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New York Post:
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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Thomas Ott / Plain Dealer:
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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Jen Steer / WEWS-TV:
Cleveland police: Missing teens Amanda Berry and Gina DeJesus found alive, appear to be OK
Cleveland police: Missing teens Amanda Berry and Gina DeJesus found alive, appear to be OK
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CNN:
911 call — 'I've been kidnapped!' — cops find 3 women missing for years
911 call — 'I've been kidnapped!' — cops find 3 women missing for years
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BBC:
Missing US women found after decade
Missing US women found after decade
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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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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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Talking Points Memo:
Illinois GOP Chairman Resigns After Backing Gay Marriage — Party chair Pat Brady resigned on Tuesday after a months long opposition campaign by his fellow Illinois Republicans, the Chicago Tribune reported. — Brady created a stir earlier this year when he came out in support …
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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 sponsors change on the bill's provision dealing with internet sales.
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Senator Kelly Ayotte / Amherst Patch:
Ayotte: I Voted to Improve Background Checks — Out of state special interests are running false ads attacking me and even lying about my efforts to prevent gun-related violence. I want to set the record straight: I support effective background checks and in fact voted recently to improve …
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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Paul Mirengoff / Power Line:
Hillary Clinton — culpable for Benghazi from beginning to end
Hillary Clinton — culpable for Benghazi from beginning to end
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Brent Budowsky / Pundits Blog:
GOP Benghazi hearings a partisan disgrace
GOP Benghazi hearings a partisan disgrace
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Alan Colmes' Liberaland
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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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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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 …
Alexandra Dukakis / ABCNEWS:
Sen. Rob Portman Says, ‘Yes,’ He Smoked Pot — The highlight of Sen. Rob Portman's BuzzFeed Brews interview Monday night wasn't his pitchy rendition of Randy Newman's “Burn On,” nor was it his remark that George W. Bush “certainly did his level best” during his tenure as president.
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Evan McMorris-Santoro / BuzzFeed:
Yes, America, Senator Rob Portman Smoked Pot
Yes, America, Senator Rob Portman Smoked Pot
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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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Washington Free Beacon and Hot Air
David E. Sanger / New York Times:
U.S. Directly Blames China's Military for Cyberattacks — WASHINGTON — The Obama administration on Monday explicitly accused China's military of mounting attacks on American government computer systems and defense contractors, saying one motive could be to map “military capabilities that could be exploited during a crisis.”
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Arlington County Newsroom:
Crime Report: May 6, 2013 — SEXUAL BATTERY, 05/05/13, 500 block of S. 23rd Street. On May 5 at 12:35 am, a drunken male subject approached a female victim in a parking lot and grabbed her breasts and buttocks. The victim fought the suspect off as he attempted to touch her again and alerted police.
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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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Tim Flach / The State:
Chapin teacher got $85,000 in flag stomping deal — CHAPIN, SC — Lexington-Richland 5 paid former Chapin High teacher Scott Compton √ $85,000 to avoid a legal challenge, part of a settlement that led to his resignation after he stomped on an American flag during a class lesson.
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Glenn Harlan Reynolds / USA Today:
Where are the start-ups? Column — A country that celebrates achievement and risk-taking is likely to see more economic success than one that does not. — When the economy was last this bad for this long — back in the dreaded Jimmy Carter era — there was one upside …
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Mock, Paper, Scissors, Vox Popoli and Riehl World News
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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