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12:00 PM ET, May 23, 2013

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TIME:
TIME Exclusive: President Obama's 1979 Prom Photos  —  Tucked away in someone else's shoe box of adolescent artifacts, there might be a picture of you in garish clothes and with an outdated 'do, your arm around a high school squeeze.  The President of the United States is no different.
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Charlie Savage / New York Times:
U.S. Acknowledges Killing 4 Americans in Drone Strikes  —  WASHINGTON — One day before President Obama is due to deliver a major speech on national security, his administration on Wednesday formally acknowledged that the United States had killed four American citizens in drone strikes in Yemen and Pakistan.
Max Rivlin-Nadler / Gawker:
At Long Last, Here are Obama's Prom Pics
Discussion: Yahoo! News and Rumproast
Washington Post:
U.S. acknowledges killing of four U.S. citizens in counterterrorism operations
Discussion: Crooks and Liars
Washington Post:
On IRS issue, senior White House aides were focused on shielding Obama  —  As soon as White House counsel Kathryn Ruemmler heard about an upcoming inspector general's report on the Internal Revenue Service, she knew she had a problem.  —  The notice Ruemmler saw on April 24 gave …
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Wall Street Journal:
The Unaccountable Executive  —  If the President doesn't run the government, then who does?  —  Every day brings new revelations about who knew what about the IRS targeting conservative groups during President Obama's re-election campaign, but the overall impression is of a vast federal bureaucracy run amok.
Mitch McConnell / Washington Post:
The IRS scandal and Obama's culture of intimidation  —  Mitch McConnell, a Republican, represents Kentucky in the Senate, where he is the minority leader.  —  Revelations about the Internal Revenue Service targeting conservative groups have raised important questions about the Obama administration's commitment to the First Amendment.
Ed Kilgore / Washington Monthly:
Return of the Poor Little Rich Boys  —  You have to hand it to Mitch McConnell.  While other scandal-mad Republicans are off on a wild goose chase that could well end in 1998, McConnell's focused on exploiting scandals to promote his very favorite cause, and his special gift to the corruption …
Discussion: Mother Jones
Meghashyam Mali / The Hill:
‘Inconceivable’ Obama didn't know about IRS sooner, says Boehner
Discussion: Politico
Reuters:
London attackers British, of Nigerian origin: source  —  (Reuters) - British authorities believe that two men accused of hacking a soldier to death on a London street in revenge for wars in Muslim countries are British of Nigerian descent, a source close to the investigation said Thursday.
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Bill Hoffmann / NewsMax.com:
Alan Dershowitz: IRS Chief Lerner ‘Can Be Held in Contempt’  —  More ways to share...  Mixx  —  Stumbled  —  LinkedIn  —  Vine  —  Buzzflash  —  Newstrust  —  Technocrati  —  Forward Article  —  Lois Lerner, the Internal Revenue Service's embattled director of Exempt Organizations …
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Rachael Bade / Politico:
Darrell Issa: Lois Lerner lost her rights
Susan Ferrechio / Washington Examiner:
Emails show how Treasury delayed alerting Congress to Tea Party targeting
Discussion: TheBlaze.com
John Hudson / Foreign Policy:
Issa gets what he wants: Pickering agrees to Benghazi interview
Discussion: Politico, CNN, Hot Air and First Read
Orin Kerr / The Volokh Conspiracy:
Can A Congressional Witness Deny Guilt and Then Plead the Fifth?
Discussion: Power Line and National Review
Syracuse Post-Standard:
What Gov. Andrew Cuomo has to say about Anthony Weiner  —  Gov. Andrew Cuomo was in Syracuse today to announce new tax incentives to attract businesses to state college campuses.  After that he met with the editorial board of the Syracuse Media Groupâs Post-Standard and syracuse.com where he explained his new tax plan in depth.
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Evan McMorris-Santoro / BuzzFeed:
Tensions Brew Inside White House Over Counsel's Role  —  Has an overly-aggressive White House Counsel's office gotten Obama into trouble more than once?  —  Via: Jonathan Ernst / Reuters  —  WASHINGTON — As they watched President Obama lumber into controversy over mandating contraception coverage …
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Aaron Blake / Post Politics:
Boehner: ‘Inconceivable’ that Obama didn't know about IRS targeting
Discussion: Daily Kos and The Plum Line
Sam Baker / The Hill:
Insurers feel pressure from health group with ties to White House
Discussion: Hot Air
Molly Ball / The Atlantic Online:
How to Save the GOP  —  What Republicans can learn from the Democrats' revival  —  The party is in desperate straits.  It has lost the popular vote in five of the past six presidential elections.  It consoles itself with a majority in Congress, but even there its ranks are dwindling.
The Daily Show with Jon Stewart:
Exclusive - Bill O'Reilly Extended Interview Pt. 1  —  In this exclusive, unedited interview, Bill O'Reilly explains his prolific book production, and admits to being too easy on President Obama.
Lamar Alexander / Wall Street Journal:
Kathleen Sebelius, Meet Oliver North  —  Is the Department of Health and Human Services engaged in a domestic Iran-Contra?  —  Major news outlets in recent days have reported that U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius is raising money from the private sector …
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Meghashyam Mali / The Hill:
Alexander likens Sebelius to Iran-Contra figure Oliver North
Jimio / Twitter Blog:
Getting started with login verification  —  Every day, a growing number of people log in to Twitter.  Usually these login attempts come from the genuine account owners, but we occasionally hear from people whose accounts have been compromised by email phishing schemes or a breach of password data elsewhere on the web.
George F. Will / Washington Post:
Appeals court limits labor board's lawlessness  —  Early in an opinion issued recently by a unanimous three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, Judge A. Raymond Randolphsaid: “Although the parties have not raised it, one issue needs to be resolved before we turn to the merits of the case.”
Discussion: Booman Tribune
Kerry Picket / BREITBART.COM:
STRATFOR EMAIL: BRENNAN BEHIND ‘WITCH HUNT’ OF JOURNALISTS REPORTING LEAKS  —  An obscure November 2012 Wikileaks email dump points to former White House counterterrorism adviser and now-CIA chief John Brennan as the person behind the “witch hunt” of journalists who reported unflattering Obama administration leaks.
 
 
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Joe Crea / Plain Dealer:
Charles Ramsey, who helped free Cleveland kidnap victims, gets burgers for life
Discussion: U.S. News
Steven Greenhouse / New York Times:
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Chad Terhune / Los Angeles Times:
UnitedHealth, Aetna and Cigna opt out of California insurance exchange
Discussion: Hot Air and Riehl World News
Beth Reinhard / NationalJournal.com:
Ted Cruz's Path From George W. Bush Adviser to Immigration Reform Opponent
BBC:
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Discussion: PoliBlog
 Earlier Items: 
The Boston Globe:
Elizabeth Warren gets publisher for book proposal
Discussion: The Hill and Taegan Goddard's …
Alexander Burns / Politico:
New gay-rights battleground: Virginia
Richmond Times-Dispatch:
City prosecutor investigating McDonnell's disclosures
Discussion: Taegan Goddard's … and WJLA-TV
David French / National Review:
IRS Morality: Defend Planned Parenthood, Deluge Adoptive Families with Audits
Yahoo! News:
With civil unions, Bisbee, Ariz., joins gay-rights revolt against red states
Discussion: Firedoglake