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1:45 PM ET, May 21, 2014

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The Hill:
Vet scandal rocks Obama  —  The White House tried Tuesday to douse flames of criticism over allegations that dozens of veterans have died because of gross mismanagement at Veterans Affairs hospitals.  —  President Obama's chief of staff, Denis McDonough, met frustrated Democrats on Capitol Hill …
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Mary Bruce / ABC News:
Obama on Allegations of VA Misconduct: ‘I Will Not Stand for It’
Discussion: Politico and CNN
CNN:   Obama to discuss VA controversy with Shinseki
New York Times:
Obama Vows a Forceful Response to Veteran Care Issues
Discussion: Hot Air
Jonathan S. Tobin / Commentary Magazine:
When a President Learns Everything on TV
Discussion: RedState and Ed Driscoll
Martin Matishak / The Hill:
Amid scandal, embattled VA chief visits Capitol
Jonathan Topaz / Politico:
President Obama, Eric Shinseki to meet on VA
Discussion: CNN
New York Times:
V.A. Accusations Aggravate Woes of White House
Justin McCarthy / Gallup:
Same-Sex Marriage Support Reaches New High at 55%  —  Nearly eight in 10 young adults favor gay marriage  —  WASHINGTON, D.C. — Americans' support for the law recognizing same-sex marriages as legally valid has increased yet again, now at 55%.  Marriage equality advocates have had a string …
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Jay Michaelson / The Daily Beast:
Pennsylvania.  Oregon.  Is Gay Marriage Unstoppable?  —  Same-sex marriage seems to be on a roll in the state courts, with a judge throwing out Pennsylvania's ban Tuesday.  But what about when one of these cases ends up in the Supreme Court?  —  The cascade of same-sex marriage rulings is now a torrent …
Catherine Thompson / Talking Points Memo:
Gallup: Support For Same-Sex Marriage At All-Time High
Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
WTF?  —  I'm not sure why this isn't a bigger deal.  I hadn't heard about it other than in this brief passage tucked away in a Politico article about the House GOP agriculture bill.  But it takes a small program intended provide meals to children in the school lunch program during …
Nate Cohn / New York Times:
Narrow Path to Senate for Michelle Nunn in Georgia  —  The Georgia Republican primary is over, and so are Democratic wishes for their dream outcome.  —  Democrats had hoped they might face Paul Broun or Phil Gingrey, two Tea Party-backed conservatives with a record of outlandish statements.
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James Hohmann / Politico:
2014 primary election results: Establishment, self-funders win big in primaries
Alexander Burns / Politico:
Payback: GOP incumbents learn how to win
Discussion: The Huffington Post
Adam Weinstein / Gawker:
AP Editor Accidentally Adds Her Buzzfeed Cover Letter to Photo Caption  —  2,884g  —  Job-hunting at work is dangerous.  Online multitasking is dangerous.  Online multitasking your work with your job hunt is deadly.  Just ask this Associated Press photo editor.
ThinkProgress:
How South Florida Is Ignoring The State's Leading Politicians And Taking On Climate Change  —  Susanne Torriente remembers waking up on Thanksgiving morning in 2012 and discovering that four blocks of Florida's main coastal highway had washed away overnight.
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ThinkProgress:
Biggest Loser: Thawing Greenland Competes With Collapsing Antarctic For Fastest Ice Loss
Discussion: leeds.ac.uk and Balloon Juice
ebay inc:
eBay Inc. To Ask eBay Users To Change Passwords  —  eBay Inc. (Nasdaq: EBAY) said beginning later today it will be asking eBay users to change their passwords because of a cyberattack that compromised a database containing encrypted passwords and other non-financial data.
Danny Johnston / Associated Press:
GOP Candidate Thwarted By Arkansas Voter ID Law At Polls  —  BENTONVILLE, Ark. (AP) — A Republican candidate for Arkansas governor supports the new voter ID law, but he was left waiting after he forgot his identification.  —  Spokesman Christian Olson told The Associated Press …
Robert Mackey / New York Times:
Young Iranians Arrested for Being Too ‘Happy in Tehran’  —  Just days after Iran's president denounced Internet censorship as “cowardly,” six young Iranians were arrested and forced to repent on state television Tuesday for the grievous offense of proclaiming themselves to be “Happy in Tehran …
Bluegrass Politics:
Mitch McConnell challenges Alison Lundergan Grimes to three debates  —  By Sam Youngman syoungman@herald-leader.com U.S. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, fresh off his primary win against challenger Matt Bevin, is challenging Democratic nominee Alison Lundergan Grimes to three debates.
Discussion: The Huffington Post
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Mitch McConnell / Salon:
GOP's quiet election scandal: What Tuesday's results really mean for workers  —  It's the morning after a primary Election Day, the smoke has cleared and the pundits have spoken.  They tell us that the portent for November is obvious and the 2016 election will be shaped by what happened in places like Kentucky and Georgia.
Brendan Bordelon / The Daily Caller:
Dem Congressman: 'We've Proved That Communism Works'  —  Democratic Florida Rep. Joe Garcia — fresh off being caught eating his own earwax on camera — was caught red-handed (or is it yellow-fingered?) in another gaffe this week, claiming that low crime rates in border cities with lots …
Eli Lake / The Daily Beast:
‘Over My Dead Body’: Spies Fight Obama Push to Downsize Terror War  —  The Obama administration concluded in 2012 that al Qaeda posed no direct threat to the U.S.—and has sought to scale back the fight ever since, over intel officials' rising objections.  —  In 2012, the Obama administration produced …
Discussion: CANNONFIRE
Joseph Shapiro / NPR:
Supreme Court Ruling Not Enough To Prevent Debtors' Prisons … Debtors' prisons were outlawed in the United States nearly 200 years ago.  And more than 30 years ago, the U.S. Supreme Court made it clear: Judges cannot send someone to jail just because they are too poor to pay their court fines.
Josh Kraushaar / NationalJournal.com:
The Clinton Magic Fades in Philadelphia  —  Chelsea Clinton's mother-in-law loses badly in her comeback congressional bid.  —  GLENSIDE, PA.—As Marjorie Margolies chit-chatted with voters for last-minute support at a polling station in this leafy Philadelphia suburb, her campaign aide Dylan McGarry …
Discussion: CNN, msnbc.com and Washington Post
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Charlie Cook / NationalJournal.com:
Does Hillary Owe It to Democrats to Run?
Discussion: Wall Street Journal
James Hamblin / The Atlantic Online:
The Chemistry Joke That Got a Student Suspended  —  Paris Gray, upstanding vice president of her about-to-graduate high-school class in Jonesboro, Georgia, was suspended last Friday when administrators figured out what her yearbook quote meant.  It read:
Discussion: The Other McCain
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Sahil Kapur / Talking Points Memo:
Pelosi ‘Leaning Toward’ Full Participation In New Benghazi Probe  —  House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) is “leaning toward” fully participating in the GOP-led select committee to investigate the Benghazi attacks of 2012, a senior Democratic aide said.
Discussion: Daily Kos
 
