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8:00 AM ET, June 5, 2014

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Politico:
White House braced for Bowe Bergdahl backlash  —  President Barack Obama's Rose Garden appearance Saturday afternoon with Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl's parents was an attempt to humanize the prisoner swap to deflect potential criticism of letting five Taliban leaders out of Guantanamo Bay, White House aides say.
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Justin Sink / The Hill:
WH surprised by Bergdahl  —  The White House has been caught off guard by the negative reaction to the deal that freed Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, the last American prisoner of war in Afghanistan.  —  It has been particularly surprised by criticism of Bergdahl, who is accused of walking away …
Discussion: Politico
Emily Bazelon / Slate:
Gitmo Fail  —  Obama promised to close Guantánamo.  Why is he releasing dangerous detainees and ignoring the rest?  —  I believed Barack Obama when he promised to close Guantánamo.  It sounds so naïve.  But in the days after his first inauguration …
Alex Berenson / New York Times:
A Prisoner of War, but Not a Hero  —  LEAVE no soldier behind.  —  The four words are honored at every rank in the American military.  Soldiers willingly, sometimes foolishly, risk their own lives to keep their comrades out of enemy hands.  —  So the White House expected that the release …
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Graham warns of Republican impeachment push over Gitmo
Thomas B. Edsall / New York Times:
The Republican Case Against Republican Economics  —  After the 2012 presidential election, key Republicans began to criticize their party's opposition to immigration reform and gay rights.  But now party reformers are questioning something much more central: free-market orthodoxy.
Discussion: National Review and AEIdeas
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Bloomberg:
Tea Party Regains Steam With Cochran U.S. