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2:30 PM ET, May 19, 2013

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CNN:
CNN Poll: Controversies hurting Obama?  Has GOP overreacted?  —  Washington (CNN) - President Barack Obama comes out of what was arguably the worst week of his presidency with his approval rating holding steady, according to a new national poll.  —  But a CNN/ORC International survey …
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Margaret Brennan / CBS News:
Evidence emerges that Obama administration official knew of IRS targeting during 2012 campaign  —  (CBS News) WASHINGTON - There were new questions Saturday night concerning if anyone in the White House was aware of the IRS' targeting of conservative groups.
Discussion: Power Line and The Gateway Pundit
Igor Volsky / ThinkProgress:
Mitch McConnell Backs Away From GOP Claims Of A Benghazi Cover Up  —  On Sunday, during an appearance on Meet The Press, Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) — the GOP leader in the senate — distanced himself from Republican efforts to portray the Obama administration's response to the attacks …
Discussion: The Huffington Post
Meghashyam Mali / The Hill:
Poll: Obama at 53 percent approval after week of controversies  —  A new poll shows a majority approving of President Obama's job performance after a week where his administration faced a tough trio of controversies.  —  A CNN/ORC poll released Sunday morning shows 53 percent approve of the president, with 45 percent disapproving.
Discussion: Outside the Beltway
Zack Colman / The Hill:
Sen. Cornyn blasts White House for ‘culture of cover-ups and intimidation’  —  Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) said the Obama administration owes its recent troubles and controversies to a “culture of cover ups and intimidation” within the White House.  —  “Given the trend line we're seeing here …
Discussion: CNN and Politico
Ryan Grim / The Huffington Post:
Darrell Issa: 'You Don't Accuse The IRS Until You've Had A Nonpartisan, Deep Look'
Discussion: ThinkProgress, BuzzFeed and Reuters
Jordy Yager / The Hill:
Dem: Ex-IRS chief lied to Congress
Discussion: Scared Monkeys and Hot Air
Jordy Yager / The Hill:
Complaints of IRS targeting by religious groups on the rise
Discussion: Religion News Service
Daniel Halper / Weekly Standard:
Obama Aide: ‘Irrelevant Fact’ Where President Was During Benghazi Attacks  —  Obama aide Dan Pfeiffer said it's an “irrelevant fact” where the president physically was during the Benghazi terror attack on September 11, 2012:  —  Host Chris Wallace reminds Pfeiffer that Obama didn't really talk …
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Meghashyam Mali / The Hill:
Pfeiffer defends White House handling of IRS targeting scandal
Discussion: Politico and The PJ Tatler
The Sunday Times:
Google insider exposes ‘immoral’ tax scam  —  Former Google executive Barney Jones has a cache of 100,000 emails and documents (Paul Vicente)  —  A FORMER Google executive has blown the whistle on a massive and “immoral” tax avoidance scheme that has “cheated” British taxpayers out of hundreds …
Discussion: TechCrunch, The Verge and Vox Popoli
Wall Street Journal:
Yahoo to Buy Tumblr for $1.1 Billion  —  Yahoo Inc.'s board has approved a deal to acquire blogging startup Tumblr, people familiar with the matter said Sunday.  —  Yahoo has agreed to pay $1.1 billion in cash for the company, one of the people said.  Tumblr would continue to operate largely …
Mitch Ginsburg / The Times of Israel:
Government committee rejects not only the accusation that the IDF killed the 12-year-old Gaza boy in a gunfight, but that he died at all  —  Muhammad al-Dura, the Palestinian child who appeared to have been gruesomely killed at his father's feet in Gaza on September 30, 2000 …
New York Times:
Climate Warnings, Growing Louder  —  The news that atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide, the most important global warming gas, have hit 400 parts per million for the first time in millions of years increases the pressure on President Obama to deliver on his pledges to limit this country's greenhouse gas emissions.
Discussion: The PJ Tatler, Hullabaloo and Daily Kos
Maureen Dowd / New York Times:
Taxing Times for Obama  —  WASHINGTON — I WENT to New York last week to cover the TV presentations for the new season, shows like “Scandal,” “Shark Tank” and a faltering “American Idol.”  —  I may as well have stayed here.  —  You know that the faltering American idol in the White House must be reeling in this scandalous spring.
Zack Colman / The Hill:
AP chief: DOJ seizure an ‘unconstitutional act’  —  Associated Press CEO Gary Pruitt on Sunday slammed the Justice Department's (DOJ) seizure of the wire service's phone records as an “unconstitutional act.”  —  “We don't question their right to conduct these sort of investigations, we just think they went about it the wrong way.
Discussion: Associated Press
New York Times:
Killing in Greenwich Village Looks Like Hate Crime, Police Say  —  The violence took place just blocks from the Stonewall Inn, perhaps the most important landmark of the gay liberation struggle.  A young man screamed antigay slurs at another man on a street in Greenwich Village on Friday night …
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ThinkProgress:
Minnesota State Rep Calls Climate Change ‘Complete United Nations Fraud And Lie’
Andrew Kaczynski / BuzzFeed:
Republican Virginia Lt. Governor Nominee: Obama Sees World “From A Muslim Perspective”
Washington Post:
President Obama exercises a fluid grip on the levers of power
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