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4:40 PM ET, May 2, 2014

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Stephen F. Hayes / Weekly Standard:
Boehner to Form Select Committee on Benghazi  —  UPDATE: Other news organizations confirm the report below that House speaker John Boehner will announce the formation of a select committee on Benghazi, led by Rep. Trey Gowdy.  —  House Speaker John Boehner is “seriously considering” …
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Speaker.gov:
Boehner to Establish Select Committee on Benghazi … WASHINGTON, DC - House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) is announcing today that he intends for the House to vote to create a new select committee to investigate the September 11, 2012 terrorist attack in Benghazi, Libya that killed four Americans.
John Dickerson / Slate:
Why the new Benghazi emails aren't a “smoking gun.”  —  Has the Benghazi “smoking gun” been found?  Some White House critics believe that new documents wrestled from the White House by Judicial Watch, a conservative watchdog group, prove that the Obama administration concocted a cover-up …
Stephen F. Hayes / Weekly Standard:
Benghazi Lies  —  In response to a Freedom of Information Act request filed last summer by Judicial Watch, the Obama administration last week released 41 documents related to the attacks on U.S. facilities in Benghazi, Libya, on September 11, 2012.  An email from the deputy national security adviser …
Discussion: American Power and Mediaite
Politico:
GOP escalates Benghazi probe  —  House Republicans will convene a select committee to investigate the 2012 Benghazi terrorist attacks — a dramatic move that is sure to rev up the GOP base ahead of the midterm elections.  —  The creation of the panel, which Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) …
Fox News:
Boehner announces special committee on Benghazi, Kerry subpoenaed
Washington Free Beacon:
NSC Spokesman: Dude, Benghazi Was Like Two Years Ago
Michelle Jamrisko / Bloomberg:
Hiring in U.S. Kicks Into Higher Gear as Unemployment Plunges  —  The job-creation engine kicked into higher gear as U.S. employers boosted payrolls in April by the most in two years and the jobless rate plunged to the lowest since the collapse of Lehman Brothers.
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Neil Irwin / New York Times:
Employment Picture: The Jobs Report Isn't as Good as It Looks  —  The Jobs Report Isn't as Good as It Looks  —  Rarely does a monthly report on the United States job market look so terrific on the surface while being so disappointing underneath.  —  At first glance, the new reading …
Nate Cohn / New York Times:
Midterm Calculus: Bursting the Democrats' Midterm-Turnout Bubble
Nelson D. Schwartz / New York Times:
Report Shows Resurgence of Hiring but Has Downbeat Notes
Discussion: Washington Post and News Desk
Politico:
Jobs report beats expectations
Discussion: CNN
Tina Brown / The Daily Beast:
Don't Run for President, Hillary.  Become a ‘Post-President’ Instead  —  The political world and her most fervent fans may be exercised about a presidential bid.  But she should forget it.  If she wins, it's too much stress for too little return.  —  I know as much as anyone …
New York Post:
Disgraced Clippers owner Donald Sterling is battling cancer  —  This could wind up being a pretty short ban.  —  Disgraced racist Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling is battling cancer — surprising those around him by beating the final buzzer for as long as he has, sources told The Post on Thursday.
Hendrik Hertzberg / News Desk:
A Bad Death in Oklahoma  —  The most telling moment in Oklahoma's botched execution of Clayton Lockett came six minutes after the purportedly lethal drugs had begun to enter the condemned man's body through an intravenous tube.  It was a moment that pointed up the contradictions, incoherence …
Discussion: The Daily Banter
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Kevin Liptak / CNN:
Obama calls for review of death penalty after botched killing
Discussion: Politico and Hot Air
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Why Economics Failed  —  On Wednesday, I wrapped up the class I've been teaching all semester: “The Great Recession: Causes and Consequences.”  (Slides for the lectures are available via my blog.)  And while teaching the course was fun, I found myself turning at the end to an agonizing question …
Charles Krauthammer / Washington Post:
Obama's foreign policy of denial  —  Barack Obama's 949-word response Monday to a question about foreign policy weakness showed the president at his worst: defensive, irritable, contradictory and at times detached from reality.  It began with a complaint about negative coverage on Fox News …
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Anna Nemtsova / Washington Post:
Ukraine army launches assault on rebel stronghold
Discussion: VodkaPundit and Business Insider
FiveThirtyEight:
Are White Republicans More Racist Than White Democrats?  —  The comments made by Cliven Bundy and Donald Sterling this month demonstrate that the U.S. is far from a colorblind society.  And the reaction to their comments has drawn further attention to the fraught relationship between racism and partisan politics.
Discussion: Hullabaloo, Balloon Juice and The Dish
Jonathan Weisman / New York Times:
Tea Party Challenge to McConnell Hits a Skid  —  LEXINGTON, Ky. — For Matt Bevin, the main challenger in the Republican primary to topple Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, the campaign could be boiled down to this, his one chance to try to confront his opponent in person, in the crowded ballroom of a Marriott hotel.
Discussion: Outside the Beltway
Jess Bravin / Wall Street Journal:
Excerpts from WSJ Interview with Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg  —  The Wall Street Journal recently sat down with Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg for an interview.  Here are key excerpts.  —  ON PRESIDENT OBAMA, GRIDLOCK AND JUDICIAL NOMINATIONS: Justice Ginsburg first met …
Shadee Ashtari / The Huffington Post:
Janice Hahn Walks Out Of Event After James Dobson Calls Obama The ‘Abortion President’  —  Janice Hahn James Dobson Janice Hahn Video Robert Aderholt Prayer and Meditation Robert Aderholt National Day of Prayer Janice Hahn National Day of Prayer Obama Abortion Abortion James Dobson
 
 
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CNN:
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Discussion: Washington Monthly
Scott W. Atlas / Wall Street Journal:
The Coming Two-Tier Health System
Discussion: Balloon Juice
Ashley Killough / CNN:
Rick Scott would sign bill in favor of medical marijuana
Discussion: MiamiHerald.com
Jeryl Bier / Weekly Standard:
Kerry Announces Enormous Pay Raises for Foreign National Embassy Staff
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Discussion: The Daily Caller and Fox News
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