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12:20 PM ET, May 31, 2013

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Dylan Byers / Politico:
Eric Holder to media: I get it  —  Attorney General Eric Holder expressed concern on Thursday about how the Department of Justice has handled recent media investigations at an off-the-record meeting with leading representatives of the press, according to those who were present.
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Sari Horwitz / Washington Post:
Attorney General Holder says he'll protect journalists' rights  —  Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. pledged Thursday to take concrete steps to address concerns that the Justice Department has overreached in its leak investigations and said officials would seek procedural and possibly legislative changes …
Charlie Savage / New York Times:
New Rules May Rein In Prosecutors in Leak Investigations
Noah Rothman / Mediaite:
MSNBC Contributor Michael Eric Dyson: Eric Holder ‘Is The Moses Of Our Time’
Ian Swanson / The Hill:
Holder seeks to make amends with media
Devlin Barrett / Wall Street Journal:
Holder Pledges Shifts on Media
Eric Black / MinnPost:
With Bachmann not running, Jim Graves pulls out of 6th District race  —  As of today, Jim Graves is going to indefinitely suspend his campaign for Congress from the 6th District.  —  Translation: He is not running.  He is dropping out of politics to concentrate on his family and his business.
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Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
Jim Graves drops out following Michele Bachmann's exit
McClatchy Washington Bureau:
IRS may have targeted conservatives more broadly  —  Susan Martinek, right, and Mary Cherion pray as they walk the block around the Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Planned Parenthood, on Wednesday, May 29, 2013.  Martinek is the president and Cherion serves on the board of Coalition for Life of Iowa …
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
From the Mouths of Babes  —  Like many observers, I usually read reports about political goings-on with a sort of weary cynicism.  Every once in a while, however, politicians do something so wrong, substantively and morally, that cynicism just won't cut it; it's time to get really angry instead.
Discussion: Prairie Weather and Daily Kos
Jonathan Easley / The Hill:
Poll: Hillary Clinton's favorability rating dives amid Benghazi probe  —  Hillary Clinton's favorability rating dropped significantly in a Quinnipiac University poll released Friday, as the months-long investigation into the terrorist attacks in Benghazi have begun to drag on the former secretary of State.
Washington Examiner:
‘Rogue’ IRS agent who wrote threatening letters gets promotion … President Obama may have promised “to hold the responsible parties accountable” for the Internal Revenue Service targeting of conservative non-profit groups, but one of the agents at the center of the scandal was recently promoted …
Jeremy W. Peters / New York Times:
G.O.P. Sizes Up Obama as Midterm Target  —  WASHINGTON — His name won't be on any ballot in 2014.  Or ever again, for that matter.  —  But plenty of Republicans are still eager to wage a midterm campaign against President Obama, convinced that the spate of recent troubles dogging …
Neil King Jr / Wall Street Journal:
Romney Planning to Rejoin National Dialogue  —  Months After Election Loss, He Will Host Event in Utah for 200 Friends and Campaign Supporters  —  More than half a year after his election loss, Mitt Romney is putting a tentative foot back onto the public stage.
Ben White / Politico:
Rising economy shifts 2014 landscape  —  The 2014 midterm election is shaping up as something the United States has not seen in nearly a decade: a campaign run in a strengthening economy with deficits on the decline.  —  No one is popping champagne corks yet, and risks remain.
Discussion: msnbc.com
Donna St. George / Washington Post:
Cowboy-style cap gun gets 5-year-old suspended from school in Calvert County  —  A kindergartner who brought a cowboy-style cap gun onto his Calvert County school bus was suspended for 10 days after showing a friend the orange-tipped toy, which he had tucked inside his backpack on his way to school, according to his family and a lawyer.
Amanda Marcotte / Slate:
Watch the Men of Fox News Freak Out Over Female Breadwinners  —  Most of the time, conservatives pooh-pooh the pay gap as a result of women's “choice” to work less and attend to the home more.  They're not against equality, they assure us, but equality just naturally fails on its own because women make it so!
