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12:40 PM ET, May 9, 2013

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New York Times:
Official Offers Account From Libya of Benghazi Attack  —  WASHINGTON — A State Department official presented a minute-by-minute account on Wednesday of what happened during the seige of the diplomatic compound in Benghazi last Sept. 11, offering the first public testimony from an American official …
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John Podhoretz / New York Post:
Failings of Bam & Hill laid bare  —  After a remarkable House hearing yesterday, we can say this with almost complete certainty: The Obama administration knew perfectly well that last year's Sept. 11 attack on Americans and American facilities in Benghazi was a terrorist act …
Discussion: Politico and PJ Media
Justin SInk / The Hill:
Rubio: Clinton's handling of Benghazi was ‘sad’
Discussion: Taylor Marsh
Tom Bevan / Real Clear Politics:
A Coverup Laid Bare
Justin Sink / The Hill:
Sen. Coburn: ‘Glaring omission’ in Benghazi information from State Dept.
Discussion: Hot Air, TheBlaze.com and Yahoo! News
Kevin Cirilli / Politico:
Marco Rubio knocks Hillary Clinton on Benghazi
Discussion: The Raw Story and Post Politics
Washington Post:
Diplomat: Request for Special Ops team in Benghazi denied
Rosie Gray / BuzzFeed:
Benghazi Investigation Creeps Closer To Hillary Clinton
Katie Pavlich / Townhall.com:
Hillary Clinton's Big Benghazi Lie
Discussion: Taylor Marsh
Michael Hirsh / NationalJournal.com:
Benghazi: Incompetence, But No Cover-up
Brian Beutler / Talking Points Memo:
Meet Democrats' Newest Republican Crush: Ted Cruz?!?!  —  Starting around the time he launched a bogus attack on then-Defense Secretary nominee Chuck Hagel, Democrats have loved to hate Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX).  —  They made sure as many as people as possible saw him condescend to Sen. Dianne Feinstein …
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Margaret Talev / Bloomberg:
Obama Austin Tech Tour Raises Democrat Profile in Texas
Felix Salmon:
The tragedy of US higher education  —  The tragedy of Cooper Union is endemic to most American higher education, outside a few community colleges; Cooper is just the special case where the blind rush to some kind of global greatness directly and explicitly violates the institution's founding mission.
Discussion: Wonkblog and Lawyers, Guns & Money
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NewAmerica.net:
Undermining Pell  —  How Colleges Compete for Wealthy Students and Leave the Low-Income Behind  —  Nearly fifty years ago, the federal government committed itself to removing the financial barriers that prevent low-income students from enrolling in and completing colleges.
Discussion: Mother Jones
Pew Research Center:
Six Take-Aways from the Census Bureau's Voting Report  —  Today's report from the Census Bureau on the diversifying American electorate in 2012 confirms an historic turnout milestone first noted last December by the Pew Research Center, but undercuts a number of other widely-reported demographic analyses …
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Meghashyam Mali / The Hill:
Census Bureau: Black turnout passed white voters in 2012
Discussion: CNN
Hunter Walker / Talking Points Memo:
NYC Considering Allowing Non-Citizens To Vote  —  New York City could soon become the first major city in the country to give non-citizens the right to vote.  The proposal, which would allow certain non-citizens to vote in local elections, appears to have a veto-proof majority in the New York City Council …
Discussion: ThinkProgress and The Raw Story
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Allan Wernick / NY Daily News:
Immigration: City Council to discuss allowing non-citizens to vote in city elections
Discussion: Weasel Zippers and National Review
Sahil Kapur / Talking Points Memo:
Elizabeth Warren: Let Students Borrow At The Same Low Rate That Banks Get  —  Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) is reigniting a battle over student loan interest rates that infused the campaign trail last year and put Republicans in a predicament with young voters.
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Sarah Muller / msnbc.com:
Elizabeth Warren: Students shouldn't pay a higher rate than banks
Wesley Lowery / Boston Globe:
Body of Tamerlan Tsarnaev is buried outside Massachusetts, official says  —  WORCESTER - The body of Tamerlan Tsarnaev has been buried somewhere outside of Massachusetts, according to a funeral home official briefed on the situation.  —  The official said that the remains …
Jonathan Martin / Politico:
Lindsey Graham faces down primary challenge  —  COLUMBIA, S.C. — If any Senate Republican up for re-election next year would seem ripe for a primary defeat it's Lindsey Graham.  —  Running in a conservative, Southern state that has proven friendly to insurgents in recent years …
Frank Phillips / The Boston Globe:
Gomez took $281,500 home tax deduction  —  Republican US Senate nominee Gabriel E. Gomez claimed a $281,500 income tax deduction in 2005 for pledging not to make any visible changes to the facade of his 112-year-old Cohasset home, a concession so valuable that it is classified …
TIME:
Top White House Aide Has A Secret Beer With Rep. Paul Ryan  —  On April 10, the day President Obama released his 2014 budget, White House Chief of Staff Denis McDonough held a secret meeting with House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan at a K Street restaurant, Brasserie Beck, to talk …
Discussion: Politico, Yahoo! News and Post Politics
Dylan Byers / Politico:
POLITICO to test metered paywall  —  From the folks up top: … Also: We started experimenting with sponsored content today.
Josh Feldman / Mediaite:
Stewart Rips Fox News Over Benghazi Coverage: ‘Denizens Of Bullsh*t Mountain Have Cried Wolf Before’  —  Jon Stewart tonight took on today's big Congressional hearing on Benghazi, and specifically on how it's become the latest way Fox News has gone all-out in covering a potential Obama administration scandal …
Lori Montgomery / Washington Post:
Are Republicans really gunning for another debt-limit showdown?  —  The federal debt limit is set to kick back into effect next weekend after a three-month hiatus, marking the start of a political game of chicken likely to culminate in the fall, when Congress will have to give President Obama a higher limit or risk a federal default.
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Judiciary adopts six amendments to tighten border  —  The Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday adopted six Republican amendments to immigration reform legislation to strengthen the border.  —  One amendment sponsored by Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) adds the Senate and House Judiciary Committees …
Discussion: Politico
 
 
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