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9:00 AM ET, May 25, 2015

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Myles Ma / New Jersey Online:
Famed ‘A Beautiful Mind’ mathematician John Nash, wife killed in taxi crash, police say  —  File photo: Nobel Prize winning mathematician John Nash (right) and his wife Alicia sit on a coach inside their inside their home in 2009.  Nash, a senior research mathematician at Princeton University …
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Erica Goode / New York Times:
John F. Nash Jr., Mathematician Whose Life Story Inspired ‘A Beautiful Mind,’ Dies at 86  —  John F. Nash Jr., a mathematician who shared a Nobel Prize in 1994 for work that greatly extended the reach and power of modern economic theory and whose decades-long descent into severe mental illness …
BBC:
‘Beautiful Mind’ mathematician John Nash killed in crash  —  US mathematician John Nash, who inspired the Oscar-winning film A Beautiful Mind, has died in a car crash with his wife, police have said.  —  Nash, 86, and his 82-year-old wife Alicia were killed when their taxi crashed in New Jersey, they said.
Discussion: Engadget and EconLog
Maureen Dowd / New York Times:
Driving Uber Mad  —  WASHINGTON — ON a reporting expedition to Los Angeles recently, I realized I could stop renting cars.  —  I would never again have to brave the L.A. freeway behind the wheel.  I would never have to obsess, like the characters in the “Saturday Night Live” skit …
Susan Edelman / New York Post:
No pay, no play!  Poor kids banned from school carnival  —  PS 120 in Queens held its fun-day carnival for students whose families could shell out $10 - but banished those of modest means to the auditorium.  —  No party for the poor.  —  PS 120 in Flushing held a carnival for its students on Thursday …
Charles C. W. Cooke / National Review:
The Tolerant Jeweler Who Harbored an Impure Opinion of Same-Sex Marriage  —  I  —  n the American Conservative yesterday, Rod Dreher related the following story: … One could be forgiven for wondering how we are all supposed to keep up.  Last month, as Indiana's rather tame religious-freedom legislation …
Los Angeles Times:
SPECIAL REPORT U.S. MILITARY AND CIVILIANS ARE INCREASINGLY DIVIDED  —  Jovano Graves' parents begged him not to join the Army right out of high school in 2003, when U.S. troops were fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan.  —  But their son refused his parents' pleas to try college.
Discussion: RedState
New York's PIX11:
Lindenhurst family receives racially charged letter in mailbox, told to leave town … LINDENHURST, N.Y. (PIX11)- Suffolk County police are investigating a possible hate crime targeting an African-American family in Lindenhurst.  —  Ronica Copes, a resident of the suburban neighborhood …
Discussion: Hinterland Gazette and Raw Story
Craig Gilbert / JSOnline:
Can Feingold come back from defeat?  —  By Craig Gilbert of the Journal Sentinel  —  For almost two decades, Russ Feingold had a winning image in Wisconsin politics — the liberal maverick.  He galvanized Democrats, won independents and made small but critical inroads among Republicans.
Justin S. Vaughn / New York Times:
The Making of a Great Ex-President  —  Though deeply engaged in his presidency — battling for the Trans-Pacific Partnership and against ISIS — Barack Obama is also casting an eye beyond Jan. 20, 2017, when his post-presidency begins.  We've learned that his presidential library will be in Chicago …
Discussion: Althouse
Scott Wong / The Hill:
GOP turns to Tea Party to win trade powers for Obama  —  House Ways and Means Chairman Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) and GOP leaders have turned to some unlikely allies to rally support for a key trade bill: Tea-Party conservatives, including some prominent names from the raucous House Freedom Caucus.
Discussion: Instapundit and Hullabaloo
New York Times:
Afghans Form Militias and Call on Warlords to Fight Taliban  —  KABUL, Afghanistan — Facing a fierce Taliban offensive across a corridor of northern Afghanistan, the government in Kabul is turning to a strategy fraught with risk: forming local militias and beseeching old warlords for military assistance …
Discussion: Moon of Alabama and Eschaton
 
 
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Simon Bowers / Guardian:
Amazon to begin paying corporation tax on UK retail sales
BBC:
Huge Republic of Ireland vote for gay marriage
Discussion: The Daily Banter
John Hinderaker / Power Line:
Hillary's Real Benghazi Problem
New York Times:
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Tom Boggioni / Alternet:
WATCH: Virginia Cop Uses Pepper-Spray, Taser on Unresisting Black Man Having Stroke
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Candlelight vigil, memorial walk to mark anniversary of Isla Vista shootings
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