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1:30 PM ET, April 11, 2013

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Tom Cohen / CNN:
Senate overcomes filibuster, votes to open debate on gun bill  —  Washington (CNN) - The U.S. Senate voted Thursday to overcome a Republican-led filibuster against tougher gun laws, clearing the way for a major congressional debate on a package of proposals sought by President Barack Obama …
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Gregory Korte / USA Today:
Senate heads off filibuster on gun bill … Vote to break a threatened filibuster on gun control doesn't end the debate — it only begins it.  —  WASHINGTON — The Senate voted 68 to 31 Thursday morning to move forward on a gun safety bill, breaking a threatened filibuster from conservative Republicans …
David Rogers / Politico:
Where's Mitch McConnell?
Katie Glueck / Politico:
Veterans poll: 91 percent back gun checks  —  The vast majority of veterans support universal background checks, a new poll shows.  —  According to a survey commissioned by the organization Vote Vets and the liberal Center for American Progress Action Fund, 91 percent of veterans support requiring …
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Paul Waldman / American Prospect:
Closing the Gun Show Loophole: Better Than Nothing?
Discussion: Hit & Run and The Week
Kirsten Powers / USA Today:
Philadelphia abortion clinic horror: Column  —  We've forgotten what belongs on Page One.  —  Infant beheadings.  Severed baby feet in jars.  A child screaming after it was delivered alive during an abortion procedure.  Haven't heard about these sickening accusations?  —  It's not your fault.
Katie Ferrell / fox4kc.com:
Man no longer allowed to visit husband at KC hospital  —  LEE'S SUMMIT, Mo. — A Lee's Summit man is fighting a restraining order that he says was issued against him after he says he was arrested for refusing to leave the bedside of his sick partner.  —  Roger Gorley went to visit his partner …
Mark Zuckerberg / Washington Post:
Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg: Immigration and the knowledge economy  —  Mark Zuckerberg is founder and chief executive of Facebook and co-founder of Fwd.us.  —  Earlier this year I started teaching a class on entrepreneurship at an after-school program in my community.
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Jennifer Martinez / The Hill:
Facebook's Zuckerberg launches lobby group with push for immigration reform
Discussion: Taylor Marsh and CNN
Associated Press:
Gun Shop Where Lanza's Mother Bought Bushmaster Shut Down For Selling To A Felon, Background Check Violations  —  EAST WINDSOR, Conn. (AP) — Federal authorities say a Connecticut gun shop that legally sold weapons used in the Newtown school shootings lost its federal firearms license …
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Len Besthoff / WFSB-TV:
Documents detail why gun shop lost license
Discussion: The Raw Story
Mickey Kaus / The Daily Caller:
90% Bull  —  Fig leaves wilting!  It looks like the requirement that the Border Patrol catch 90% of illegal crossers-reported by the WSJ and touted by both Marco Rubio's chief of staff and my colleague Matt Lewis as an example of the “ tough border enforcement measures” …
Discussion: Hot Air and Wall Street Journal
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Joseph Ryan / Chicago Tribune:
Daughter of former Obama pastor Rev. Jeremiah Wright indicted … The daughter of the Rev. Jeremiah Wright — the controversial former pastor to President Barack Obama — was indicted today in an expanding federal probe of a state grant tied to a former suburban police chief.
Kevin Cirilli / Politico:
Jay-Z brags about Cuba trip in rap  —  Rapper Jay-Z released a new track Thursday in which he boasts about his recent trip to Cuba with superstar Beyoncé and says that President Barack Obama told him he'd get him “impeached.”  —  “I done turned Havana into Atlanta,” Jay-Z raps in “Open Letter,” which he released Thursday.
Molly K. Hooper / The Hill:
Immigration, gun deals make Tea Party lawmakers restless  —  House conservatives are growing restless.  —  With bipartisan deals emerging on guns and immigration, Tea Party lawmakers in the lower chamber are warning their leaders to slow down.  —  Longtime immigration reform critic Rep. Steve King …
Washington Post:
Gun control, immigration and budget talks: Is there a thaw in Washington?  —  For the first time in a while, members of the two parties — at least some of them — appear to be talking about getting things done, even without the deadline of a manufactured crisis looming.
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Talking Points Memo:
Club For Growth Questions GOP Rep. For Attacking Obama On Social Security Cuts  —  The conservative advocacy group Club for Growth is calling on Rep. Greg Walden (R-OR) to answer for his comments Wednesday, in which he attacked President Barack Obama for proposing cuts to entitlements …
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Brian Beutler / Talking Points Memo:
Top Republican Blasts Obama Budget As ‘Shocking Attack On Seniors’
Campus Reform the #1 Source for College News:
‘Stupid and Racist’: Video captures professor ranting against Republican Party  —  A professor at the University of Southern California (USC) appears to have used a fall semester 2012 political science class to deliver sustained and angered attacks on Republicans, who he characterized as old, white, racist, and “losers.”
Aron Heller / Associated Press:
Israel Detains Five Women For Wearing Prayer Shawls At Western Wall  —  JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli police on Thursday detained five women at a Jerusalem holy site for performing religious rituals there that ultra-Orthodox Jews say are reserved for men.  —  The detentions come …
Discussion: Taylor Marsh
George Eaton / New Statesman:
Exclusive: Blair warns Miliband: offer answers, not outrage  —  The former prime minister says Labour must be more than “fellow travellers in sympathy” and warns it not to “tack left on tax and spending”.  —  In his statement on Margaret Thatcher's death earlier this week …
Discussion: Guardian and BBC
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Jonathan Martin / Politico:
Mark Pryor rakes in cash in first quarter  —  Endangered Sen. Mark Pryor (D-Ark.) raised nearly $2 million in the first quarter of this year, a financial show of strength his campaign hopes sends a message to state and national Republicans still looking for a candidate to take him on next year.
Andrew Osborn / Reuters:
Britain snubs Argentina's Fernandez over Thatcher funeral  —  LONDON (Reuters) - Britain will not invite Argentine President Cristina Fernandez to Margaret Thatcher's funeral next week in a snub likely to deepen a long-running diplomatic dispute over the Falkland Islands.
Discussion: Power Line
Mikael Wood / Los Angeles Times:
Justin Timberlake sings for Obamas at White House soul tribute  —  Justin Timberlake, center, speaks as Mavis Staples and Charlie Musselwhite listen during an interactive student workshop, “Soulsville, USA: The History of Memphis Soul,” at the White House in Washington, D.C., on April 9, 2013.
 
