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Eli Lake / The Daily Beast:
New Benghazi Investigation Spooks GOP Leaders — It's not just the Democrats who are opposed to a new select committee looking into the Benghazi attacks. Many top Republicans are uneasy, too. — Last Wednesday, as the House was preparing for its new investigation into the Benghazi attacks …
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Talking Points Memo, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Daily Kos and ABC News
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Washington Post:
Eric Cantor's tea party opponent in Va. primary may be picking up momentum — RICHMOND — There was a time when House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) sympathized with the tea party's frustration with Washington. — Now, he's engaged in open warfare with the GOP's insurgent wing.
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The Atlantic Online, National Review and Booman Tribune
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KERO-TV:
AMAZING VIDEO: Cat saves boy from dog attack in Southwest Bakersfield — BAKERSFIELD - A cat came to her best friend's rescue Tuesday when the young boy was attacked in his driveway in Southwest Bakersfield. — The surveillance video shows the boy playing on his bicycle when a dog sneaks up behind him and grabs his leg.
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CNN, Jezebel, Mediaite, The Daily Caller, SFGate Blog, The Gateway Pundit and Gawker
Mike Lillis / The Hill:
Senate Dems pound Obama judge pick — Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday suggested President Obama's nominee for a federal court in Georgia is in trouble. — The Democrats said they have deep concerns with Georgia Court of Appeals Judge Michael Boggs's voting record …
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Althouse
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Kate Nocera / BuzzFeed:
Harry Reid Says He “Can't Vote” For Obama's Controversial Judicial Pick — “Unless I have a better explanation, I can't vote for him,” the Senate Majority Leader said of Michael Boggs. — U.S. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) — Jonathan Ernst / Reuters / Reuters
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Talking Points Memo and Washington Post
Jonathan Ernst— / TIME:
Bill Clinton Defends Hillary On Benghazi, Rove Attacks — Former President BIll Clinton said at the Peterson Foundation Fiscal Summit on Wednesday that his wife handled the attack in Libya appropriately and that he was “dumbfounded” by Karl Rove's suggestion she suffered brain damage from a fall in 2012
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Mediaite, Daily Kos, National Review and Arkansas Blog, Arkansas Times
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Associated Press:
Bill Clinton vouches for Hillary's health — WASHINGTON (AP) — Former President Bill Clinton is vouching for his wife Hillary's health after recent speculation by GOP strategist Karl Rove that she may have suffered a brain injury last year. — When asked at a Washington conference …
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The PJ Tatler
Elizabeth Kolbert / New Yorker:
The West Antarctic Ice Sheet Melt: Defending the Drama — If you hang around climate scientists, you often hear the saying “Uncertainty is not our friend.” It came to mind yesterday, when two teams of scientists released papers that reached the same terrifying conclusion.
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Questions and Observations, New York Times, The New Republic, Here & Now and ThinkProgress
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Noah Millman / The American Conservative:
Climate Change Isn't Just About Sea Levels, And Adaptation Will Require Action, Not A Sense Of Futility — The latest four alarm fire on the climate change front is the melting of a chunk of west Antarctica's ice sheet, which appears to have passed the point of no return.
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The Moderate Voice, The New Republic and CNN
Aviva Shen / ThinkProgress:
Georgia Senate Frontrunner Touches Republicans' Third Rail, Suggests Raising Taxes — The Georgia Republican contenders for U.S Senate have made a lot of outrageous assertions, from calling evolution a lie “straight from the pit of hell” to proposing that poor students sweep floors to pay for lunch.
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Washington Monthly and Daily Kos
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Greg Bluestein / Political Insider blog:
David Perdue and the ‘reality’ of increasing federal revenue
David Perdue and the ‘reality’ of increasing federal revenue
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RedState
ThinkProgress:
Nebraska Senate Nominee Says Religious Beliefs Can Justify Breaking Any Law — “[O]ur right to the free exercise of religion is co-equal to our right to life,” according to the campaign website of Ben Sasse, a Nebraska Republican who won his party's nomination to the United States Senate on Tuesday.
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The Raw Story
Tom Kludt / Talking Points Memo:
Liberal Columnist Insists Again That Chris Stevens Wasn't Murdered In Benghazi — Republicans remain convinced that the Obama administration deliberately avoided labeling the attacks in Benghazi an act of terrorism. But that alleged “cover-up” has nothing on a recent characterization by Eleanor Clift.
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Townhall.com and Liberaland
Olivia Nuzzi / The Daily Beast:
The Oh-So-Fragile Class of 2014 Needs to STFU And Listen to Some New Ideas — Another powerful woman has been discouraged from speaking on campus. Because God forbid my fellow, fragile millennials have their ears damaged by words with which they don't agree.
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No More Mister Nice Blog, Jezebel, Washington Post and Booman Tribune
New York Times:
Newark's Voters Choose New Mayor and New Path — Councilman Ras Baraka, the fiery scion of a militant poet, was elected mayor of Newark on Tuesday, signaling a likely shift in the direction that New Jersey's largest city had embarked upon for most of the last decade.
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Washington Monthly and Joanne Jacobs
Alexandra Jaffe / The Hill:
Rubio hints at 2016 bid even if Bush runs — Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) hinted Tuesday he'd run for president even if former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush (R) does. — “I think when someone contemplates running for president of the United States, you do so based on a criteria you've established for yourself.
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Hinterland Gazette and Washington Post
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Dana Davidsen / CNN:
Christie: It would be ‘stressful’ to run against Jeb
Christie: It would be ‘stressful’ to run against Jeb
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Politico and The Huffington Post
Mollie Reilly / The Huffington Post:
Idaho's Gay Marriage Ban Struck Down By Federal Judge — A federal judge has ruled that Idaho's ban on same-sex marriage is unconstitutional. — The ruling, handed down by U.S. Magistrate Judge Candy Dale on Tuesday, followed oral arguments on May 5. — Earlier Tuesday, Idaho Gov. Butch Otter …
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Daily Kos
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Ece Toksabay / Reuters:
Hopes fade for survivors after Turkish mine fire kills more than 230 — (Reuters) - Hopes faded of finding more survivors in a coal mine in western Turkey on Wednesday, where 238 workers were confirmed killed and 120 more still feared to be trapped in what is likely to prove the nation's worst ever industrial disaster.
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Guardian and Shakesville
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