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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 …
Justin SInk / The Hill:
Rubio: Clinton's handling of Benghazi was ‘sad’ — Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) said Thursday that he was saddened by former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's handling of the terrorist attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya. — Rubio said he believed Clinton and others …
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Tom Bevan / Real Clear Politics:
A Coverup Laid Bare — Thanks to House Republicans, Americans finally got to hear from the State Department officials the Obama administration never wanted to testify. They are now called “whistleblowers,” but that's only because their accounts of what really happened in Libya on Sept. 11 …
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Ben Armbruster / ThinkProgress:
Benghazi Review Board Chair Says Notion Of Cover Up Is ‘Pulitzer Prize Fiction’
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Rosie Gray / BuzzFeed:
Benghazi Investigation Creeps Closer To Hillary Clinton
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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 …
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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 …
Meghashyam Mali / The Hill:
Census Bureau: Black turnout passed white voters in 2012 — A Census Bureau analysis released Wednesday shows that in the 2012 election black voters surpassed the turnout of white voters for the first time. — According to the report, 66.2 percent of eligible black voters cast their ballots …
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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 …
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David Scharfenberg / WBUR:
Markey Edges Gomez In WBUR Senate Poll — BOSTON — A new WBUR poll (PDFs - topline, crosstabs) shows U.S. Rep. Edward Markey leading former Navy SEAL Gabriel Gomez 41 to 35 percent in the Massachusetts U.S. Senate race. — Markey's six-point edge expands to an eight-point margin …
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Joshua Miller / Boston Globe:
National Democrats hit Gomez for role with group critical of Obama
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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 …
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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 …
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Jonathan Easley / The Hill:
Republican leader rips the media for ‘shoving us in the corner’ — House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) ripped the media in a speech Tuesday to the Ripon Society, arguing press coverage is partly responsible for the GOP's messaging woes. — Cantor, who has tried to recast the image …
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Washington Monthly and Shakesville
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.
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Associated Press:
Egyptian official: American stabbed by assailant outside US Embassy in Cairo — CAIRO - An Egyptian security official says an American national was attacked and stabbed outside the U.S. Embassy in Cairo. — The official says an assailant attacked the American with a knife as he was standing …
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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 …
Gary Langer / ABCNEWS:
Poll Finds Majority Acceptance of Gays From the B-ball Court to the Boy Scouts — A new ABC News/Washington Post poll finds further public acceptance of gay rights in the United States, in areas ranging from the professional basketball court to the Boy Scouts, as well as the institution of marriage.
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Guardian:
Stephen Hawking: Furore deepens over Israel boycott — Political motive revealed after Cambridge University first claimed scientist's non-attendance was on medical grounds — The celebrated physicist Stephen Hawking became embroiled in a deepening furore today over his decision to boycott …
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Israel Matzav, Informed Comment and Sky Dancing
TechCrunch:
Microsoft Mulling Nook Media LLC Purchase For $1 Billion — Microsoft is offering to pay $1 billion to buy the digital assets of Nook Media LLC, the digital book and college book joint venture with Barnes & Noble and other investors, according to internal documents we've obtained.
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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 …
Anna Palmer / Reuters:
NRA-Giffords fight heats up — The Senate voted down a gun control measure last month, but the fight is just beginning. — The National Rifle Association and new pro-gun control groups headed by former Rep. Gabby Giffords and Michael Bloomberg are in an arms race since …
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