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Adam Liptak / New York Times:
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.
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Adam Liptak / New York Times:
Town Meetings Can Have Prayer, Justices Decide  —  WASHINGTON — In a major decision on the role of religion in government, the Supreme Court on Monday ruled that the Constitution allows town boards to start their sessions with sectarian prayers.  The ruling, by a 5-to-4 vote …
Richard Wolf / USA Today:
Supreme Court upholds prayer at government meetings
CNN:   Justices allow public prayers at New York town's council meetings
Joe Hagan / New York Magazine:
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 …
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Cosmopolitan:
Why I Filmed My Abortion  —  When Emily Letts got pregnant, she knew she would get an abortion.  Then she decided to film it.  Letts, 25, is an abortion counselor at Cherry Hill Women's Center in New Jersey, which is where she had her abortion.  The non-graphic video focuses on her face …
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Tara Culp-Ressler / ThinkProgress:
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 …
Politico:
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 …
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Sahil Kapur / Talking Points Memo:   Boehner Taps Trey Gowdy To Lead Special Benghazi Committee
CNN:
‘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.
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Jenna Levy / Gallup:
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.
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Pew Research Center for the People and the Press:
Midterm Election Indicators Daunting for Democrats
Pew Research Center for the People and the Press:
Views of the Affordable Care Act and Its Future
Discussion: Daily Kos
Sahil Kapur / Talking Points Memo:
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 …
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Jeremy W. Peters / New York Times:
Judicial Nominee's Memos on Drones Stirring Bipartisan Concern in the Senate  —  WASHINGTON — President Obama's choice for a powerful appeals court appointment is in peril from both the left and the right, highlighting how the fraught politics of an election year are threatening …
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Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Paul starts new drone war
Discussion: Bloomberg View and Power Line
Mark Finkelstein / NewsBusters:
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?
Discussion: The Daily Caller
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Liz Kowalczyk / The Boston Globe:
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 …
Heather Digby Parton / Salon:
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.
Jon Swaine / Guardian:
Occupy Wall Street activist found guilty of assaulting police officer  —  An Occupy Wall Street activist is facing up to seven years in prison after being convicted by a jury in Manhattan of assaulting a New York police officer as he led her out of a protest.
Discussion: VICE
Pete Thamel / Sports Illustrated:
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.
 
 
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Release Obama's Benghazi intelligence briefings
Patrick Howley / The Daily Caller:
Boehner Below 50 Percent Republican Support In Own District Ahead Of Tuesday's Primary
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CNN:
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Nick Gillespie / The Daily Beast:
It's Not Racist to Hate Government
Discussion: Yahoo! News and Hit & Run
Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
Tillis at 40%, but momentum with Brannon
Discussion: Politico and Wall Street Journal
Adam Liptak / New York Times:
Justices Turn Away Case About Carrying Guns in Public
Discussion: Outside the Beltway
Caleb S. Rossiter / Wall Street Journal:
Sacrificing Africa for Climate Change
Discussion: National Review
Dan Barry / New York Times:
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