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10:45 AM ET, May 9, 2013

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New York Times:
Official Offers Account From Libya of Benghazi Attack  —  WASHINGTON — A State Department official presented a minute-by-minute account on Wednesday of what happened during the seige of the diplomatic compound in Benghazi last Sept. 11, offering the first public testimony from an American official …
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Justin SInk / The Hill:
Rubio: Clinton's handling of Benghazi was ‘sad’  —  Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) said Thursday that he was saddened by former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's handling of the terrorist attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya.  —  Rubio said he believed Clinton and others …
Discussion: Politico
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 …
John Podhoretz / New York Post:
Failings of Bam & Hill laid bare
Discussion: Politico and PJ Media
Washington Post:
Diplomat: Request for Special Ops team in Benghazi denied
Tom Bevan / Real Clear Politics:
A Coverup Laid Bare
Ben Armbruster / ThinkProgress:
Benghazi Review Board Chair Says Notion Of Cover Up Is ‘Pulitzer Prize Fiction’
Rosie Gray / BuzzFeed:
Benghazi Investigation Creeps Closer To Hillary Clinton
Talking Points Memo:
Top Republican ‘Fairly Satisfied’ With White House's Account Of Benghazi
Joel Gehrke / Washington Examiner:
Benghazi whistleblower: 'I've been demoted' for challenging Susan Rice's claims
Discussion: Weasel Zippers and Jihad Watch
David Scharfenberg / WBUR:
Markey Edges Gomez In WBUR Senate Poll  —  BOSTON — A new WBUR poll (PDFs - topline, crosstabs) shows U.S. Rep. Edward Markey leading former Navy SEAL Gabriel Gomez 41 to 35 percent in the Massachusetts U.S. Senate race.  —  Markey's six-point edge expands to an eight-point margin …
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Joshua Miller / Boston Globe:
National Democrats hit Gomez for role with group critical of Obama
Discussion: CNN, Ballot Box and The Reaction
Meghashyam Mali / The Hill:
Census Bureau: Black turnout passed white voters in 2012  —  A Census Bureau analysis released Wednesday shows that in the 2012 election black voters surpassed the turnout of white voters for the first time.  —  According to the report, 66.2 percent of eligible black voters cast their ballots …
Discussion: CNN
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Pew Research Center:
Six Take-Aways from the Census Bureau's Voting Report
Discussion: American Prospect
Jonathan Martin / Politico:
Lindsey Graham faces down primary challenge  —  COLUMBIA, S.C. — If any Senate Republican up for re-election next year would seem ripe for a primary defeat it's Lindsey Graham.  —  Running in a conservative, Southern state that has proven friendly to insurgents in recent years …
Discussion: ABCNEWS, Red Racing Horses and WJLA-TV
Jonathan Easley / The Hill:
Republican leader rips the media for ‘shoving us in the corner’  —  House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) ripped the media in a speech Tuesday to the Ripon Society, arguing press coverage is partly responsible for the GOP's messaging woes.  —  Cantor, who has tried to recast the image …
Discussion: Washington Monthly and Shakesville
TIME:
Top White House Aide Has A Secret Beer With Rep. Paul Ryan  —  On April 10, the day President Obama released his 2014 budget, White House Chief of Staff Denis McDonough held a secret meeting with House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan at a K Street restaurant, Brasserie Beck, to talk …
Discussion: Politico, Yahoo! News and Post Politics
Lori Montgomery / Washington Post:
Are Republicans really gunning for another debt-limit showdown?  —  The federal debt limit is set to kick back into effect next weekend after a three-month hiatus, marking the start of a political game of chicken likely to culminate in the fall, when Congress will have to give President Obama a higher limit or risk a federal default.
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 …
TechCrunch:
Microsoft Mulling Nook Media LLC Purchase For $1 Billion  —  Microsoft is offering to pay $1 billion to buy the digital assets of Nook Media LLC, the digital book and college book joint venture with Barnes & Noble and other investors, according to internal documents we've obtained.
Wesley Lowery / Boston Globe:
Body of Tamerlan Tsarnaev is buried outside Massachusetts, official says  —  WORCESTER - The body of Tamerlan Tsarnaev has been buried somewhere outside of Massachusetts, according to a funeral home official briefed on the situation.  —  The official said that the remains …
Brian Beutler / Talking Points Memo:
Meet Democrats' Newest Republican Crush: Ted Cruz?!?!  —  Starting around the time he launched a bogus attack on then-Defense Secretary nominee Chuck Hagel, Democrats have loved to hate Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX).  —  They made sure as many as people as possible saw him condescend to Sen. Dianne Feinstein …
Josh Feldman / Mediaite:
Stewart Rips Fox News Over Benghazi Coverage: ‘Denizens Of Bullsh*t Mountain Have Cried Wolf Before’  —  Jon Stewart tonight took on today's big Congressional hearing on Benghazi, and specifically on how it's become the latest way Fox News has gone all-out in covering a potential Obama administration scandal …
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 …
Discussion: The Huffington Post and Eschaton
Guardian:
Stephen Hawking: Furore deepens over Israel boycott  —  Political motive revealed after Cambridge University first claimed scientist's non-attendance was on medical grounds  —  The celebrated physicist Stephen Hawking became embroiled in a deepening furore today over his decision to boycott …
 
 
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Craig Jarvis / Raleigh News & Observer:
NC House committee approves bill requiring teens to get parents' OK for birth control
Justin Sink / The Hill:
Boston police chief to press Congress for more security funding
Discussion: Politico, CBS Boston and Boston Herald
David Ferguson / The Raw Story:
California strawberry pickers fired for walking off job to flee wildfire
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Ambrose Evans-Pritchard / Telegraph:
China may not overtake America this century after all
Discussion: Power Line and Ed Driscoll
New York Times:
Emphasis on Deficit Reduction Is Seen by Economists as Impeding Recovery
Gary Langer / ABCNEWS:
Poll Finds Majority Acceptance of Gays From the B-ball Court to the Boy Scouts
Anna Palmer / Reuters:
NRA-Giffords fight heats up
Discussion: Capital New York
Seung Min Kim / Politico:
Asian-American leaders meet with Obama
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Rick Weiland / Argus Leader:
Rick Weiland's Senate run draws support from Daschle, others
Discussion: Ballot Box, First Read and The Fix
Mike Lillis / The Hill:
Obama, House Democrats talk jobs, deficit reduction
Discussion: Politico
Rym Momtaz / ABCNEWS:
New Terrorist Magazine Targets Obama, Drones
Discussion: Weasel Zippers and CANNONFIRE
Steve Benen / The Maddow Blog:
A classic Cheney modifier
Discussion: Applesauce