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Garance Franke-Ruta / The Atlantic Online:
The Fake Story About the IRS Commissioner and the White House  —  White House records show Douglas Shulman signed in for 11 visits, not 157, between 2009 and 2012.  —  This building is technically the White House, too.  It's called the Eisenhower Executive Office Building.  (Whitehouse.gov)
Fabienne Hurst / Spiegel Online:
WWII Drug: The German Granddaddy of Crystal Meth  —  Crystal meth is notorious for being highly addictive and ravaging countless communities.  But few know that the drug can be traced back to Nazi Germany, where it first became popular as a way to keep pilots and soldiers alert in battle during World War II.
Discussion: The Week and Hit & Run
Jeffrey M. Jones / Gallup:
Americans Oppose U.S. Military Involvement in Syria  —  Publlic does not expect diplomatic efforts to succeed in ending civil war  —  PRINCETON, NJ — Sixty-eight percent of Americans say the United States should not use military action in Syria to attempt to end the civil war there if diplomatic …
Wall Street Journal:
Obama's Student-Loan Props  —  The President picks a phony fight over negligible differences.  —  President Obama's 2014 budget calls on Congress to prevent a doubling of interest rates on student loans and make the rates “more market-based.”  Last week House Republicans and four Democrats voted …
Jim Hoft / The Gateway Pundit:
UNREAL... Illegal Immigrant Mother of Seven Given Food Stamps, Meds, Housing, and Social Security - For 20 Years (Video)  —  It's Cloward-Piven on steroids.  —  Illegal immigrant and mother of seven, Marita Nelson, receives $240 in food stamps, monthly medications, $700 in Social Security and a housing allowance.
Discussion: Michelle Malkin
Perry Stein / Talking Points Memo:
Rifle March On D.C. Cancelled  —  Gun-rights activist Adam Kokesh, who had planned to get thousands of protestors to march from Virginia into the D.C. on the Fourth of July with loaded rifles on their backs, has just cancelled the rally, he said earlier this week on “The Pete Santilli Show.”  —  The.
Reuters:
Record unemployment, low inflation underline Europe's pain  —  (Reuters) - Unemployment has reached a new high in the euro zone and inflation remains well below the European Central Bank's target, stepping up pressure on EU leaders and the ECB for action to revive the bloc's sickly economy.
Irene / Judicial Watch:
DOJ: Social Media Posts Trashing Muslims May Violate Civil Rights  —  In its latest effort to protect followers of Islam in the U.S. the Obama Justice Department warns against using social media to spread information considered inflammatory against Muslims, threatening that it could constitute a violation of civil rights.
Jeremy Herb / The Hill:
McCain: ‘Regrettable’ if photo was taken with Syrian rebel kidnappers  —  A spokesman for Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) said Thursday that it would be “regrettable” if the lawmaker had posed for a photograph with Syrian rebels involved in kidnapping Lebanese Shiite pilgrims.
New York Times:
SAN FRANCISCO — Companies from Silicon Valley to Detroit to Germany are developing cars that park, steer and even drive themselves.  Now the federal agency for traffic safety has said it wants to come along for the ride.  —  On Thursday, the Transportation Department made its first formal policy statement on autonomous vehicles.
Stephanie Ebbert / Boston Globe:
Republican Senate candidate Gabriel Gomez again ducks question on Blunt Amendment  —  WELLESLEY — Republican US Senate candidate Gabriel E. Gomez on Thursday again demurred when asked whether he would have supported last year's Senate bill limiting contraceptive coverage, saying he had already been clear about his position.
Discussion: ThinkProgress, First Read and Ed Markey
 
 
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Associated Press:
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CNN:
Dem. Pryor: No one tells me what to do
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Erin Smith / Boston Herald:
Activist upset RCC's new chairman is white, but on campus it's a non-issue
Discussion: Power Line
Ylan Q. Mui / Washington Post:
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Detroit Free Press:
Flint woman, 33, killed by Syrian government forces, family says
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