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3:55 PM ET, May 3, 2015

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New York Times:
Christie's Camp Mobilizes to Salvage White House Hopes  —  Around 7:30 a.m., as an audience of technology executives started streaming through the ballroom doors of a Ritz-Carlton Hotel in suburban Virginia on Friday, Chris Christie's iPhone buzzed with the grim news he has awaited for 16 months.
NY Daily News:
NYPD Officer Brian Moore, 25, shot in face in Queens; suspect is ex-con and cousin of former Giants player Kory Blackwell  —  A plainclothes city cop was shot in the face in Queens Saturday when the ex-con cousin of a former New York Giant opened fire into his unmarked patrol car, authorities said.
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Police Officer Is Shot and Critically Wounded in Queens
Discussion: Raw Story
Ben Schreckinger / Politico:
Martin O'Malley: Baltimore unrest a ‘heartbreaking setback’  —  Former Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley said on Sunday the unrest in Baltimore has boosted his motivation to address economic marginalization and that it would be a central theme of his expected Democratic presidential campaign.
Discussion: Bloomberg Business and The Week
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Ben Schreckinger / Politico:
John Boehner sees a national policing crisis
Discussion: Bloomberg View and The Week
Ben Schreckinger / Politico:
John Kasich on a 2016 bid: 'I don't really do odds'
Discussion: Bloomberg Business
Walter Russell Mead / The American Interest:
Media Gives President a Pass Again  —  The media has by and large give President Obama's failed Afghanistan policy a pass—just as they have his larger foreign policy missteps.  —  Once again, be very glad we don't have a Republican president right now.  If we did, we would be treated …
Nicholas Kristof / New York Times:
‘Inequality Is a Choice’  —  THE eruptions in Baltimore have been tied, in complex ways, to frustrations at American inequality, and a new measure of the economic gaps arrived earlier this year:  —  It turns out that the Wall Street bonus pool in 2014 was roughly twice the total annual earnings …
Discussion: Daily Kos
Justin George / Baltimore Sun:
Exclusive look inside the Freddie Gray investigation  —  Unlimited Access.  Try it Today!  Your First 10 Days Always $0.99
Ben Schreckinger / Politico:
Bernie Sanders: 'Don't underestimate me'  —  Citing a history of surprising victories, Bernie Sanders said on Sunday the political world shouldn't discount his chances of winning the presidency.  —  “Don't underestimate me,” the Vermont senator said on ABC's “This Week.”
Dan Balz / Washington Post:
Conservative Party's fortune is cautionary tale for GOP  —  LONDON — Five years ago, British Prime Minister David Cameron looked like a modern conservative ready to offer the Republican Party a model for the future.  Today, four days before critical elections here, he is a politician fighting …
Timothy Cama / The Hill:
GOP rep introduces bill to gut EPA  —  A House Republican wants to cut 13 programs at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), including all of its grants and its ability to regulate ground-level ozone and carbon dioxide.  —  Rep. Sam Johnson (R-Texas) introduced a bill …
Brendan O'Neill / Reason:
Meet the Vagina Voters  —  The women voting for Hillary because she's a woman are setting feminism back a hundred years.  —  “I intend to vote with my vagina.”  —  Have you ever read a more squirm-inducing sentence than that?  It appeared in a pro-Hillary piece in Dame magazine …
Timothy Egan / New York Times:
The End of California?  —  ANGELS CAMP, Calif. — IN a normal year, no one in California looks twice at a neighbor's lawn, that mane of bluegrass thriving in a sun-blasted desert.  Or casts a scornful gaze at a fresh-planted almond grove, saplings that now stand accused of future water crimes.
hrw.org/rss/news:
Yemen: Saudi-Led Airstrikes Used Cluster Munitions  —  US-Supplied Weapon Banned by 2008 Treaty  —  (Beirut) - Credible evidence indicates that the Saudi-led coalition used banned cluster munitions supplied by the United States in airstrikes against Houthi forces in Yemen, Human Rights Watch said today.
 
 
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Ben Kamisar / The Hill:
Child found misplaced Capitol Police gun in Boehner's bathroom
Discussion: Hot Air
Ben Schreckinger / Politico:
Elijah Cummings praises Baltimore response to Gray death
Discussion: ABC News
Eric Lichtblau / New York Times:
F.E.C. Can't Curb 2016 Election Abuse, Commission Chief Says
Discussion: Mediaite and Washington Post
Guardian:
US will look into claim Friday air strike killed 52 civilians in Syria
Discussion: Reuters and Firedoglake
Mark Hensch / The Hill:
Palin: Obama ‘flirting with the devil’ on Iran
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An interview with Telegraph Director of Technology Dylan Jacques on the goal of launching 12 significant uses of AI in the newsroom over 12 months

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