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10:25 AM ET, May 8, 2013

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Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
Behind Mark Sanford's turnaround  —  South Carolinians may not love former Gov. Mark Sanford.  They may still have a bad taste in their mouths after his governorship.  They may even wonder whether they can entirely trust him.  —  But in the end, they decided he was as good as they were going to get.
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Catalina Camia / Associated Press:
Mark Sanford wins special election for Congress  —  The former governor and Democrat Elizabeth Colbert Busch squared off in a special election for Congress.  —  WASHINGTON — Disgraced ex-South Carolina governor Mark Sanford won his bid for redemption on Tuesday night …
Cameron Joseph / Ballot Box:
Sanford victory could spell trouble for House GOP leadership  —  Former South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford (R) is heading back to Congress — and that may not be good news for House GOP leadership.  —  Sanford owes party leaders nothing, as they refused to spend money on his campaign …
CNN:
Sanford wins South Carolina House vote
Karen Tumulty / Washington Post:
Ex-South Carolina governor Sanford beats Colbert Busch in special House election
Discussion: NewsBusters
Bruce Smith / Associated Press:
Ex-SC Gov. Sanford Back In Political Office
Discussion: Firedoglake
Julian Pecquet / The Hill:
New Benghazi probe evidence puts spotlight back on Clinton  —  New revelations about the terrorist attack in Benghazi, Libya, are pulling Hillary Clinton back into a political firestorm that the presumptive 2016 candidate had so far managed to escape unscathed.
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Paul Farhi / Washington Post:
Sharyl Attkisson of CBS News, a persistent voice of media skepticism on Benghazi  —  From the start, the Obama administration's account of what happened in Benghazi, Libya, on Sept. 11 last year didn't quite square for Sharyl Attkisson.  —  So the veteran CBS News reporter dug in, and kept digging.
Discussion: Althouse and The Hugh Hewitt Show
Daily Mail:
Dick Cheney slams Obama administration's Benghazi performance as 'a failure of leadership ... I cannot understand why they weren't ready'  —  Former Vice President Dick Cheney criticized the Obama administration on Tuesday for its handling of the September 11, 2012 terror attack on the U.S. Consulate …
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
Michelle Malkin / Townhall.com:
Operation Smear Benghazi Whistleblowers
Frank Newport / Gallup:
Americans Give Guns, Immigration Reform Low Priority  —  Creating jobs and growing the economy get highest priority  —  PRINCETON, NJ — Americans put reforming immigration and reducing gun violence — the focus of much of the attention on Capitol Hill in recent weeks …
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Sarah Kliff / Wonkblog:
One hospital charges $8,000 — another, $38,000  —  Consumers on Wednesday will finally get some answers about one of modern life's most persistent mysteries: how much medical care actually costs.  —  For the first time, the federal government will release the prices that hospitals charge for the 100 most common inpatient procedures.
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cms.gov:
Medicare Provider Charge Data  —  As part of the Obama administration's work to make our health care system more affordable and accountable, data are being released that show significant variation across the country and within communities in what hospitals charge for common inpatient services.
USA Today:
Reports of sex abuse, beatings inside Cleveland house  —  THREE MISSING CLEVELAND WOMEN FREED  —  Three women who had been held captive for 10 years were found Monday in a Cleveland neighborhood, barely a mile from where they had been abducted.  Amanda Berry was able to escape and alert authorities …
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Niall Ferguson / Harvard News:
An Open Letter to the Harvard Community  —  Last week I said something stupid about John Maynard Keynes.  Asked to comment on Keynes' famous observation “In the long run we are all dead,” I suggested that Keynes was perhaps indifferent to the long run because he had no children, and that he had no children because he was gay.
Charlie Savage / New York Times:
Obama May Back F.B.I. Plan to Wiretap Web Users  —  WASHINGTON — The Obama administration, resolving years of internal debate, is on the verge of backing a Federal Bureau of Investigation plan for a sweeping overhaul of surveillance laws that would make it easier to wiretap people …
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 …
First Read:
First Thoughts: Neck and neck in Va.  —  NBC/Marist poll shows it's neck and neck in Virginia... McAuliffe 43%, Cuccinelli 41% among registered voters... Cuccinelli 45%, McAuliffe 42% among likely voters... Good news for McAuliffe: It's early, he has room to grow, and the GOP's fav/unfav …
CBO's Publications:
Monthly Budget Review  —  The federal government ran a budget deficit of $489 billion in the first seven months of fiscal year 2013 (that is, from October 2012 through April 2013), according to CBO's estimates.  That amount is $231 billion less than the shortfall recorded during the same period last year …
Discussion: AEIdeas
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Kevin Glass / Townhall.com:   Report: Budget Deficit Shrinks Due To More Tax Revenue
The Boston Globe:
Ex-Romney aide details campaign ‘miscalculations’  —  WASHINGTON - One of Mitt Romney's former campaign aides is planning to ­release a new book next week that is being pitched as an insider's account that provides “an unblinking look at the tactical and strategic miscalculations” made by the former presidential candidate.
Discussion: First Read
Kevin Diaz / Minneapolis Star Tribune:
Michele Bachmann is in talks to settle Iowa lawsuit  —  Sources say she met with lawyers for woman who accused campaign of stealing e-mail list.  —  U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann is engaged in settlement negotiations in a lawsuit alleging that senior members of her presidential campaign stole …
Discussion: The Hill
Umbrella Security Labs:
Breaking news: Traffic from Syria Disappears from Internet  —  At around 18:45 UTC the 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.
 
 
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Ivan Semeniuk / Globe and Mail:
‘No such thing as ethical oil,’ Al Gore tells Toronto audience
Discussion: E2-Wire
Washington Times:
Two-thirds of senators to vote on U.S.-Mexico border without having seen it
Wall Street Journal:
Pentagon Plans for the Worst in Syria
Discussion: ThinkProgress and New York Times
David M. Drucker / Goppers:
Conservatives Expect Immigration Bill to Move Right
Discussion: BuzzFeed and New York Times
Scott Keyes / ThinkProgress:
On Day Stock Market Sets New Record, Conservative Group Floats Impeaching Obama For ‘Wrecking The Stock Market’
Discussion: Daily Kos
 Earlier Items: 
Jesse Helfrich / The Hill:
Republicans mull wish list on debt limit
Numbers / Pew Research Center for the People …:
After Boston, Little Change in Views of Islam and Violence
Discussion: Jihad Watch and Yahoo! News
Ashley Killough / CNN:
Biden on Susan Rice: She speaks for the president
Discussion: The Hill and Politico
Steve Benen / The Maddow Blog:
'That's absurd beyond the word absurd'
WBFF-TV:
USAF Vet Willing to Offer National Cemetery Burial Plot to Bombing Suspect
Brian Stelter / New York Times:
The Fox News Anchor Megyn Kelly Renews Contract
Discussion: Deadline.com, Mediaite and TheBlaze.com
 

 
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Katie Robertson / New York Times:
The NYT reports adding 260K digital subscribers in Q3, for 11.9M in total, with digital ad revenue up 8.8% YoY to $81.6M, and The Athletic had its first profit

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:
Amazon unveils X-Ray Recaps on Prime Video, an AI feature that generates “spoiler-free and concise summaries” of TV shows, in beta to Fire TV users in the US

 
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