000-year-old ‘ultraconserved words’ — You, hear me! Give this fire to that old man. Pull the black worm off the bark and give it to the mother. And no spitting in the ashes! — It's an odd little speech. But if you went back 15,000 years and spoke these words …
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International Business Times:
Lauryn Hill Blames Slavery as She's Jailed for $500,000 Unpaid Tax Bill — By Dominic Gover: Subscribe to Dominic's RSS feed — Lauryn Hill outside Newark court in New Jersey — Reclusive soul superstar Lauryn Hill has been jailed over an enormous unpaid tax bill.
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Anne McNamara / FOX43tv.com:
Boy who held pencil like gun suspended — School has “zero tolerance” weapons policy — SUFFOLK, Va. (WAVY) - A Suffolk school suspended a second grader for pointing a pencil at another student and making gun noises. — Seven-year-old Christopher Marshall says he was playing …
Politico:
Gun control ads have Democrats worrying — Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's aides met recently with staffers of New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg to warn them: Targeting vulnerable Democrats like Arkansas's Mark Pryor on gun control could backfire on the party, several sources told POLITICO.
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Brent Budowsky / Pundits Blog:
GOP Benghazi hearings a partisan disgrace — Then House Republicans can testify en masse and offer a group apology for mocking and ignoring Clinton's warning. — The latest Issa public relations event, under the guise of a congressional hearing about the assault on the U.S Consulate in Benghazi …
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David Freedlander / The Daily Beast:
In Virginia, Terry McAuliffe's Memoir Comes Back to Haunt Him — The Virginia gubernatorial candidate almost missed the birth of one daughter to attend a bold-faced D.C. party—according to his own memoir. David Freedlander reports on his self-Borking book.
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Edith Honan / Reuters:
Delaware to vote on becoming 11th state to allow gay marriage — (Reuters) - Delaware lawmakers will take up a gay marriage bill on Tuesday in a bid to make the state the 11th to allow same-sex couples to wed. — The scheduled vote in the state's Democrat-controlled Senate follows …
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Chris Geidner / BuzzFeed:
Rob Portman Says Immigration Law “Should Follow” State Law For Gay Couples
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Stan Grossfeld / The Boston Globe:
Man who roughed up Obama finally speaks — WASHINGTON — It took 849 days for the man who threw the elbow heard 'round the world to finally talk about it. — “I didn't want that to define my life,” said Reynaldo Decerega, 40. “I had no desire to bring attention to myself in an accident that caused somebody pain.
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Rachael Bade / Politico:
Bill Clinton: Stop obsessing over Hillary — Bill Clinton's getting tired of all the speculation over whether his wife, Hillary, will run for president in 2016. — The former president hasn't shied away from encouraging his wife to seek the White House but in an appearance at a fiscal policy summit today …
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Manu Raju / Politico:
Rand Paul, Marco Rubio face 2016 bind — Sens. Rand Paul and Marco Rubio are facing a big obstacle if they seek the White House in 2016 — and it's not each other. — State laws could force the two GOP senators into a difficult choice: run for president or run for reelection to the Senate that same year.
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