 
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Bloomberg:
Obama Meets With Blankfein, Dimon and Moynihan Today
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Sabrina Tavernise / New York Times:
Study of Babies Did Not Disclose Risks, U.S. Finds
Discussion: ThinkProgress and Bloomberg
Susan Page / USA Today:
Tony Blair talks Thatcher, the Mideast - and Twitter
Choe Sang-Hun / New York Times:
South Korea Moves to Defuse Tensions With the North
Discussion: National Review
Ahmed Vahdat / Telegraph:
Iranian scientist claims to have invented ‘time machine’
State House / Malawi Nyasa Times:
Malawi State House responds to Madonna's outbursts: Full text
Discussion: FP Passport, Guardian, CNN and BBC
Ann Coulter / Townhall.com:
Liberals Go Crazy For The Mentally Ill
 Earlier Items: 
Vicki Needham / The Hill:
Democrats pressing federal regulators for documents related to shoddy foreclosures
Discussion: ThinkProgress
Paul Farhi / Washington Post:
David Corn and Mother Jones find themselves with another audio scoop
Politico:
Martin O'Malley wants to be Mr. Fix-It
Discussion: AEIdeas and First Read
Politico:
Obamacare funds much in doubt
Discussion: americanthinker.com
Luke Johnson / The Huffington Post:
Ken Cuccinelli Loses Petition To Uphold Anti-Sodomy Law
Discussion: Mother Jones and AMERICAblog
Peter H. Stone / The Huffington Post:
Haley Barbour Leaves American Crossroads Amid Concerns Over Conservative Victory Project
Discussion: Politico and Poynter
Katie Dvorak / The Hill:
US expatriates plead for relief from IRS
Discussion: Politico
 

 
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