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9:50 PM ET, May 3, 2013

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Andy Greenberg / Forbes:
This Is The World's First Entirely 3D-Printed Gun (Photos)  —  The 3D-printed gun that Cody Wilson calls the “Liberator.”  Click to enlarge.  (Credit: Michael Thad Carter for Forbes)  —  Eight months ago, Cody Wilson set out to create the world's first entirely 3D-printable handgun.  —  Now he has.
Barbara Starr / CNN:
Sources: U.S. believes Israel has conducted an airstrike into Syria  —  (CNN) — The United States believes Israel has conducted an airstrike into Syria, two U.S. officials tell CNN.  —  U.S. and Western intelligence agencies are reviewing classified data showing Israel most likely conducted …
Miketoole / CBS Boston:
CBS News: Boston Marathon Bomb DNA Does Not Match Tamerlan Tsarnaev's Wife  —  BOSTON (CBS) - Female DNA and fingerprints found on a bomb fragment recovered from the Boston Marathon attacks do not match the widow of Tamerlan Tsarnaev, CBS News reported Friday.
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Sari Horwitz / Washington Post:
Investigators sharpen focus on Boston bombing suspect's widow
Discussion: Hot Air and The Jawa Report
James Pethokoukis / AEIdeas:
Part-time Nation: Was the April jobs report really the Obamacare jobs report?  —  US job growth in April beat economist expectations as nonfarm payrolls rose 165,000, and the jobless rate fell to a four-year low of 7.5%.  But the report contained worrisome signs that President Obama's health care reform law …
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Byron York / Washington Examiner:
Winning Hispanic vote would not be enough for GOP … After six months of mulling over November's election results, many Republicans remain convinced that the party's only path to future victory is to improve the GOP's appeal to Hispanic voters.  But how many Hispanic voters do Republicans need …
Discussion: Hullabaloo and Power Line
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Ronald Brownstein / NationalJournal.com:
Why No One's Winning in Washington
Discussion: Mother Jones and Yahoo! News
Peggy Noonan / Wall Street Journal:
Is Obama a Lame Duck Already?
RealClearPolitics Video Log:
Obama Blames U.S. For Gun Violence In Mexico  —  “Most of the guns used to commit violence here in Mexico come from the United States,” President Obama said during a speech at Mexico's Anthropology Museum.  “I think many of you know that in America, our Constitution guarantees our individual right to bear arms.
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Justin Sink / The Hill:
Michelle Obama: Gun violence has children fearing death every day
Alexander Burns / Politico:
Wealthy exec poised to take on Al Franken  —  A wealthy Minneapolis finance executive appears poised to enter the race against first-term Democratic Sen. Al Franken.  —  In an email earlier this week, a private real estate company solicited assistance in finding a campaign headquarters …
Discussion: Red Racing Horses
Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
Markey starts general with 4 point lead  —  PPP's first poll of the general election in the Massachusetts Senate special finds a close race, with Ed Markey leading Gabriel Gomez by a 44-40 margin.  —  Gomez is starting out as a pretty popular candidate, with 41% of voters rating him favorably to 27% with an unfavorable opinion.
Greg Sargent / The Plum Line:
How Marco Rubio is enticing conservatives on immigration reform  —  So how can Republicans who want immigration reform get conservatives to accept it, given that Obama also wants it?  —  Republicans pushing for reform have come up with a strategic answer to that question, one that isn't really acknowledged openly.
Discussion: Mother Jones
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Nicholas Watt / Guardian:
Ukip success prompts Cameron to reach out and ‘show respect’  —  PM who once called Ukip ‘fruitcakes’ says it is no good insulting party that won nearly a quarter of the vote in English local elections  —  David Cameron has reached out to Ukip voters by saying the Tories will now show respect …
Discussion: Booman Tribune
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Tim Stanley / blogs.telegraph.co.uk:
Ukip is a very British revolution
Discussion: Hit & Run, BBC and National Review
The Atlantic Wire:
The Drudge Report Fell Hard for This Fake Bloomberg Pizza Revenge Story  —  Plenty of people fell for a harmless, Onion-esque satire about pizza on Thursday night, but the biggest fish reeled in by the the humor site that likes to reel in big fish appears to be Matt Drudge.
