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3:10 PM ET, April 14, 2013

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Jeremi Suri / New York Times:
Bomb North Korea, Before It's Too Late  —  SINCE February, the North Korean government has followed one threatening move with another.  The spiral began with an underground nuclear test.  Then the North declared the armistice that ended the Korean War invalid.
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Kevin Bogardus / The Hill:
McCain: North Korea nearing nuclear missile launch ‘capability’  —  Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) said Sunday that it's not clear if North Korea has a nuclear missile ready to launch, but it's moving towards that “capability.”  —  Speaking on CNN's “State of the Union,” McCain said the country's military …
Discussion: CNN and Politico
Erik Loomis / Lawyers, Guns & Money:
When Historians Provide Bad Policy Ideas
Kelly O'Donnell / NBC Politics:
Republican Senator Collins of Maine to vote yes on background checks  —  Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, is the first GOP senator to say publicly she will vote for the bipartisan compromise on expanded background checks for the sale of guns online and at gun shows.  NBC's Kelly O'Donnell reports.
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Kevin Liptak / CNN:
McCain backs gun compromise; co-author says Senate support an ‘open question’  —  (CNN) - A bipartisan deal to expand background checks on gun sales got a key conservative endorsement on Sunday, but one of its co-authors said Senate approval remained an “open question.”
Discussion: Politico and Weasel Zippers
Meghashyam Mali / The Hill:
Manchin: ‘Law-abiding’ gun owners will like background check bill  —  Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) on Sunday defended his bipartisan proposal with Sen. Pat Toomey (R-Pa.) to expand background checks, saying that lawful gun owners had nothing to fear.  —  “If you are a law-abiding gun-owner …
Discussion: CNN
Matthew O'Brien / The Atlantic Online:
The Terrifying Reality of Long-Term Unemployment  —  It's an awful catch-22: employers won't hire you if you've been out of work for more than six months  —  Close your eyes and picture the scariest thing you can think of.  Maybe it's a giant spider or a giant Stay Puft marshmellow man or something that's not even giant at all.
Discussion: Eschaton
Terri Sanginiti / delawareonline:
Planned Parenthood temporarily suspends in-clinic abortion services at Wilmington site  —  Planned Parenthood of Delaware suspended in-clinic abortion services this week in the wake of some staffing changes at the Wilmington health center, officials said.  —  The action was taken earlier …
Discussion: Red Alert Politics
Ginger Gibson / Politico:
Scott Brown mum on N.H. Senate run  —  Former Massachusetts Sen. Scott Brown wasn't giving any previews about a possible Senate run in New Hampshire Sunday.  —  “I'm not going to comment on that, obviously,” the Republican said on “Fox News Sunday,” “Nothing is off the table, and nothing is on the table.
Mike Allen / Politico:
RUBIO ON IMMIGRATION DEAL: ‘not take-it-or-leave-it’ — NYT FLOATS ELIZABETH WARREN as possible 2016 liberal challenger to Hillary, Biden — WRIGLEY FIELD may get left-field Jumbotron  —  THE FULL MARCO: Sen. Marco Rubio pre-tapes seven Sunday-show two-ways from the Biltmore Hotel in Miami this a.m. …
Maggie Haberman / Politico:
The Anthony Weiner-Mark Sanford comeback playbook  —  What do Anthony Weiner and Mark Sanford have in common?  A comeback playbook.  —  The two are the latest examples of the accelerated post-sex scandal cycle, in which public rehabilitation can be attempted with a straight face just a few short years after the original sin.
Discussion: CNN and The Reaction
Ross Douthat / New York Times:
Balance and Bias  —  THE traditional American mass media — the crumbling, Internet-besieged edifice of newspapers and news shows, magazines and roundtables and journalism schools — evolved to believe with equal vigor in two not entirely compatible ideals.  —  One is an ideal of balance …
Yahoo! News:
Dad Furious After Finding This Crayon-Written Paper in Florida 4th-Grader's Backpack: ‘I Am Willing to Give Up Some of My Constitutional Rights...to Be Safer’  —  The words are written in crayon, in the haphazard bumpiness of a child's scrawl.  —  “I am willing to give up some of my constitutional rights …
 
 
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Jackie Calmes / New York Times:
Obama's Budget Revives Benefits as Divisive Issue
New York Times:
By Phone or by Text, Golf Entertains Second-Guessers
Cameron Joseph / The Hill:
Sen. Rubio defends emerging immigration deal as ‘not amnesty’
Discussion: Politico
Khaled Abu Toameh / Jerusalem Post:
Abbas accepts Palestinian PM Fayyad's resignation
Discussion: Power Line and Israel Matzav
Samantha-Rae Tuthill / AccuWeather.com:
Dazzling Northern Lights Anticipated Tonight
Discussion: Gothamist
 Earlier Items: 
Sabrina Siddiqui / The Huffington Post:
Jim Graves: Constituents Are ‘Embarrassed’ By Michele Bachmann
Discussion: The Reaction
Andrew Kaczynski / BuzzFeed:
Kermit Gosnell's Website Openly Offered “Late Terminations,” Sedation Choices
Discussion: Weasel Zippers
Cameron Joseph / The Hill:
Democrat changes story about talks with Progress Kentucky leaders
Igor Volsky / ThinkProgress:
The GOP Amendment That Could Kill Gun Reform
The Independent:
Full statement by MMR scare doctor Andrew Wakefield: 'The Government has tried to cover …
Discussion: Guardian and BBC