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5:45 PM ET, May 15, 2015

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Katharine Q. Seelye / New York Times:
Sentence Reached for Dzhokar Tsarnaev in Boston Marathon Bombing  —  BOSTON — The jury has reached a decision on a life-or-death sentence for Dzhokhar Tsarnaev in the bombing at the 2013 Boston Marathon, the worst terrorist attack on American soil since Sept. 11, 2001.
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Ben Kamisar / The Hill:
Boston marathon bomber sentenced to death  —  Dzhokhar Tsarnaev will receive the death penalty for his role in the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing that killed three people and injured more than 200.  —  Tsarnaev was found guilty on all 30 charges in the bombing and its aftermath by the same jury in April.
Discussion: Daily Kos
Katharine Q. Seelye / New York Times:
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev Gets Death Penalty in Boston Marathon Bombing
Fox News:
Jurors sentence Dzhokhar Tsarnaev to death in Boston Marathon Bombing trial
Paul Waldman / American Prospect:
The Myth of ‘Faulty Intelligence’  —  The Iraq War, both how it began and how it proceeded, is now an active topic in the 2016 presidential campaign, which I think is a highly salutary development.  But it does mean that we need to be on guard for the kind of distortions, misleading statements …
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Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Fraternity of Failure  —  Jeb Bush wants to stop talking about past controversies.  And you can see why.  He has a lot to stop talking about.  But let's not honor his wish.  You can learn a lot by studying recent history, and you can learn even more by watching how politicians respond to that history.
Steve Benen / msnbc.com:
Jeb Bush sees Apple Watch as part of anti-Obamacare plan
Discussion: Addicting Info and Daily Kos
Nick Gass / Politico:
Rove declines to endorse Jeb Bush
Discussion: The Mahablog, US News and The Week
Washington Post:
Hillary Clinton's litmus test for Supreme Court nominees: a pledge to overturn Citizens United  —  Hillary Clinton told a group of her top fundraisers Thursday that if she is elected president, her nominees to the Supreme Court will have to share her belief that the court's 2010 Citizens United decision must …
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John Hinderaker / Power Line:
Hillary Wants the Power to Ban Books and Movies that Criticize Her  —  Hillary Clinton says that as president, she would have a litmus test for Supreme Court nominees: they must promise to vote to overturn the Citizens United case.  —  It is easy to understand why Hillary isn't fond of Citizens United.
Discussion: Washington Post
Washington Post:
Islamic State seizes capital of Iraq's largest province  —  Iraqi government forces are fighting back against an Islamic State advance that began overnight.  Witnesses say the militant group raised its black flag over a government compound in the city center on Friday.  (Reuters)
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Tim Arango / New York Times:
ISIS Fighters Seize Government Headquarters in Ramadi, Iraq
Discussion: Fox News Insider and TalkLeft
Tim Weiner / New York Times:
B. B. King, Defining Bluesman for Generations, Dies at 89  —  B. B. King, whose world-weary voice and wailing guitar lifted him from the cotton fields of Mississippi to a global stage and the apex of American blues, died Thursday in Las Vegas, The Associated Press reported.  He was 89.
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Brad Paisley / CNN:   B.B. King, the Beale Street Blues Boy 12 photos
Brendan James / Talking Points Memo:
Judith Miller And James O'Keefe Discuss Ethics In Journalism (VIDEO)  —  Ex-New York Times reporter Judith Miller and rightwing guerilla filmmaker James O'Keefe filmed an hour-long discussion trying to answer the question that has persisted through their careers: “Why do they hate us?”
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Emily Zanotti / American Spectator:
James O'Keefe and Judith Miller Talk Press Freedom
Christy Hoppe / Trail Blazers Blog:
Rick Perry to announce presidential run June 4 in Dallas  —  Former Texas Gov. Rick Perry pitches a New Hampshire crowd opn his experience on April 17.  (AP Photo/Jim Cole)  —  Former Gov. Rick Perry has chosen Dallas to officially declare his second run for the Republican presidential nomination in three weeks.
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Ben Kamisar / The Hill:
