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2:35 PM ET, June 8, 2014

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Eric Schmitt / New York Times:
As Bowe Bergdahl Heals, Details Emerge of His Captivity  —  WASHINGTON — Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl has told medical officials that his captors locked him in a metal cage in total darkness for weeks at a time as punishment for trying to escape, and while military doctors say he now is physically able …
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Wall Street Journal:
Bergdahl Has Declined to Speak to Family  —  Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl has declined to speak to his family after five years in harsh captivity that included being held in a cage after one attempted escape, according to a U.S. official familiar with the Army soldier's recovery.
Discussion: Mediaite and Blazing Cat Fur
Chris Good / ABC News:
Hillary Clinton Reveals 2016 Timetable, Won't Say Whether She'll Testify On Benghazi … Hillary Clinton wants more time through the end of the year to think about whether she'll run for president in 2016, the former secretary of state told ABC's Diane Sawyer in an exclusive interview in advance …
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Peter Nicholas / Wall Street Journal:
Your Introduction to a Full Week of Hillary Clinton  —  Get ready to see plenty of Hillary Clinton as she opens a national tour promoting her new book and stumps for Democrats running in the midterm elections.  —  ABC News landed the first interview with Mrs. Clinton tied to the release of her book, “Hard Choices.”
Dan Balz / Washington Post:
Clinton's book sets foundation for 2016 run
Discussion: Politico and New York Times
Frank Bruni / New York Times:
Dear Millennials, We're Sorry  —  AMONG Americans age 40 and older, there's a pastime more popular than football, Candy Crush or HBO.  —  It's bashing millennials.  —  Oh, the hours of fun we have, marveling at their self-fascination and gaping at their sense of entitlement!
Discussion: Firedoglake and Daily Kos
Tony Cook / The Indianapolis Star, Indystar:
Richard Mourdock says nation going way of Hitler's Nazi Germany  —  FORT WAYNE - Reaction ranged from anger to shock to befuddlement after Indiana Treasurer Richard Mourdock compared the nation's direction to Hitler's Nazi Germany during a farewell speech at the Indiana Republican Convention on Saturday.
Washington Post:
How Bill Gates pulled off the swift Common Core revolution  —  The pair of education advocates had a big idea, a new approach to transform every public-school classroom in America.  By early 2008, many of the nation's top politicians and education leaders had lined up in support.  —  But that wasn't enough.
Paul Sperry / New York Post:
Obama to free Gitmo terrorist ‘because he took up yoga’  —  Detainees in orange jumpsuits sit in a holding area under the eyes of military police during in-processing to the temporary detention facility at Camp X-Ray of Naval Base at Guantanamo Bay.  —  If you thought President Obama's release …
Discussion: Power Line and The Gateway Pundit
New York Times:
Starting Out Behind  —  Today's young people, ages 18 to 24, should have been the lucky ones.  They were preteens or teenagers when the recession hit in late 2007, with high school and college still ahead.  Unlike those who had to enter the work force in the depths of the downturn …
Kevin D. Williamson / National Review:
Mother Courage  —  Miss Pennsylvania USA's remarkable mother  —  Valerie Gatto does not want to talk about abortion.  That's probably prudent, inasmuch as she very much desires to be the next Miss USA, and contestants in that pageant are expected to have ruthlessly anodyne interests along …
Jeremy Herb / Politico:
Kerry: ‘Offensive’ to leave an American behind  —  Secretary of State John Kerry is defending President Barack Obama's prisoner swap, saying it would be “offensive and incomprehensible” to consciously leave behind an U.S. soldier.  —  In an interview aired Sunday on CNN's “State of the Union …
Discussion: CNN
 
 
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