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7:00 PM ET, May 5, 2014

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Pew Research Center for the People and the Press:
Midterm Election Indicators Daunting for Democrats  —  No Improvement in Perceptions of Job Market  —  With the midterm elections six months away, Democrats are burdened by an uneven economic recovery and a stubbornly unpopular health care law.  Perhaps equally important …
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Jenna Levy / Gallup:
U.S. Uninsured Rate Drops to 13.4%  —  Uninsured rate down nearly four percentage points since late 2013  —  WASHINGTON, D.C. — The uninsured rate for U.S. adults in April was 13.4%, down from 15.0% in March.  This is the lowest monthly uninsured rate recorded since Gallup and Healthways began tracking it in January 2008.
USA Today:
Poll: For the midterms, a tilt to the GOP … LEANING REPUBLICAN OBAMA'S IMPACT  —  IMPORTANT ISSUES  —  VIEWPOINTS  —  Source: USA TODAY/Pew Research Center poll taken April 23-27 of 1,501 adults.  Margin of error: +/-3 percentage points.  —  WASHINGTON — Democrats hoping improvements …
Pew Research Center for the People and the Press:
Views of the Affordable Care Act and Its Future
Discussion: Daily Kos
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Inventing a Failure  —  Last week, House Republicans released …
Discussion: ThinkProgress and Washington Post
Adam Liptak / New York Times:
In Justices' Votes, Free Speech Often Means ‘Speech I Agree With’  —  WASHINGTON — Justice Antonin Scalia is known as a consistent and principled defender of free speech rights.  —  It pained him, he has said, when he voted to strike down a law making flag burning a crime.
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Adam Liptak / New York Times:
Supreme Court Allows Prayers at Town Meetings  —  WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Monday ruled that a town in upstate New York may begin its public meetings with a prayer from a “chaplain of the month.”  —  Justice Anthony M. Kennedy, writing for the majority in the 5-to-4 decision …
Richard Wolf / USA Today:
Supreme Court upholds prayer at government meetings
Joe Hagan / New York Magazine:
Benghazi and the Bombshell  —  Is Lara Logan too toxic to return to 60 Minutes?  —  Eleven years ago, the 60 Minutes correspondent Lara Logan was sitting in the InterContinental hotel in Amman, Jordan, watching her career flash before her eyes.  —  She was 31 years old, a rookie at CBS News …
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Politico:
Trey Gowdy picked to lead Benghazi panel  —  Speaker John Boehner is tapping South Carolina Rep. Trey Gowdy to chair a House select committee which will investigate the attack in Benghazi.  —  Gowdy, a second-term Republican, is a former federal prosecutor and has been a key figure …
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Sahil Kapur / Talking Points Memo:
Boehner Taps Trey Gowdy To Lead Special Benghazi Committee
Fox News:
Rep. Gowdy named to lead Benghazi select committee
Mark Finkelstein / NewsBusters:
What If Fox News Instead of MSNBC Had Pulled This Cinco de Mayo Stunt?  —  ¡Ay caramba!  Imagine the cries of offensive ethnic stereotyping or worse if Fox News had observed Cinco de Mayo by having one of its yanqui persons of pallor staggering across the set in a sombrero while chugging from a pint bottle of tequila?
Discussion: The Daily Caller
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CNN:
‘I will sell them,’ Boko Haram leader says of kidnapped Nigerian girls  —  (CNN) — Fears for the fate of more than 200 Nigerian girls turned even more nightmarish Monday when the leader of the Islamist militant group that kidnapped them announced plans to sell them.  —  “I abducted your girls.
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Sahil Kapur / Talking Points Memo:
Tennessee State Senator Compares Obamacare To The Holocaust  —  On Monday, a Tennessee state senator apparently likened Obamacare's individual mandate to Nazi Germany's slaughter of Jews.  —  A brief post published at the blog of state Sen. Stacey Campfield (R) read: “Democrats bragging …
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Pete Thamel / Sports Illustrated:
Source: Coach Craig Robinson fired by Oregon State  —  Craig Rohinson's teams failed to reach the NCAA tournament during his six seasons at Oregon State.  —  Oregon State fired head coach Craig Robinson on Sunday night, according to a source with knowledge of the situation.
Heather Digby Parton / Salon:
GOP's demented “Benghazi!” disease: Why conservatives so desperately need a scandal  —  Has anyone ever seen a full-blown marketing campaign replete with full-color graphics used to announce a House committee investigation?  You have now: … I'm going to guess that was in development for a while.
Bethany Barnes / Las Vegas Sun News:
Metro Police message to young girls: Have premarital sex, risk death  —  Girls who “get promiscuous” can wind up dead.  —  That was the message behind the Metro Police co-sponsored “Choose Purity” event Saturday at the William Pearson Center in North Las Vegas.
Discussion: Talking Points Memo and Hit & Run
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ThinkProgress:
Las Vegas Police Host ‘Choose Purity’ Event Claiming Premarital Sex Turns Girls Into Prostitutes
Discussion: The Raw Story
Tara Culp-Ressler / ThinkProgress:
This Woman Filmed Her Abortion To Show Other People It Doesn't Have To Be Scary  —  Emily Letts speaks to the camera in her video about her abortion procedure  —  Emily Letts, a 25-year-old abortion counselor at a clinic in New Jersey, knew that she wanted to use her own abortion story …
Stephen Guillermo / San Francisco Chronicle:
Man shot to death after he gets out on the wrong floor  —  A 26-year-old San Francisco man was shot to death early Saturday when he went to a unit on the wrong floor of his apartment building after returning home from a night out.  —  Stephen Guillermo had been out drinking with friends …
Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
Tillis at 40%, but momentum with Brannon  —  PPP's final poll of the North Carolina Republican Senate primary finds that Greg Brannon and Mark Harris are finally picking up some steam, but that it may be too little too late.  Thom Tillis leads right at the 40% mark needed to avoid a runoff …
Discussion: Politico and Wall Street Journal
Kevin Liptak / CNN:
White House set to lay out imminent climate risks  —  Washington (CNN) - The White House will lay out what it's calling the imminent regional risks of man-made climate change on Tuesday, part of a broader second-term effort to help the nation prepare for the effects of warmer temperatures, rising sea levels, and more erratic weather.
Discussion: Politico
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Caleb S. Rossiter / Wall Street Journal:
Sacrificing Africa for Climate Change
Discussion: National Review
 
 
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Jon Swaine / Guardian:
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CNN:
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R.I.P., Gary Becker
Nick Gillespie / The Daily Beast:
It's Not Racist to Hate Government
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Syria's Terror Blowback Threatens Europe and the United States
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Adam Liptak / New York Times:
Justices Reject Case on the Right to Be Armed in Public
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