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3:50 PM ET, May 16, 2011

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The Note:
Trump Not Running for President: ‘Decision Does Not Come Easily Or Without Regret’  —  ABC News' Michael Falcone, Jen Wlach, Sara Just & Devin Dwyer report:  —  After a roller-coaster flirtation with a presidential bid, Donald Trump bowed out of the 2012 contest in true Trump fashion …
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CNN:
Full release:  —  “After considerable deliberation and reflection, I have decided not to pursue the office of the Presidency.  This decision does not come easily or without regret; especially when my potential candidacy continues to be validated by ranking at the top of the Republican contenders in polls across the country.
Gschwarzcnn / CNN:
Trump not running for president  —  (CNN) - Real estate mogul and television celebrity Donald Trump, who generated a media publicity blitz by saying he might run for president in 2012, announced Monday that he will instead remain a businessman.  —  “After considerable deliberation and reflection …
Maggie Haberman / The Politico:
The Donald ducks
Discussion: Daily Kos
Sean Daly / New York Post:
Big Trump news due today
Joel Siegel / ABCNEWS:
Not a Good Sign for Donald Trump
Discussion: The Note
New York Post:
Donald Trump will not run for Republican presidential nomination
Michael O'Brien / The Hill:
GOP Rep. Ryan swipes at Gingrich: ‘With allies like that, who needs the left?’  —  Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) took a swipe Monday at Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich after the former House Speaker criticized hiss proposed Medicare reforms.  —  “With allies like that, who needs the left?”
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Laura Meckler / Wall Street Journal:
Gingrich Blasts House GOP's Medicare Plan  —  Presidential Candidate Calls It ‘Right-Wing Social Engineering,’ Agrees With Obama About Need for Insurance Mandate  —  White House hopeful Newt Gingrich called the House Republican plan for Medicare “right-wing social engineering,” …
Byron York / Washington Examiner:
BELTWAY CONFIDENTIAL  —  Gingrich reaction: Republicans livid …
Jennifer Haberkorn / The Politico:
Paul Ryan to sharpen attacks on Obama's Medicare board
Discussion: CNN and USA Today
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New York Post:
French gals burned by pol ‘in heat’  —  He's un animal.  —  IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn acted like a “chimpanzee in heat” during a creepy previous grab-and-grope with a French journalist — an incident with eerie similarities to his alleged attack on a Manhattan hotel maid Saturday, according to an explosive interview.
Kim Willsher / Guardian:
Dominique Strauss-Kahn faces further claim of sexual assault
Mosi Secret / New York Times:
Police Seek Evidence From I.M.F. Chief on Sex Attack
Wall Street Journal:
As Debt Limit Reached, Agreement Still Far Off  —  The U.S. government is expected to hit the $14.294 trillion debt ceiling Monday, setting in motion an uncertain, 11-week political scramble to avoid a default.  —  The Treasury Department plans to announce Monday it will stop issuing …
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Peter Schroeder / The Hill:
Geithner tells Congress the US has reached $14.3T debt limit
Discussion: The Politico and Vox Popoli
Paul Krugman:
What's In A Name?  —  Urk.  Politico: … It's not misleading!  I know that serious people are supposed to be shocked, shocked at the Democrats calling the Ryan plan a plan to dismantle Medicare — but that's just what it is.  If you replace a system that actually pays seniors' medical bills …
Discussion: Yglesias
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Kasie Hunt / The Politico:
Mitt Romney: I can win on the economy  —  The 2012 presidential campaign is going to be all about the economy — right in Mitt Romney's wheelhouse, the former Massachusetts governor told supporters on a conference call Monday.  —  People ask, Romney said, “'how do we know you're going to win, Mitt?
Discussion: GOP 12
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Aharding / CNN:   Romney dials for dollars
Bill Carter / New York Times:
Gay CNN Anchor Sees Risk in Book  —  Don Lemon, the weekend prime-time anchor for CNN, was on the air on Sunday night this month when the news broke that President Obama would address the nation at the unusual hour of 10:30 p.m.  —  By the time the news network was confirming the reports …
MTV:
M-Bone's life in photos.  —  At about 10:30 p.m. PT Sunday night, police were called to the 400 block of North La Brea in Inglewood.  When police arrived on the scene, they found Talbert seated in the driver's seat of a black unspecified vehicle with at least two gunshot wounds to the head.
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Exclusive: Private letter from CIA chief undercuts claim torture was key to killing Bin Laden  —  CIA chief Leon Panetta has written a private letter to Senator John McCain that offers the most detailed answer yet to questions about the relationship between torture and Osama Bin Laden's death …
Ian Sample / Guardian:
Stephen Hawking: 'There is no heaven; it's a fairy story'  —  In an exclusive interview with the Guardian, the cosmologist shares his thoughts on death, M-theory, human purpose and our chance existence  —  A belief that heaven or an afterlife awaits us is a “fairy story” for people afraid of death, Stephen Hawking has said.
Byron York / Washington Examiner:
Herman Cain sounds off on race, a debate win, and the need to simplify government  —  Chief Political Correspondent Follow Him @ByronYork  —  STOCKBRIDGE, Ga. - Herman Cain's handsome glass-walled office overlooks the first fairway of the Eagle's Landing Country Club in this exurb of Atlanta …
Discussion: Salon, BLACKFIVE and FrumForum
Ross Douthat / New York Times:
A Requiem for Huckabee  —  Most candidates for the highest office in the land spend months, if not years, currying favor with the rich and powerful: glad-handing at fund-raising dinners, schmoozing in mansions, pressing the flesh in Aspen and Manhattan and Nob Hill.  —  Not so Mike Huckabee.
 
 
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Sam Youngman / The Hill:
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Pawlenty expands political team into South Carolina
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The Huffington Post:
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New York 26: Move to Toss-Up/Tilt Democratic
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