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12:10 AM ET, May 8, 2013

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CNN:
Sanford wins South Carolina House vote  —  (CNN) - Former Gov. Mark Sanford will win the race for South Carolina's 1st Congressional District, CNN projects.  With 70% of the vote in, Republican Sanford leads Democrat Elizabeth Colbert Busch, 54%-45%.  —  Once considered a possible presidential …
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Sanford Leads / The Huffington Post:
COUNTY-BY-COUNTY … THE CANDIDATES  —  held this seat from 1995 to 2001 before serving as the governor of South Carolina from 2003 to 2011.  In 2009 he admitted to lying about having an affair with an Argentinian woman, to whom he is now engaged.  —  Elizabeth Colbert Busch (D) …
Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
Mark Sanford defeats Elizabeth Colbert Busch  —  Republican Mark Sanford has defeated Democrat Elizabeth Colbert Busch in South Carolina's 1st Congressional District special election.  The victory caps a dramatic comeback by the scandal-tinged former governor, whose political career was left …
Rachel Weiner / Post Politics:
Mark Sanford wins South Carolina special election
Erik Eckholm / New York Times:
Delaware, Continuing a Trend, Becomes the 11th State to Allow Same-Sex Unions  —  Delaware on Tuesday became the 11th state to permit same-sex marriage, the latest in a string of victories for those working to extend marital rights to gay and lesbian couples.
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Zack Ford / ThinkProgress:
BREAKING: Delaware Becomes 11th State With Marriage Equality [UPDATED]  —  Just now, the Delaware Senate voted 12-9, to approve marriage equality legislation (HB 75), guaranteeing that Delaware will become the 11th state that recognizes same-sex couples' marriages.  The law will take effect July 1.
Laurel Ramseyer / Firedoglake:
Delaware Becomes Eleventh State to Legalize Marriage Equality [Updated]
Discussion: Advocate and Freedom to Marry Blog
Jack Markell / CNN:
Delaware becomes eleventh state to approve same-sex marriage
Discussion: Associated Press
Irin Carmon / Salon:
Judge rips Obama's right-wing Plan B stance  —  “You're disadvantaging young people, African-Americans, the poor... that's the policy of the Obama administration?”  —  “It turns out that the same policies that President Bush followed were followed by President Obama,” said District Court Judge Edward Korman …
Discussion: Hullabaloo
Umbrella Security Labs:
Breaking news: Traffic from Syria Disappears from Internet  —  At around 18:45 UTC the OpenDNS resolvers saw a significant drop in traffic from Syria.  On closer inspection, it seems Syria has largely disappeared from the Internet.  —  The graph below shows DNS traffic from and to Syria.
Marc A. Thiessen / Washington Post:
A Benghazi bombshell  —  The Obama administration wants to consign the Benghazi terrorist attack to the history books, but this week three State Department officials will tell Congress that the Obama administration's version of history is false — and that the falsehoods it told the American people were willful and deliberate.
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Ashley Killough / CNN:
Biden on Susan Rice: She speaks for the president
Discussion: Politico
Kevin Glass / Townhall.com:
Report: Budget Deficit Shrinks Due To More Tax Revenue  —  The Congressional Budget Office released updated projections today to find that the federal budged deficit is smaller than at this point last year, and smaller than at any time since the 2008 financial crisis.
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Spencer Ackerman / Wired:
Air Force Brochure Tells Sexual Assault Victims to ‘Submit’  —  An Air Force brochure on sexual assault advises potential victims not to fight off their attackers.  —  “It may be advisable to submit [rather] than resist,” reads the brochure (.pdf), issued to airmen at Shaw Air Force Base in South Carolina …
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Brian Stelter / New York Times:
The Fox News Anchor Megyn Kelly Renews Contract  —  Two of the best-known anchors on the Fox News Channel, Greta Van Susteren and Megyn Kelly, have renewed their contracts, possibly foreshadowing the first change to the channel's prime time schedule in over a decade.
Steve Benen / The Maddow Blog:
'That's absurd beyond the word absurd'  —  You know Republican state lawmakers in Texas are pursuing a troubling agenda when “birther” legislation starts to move, and it's not the most ridiculous proposal worth watching.  —  Rather, this is (thanks to Anneli Kunze on our Facebook page for the tip).
WBFF-TV:
USAF Vet Willing to Offer National Cemetery Burial Plot to Bombing Suspect  —  US Air Force (USAF) veteran Julie Frein said she is willing to give up her burial plot at Arlington National Cemetery to Tamerlan Tsarnaev - the deceased Boston bombing suspect.  —  The Anne Arundel County woman told Fox45 …
Politico:
Immigration's new ally: Tea partiers  —  Immigration reform supporters are about to get some new conservative bonafides — prominent tea party backers.  —  Several conservative activists and tea party group leaders are meeting with Sen. Marco Rubio Tuesday afternoon to discuss immigration reform …
Discussion: Salon, Reuters, CNN, Rush Limbaugh and 24Ahead
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Tampa Bay Times:
Rubio sharply critical of Heritage study, offers parents as evidence of contribution of immigrants
Discussion: Mediaite, ThinkProgress and The Hill
New York Post:
Christie reveals secret stomach surgery to lose weight  —  New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie secretly underwent lap-band stomach surgery to aggressively slim down for the sake of his wife and kids, he revealed to The Post last night.  —  The Garden State governor agreed to the operation …
Niall Ferguson / Harvard News:
An Open Letter to the Harvard Community  —  Last week I said something stupid about John Maynard Keynes.  Asked to comment on Keynes' famous observation “In the long run we are all dead,” I suggested that Keynes was perhaps indifferent to the long run because he had no children, and that he had no children because he was gay.
