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11:15 PM ET, May 10, 2013

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Jonathan Karl / ABCNEWS:

Exclusive: Benghazi Talking Points Underwent 12 Revisions, Scrubbed of Terror Reference — When it became clear last fall that the CIA's now discredited Benghazi talking points were flawed, the White House said repeatedly the documents were put together almost entirely by the intelligence community …

Dylan Byers / Politico:

White House holds ‘deep background’ Benghazi briefing — The White House held a “deep background” briefing with reporters on Friday afternoon to discuss recent revelations about the Benghazi investigation, sources familiar with the meeting tell POLITICO. — The meeting was conducted on …

Discussion: Mediaite, ABCNEWS, BuzzFeed, Red Alert Politics, Weasel Zippers, Business Insider, Yahoo! News, The Week, The Lonely Conservative, National Review, The Daily Caller, The Hill, BBC and Alan Colmes' Liberaland

Jeremy Herb / The Hill:

GOP Sen. Inhofe: Obama could be impeached over Benghazi ‘cover-up’ — “People may be starting to use the I-word before too long,” Inhofe said on a radio program. — Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.) suggested that President Obama could be impeached over what he alleged was a White House cover-up after last year's attack in Benghazi, Libya.

Discussion: Politico, FIRST DRAFT, Weasel Zippers, The Hill and Alan Colmes' Liberaland

Ben Armbruster / ThinkProgress:

What ABC Left Out Of Its Report On Benghazi Talking Points — ABC News published on Friday what it promoted as an “exclusive” report purportedly uncovering new and seemingly damning evidence implicating the Obama administration in its handling of talking points it generated in the aftermath …

Discussion: Mediaite, Yahoo! News, The Reaction, The Gateway Pundit, National Review and Washington Free Beacon

Justin Sink / The Hill:

White House denies misleading public on Benghazi talking points — White House press secretary Jay Carney maintained Friday he did not mischaracterize the White House and State Department's role in developing of talking points regarding the attack on the American diplomatic post in Benghazi.

Discussion: Alan Colmes' Liberaland, Washington Free Beacon and Fox News

Sen. Rand Paul / Washington Times:
The moment of responsibility for Hillary Clinton

Discussion: CNN, Red Alert Politics, ABCNEWS and The Daily Caller

Stephen F. Hayes / Weekly Standard:
The Benghazi Scandal Grows

Discussion: Mediaite, Weasel Zippers, Atlas Shrugs, Power Line, Politico, Hot Air, Conservatives4Palin, Wake up America and Red Alert Politics

Andrew Kaczynski / BuzzFeed:
Susan Rice Barely Discussed The Possibility That Al-Qaeda Was Involved In Benghazi When She Was On Sunday Shows

Discussion: Weekly Standard

David Corn / Mother Jones:
Benghazi Isn't Watergate. But the White House Didn't Tell the Full Story.

Discussion: Hot Air, National Review, The Gateway Pundit, Washington Free Beacon and Daily Kos

Ron Fournier / NationalJournal.com:
Scrubbing the Truth from Benghazi

Discussion: Washington Times, Washington Wire, The Lead with Jake Tapper, Politico, ABCNEWS, Yahoo! News, Capital New York, Hot Air, The Dish, National Review, Mediaite, Weekly Standard and Weasel Zippers

Allahpundit / Hot Air:
White House holds Benghazi briefing with reporters …

Discussion: BuzzFeed, Red Alert Politics and The Daily Caller

Stephen Ohlemacher / bigstory.ap.org:

IRS APOLOGIZES FOR TARGETING CONSERVATIVE GROUPS — You are here — Home » United States government » IRS apologizes for targeting conservative groups — WASHINGTON (AP) — The Internal Revenue Service is apologizing for inappropriately flagging conservative political groups …

Washington Post:

IRS admits targeting conservatives for tax scrutiny in 2012 election — The Internal Revenue Service on Friday acknowledged that it flagged political groups with “tea party” or “patriot” in their names for special scrutiny when they applied for tax-exempt status, an admission …

Discussion: The Moderate Voice, Talking Points Memo, ThinkProgress, Liberal Values, Cincinnati.com, The Impolitic, The Lonely Conservative, PostPartisan, Los Angeles Times, OpenSecrets.org, Post Politics and Right Turn

Aaron Blake / The Fix: 'I'm not good at math': The IRS's public relations disaster

Politico:
IRS: ‘Mistakes were made’ — The Internal Revenue Service …

Discussion: Reuters, National Review, U.S. Senate Republican …, CNN, Washington Free Beacon, Hot Air, Capital Tonight and Red Alert Politics

David Weigel / Slate:

Jason Richwine Resigns from the Heritage Foundation — The Heritage Foundation tells without much more detail. The full explanation: … Some background: I'd been asking whether Heritage read Richwine's dissertation, or talked about any of the potentially explosive IQ research, before hiring him.

