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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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Talking Points Memo:
Top Republican ‘Fairly Satisfied’ With White House's Account Of Benghazi — Senate Foreign Relations Committee Ranking Member Bob Corker (R-TN) said Wednesday that he's “fairly satisfied” with the Obama administration's account of events that led to the deaths of American diplomats in Benghazi last year.
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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 …
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TIME:
Benghazi Again — The Republicans, apparently with nothing better to do, are still chasing their tails over the tragic events in Benghazi on September 11. — Actually, no. That's not true. They're chasing their tails over what happened after the tragic events of September 11.
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Michael Hirsh / NationalJournal.com:
Benghazi: Incompetence, But No Cover-up — The hearings deepen the tragedy, but not the scandal. — There was tragic incompetence, plainly, in the Obama administration's handling of the Benghazi attacks, and even possibly some political calculation. It is a record that may well come …
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protein wisdom, The Moderate Voice, Speaker.gov and National Review
Andrew Kaczynski / BuzzFeed:
Benghazi Witness Says State Dept. Told Him Not To Meet With Congressional Investigators — Deputy chief of mission for the U.S. in Libya Gregory Hicks testified Wednesday that he was told not to meet with a congressman sent to investigate the attack on the American consulate in Benghazi.
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Weasel Zippers, Washington Free Beacon and Wake up America
Lindsey Boerma / CBS News:
Benghazi “whistleblowers” head to House committee — Hoping to funnel into one chronological timeline the rampantly varying accounts of how President Obama's administration responded last Sept. 11 in the wake of an attack on a U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya, the House Oversight Committee …
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Washington Post:
As red ink recedes, pressure fades for budget deal — Brendan Smialowski/AFP/Getty Images - Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI), Chairman of the House Budget Committee, at a financial summit May 7, in Washington, DC. Signs of an improving economy mean Republicans could be facing a listless summer …
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Talking Points Memo, Wonkblog, The Hill, American Prospect, Mother Jones and The Plum Line
Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Hicks: Higher-ups at State told me not to talk to GOP congressman about Benghazi; Update: “Effectively demoted”
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Yahoo! News, CNN, Politico and JustOneMinute
Agoldberg / The Smoking Gun:
Cleveland Hero Was A Repeat Domestic Abuser — Charles Ramsey battered his wife, did prison time for three attacks — The Cleveland man credited with helping free female captives from a house of horrors is a convicted felon whose rap sheet includes three separate domestic violence convictions …
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Aisha Harris / Slate:
The Troubling Viral Trend of the “Hilarious” Black Neighbor
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Harriet Sherwood / Guardian:
Stephen Hawking joins academic boycott of Israel — Physicist pulls out of conference hosted by president Shimon Peres in protest at treatment of Palestinians — Professor Stephen Hawking is backing the academic boycott of Israel by pulling out of a conference hosted by Israeli president Shimon Peres …
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Dylan Matthews / Wonkblog:
Heritage study co-author opposed letting in immigrants with low IQs — Robert Rector (center), one of the study's co-authors. (Heritage) — The Heritage Foundation made something of a splash with its study suggesting that immigration reform will cost the public trillions.
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Mike Gonzalez / The Heritage Foundation:
Heritage Statement on the Cost of Amnesty Study
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Numbers / Pew Research Center for the People …:
Obama Maintains Approval Advantage, but GOP Runs Even on Key Issues — Two-Thirds Say Obama ‘Fights Hard’ for His Policies — OVERVIEW — President Obama continues to hold a substantial advantage over congressional Republicans in public regard. Obama's job approval is back in positive territory …
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Dylan Byers / Politico:
The Post's Sharyl Attkisson piece — The Washington Post's Paul Farhi has written a glowing profile of Sharyl Attkisson, the Emmy award-winning CBS correspondent who has been the mainstream media's most persistent investigator of the events surrounding last year's attack in Benghazi, Libya.
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Brian Skoloff / Associated Press:
Jury Reaches Verdict in Jodi Arias Trial in Ariz. — Jurors reached a verdict Wednesday in the trial of Jodi Arias after deliberating about 15 hours over four days on whether the former waitress should be convicted of murder in the 2008 fatal stabbing and shooting of her one-time boyfriend.
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Scared Monkeys and Taylor Marsh
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Catherine E. Shoichet / CNN:
Jury finds Jodi Arias guilty of first-degree murder
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The Daily Caller, No More Mister Nice Blog, Wake up America and Taylor Marsh
Hunter / Daily Kos:
We are governed by outright morons: … You gigantic dumbass. Sorry; there's just no other way to put it. The entire purpose of “sequestration” was to be cuts enforced without choice. The mechanism was meant to be so abominable that not even the human clusterf—ks that are our current Congress …
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The Huffington Post and Eschaton
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 …
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Politico, The Impolitic, americanthinker.com, The Daily Caller, CNN, NationalJournal.com, Jammie Wearing Fools and Power Line
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Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
Sanford and the Electoral Effect of Sex Scandals
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Ramsey Cox / E2-Wire:
Senate rejects gun amendment to water infrastructure bill — The first GOP amendment voted on for the Senate's water infrastructure bill was about gun rights. — The Senate is considering the Water Resources Development Act (WRDA), which would authorize projects related to flood and storm risk reduction …
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Ben Geman / E2-Wire:
Republicans to huddle Wednesday to mull options on EPA nominee vote
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Politico
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.
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Sarah Kliff / Wonkblog:
One hospital charges $8,000 — another, $38,000
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Peter Schroeder / The Hill:
Sen. Warren calls for giving student borrowers the same loan rate as banks — Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) wants students to be able to borrow at the same rates as the nation's biggest banks. — Speaking on the Senate floor Wednesday, Warren said she was introducing legislation …
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Ed O'Keefe / Post Politics:
House to vote again on repealing ‘Obamacare’ next week
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Politico, Washington Monthly, ThinkProgress, Outside the Beltway and thenation.com/blogs/163255
Steve Benen / The Maddow Blog:
A classic Cheney modifier — Dick Cheney won't let a little thing like the absence of credibility stand in the way of cheap shots, as he hopes to exploit the deaths of Americans abroad for partisan gain. … Actually, “North Africa” is a pretty big place, as Cheney may recall.
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Applesauce
The Atlantic Wire:
Nancy Grace and Ashleigh Banfield Hold Split-Screen Interview in Same Parking Lot — In a bizarre television and spatial anomaly on CNN this morning, the blanket coverage of two true-crime stories led two news anchors to conduct an odd “satellite” interview from the very same parking lot, background traffic and all.
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Rush Limbaugh, Gawker, Ed Driscoll, Taylor Marsh and Riehl World News
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