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Helen Pow / Associated Press:
Killer dies of heart attack after FORTY MINUTES writhing in agony and sitting up to say 'something's wrong' when experimental drug execution causes his veins to explode — A death row inmate spent forty minutes writhing in agony before dying of a heart attack following a new cocktail …
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Ben Crair / The New Republic:
How Oklahoma Botched an Execution
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Dustin Volz / NationalJournal.com:
The ‘Recipe for Failure’ That Led to Oklahoma's Botched Execution
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Tulsa World:
Eyewitness account: A minute-by-minute look at what happened during Clayton Lockett's execution
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Josh Kraushaar / NationalJournal.com:
Betting Against Nate Silver — Number-crunching Senate prediction models are fun to follow but are not very useful. — Nate Silver's presidential projections are more accurate than his Senate picks. (David Paul Morris/Bloomberg via Getty Images) — I'm a numbers guy.
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Ed Kilgore / Washington Monthly:
Feelin' a Wave — As we have all observed, Nate Silver and other purveyors of “data journalism” have gotten a lot of flak early in this election cycle, some of it warranted, but much of it the kind of taunting schoolyard kingpins typically inflict on tyros they instinctively understand will be rich and powerful someday.
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Sahil Kapur / Talking Points Memo:
Senate Republicans Filibuster Minimum Wage Hike — As expected, Senate Republicans voted on Wednesday to block debate on legislation to raise the federal minimum wage to $10.10 per hour. — The procedural motion to begin debate received 54 votes for, and 42 against — short of the 60 needed to break a filibuster.
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Jonathan Topaz / Politico:
Tim Pawlenty: Republican Party must back wage hike
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Jeremy W. Peters / New York Times:
Republican-Led Filibuster Blocks Minimum Wage Bill in Senate
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Nathan Fenno / Los Angeles Times:
Court documents show controversy involving Donald Sterling's wife — Rochelle Sterling, wife of Clippers owner Donald Sterling, watches the Clippers play the Golden State Warriors in Game 4 of the NBA Western Conference quarterfinals Sunday. (Thearon W. Henderson / Getty Images / April 27, 2014)
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Jennifer Kabbany / The College Fix:
Meet the Poster Child for ‘White Privilege’ - Then Have Your Mind Blown — He's 20, he's white, and he's a freshman at Princeton University. — According to the ethnic and feminist studies college students and professors who frequently and vehemently complain that this country is steeped …
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Senate Democrats plan vote to reverse Citizens United decision — Senate Democrats will schedule a vote this year on a constitutional amendment to reform campaign finance as they face tens of millions of dollars worth of attack ads from conservative groups.
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Benjamin Goad / The Hill:
John Paul Stevens: ‘Money is not speech’
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Sahil Kapur / Talking Points Memo:
Justice Scalia Makes Epic Blunder In Supreme Court Opinion — It's not often that a Supreme Court justice makes a factual blunder in a formal opinion. — Legal experts say Justice Antonin Scalia erred in his dissent in the 6-2 decision Tuesday to uphold the Environmental Protection Agency's authority …
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CNN:
Rep. Thompson doubles down on racial remarks in interview with CNN's Dana Bash — (CNN) - In an exclusive interview with CNN Chief Congressional Correspondent Dana Bash, Rep. Bennie Thompson doubled down on controversial remarks he made about race over the weekend.
Sharyl Attkisson / SharylAttkisson-Home:
White House Directed Incorrect Benghazi Narrative — Newly-released emails: “Video” to blame, “not a broader failure or policy.” — Newly-released documents reveal direct White House involvement in steering the public narrative about the September 11, 2012 terrorist attacks in Benghazi …
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Oren Dorell / USA Today:
Senator: E-mails show how Benghazi story shaped
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Michael Tomasky / The Daily Beast:
Here's What Happens When the GOP Takes Over the Senate — From abortion bans to Obamacare cuts to, maybe, an empty Supreme Court chair, the Republicans already know exactly what they'll do if they get control of both houses of Congress. — Passing a federal law banning almost all abortions after 20 weeks.
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Salon:
GOP's white Southern men problem: Why they can't hold Democrats down any longer — In a very famous (and possibly apocryphal) quote, Lyndon Johnson said upon signing the 1964 Civil Rights Act that the Democrats had lost the South for a generation. And there's little doubt that the Republicans immediately saw a path to a new majority.
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Kelly Gray / WSET-TV:
BREAKING NEWS: Train Has Derailed in Lynchburg — Lynchburg, Va - Lynchburg emergency officials have confirmed that a train has gone off the tracks in downtown Lynchburg. It happened around 1:45 Wednesday afternoon. — Between 12 and 14 CSX tankers carrying crude oil were involved …
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Lenny Bernstein / Washington Post:
Planet headed toward ‘post-antibiotic era’ when treatments don't work: WHO — The planet may be headed toward a “post-antibiotic era” when common infections once easily controlled by antimicrobial medicines may be lethal, the World Health Organization reported Wednesday in its first look …
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The Moderate Voice
Manu Raju / Politico:
Rand Paul to plunge into North Carolina Senate race — Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul is making an 11th hour plunge into the North Carolina Senate race, aiming to boost his preferred candidate and block the GOP establishment's favorite, state House Speaker Thom Tillis, from scoring a clean win in Tuesday's primary.
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The Onion sets its sights on BuzzFeed, Upworthy — Finally! The Onion is taking on BuzzFeed and Upworthy on their turf. — This June the satire site — stuck for now in the hopelessly 20th century business of spoofing reported, written news articles — will launch Clickhole.com. — What's that?
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Washington Post:
Poll: GOP presidential race wide open; Hillary Clinton leads Jeb Bush in theoretical matchup — The 2016 Republican presidential nominating battle is shaping up as the most wide-open in a generation, with a new Washington Post-ABC News poll showing five prospective candidates within four percentage points …
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Leslie Larson / NY Daily News:
Wendy Davis slams own party for ditching her Democratic gubernatorial bid — Wendy Davis called Democratic Governors Association chairman Peter Shumlin a ‘Washington, D.C., desk jockey’ after he failed to include the Lone Star State in the group's list of priorities.
Maureen Dowd / New York Times:
Is Barry Whiffing? — WASHINGTON — Stop whining, Mr. President. — And stop whiffing. — Don't whinge off the record with columnists and definitely don't do it at a press conference with another world leader. It is disorienting to everybody, here at home and around the world.
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