Perry to announce June 4 in Dallas
Margaret Sullivan / New York Times:
A ‘Jewish Litmus Test’ Was Unacceptable  —  A Ph.D. candidate at the University of California, Berkeley, David McCleary, wrote to me this week with a complaint about being subjected to what he called “a Jewish litmus test” during a Times interview.  —  The interview (conducted by a Times stringer …
Discussion: Talking Points Memo and Hot Air
Peter Jacobs / Business Insider:
Kid who got in to every Ivy League school is going to the University of Alabama — and it's a brilliant decision  —  High-school senior Ronald Nelson had an incredibly hard decision to make this year about college — mainly because he got into all eight Ivy League universities.
Richard Deitsch / SI.com:
Bill Simmons will not appear again on ESPN platforms, including Grantland  —  ESPN president John Skipper addresses Bill Simmons' departure … There will be no farewell columns, podcasts or television appearances for Bill Simmons on ESPN.  —  SI has learned that ESPN and Simmons have worked …
Ahiza Garcia / Talking Points Memo:
Orlando Pub Owner Allegedly Holds Black Couple At Gunpoint: ‘Call Jesse Jackson’  —  A pub owner in Orlando, Fla. was arrested after allegedly holding a black couple at gunpoint and telling them to call Jesse Jackson, the Orlando Sentinel newspaper reported Wednesday.
Seth Lipsky / Wall Street Journal:
A Liberal Speech Cop Targets Alan Greenspan  —  The former Fed chairman drops out of a monetary conference after he's assailed by Paul Krugman.  —  To the list of questions the left has sought to place off limits to open debate—global warming, same-sex marriage, campaign finance, abortion—add a startling new topic: monetary reform.
The Hill:
House defies Obama veto threat, approves $612B defense bill  —  Defying a veto threat from President Obama, the House on Friday passed a $612 billion defense bill in a 269-151 vote.  —  All but eight Republicans voted in favor, along with 41 Democrats who went against Obama's veto threat …
Discussion: ABC News, Washington Post and Daily Kos
Peter Sullivan / The Hill:
GOP chairman: No ObamaCare extension if court cripples law  —  House Budget Committee Chairman Tom Price (R-Ga.) said Thursday that he does not support an idea backed by Senate Republican leadership to temporarily extend ObamaCare subsidies if the Supreme Court cripples the law.
Discussion: Washington Post and Daily Kos
Politico:
PATRIOT Act spying programs on death watch  —  Squabbling among senators means surveillance authorities may well expire at the end of May.  —  With only days left to act and Rand Paul threatening a filibuster, Senate Republicans remain deeply divided over the future of the PATRIOT Act …
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Cristina Marcos / The Hill:
House sends Iran review bill to Obama
Discussion: Common Dreams and RedState
 
 
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Reuters:
Wreckage of missing U.S. helicopter found in Nepal; no survivors
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Ryan Tate / The Intercept:
Leaked Video Reveals Omissions in Official Account of Police Shooting
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Prri / Public Religion Research Institute:
Only One-third of Millennials Say They're Millennials
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Kate Belz / timesfreepress.com:
DesJarlais, who supported ex-wife's abortions, votes for abortion ban
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Charles Krauthammer / Washington Post:
Save Obama (on trade)
Mtschnyder / CBS Dallas:
Texas Teen Says He Saw Jesus Before Being Revived
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Science:
A multifaceted program causes lasting progress for the very poor: Evidence from six countries
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Kenneth Cosgrove / The Atlantic:
Tapping a Maple on a Cold Vermont Morning
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Sarah Mimms / National Journal:
Why Some Male Members of Congress Won't Be Alone with Female Staffers
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Mandy Dalugdug / Music Business Worldwide:
UMG, ABKCO, and Concord sue Believe and its subsidiary TuneCore for $500M+, alleging Believe built its business via “industrial-scale copyright infringement”

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India issues a notice to Wikipedia over bias concerns, questioning if it should be classified as a publisher, after judges called its open editing “dangerous”

 
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