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1:10 PM ET, March 14, 2013

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John Boehner / Washington Post:
Obama's outreach is nice, but where's the leadership?  —  So it was a good meeting.  House Republicans welcomed the chance for a frank exchange of ideas with President Obama on Wednesday.  Outreach is always positive, and more Republicans in this town need the opportunity to have an open dialogue with our president.
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Amie Parnes / The Hill:
White House tour move backfires on Obama  —  The White House is playing defense over the decision to cancel tours at President Obama's residence, the latest stumble for Obama in the messaging war with Republicans over the sequester.  —  White House press secretary Jay Carney fielded a series …
Sahil Kapur / Talking Points Memo:
Obama To GOP: I'm Serious About Cutting The Social Safety Net
Discussion: The Plum Line and Post Politics
Larry Rohter / New York Times:
Man in the News |  Jorge Mario Bergoglio: New Pope Theologically Conservative, but With a Common Touch  —  Like most of those in Argentina, he is a soccer fan, his favorite team being the underdog San Lorenzo squad.  Known for his outreach to the country's poor, he gave up a palace for a small apartment …
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Rachel Donadio / New York Times:
The New Pope: Bergoglio of Argentina
Jake Miller / CBS News:
Biden to Vatican for installation of new pope
Brian Stelter / Media Decoder:
Chris Hayes to Take Over 8 P.M. Slot on MSNBC  —  Chris Hayes will take over the 8 p.m. time slot on MSNBC in the next month, the channel is expected to announce on Thursday morning, the day after the current host of that hour, Ed Schultz, said he was moving from the weekdays to the weekends.
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Jonathan Easley / The Hill:
Panel approves assault weapons ban; Cruz, Feinstein get heated  —  The Senate Judiciary Committee approved a ban on the sale and manufacture of more than 150 types of semi-automatic weapons with military-style features Thursday in a party-line vote.  —  The 10-8 vote came after a heated exchange between …
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Fox News:
Senate committee poised to approve assault weapons ban
Whitson Gordon / Lifehacker:
Google Reader Is Shutting Down; Here Are the Best Alternatives  —  Google announced today that it'll be closing Google Reader's doors on July 1st of this year, meaning you'll need to find a new way to get your news fix.  Here's how to export all your feeds and put them into a new reader.
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Jason Cherkis / The Huffington Post:
Mitt Romney, ‘47 Percent’ Filmmaker Had Encounter Prior To Infamous Speech  —  WASHINGTON — The bartender who secretly filmed Mitt Romney's infamous “47 percent” remarks at a Boca Raton fundraiser last May had an idea of what the former Massachusetts governor and GOP presidential nominee was really like.
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David Corn / Mother Jones:
Meet Scott Prouty, the 47 Percent Video Source
Associated Press:
Physicists say they have found long-sought Higgs boson  —  GENEVA - The search is all but over for a subatomic particle that is a crucial building block of the universe.  —  Physicists announced Thursday they believe they have discovered the subatomic particle predicted nearly a half-century ago …
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Associated Press:
Physicists Say They Have Found a Higgs Boson
Discussion: The Awl and Outside the Beltway
Politico:
President Obama: I'm no Dick Cheney on drones  —  President Barack Obama's defense to Democratic senators complaining about how little his administration has told Congress about the legal justifications for his drone policy: Dick Cheney was worse.  —  That's part of what two senators …
NY Daily News:
Enraged protesters battle cops in Brooklyn streets during third night of rioting after it's revealed that 16-year-old Kimani Gray was shot in the back  —  As fights between cops and angry teens erupted in East Flatbush, 46 were arrested Wednesday night.  Police struggled to control a furious crowd …
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Jesse Helfrich / The Hill:
GOP lawmakers threaten to subpoena Benghazi survivors  —  Exasperated GOP members say unless they get more answers from the White House, they will call on the survivors to testify before Congress, and might hold up President Obama's nomination to replace the U.S. ambassador who was killed on Sept. 11, 2012 in Libya.
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Ryan Grim / The Huffington Post:
Aaron Swartz Lawyers Accuse Prosecutor Stephen Heymann Of Misconduct  —  WASHINGTON - Federal prosecutor Stephen Heymann engaged in prosecutorial misconduct by withholding key evidence from the defense team of Aaron Swartz, the late Internet activist's legal team alleged in a letter to an internal Justice Department ethics unit.
Bloomberg:
U.S. Tax Cheats Nailed After Swiss Adviser Mails It In  —  Everybody knows the danger of sending things inadvertently in an e-mail.  Beda Singenberger's case shows you also have to be pretty careful when you mail things the old-fashioned way.  —  Over an 11-year period, federal prosecutors charge …
Discussion: Guardian
Alexander Burns / Politico:
CPAC's absent GOP rock stars  —  Bob McDonnell and Chris Christie are two of the Republican Party's big success stories: popular East Coast governors who have enacted conservative policies in states that President Barack Obama won twice.  Elected together in 2009, the pair formed an advance guard for the 2010 Republican revolution.
Discussion: The Fix, The Week and msnbc.com
 
 
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Jonny Paul / Jerusalem Post:
British MP blames jail term on Jewish ‘conspiracy’
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Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life:
‘Strong’ Catholic Identity at a Four-Decade Low in U.S.
New York Times:
Karzai's Remarks Draw U.S. Troop Alert
Discussion: NBCNews.com, Foreign Policy and BBC
Paul Steinhauser / CNN:
TRENDING: Big CPAC surprise: Jeb Bush not on ballot
Discussion: Politico
Alexander Burns / Politico:
Ken Cuccinelli won't sign no-tax oath
Discussion: Right Turn, msnbc.com and First Read
Jeffrey M. Jones / Gallup:
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New York Times:
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Cindy Carcamo / Los Angeles Times:
Judge upholds Arizona law banning ethnic studies classes
ThinkProgress:
GOP Congressman Says Supreme Court Doesn't Actually Get To Decide Whether Laws Are Constitutional
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