 
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Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Extraordinary Elite Delusions and the Madness of Commissions
Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
Glass Ceiling  —  With Republicans trying to shake …
Discussion: The Moderate Voice and KPTV-TV
McKay Coppins / BuzzFeed:
Team Romney Thinks It's Winning The GOP Civil War
Discussion: The Week
Noam N. Levey / Los Angeles Times:
Federal funds earmarked to offset Affordable Care Act insurer losses
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
ThinkProgress:
No, Taking Away Unemployment Benefits Doesn't Make People Get Jobs
RIA Novosti / RT:
Russia and China seal historic $400bn gas deal
Jerry Markon / Washington Post:
Planned Homeland Security headquarters, long delayed and over budget, now in doubt
Discussion: Prairie Weather and Balloon Juice
 Earlier Items: 
William A. Jacobson / Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion:
Suspended Columbia athlete files federal lawsuit over campus sexual assault conviction
Discussion: The Other McCain and Dartblog
Uzi Baruch / Arutz Sheva:
The Price of Oslo - 933 Billion Shekels and Counting
Discussion: Israpundit and Israel Matzav
Dick Morris / The Hill:
Turn up the heat on Clinton
Julieta Chiquillo / Dallas Morning News:
$60M Allen football stadium deemed ‘not safe,’ will close this season
CNN:
Boehner: Tea party and GOP aren't that different
 

 
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Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
Ofcom rules that five GB News programs presented by Conservative politicians have broken its due impartiality rules and puts the channel “on notice”

Benjamin Mullin / New York Times:
Authentic Brands licenses Sports Illustrated's publishing rights to The Players' Tribune owner Minute Media for 10 years, with plans to keep the print edition

Todd Spangler / Variety:
YouTuber MrBeast announces a deal with Prime Video for Beast Games, a reality-competition show with 1,000 contestants, promising the winner a $5M cash prize

 
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