Jon Favreau / The Daily Beast:
Leading From Below  —  Memo to everyone lambasting Obama for not getting along with Congress: The president is not all powerful.  And he needs help from his supporters.  By Jon Favreau.  —  He added the words in one of the later drafts.  The announcement speech had been missing something …
Marie Saavedra / KASW-TV:
Company behind ‘My First Rifle’ under fire for child's shooting death  —  PHOENIX — Marketed as the best rifle to get your kids started shooting, the Crickett ‘My First Rifle’ has sold millions since its debut in 1996.  —  One of those weapons was a birthday gift to a 5-year-old boy in Kentucky.
Mackenzie Weinger / Politico:
Washington Post suffers 85% earnings drop  —  The Washington Post Co. on Friday reported bad news for its newspaper division, with revenue totaling $127.3 million for the first quarter of this year — down four percent from 2012 — and an operating loss of $34.5 million.
Discussion: Washington Monthly
Ben Armbruster / ThinkProgress:
Former Bush Official Praises Nazis' Respect For Laws Of War In Defending Gitmo  —  A former Bush White House official on Thursday made the case that Nazi Germany had adhered to the laws of war during World War II when defending the Bush administration's decision to open the Guantanamo Bay prison for terror suspects.
Stephen F. Hayes / Weekly Standard:
The Benghazi Talking Points  —  ADVANCE ARTICLE from the May 13, 2013 issue.  —  Even as the White House strove last week to move beyond questions about the Benghazi attacks of Tuesday, September 11, 2012, fresh evidence emerged that senior Obama administration officials knowingly misled …
Ashley Killough / CNN:
Palin fires up NRA crowd, hits Obama for using Newtown families  —  (CNN) - Sarah Palin blasted President Barack Obama and gun control advocates Friday, blaming them for “exploiting” recent mass shooting tragedies to promote their political agenda.  —  Speaking to a welcoming crowd …
Pete Kasperowicz / The Hill:
Cantor promises House vote to repeal ObamaCare soon  —  Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) told House Republicans on Friday that they will soon get a chance to vote a full repeal of ObamaCare.  —  “While we have not locked in the timing, I expect that the House will vote on full repeal …
Discussion: Politico and Daily Kos
Hunter Schwarz / BuzzFeed:
CNN Panelist Calls Mitt Romney A “Religious Fanatic” For Encouraging Mormon Graduates To Have Families  —  Romney was criticized on CNN after talking to graduates at a predominantly Mormon university about the importance of marriage and family.  —  Mitt Romney spoke at Southern Virginia University commencement last week.
Discussion: National Review and TheBlaze.com
Wall Street Journal:
Pentagon Bulks Up ‘Bunker Buster’ Bomb to Combat Iran  —  U.S. Upgrades Weapon to Penetrate Key Nuclear Site; Push to Persuade Israelis … A 2009 satellite image shows a suspected nuclear facility being built in Iran.  —  WASHINGTON—The Pentagon has redesigned its biggest “bunker buster” …
TheTower.org:
“Our Children Love Martyrdom”: Hamas Photo Glorifies Child Soldier Deaths  —  In an extensive expose published late last month, The Telegraph documented the extent to which Hamas is training Palestinian schoolboys to use assault-style weapons and battle Israel.
L.V. Anderson / Slate:
You Are What You Buy  —  An academic book about the evolution of restaurants sheds new light on the moral bankruptcy of foodie-ism.  —  The most widely read takedown of foodie-ism is probably B.R. Myers' “The Moral Crusade Against Foodies,” which was published in the Atlantic a little over two years ago.
Discussion: Balloon Juice
 
 
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Steve Connor / The Independent:
‘Appalling irresponsibility’: Senior scientists attack Chinese researchers for creating new strains …
Zack Ford / ThinkProgress:
Rush Limbaugh: Where's The ‘Tolerance’ For People Who Come Out As Bigots?
BBC:
Google edition adopts ‘Palestine’
Discussion: Joe. My. God., Guardian and FP Passport
CBS News:
1 killed in Houston airport shooting
Discussion: The Raw Story and Right Wing Watch
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