USA Today:
Reports of sex abuse, beatings inside Cleveland house  —  THREE MISSING CLEVELAND WOMEN FREED  —  Three women who had been held captive for 10 years were found Monday in a Cleveland neighborhood, barely a mile from where they had been abducted.  Amanda Berry was able to escape and alert authorities …
Dylan Byers / Politico:
Cumulus CEO dings Limbaugh  —  Cumulus Media today reported a $2.4 million first-quarter decline in revenue related to talk programming, a loss that CEO Lew Dickey attributed, indirectly, to Limbaugh's controversial remarks about Georgetown law student Sandra Fluke.
Charlie Savage / New York Times:
Obama May Back F.B.I. Plan to Wiretap Web Users  —  WASHINGTON — The Obama administration, resolving years of internal debate, is on the verge of backing a Federal Bureau of Investigation plan for a sweeping overhaul of surveillance laws that would make it easier to wiretap people …
Pew Social & Demographic Trends:
Gun Homicide Rate Down 49% Since 1993 Peak; Public Unaware  —  Pace of Decline Slows in Past Decade  —  CHAPTER 1: OVERVIEW  —  National rates of gun homicide and other violent gun crimes are strikingly lower now than during their peak in the mid-1990s, paralleling a general decline in violent crime …
Danielle Dreilinger / New Orleans Times-Picayune:
Louisiana Supreme Court rules voucher funding violates the state Constitution  —  The state Supreme Court has declared the funding mechanism for Gov. Bobby Jindal's voucher program unconstitutional. … The Louisiana Supreme Court has ruled that the current method of funding the statewide school voucher program is unconstitutional.
Discussion: Colorlines, msnbc.com and Joanne Jacobs
Brent Budowsky / Pundits Blog:
GOP Benghazi hearings a partisan disgrace  —  Then House Republicans can testify en masse and offer a group apology for mocking and ignoring Clinton's warning.  —  The latest Issa public relations event, under the guise of a congressional hearing about the assault on the U.S Consulate in Benghazi …
Ruby Cramer / BuzzFeed:
Joe Biden Tells Supporter He Opposes Keystone Pipeline, But Is “In The Minority,” She Says  —  The activist recalls a conversation on the controversial pipeline project.  “He grabbed my Sierra Club hat on my head and said, 'Yes, I do — I share your views.”
Discussion: AMERICA RISING
Kathy Carvajal / myfoxny.com:
Gay couple attacked in Manhattan  —  By LUKE FUNK, Senior Web Producer -  —  NEW YORK (MYFOXNY) -  —  The NYPD is investigating a vicious attack on two men at the hands of a group who directed anti-gay remarks at them before the assault.  —  The attackers could be a crowd of New York Knicks fans …
International Business Times:
Lauryn Hill Blames Slavery as She's Jailed for $500,000 Unpaid Tax Bill  —  By Dominic Gover: Subscribe to Dominic's RSS feed  —  Lauryn Hill outside Newark court in New Jersey  —  Reclusive soul superstar Lauryn Hill has been jailed over an enormous unpaid tax bill.
John Sides / The Monkey Cage:
Obama's Voter Mobilization Was Barely More Effective than Romney's  —  As part of our mini-symposium on campaign effects in 2012, we welcome this guest post by Ryan Enos and Anthony Fowler.  The first post in this sequence, by Michael Franz, is here.  —  Does the 2012 Obama campaign deserve the hype?
Discussion: American Prospect
 
 
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Katherine Connell / National Review:
Benghazi: Do as I Say, or as I Do?  —  General Martin Dempsey …
Discussion: Hot Air
BBC:
DR Congo toughest place for mothers - Save the Children
Discussion: FP Passport and Informed Comment
Patrick J. Lyons / New York Times:
Ray Harryhausen, Cinematic Special-Effects Innovator, Dies at 92
Discussion: The Verge
David Brooks / New York Times:
Beyond the Fence  —  The opponents of immigration reform …
Discussion: The Monkey Cage and msnbc.com
Bernie Becker / The Hill:
Boehner says he ‘probably’ can't support online sales tax bill
David Dishneau / Associated Press:
Bradley Manning Pretrial Hearing Reaching New Level Of Secrecy
Discussion: Firedoglake and Balloon Juice
 Earlier Items: 
Charles Hill / The New Criterion:
A Burke for our time
Discussion: Opinionator and The Dish
Cameron Joseph / Ballot Box:
Barrow won't run for Senate in Georgia
Discussion: Politico and Booman Tribune
Justin Sink / The Hill:
Obama: North Korea can't bully the world with nuclear threats
Discussion: Politico and CNN
Climate Guest Blogger / ThinkProgress:
STUDY: Media Ignore Climate Context Of Midwest Floods
Greg Miller / Washington Post:
CIA selects new head of clandestine service, passing over officer tied to interrogation program
Rachael Bade / Politico:
Bill Clinton: Stop obsessing over Hillary
Discussion: Taylor Marsh and CNN
David Freedlander / The Daily Beast:
In Virginia, Terry McAuliffe's Memoir Comes Back to Haunt Him