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3:20 PM ET, June 3, 2013

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Herb Jackson / NorthJersey.com:
US Sen. Frank Lautenberg dies at 89  —  Frank R. Lautenberg, who rose from a poor Paterson boyhood to become a multimillionaire businessman and New Jersey's longest-serving U.S.senator, died Monday at 89 of viral pneumonia, his office said.  —  The oldest member of the Senate …
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Adam Clymer / New York Times:
Frank R. Lautenberg, 5-Term Senator From New Jersey, Dies at 89  —  Frank R. Lautenberg, who fought the alcohol and tobacco industries and promoted Amtrak as a five-term United States senator from New Jersey, died on Monday morning in Manhattan.  He was 89.  —  The cause was complications of viral pneumonia, his office said.
Yahoo! News:
Sen. Lautenberg dies, Christie expected to name successor  —  Sen. Frank Lautenberg, D-N.J., died overnight of complications from viral pneumonia, his office said Monday.  —  At 89, Lautenberg was the oldest senator—and the last World War II veteran serving in that legislative body.
Discussion: Booman Tribune
Ruby Cramer / BuzzFeed:
Frank Lautenberg's Senate Seat To Be Filled By Special Election This Year
Politico:
Sen. Frank Lautenberg dies at 89
Ramsey Cox / The Hill:
Sen. Lautenberg dead at 89; Christie to appoint replacement
Discussion: Politico, Yahoo! News and ViralRead
Aaron Blake / Post Politics:
Sen. Frank Lautenberg dead at 89
Discussion: American Spectator
Tal Kopan / Politico:
David Plouffe rips Darrell Issa ‘loose ethically’  —  Former White House senior adviser David Plouffe took to Twitter to question Rep. Darrell Issa's ethics after the California Republican trashed press secretary Jay Carney.  —  “Strong words from Mr Grand Theft Auto and suspected arsonist/insurance swindler.
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Jake Tapper / CNN:
IRS controversy turns personal, nasty  —  (CNN) - An unusually harsh and personal war of words erupted on Sunday, even for the current hyper-partisan atmosphere in Washington, DC, with one of President Obama's top advisers bringing up the 40-year-old criminal record of the Republican congressman leading …
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Katie Glueck / Politico:
Report: How GOP lost young voters  —  A new postmortem on the November elections from the nation's leading voice for college Republicans offers a searing indictment of the GOP “brand” and the major challenges the party faces in wooing young voters, according to a copy given exclusively to POLITICO.
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Sahil Kapur / Talking Points Memo:
GOP Report Warns Of Party's Apocalypse With Young Voters  —  The Republican Party's troubles with young voters are well known.  But a new internal report virtually elevates the threat level to apocalyptic, declaring that the GOP needs a “fundamental re-thinking” of its approach in order to remain viable with the younger generation.
Discussion: The Maddow Blog and The Raw Story
CJ Ciaramella / Washington Free Beacon:
Richard Windsor, Model Employee  —  “Richard Windsor” may have only been an alias for former Environmental Protection Agency administrator Lisa Jackson, but that didn't stop him from being awarded numerous certificates for ethics and records management.  —  The EPA awarded certificates …
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Fred Barnes / Wall Street Journal:
The Decline of the Obama Presidency
Discussion: Ed Driscoll and Weekly Standard
Eliana Johnson / National Review:
EPA Honors Fake Employee
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Scott Johnson / Power Line:
The friends of Richard Windsor
Sam Baker / The Hill:
Supreme Court allows police to obtain DNA samples without warrant  —  Police can take DNA samples from those under arrest the same as they take fingerprints and photographs, the Supreme Court said in a 5-4 decision on Monday.  —  The ruling defied the court's traditional ideological divisions.
Discussion: Reuters and The Impolitic
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Steve Coll / New Yorker:
THE PRESIDENT AND THE PRESS
Discussion: emptywheel
Adam Liptak / New York Times:
Justices Allow Police to Take DNA Samples After Arrests
Discussion: The Verge
John Hinderaker / Power Line:
Manufacturing Drops-Unexpectedly!  —  From Bloomberg: … Glenn Reynolds initiated the “Unexpectedly!” theme several years ago; since then there have been countless news stories about the U.S. economy's “unexpected” failures to perform.  Observers generally offer micro-explanations based on trends of the moment.
Discussion: Ed Driscoll
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Shobhana Chandra / Bloomberg:
Surprise Manufacturing Downturn Holds Back U.S. Growth: Economy
Discussion: Wake up America
Bill Carter / New York Times:
Devoted to Politics, MSNBC Slips on Breaking News  —  At MSNBC they view it as rooting against death and destruction: the last thing the channel wants is more months like the last two, filled with terror bombings, tornadoes and plant accidents.  —  It's not all altruism.
Glenn Harlan Reynolds / New York Post:
Scandalpalooza  —  Is Team O trying to tire us out?  —  The Obama Scandalpalooza continues.  It's gotten so bad that some pundits have even suggested that they're bringing everything out at once to induce “scandal fatigue” and make it all fade away.  Well, maybe — there's certainly a lot:
Discussion: The Daily Caller and Althouse
Dylan Byers / Politico:
Biden cancels annual summer beach party  —  Vice President Joe Biden will not be throwing his annual beach party for journalists this summer, POLITICO has learned.  —  Since 2010, Vice President Biden and Dr. Jill Biden have invited top journalists to their home at the Naval Observatory …
Conor Friedersdorf / The Atlantic Online:
On the Brink of a Feud With Rush Limbaugh, Bill O'Reilly Backed Down  —  A new book claims he did so on orders from Roger Ailes.  Are conservative critiques of talk radio suppressed?  —  Almost no one remembers Bill O'Reilly's searing attack on Rush Limbaugh-style talk radio hosts in 2008.
NY Daily News:
Mayhem in the city: 25 people shot in 48 hours  —  Three killed Sunday after three were killed Saturday.  One of the wounded includes an 11-year-old girl who will never walk again.  —  Cops check the scene of a deadly gun battle at Bedford Ave. and Lenox Road in Brooklyn on Sunday.
Stuart Stevens / The Daily Beast:
Al Sharpton's Long Bill of Goods, From Tawana Brawley to Primetime  —  As a ‘Times’ documentary revives one of the many ugly incidents from the reverend's past, it's time NBC accounted for its decision to rehabilitate and promote him, writes Stuart Stevens.  —  The Tawana Brawley case …
Betsy Woodruff / National Review:
Donald Trump Eyes 2016  —  Despite Donald Trump's best efforts, Republican National Convention-goers missed out on what could have been a very interesting video.  The real-estate mogul tells me he filmed a five-minute commercial for Romney that featured the mogul saying “You're fired!” …
Sahil Kapur / Talking Points Memo:
GOP Rejiggers Obamacare Bill After Conservative Revolt  —  House Republican leaders have refashioned legislation aimed at improving the party's credibility on the issue of preexisting conditions after conservatives scuttled it in April.  —  And they're planning to vote on it this month.
 
 
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Esther Yu-Hsi Lee / ThinkProgress:
Connecticut Will Soon Protect Undocumented Immigrants Who Report Crime
James Fallows / The Atlantic Online:
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Jack McCain gets married
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New York Times:
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