Discussion: Balloon Juice, Goppers, BuzzFeed, Yahoo! News, The Fix, The Maddow Blog, The Moderate Voice, Business Insider and The Hinterland Gazette

Mike Allen / Politico:

Jason Richwine, Heritage immigration expert quits — The Heritage Foundation announced the resignation Friday of senior policy analyst Jason Richwine, co-author of a controversial report critical of the Senate's immigration reform bill. After Heritage issued the report this week …

Neil King Jr / Washington Wire:
Author of Heritage Immigration Report Quits

Discussion: ImmigrationProf Blog

Aaron Blake / Post Politics:
Jason Richwine resigns from Heritage Foundation

Discussion: Right Turn, The Raw Story, msnbc.com, Yahoo! News, Right Wing Watch, The Daily Caller, Mock, Paper, Scissors and Firedoglake

David Weigel / Slate:
The IQ Test — Jason Richwine's friends warned him about …

Discussion: ThinkProgress, National Review, Daily Kos, The Raw Story and The Monkey Cage

Michele McPhee / ABCNEWS:

‘Mounting Evidence’ Boston Bombers Involved in 2011 Triple Murder — Massachusetts investigators have developed what they call “mounting evidence,” bolstered by “forensic hits,” that point to the possible involvement of both Tamerlan Tsarnaev and his younger brother Dzhokhar in a gruesome …

Discussion: Weasel Zippers, TheBlaze.com, The Raw Story, The Hill and Sky Dancing

Wesley Lowery / Boston Globe:

Virginia woman who coordinated Tamerlan Tsarnaev's burial says protests showed ‘America at its worst’ — The secret transport of Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev's body from Worcester to a small community near Richmond, Va., was set in motion by a woman who said she was upset …

Discussion: Daily Mail, Gawker and Weasel Zippers

Wesley Lowery / Boston Globe:
Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev is buried in Muslim cemetery in Doswell, Va.

Discussion: Politico

Hayes Brown / ThinkProgress:

EXCLUSIVE: Embassy Staff Undercut ‘Whistleblower’ Testimony On Benghazi — Staff who served in Libya with Gregory Hicks, the GOP's primary “whistleblower” in this week's hearing on the Benghazi terror attacks, undercut his story that State Department officials demoted him as retribution for speaking out …

Discussion: Christian Science Monitor, Weasel Zippers, Diplopundit, Washington Free Beacon, Outside the Beltway, Juanita Jean's and Hullabaloo

New York Times:
The Republicans' Benghazi Obsession

Discussion: CNN, Washington Post, New York Magazine, Hot Air, The Mahablog, Prairie Weather, Mediaite and The Plum Line

Justin Gillis / New York Times:

Carbon Dioxide Level Is at Its Highest in Human History — The level of the most important heat-trapping gas in the atmosphere, carbon dioxide, has passed a long-feared milestone, scientists reported on Friday, reaching a concentration not seen on the earth for millions of years.

Discussion: Alan Colmes' Liberaland, Guardian, Economist, Online NewsHour, The Plum Line, Motherboard, Gawker, Mother Jones, The Impolitic, Washington Monthly, Boing Boing and InsideClimate News

Josh Eidelson / thenation.com/blogs/171221:

Fast Food Strike Wave Spreads to Detroit — Two updates appear below. — Hundreds of Detroit fast food workers plan to walk off the job beginning at 6 AM today, making the motor city the fourth in five weeks to see such strikes. Organizers expect participants from at least 60 stores …

Discussion: ThinkProgress, Daily Kos and Colorlines

Ned Resnikoff / msnbc.com: Largest fast food strike yet as workers walk out in Michigan

Daniel Winn / Local News:

Movie theater publicity stunt triggers officers to respond to active shooter situation — Movie theater publicity stunt triggers police response — JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - — Management at the Goodrich Capital 8 Theaters is defending what it calls a publicity stunt at the movie theaters this past weekend.

Discussion: The Raw Story, The Truth About Guns, Gawker, Mediaite, Daily Kos and The Daily Caller

CNN:

WTC rises to 1,776 feet — New York (CNN) — Construction workers bolted the last pieces of a 408-foot spire into place atop One World Trade Center on Friday, symbolically capping New York's comeback after the September 11, 2001, terror attacks. — The spire brings the iconic building …

Discussion: The League of Ordinary …, Weasel Zippers and Joe. My. God.

Doug Stanglin / Associated Press:
The 408-foot spire will serve as a world-class broadcast antenna.

Discussion: Associated Press, The Verge, ThinkProgress and Poynter

Jon Hilsenrath / Wall Street Journal:

Fed Maps Exit From Stimulus — Timing of Wind-Down Is Uncertain, but Focus Is on Managing Unpredictable Market Expectations — Federal Reserve officials have mapped out a strategy for winding down an unprecedented $85 billion-a-month bond-buying program meant to spur the economy …

Discussion: The Lonely Conservative, Biz Beat Blog and Business Insider

Mark DeCambre / New York Post:

Goldman Sachs employees concerned Bloomberg news reporters are using terminals to snoop — Talk about a nanny state. — Irked Goldman Sachs brass recently confronted Bloomberg LP over concerns reporters at the business news service have been using the company's ubiquitous terminals …