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6:50 PM ET, May 1, 2014

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Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
The worst excuse ever: The Rhodes memo debacle  —  The White House damage control on the latest batch of Benghazi emails is not going well.  The White House's belated release of the documents at the very least show it has been actively evading legitimate congressional requests for relevant information.
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Justin Sink / The Hill:
Can Obama get his groove back?  —  It's been more than a year since President Obama saw his approval rating hit 50 percent, and his still-souring numbers have Democrats fretting about his toxic effect in November.  —  Party strategists say the solution is for the White House to shake …
Andrew C. McCarthy / National Review:
Obama's ‘Blame the Video’ Fraud Started in Cairo, Not Benghazi  —  The e-mail revelations and the Obama administration's lies  —  Here is the main point: The rioting at the American embassy in Cairo was not about the anti-Muslim video.  As argued here repeatedly (see here and here) …
Andrew Kirell / Mediaite:
Lindsey Graham: White House Officials Are ‘Scumbags’ for Lying About Benghazi
Discussion: Politico and The Huffington Post
Sahil Kapur / Talking Points Memo:
Antonin Scalia's Blunder Is Unprecedented, Legal Experts Say  —  Justice Antonin Scalia's factual error in a dissenting opinion Tuesday has become the talk of the legal community as experts puzzle over the extraordinary nature of the Reagan-appointed justice's blunder, which the Supreme Court quietly corrected as of Wednesday morning.
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Lyle Denniston / SCOTUSblog:
Commentary: From the bench to the podium  —  Commentary  —  In ways large and small, the idealized expectation that the Supreme Court will stay outside the political arena continues to diminish in a country with polarized partisanship and fragmented cultural values.
ed.gov:
U.S. Department of Education Releases List of Higher Education Institutions with Open Title IX Sexual Violence Investigations  —  Contact: Press Office, (202) 401-1576, press@ed.gov  —  The U.S. Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights (OCR) released today a list …
The Lead with Jake Tapper:
Biking with Bush: Former president opens up about veterans, Jeb 2016  —  Crawford, Texas (CNN) - It is not an easy ride.  —  The rugged 100-kilometer mountain bike ride cuts through the Texas hill country and was designed to keep a fitness freak on his toes.
Discussion: The Week and CNN
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Lucy McCalmont / Politico:
Bush: Jeb would be ‘great president ’
Discussion: Trail Blazers Blog
Jonathan Cohn / The New Republic:
Obamacare Is Getting the Benghazi Treatment, Courtesy of House Republicans  —  House Republicans just put out a new report on the Affordable Care Act.  You should take is as seriously as you take all reports from House Republicans these days.  —  In other words, you shouldn't take it seriously.
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Robert Pear / New York Times:
Administration Details Late Surge in Health Enrollments
Marlow Stern / The Daily Beast:
John Oliver on ‘Last Week Tonight,’ Turning Down CBS, and ‘Nauseating’ American Politics  —  The newly minted host of HBO's ‘Last Week Tonight with John Oliver’ sat down to discuss his new gig, the strange state of U.S. politics, and more over coffee.  —  “I'm still getting used to this whole interview thing,” says John Oliver.
Discussion: Mediaite, Althouse and Yahoo! News
Snapchat:
Putting the Chat into Snapchat  —  Building Snapchat has taught us a lot about what makes conversation special.  When we first started working on an application for sharing disappearing pictures, we had no idea how much we would learn.  Our classmates were quick to point out that you could always take a screenshot.
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Frank Gunn / Toronto Star:
Rob Ford did cocaine on wild night, witnesses say  —  Mayor Rob Ford's latest spiral into substance abuse began just over a month ago at a party in an exclusive Exhibition Place club.  —  Toronto Mayor Rob Ford leave his home early on May 1, 2014.  —  Photos View photos  — zoom
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Royson James Toronto / Toronto Star:
Rob Ford is out of time and must resign: James
Discussion: VodkaPundit and The Daily Caller
Catherine Thompson / Talking Points Memo:
Fox News Brands Scientific American Editor A ‘Coward’ (VIDEO)  —  A Scientific American editor must have struck a nerve over at Fox News this week when he tweeted about having a “Fox & Friends” producer shoot down his idea to talk about the impacts of climate change on the show.
Politico:
What Is Hillary Clinton Afraid Of?  —  Over the 25 years Hillary Clinton has spent in the national spotlight, she's been smeared and stereotyped, the subject of dozens of over-hyped or downright fictional stories and books alleging, among other things, that she is a lesbian …
Henry Chu / Los Angeles Times:
Vatican to debate teachings on divorce, birth control, gay unions  —  Pope Francis meets with Polish President Bronislaw Komorowski, left, at the Vatican.  On the pontiff's orders, the Vatican will convene a meeting of senior clerics this fall to reexamine church teachings that touch the most intimate aspects of people's lives.
Olga Khazan / The Atlantic Online:
This Town Needs a Better Class of Racist  —  The question Cliven Bundy put to his audience last week—Was the black family better off as property?—is as immoral as it unoriginal.  As both Adam Serwer and Jamelle Bouie point out, the roster of conservative theorists who imply that black people …
Oren Dorell / Associated Press:
General: Military should've tried to rescue Benghazi Americans  —  WASHINGTON — U.S. military personnel knew early on that the Benghazi attack was a “hostile action” and not a protest gone awry, according to a retired general who served at U.S. Africa Command's headquarters in Germany during the attack.
ThinkProgress:
Seattle Announces $15 Minimum Wage, Highest In The U.S.  —  Seattle will raise its minimum wage to $15 an hour over the coming years under a deal brokered by Mayor Ed Murray and blessed by labor and business groups alike, city leaders announced Thursday afternoon.
John Podesta / White House.gov Blog:
Findings of the Big Data and Privacy Working Group Review  —  Over the past several days, severe storms have battered Arkansas, Oklahoma, Mississippi and other states.  Dozens of people have been killed and entire neighborhoods turned to rubble and debris as tornadoes have touched down across the region.
New York Times:
De Blasio Announces Contract Deal With Teachers' Union  —  Mayor Bill de Blasio, confronting a key challenge of his first year in office, announced what he called a “landmark” labor deal on Thursday with New York City's largest teachers' union that officials said would provide a framework …
Discussion: Gothamist and NPR
Sara Reardon / Nature:
WHO warns against ‘post-antibiotic’ era  —  Agency recommends global system to monitor spread of resistant microbes.  —  Rights & Permissions  —  The ‘post-antibiotic’ era is near, according to a report released today by the World Health Organization (WHO).
 
 
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Annie Lowrey / New York Times:
Changed Life of the Poor: Better Off, but Far Behind
Theresa Vargas / Washington Post:
In Bucks County, Pa., school board overrides student newspaper's ban on use of ‘Redskins’
Steven Erlanger / New York Times:
Gerry Adams Questioned Over Murder From 1972
Ilya Somin / Washington Post:
Victims of Communism Day
Discussion: Hit & Run
George F. Will / Washington Post:
The heavy hand of the IRS seizes innocent Americans' assets
Discussion: VodkaPundit
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Vince Coglianese / The Daily Caller:
Everything About This Eleanor Holmes Sentence Is Wrong [VIDEO]
Discussion: Hot Air and Mediaite
Mark Flatten / Washington Examiner:
Veterans Affairs officials purged 1.5 million unfinished medical orders
Alan I. Abramowitz / Sabato's Crystal Ball:
The Minimal Class Divide in American Politics
Ben Smith / BuzzFeed:
Benjamin Netanyahu Has Had Enough Of Your Selfies
Scott Johnson / Power Line:
Bill Henck: Inside the IRS, part 2
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