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2:45 PM ET, May 7, 2013

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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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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.
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 …
Discussion: The Plum Line and Daily Kos
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 …
Paul Mirengoff / Power Line:
Hillary Clinton — culpable for Benghazi from beginning to end
Discussion: UrbanGrounds
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.
Discussion: The Hill
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Senator Kelly Ayotte / Amherst Patch:
Ayotte: I Voted to Improve Background Checks
Discussion: Reuters, msnbc.com, Daily Kos and Hot Air
Jonathan Easley / The Hill:
Manchin ‘frustrated’ with the NRA
Discussion: msnbc.com
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.
Guardian:   US air force sexual assault prevention unit chief charged with sexual battery
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 …
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 …
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 …
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.
Discussion: Washington Free Beacon and Hot Air
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 …
Discussion: First Read and Outside the Beltway
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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.
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.
Discussion: Outside the Beltway and msnbc.com
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.
Discussion: The Jawa Report and Althouse
Zack Ford / ThinkProgress:
Another Minnesota Senate Committee Advances Marriage Equality  —  Following in the footsteps of the House Ways & Means Committee Monday night, the Minnesota Senate Finance Committee voted today to advance the marriage equality legislation by a voice vote.  Both chambers are now prepared …
Selim Algar / New York Post:
Cooper's LI home ‘swatted’  —  Anderson Cooper has become the latest victim of the “celebrity swatting” pranking craze — after a flurry of cops descended on his Hamptons home over a bogus report of a shooting.  —  It was the first time the hoax — in which pranksters create false reports …
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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John Bresnahan / Politico:
Senators discuss revising 9/11 resolution
Discussion: Taking Note, emptywheel and Guardian
Brent Budowsky / Pundits Blog:
GOP Benghazi hearings a partisan disgrace
Adrian Chen / Gawker:
Newly Declassified Memo Shows CIA Shaped Zero Dark Thirty's Narrative
NY Daily News:
New York City gun giveaway planned by Armed Citizen Project
Discussion: The Agonist
Molly K. Hooper / Ballot Box:
Boehner on Sanford: House members 'don't get to choose' their colleagues
Discussion: CNN and Politico
Jeffrey Heller / Reuters:
Netanyahu quietly curbs settlement expansion: reports
Discussion: ThinkProgress
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Susan Ferrechio / Washington Examiner:
House hits brakes on Internet tax passed by Senate
Discussion: CNNMoney.com and Wake up America
Des Moines Register:
Former U.S. Attorney Matt Whitaker pursues open Senate seat
Discussion: Ballot Box
Glenn Harlan Reynolds / USA Today:
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