For Justices, Free Speech Often Means ‘Speech I Agree With’  —  WASHINGTON — Justice Antonin Scalia is known as a consistent and principled defender of free speech rights.  —  It pained him, he has said, when he voted to strike down a law making flag burning a crime.

Midterm Election Indicators Daunting for Democrats  —  No Improvement in Perceptions of Job Market  —  With the midterm elections six months away, Democrats are burdened by an uneven economic recovery and a stubbornly unpopular health care law.  Perhaps equally important …

Benghazi and the Bombshell  —  Is Lara Logan too toxic to return to 60 Minutes?  —  Eleven years ago, the 60 Minutes correspondent Lara Logan was sitting in the InterContinental hotel in Amman, Jordan, watching her career flash before her eyes.  —  She was 31 years old, a rookie at CBS News …

‘I will sell them,’ Boko Haram leader says of kidnapped Nigerian girls  —  (CNN) — Fears for the fate of more than 200 Nigerian girls turned even more nightmarish Monday when the leader of the Islamist militant group that kidnapped them announced plans to sell them.  —  “I abducted your girls.

Trey Gowdy picked to lead Benghazi panel  —  Speaker John Boehner is tapping South Carolina Rep. Trey Gowdy to chair a House select committee which will investigate the attack in Benghazi.  —  Gowdy, a second-term Republican, is a former federal prosecutor and has been a key figure …

Tennessee State Senator Compares Obamacare To The Holocaust  —  On Monday, a Tennessee state senator apparently likened Obamacare's individual mandate to Nazi Germany's slaughter of Jews.  —  A brief post published at the blog of state Sen. Stacey Campfield (R) read: “Democrats bragging …

This Woman Filmed Her Abortion To Show Other People It Doesn't Have To Be Scary  —  Emily Letts speaks to the camera in her video about her abortion procedure  —  Emily Letts, a 25-year-old abortion counselor at a clinic in New Jersey, knew that she wanted to use her own abortion story …

What If Fox News Instead of MSNBC Had Pulled This Cinco de Mayo Stunt?  —  ¡Ay caramba!  Imagine the cries of offensive ethnic stereotyping or worse if Fox News had observed Cinco de Mayo by having one of its yanqui persons of pallor staggering across the set in a sombrero while chugging from a pint bottle of tequila?

U.S. Uninsured Rate Drops to 13.4%  —  Uninsured rate down nearly four percentage points since late 2013  —  WASHINGTON, D.C. — The uninsured rate for U.S. adults in April was 13.4%, down from 15.0% in March.  This is the lowest monthly uninsured rate recorded since Gallup and Healthways began tracking it in January 2008.

Hillary Clinton to star at Marjorie Margolies event  —  Hillary Clinton will be the star attraction at a May 15 fundraiser for her daughter's mother-in-law, Marjorie Margolies, who's trying to recapture her old Pennsylvania congressional seat, POLITICO has learned.

Source: Coach Craig Robinson fired by Oregon State  —  Craig Rohinson's teams failed to reach the NCAA tournament during his six seasons at Oregon State.  —  Oregon State fired head coach Craig Robinson on Sunday night, according to a source with knowledge of the situation.

GOP's demented “Benghazi!” disease: Why conservatives so desperately need a scandal  —  Has anyone ever seen a full-blown marketing campaign replete with full-color graphics used to announce a House committee investigation?  You have now: … I'm going to guess that was in development for a while.

Mass. says flawed health website is too broken to fix  —  Massachusetts plans to completely scrap the state's dysfunctional online health insurance website, deciding that it would be too expensive and time-consuming to fix the overwhelming number of flaws.  —  Instead, officials will buy …

Metro Police message to young girls: Have premarital sex, risk death  —  Girls who “get promiscuous” can wind up dead.  —  That was the message behind the Metro Police co-sponsored “Choose Purity” event Saturday at the William Pearson Center in North Las Vegas.

White House set to lay out imminent climate risks  —  Washington (CNN) - The White House will lay out what it's calling the imminent regional risks of man-made climate change on Tuesday, part of a broader second-term effort to help the nation prepare for the effects of warmer temperatures, rising sea levels, and more erratic weather.

Tillis at 40%, but momentum with Brannon  —  PPP's final poll of the North Carolina Republican Senate primary finds that Greg Brannon and Mark Harris are finally picking up some steam, but that it may be too little too late.  Thom Tillis leads right at the 40% mark needed to avoid a runoff …