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2:40 PM ET, April 26, 2013

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Brian Beutler / Talking Points Memo:
How To Lose The Sequestration Fight  —  Last night, the Senate proved it can fix big problems for real Americans — so long as they're rich, or relatively rich, or fly for business or what have you.  —  The short version is that late last night it took a break from its regular schedule …
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Jonathan Weisman / New York Times:
House Joins Senate in Passing Bill to Ease Flight Delays  —  WASHINGTON — The House gave quick and overwhelming approval Friday to legislation to give the secretary of transportation enough financial flexibility to bring the nation's air traffic control system back up to full strength and end …
Pete Kasperowicz / The Hill:   House passes bill to end FAA furloughs in victory for GOP
Eric Moskowitz / Boston Globe:
Carjack victim recounts his harrowing night  —  The 26-year-old Chinese entrepreneur had just pulled his new Mercedes to the curb on Brighton Avenue to answer a text when an old sedan swerved behind him, slamming on the brakes.  A man in dark clothes got out and approached the passenger window.
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CNN:
Suspect separated from Boston victims  —  (CNN) — The surviving suspect in the Boston Marathon bombing has been moved from a Boston medical center to a federal Bureau of Prisons hospital about 40 miles away.  —  Dzhokhar Tsarnaev had been receiving treatment for a variety of wounds …
Peggy Noonan / Wall Street Journal:
The Presidential Wheel Turns  —  Disaffection for Bush gave us Obama.  That explains the new affection for Bush.  —  Barack Obama was elected president in 2008 because he was not George W. Bush.  In fact, he was elected because he was the farthest thing possible from Mr. Bush.
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Brian Mansfield / USA Today:
George Jones, country superstar, has died at 81 … NASHVILLE, Tenn. — George Jones, whose supple Texas voice conveyed heartbreak so profound that he became perhaps the most imitated singer in country music, died Friday at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville after being hospitalized …
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Jon Pareles / New York Times:
George Jones, Admired and Copied Country Singer, Dies at 81
Discussion: Taylor Marsh and alicublog
Andrew Dansby / Houston Chronicle:
Country legend George Jones dies
U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis:
National Income and Product Accounts  —  Gross Domestic Product, First Quarter 2013 (advance estimate)  —  Real gross domestic product — the output of goods and services produced by labor and property located in the United States — increased at an annual rate of 2.5 percent in the first quarter of 2013 …
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Catherine Rampell / New York Times:
U.S. Economy Speeds Up, but Less Than Forecast
Patrick Gavin / Politico:
Tom Brokaw says ‘no thanks’ to White House Correspondents' Dinner  —  Tom Brokaw blames it all on Lindsay Lohan.  —  Last year, Brokaw became one of the biggest critics of the annual White House Correspondents' Dinner after he saw Washington buzzing around and about the troubled Hollywood actress …
Discussion: Washington Monthly
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Roger Simon / Reuters:
Hey, White House Correspondents' Dinner critics: Relax, enjoy
Discussion: Yahoo! News and ABCNEWS
Leisa Zigman / KSDK-TV:
Former Congressman Todd Akin breaks silence: talks comeback, takes on Karl Rove  —  ST. LOUIS (KSDK) - Could Todd Akin be the new comeback kid?  —  The 65-year-old former congressman says don't rule him out.  Nearly six months after losing the Senate race he continues to be attacked from all sides of the political spectrum.
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
The 1 Percent's Solution  —  Economic debates rarely end with a T.K.O. But the great policy debate of recent years between Keynesians, who advocate sustaining and, indeed, increasing government spending in a depression, and austerians, who demand immediate spending cuts, comes close — at least in the world of ideas.
Discussion: The Week and Prairie Weather
Sharon LaFraniere / New York Times:
Farm Loan Bias Claims, Often Unsupported, Cost U.S. Millions  —  In the winter of 2010, after a decade of defending the government against bias claims by Hispanic and female farmers, Justice Department lawyers seemed to have victory within their grasp.  —  Ever since the Clinton administration agreed …
Robert Pear / New York Times:
Democratic Senators Tell White House of Concerns About Health Care Law Rollout  —  WASHINGTON — Democratic senators, at a caucus meeting with White House officials, expressed concerns on Thursday about how the Obama administration was carrying out the health care law they adopted three years ago.
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David Brooks / New York Times:
Health Chaos Ahead
Discussion: JustOneMinute
Jeremy Herb / The Hill:
Pelosi: Time for ‘next step’ in Syria  —  House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said Friday that it was time for the United States to “take it to the next step” in Syria in response to possible chemical weapons use, although she said that did not include putting “troops on the ground.”
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Carol Kuruvilla / NY Daily News:
Was this hottie deported from Saudi Arabia for being ‘too handsome’?  —  Religious police in the conservative country allegedly feared that three men from the United Arab Emirates were so handsome that ‘female visitors could fall for them.’ Whether or not Omar Borkan Al Gala is one of those three …
Discussion: Mediaite and msnbc.com
Politico:
‘This Town’: A Washington takedown  —  A year after signing a book contract to chronicle the incestuous ecology of insider Washington, New York Times writer Mark Leibovich was schmoozing his way through a going-away party for Joe Lockhart atop the Glover Park Group headquarters.
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Politico:
‘This Town’: A Washington takedown
Discussion: Washington Monthly
New York Times:
Debt, Growth and the Austerity Debate  —  IN May 2010, we published an academic paper, “Growth in a Time of Debt.”  Its main finding, drawing on data from 44 countries over 200 years, was that in both rich and developing countries, high levels of government debt — specifically …
Eric W. Dolan / The Raw Story:
Fox guest Michelle Malkin links Grover Norquist to Boston Marathon bombing  —  During an appearance on Fox News on Wednesday night, conservative commentator Michelle Malkin alleged that influential anti-tax crusader Grover Norquist was indirectly linked to the Boston Marathon bombing.
New York Post:
President's pick for French ambassador folded over ties to poker ring: sources  —  The Manhattan billionaire President Obama wanted to appoint ambassador to France turned down the prestigious position over ties to an alleged Russian mob-run poker ring that was laundered through a Carlyle hotel art gallery, sources told The Post.
 
 
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Will Connors / Wall Street Journal:
Samsung Plans ‘Rugged’ Version of Galaxy S 4 Phone
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Ben Casselman / Wall Street Journal:
Some Hospital Jobs Shrivel
Ron Synovitz / Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty:
Target Of Taliban Justice Tells Of Brutal Amputations
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Jessica Chasmar / Washington Times:
U.S. female sailor beats Dubai rapist bus driver into submission
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Lila Shapiro / The Huffington Post:
Bill Aiming To Ban Gay Conversion Therapy For Minors To Be Introduced In New York
Rob Bluey / The Heritage Foundation:
Michelle Malkin Wins 2013 Breitbart Award for Excellence in Journalism
Tarini Parti / Politico:
The Tea Party Caucus returns
Esther Zuckerman / The Atlantic Wire:
Boston Magazine's Heart-Shaped Shoes: The Story Behind the Beautiful Cover
Discussion: ThinkProgress and Shakesville
Jeremy W. Peters / New York Times:
Senators Quietly Seeking New Path on Gun Control
Discussion: Hit & Run, The Plum Line and msnbc.com
Matt Taibbi / Rolling Stone:
Everything is Rigged: The Biggest Financial Scandal Yet