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6:35 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 …
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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CNN:
911 call — 'I've been kidnapped!' — cops find 3 women missing for years
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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Glenn Kessler / Washington Post:
The Benghazi talking points: What's known and unknown
Justin Sink / The Hill:
Obama: US has a ‘moral obligation’ to help end civil war in Syria
Discussion: Politico
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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Rachael Bade / Politico:
Bill Clinton: Stop obsessing over Hillary
Discussion: CNN
Paul Mirengoff / Power Line:
Hillary Clinton — culpable for Benghazi from beginning to end
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CNN:
Illinois GOP chair resigns, cites support for same-sex marriage as a reason
Talking Points Memo:
Illinois GOP Chairman Resigns After Backing Gay Marriage
Politico:
Immigration's new ally: Tea partiers  —  Immigration reform supporters are about to get some new conservative bonafides — prominent tea party backers.  —  Several conservative activists and tea party group leaders are meeting with Sen. Marco Rubio Tuesday afternoon to discuss immigration reform …
Discussion: CNN, Salon, Daily Kos, Rush Limbaugh and 24Ahead
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Manu Raju / Politico:
Rand Paul, Marco Rubio face 2016 bind
Umbrella Security Labs:
Breaking news: Traffic from Syria Disappears from Internet  —  At around 18:45 UTC OpenDNS resolvers saw a significant drop in traffic from Syria.  On closer inspection it seems Syria has largely disappeared from the Internet.  —  The graph below shows DNS traffic from and to Syria.
Zack Ford / ThinkProgress:
BREAKING: Delaware Becomes 11th State With Marriage Equality [UPDATED]  —  Just now, the Delaware Senate voted 12-9, to approve marriage equality legislation (HB 75), guaranteeing that Delaware will become the 11th state that recognizes same-sex couples' marriages.  The law will take effect July 1.
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 …
Brian Stelter / New York Times:
The Fox News Anchor Megyn Kelly Renews Contract  —  Two of the best-known anchors on the Fox News Channel, Greta Van Susteren and Megyn Kelly, have renewed their contracts, possibly foreshadowing the first change to the channel's prime time schedule in over a decade.
Discussion: Mediaite, TVNewser and TheBlaze.com
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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Dylan Byers / Politico:
Cumulus CEO dings Limbaugh  —  Cumulus Media today reported a $2.4 million first-quarter decline in revenue related to talk programming, a loss that CEO Lew Dickey attributed, indirectly, to Limbaugh's controversial remarks about Georgetown law student Sandra Fluke.
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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.
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 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 …
Danielle Dreilinger / New Orleans Times-Picayune:
Louisiana Supreme Court rules voucher funding violates the state Constitution  —  The state Supreme Court has declared the funding mechanism for Gov. Bobby Jindal's voucher program unconstitutional. … The Louisiana Supreme Court has ruled that the current method of funding the statewide school voucher program is unconstitutional.
Discussion: msnbc.com, Colorlines and Joanne Jacobs
Irin Carmon / Salon:
Judge rips Obama's right-wing Plan B stance  —  “You're disadvantaging young people, African-Americans, the poor... that's the policy of the Obama administration?”  —  “It turns out that the same policies that President Bush followed were followed by President Obama,” said District Court Judge Edward Korman …
Discussion: Hullabaloo
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 …
Pew Social & Demographic Trends:
Gun Homicide Rate Down 49% Since 1993 Peak; Public Unaware  —  Pace of Decline Slows in Past Decade  —  CHAPTER 1: OVERVIEW  —  National rates of gun homicide and other violent gun crimes are strikingly lower now than during their peak in the mid-1990s, paralleling a general decline in violent crime …
Cameron Joseph / Ballot Box:
Barrow won't run for Senate in Georgia  —  Rep. John Barrow (D-Ga.) announced Tuesday he won't run for the Senate in Georgia, dealing a major blow to Democrats' hopes of picking up the seat.  —  “I'm grateful for the encouragement I've received from folks all across the State of Georgia …
Discussion: Politico
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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Obama's Voter Mobilization Was Barely More Effective than Romney's
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David Dishneau / Associated Press:
Bradley Manning Pretrial Hearing Reaching New Level Of Secrecy
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Charles Hill / The New Criterion:
A Burke for our time
Discussion: Opinionator and The Dish
Justin Sink / The Hill:
Obama: North Korea can't bully the world with nuclear threats
Discussion: Politico and CNN
Climate Guest Blogger / ThinkProgress:
STUDY: Media Ignore Climate Context Of Midwest Floods
Greg Miller / Washington Post:
CIA selects new head of clandestine service, passing over officer tied to interrogation program
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Richard Cohen / Washington Post:
Obama's loss for words on Syria
Zack Ford / ThinkProgress:
Another Minnesota Senate Committee Advances Marriage Equality
John Bresnahan / Politico:
Senators discuss revising 9/11 resolution
Discussion: emptywheel, Taking Note and Guardian
Stan Grossfeld / The Boston Globe:
Man who roughed up Obama finally speaks
Molly K. Hooper / Ballot Box:
Boehner on Sanford: House members 'don't get to choose' their colleagues
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Financial Times:
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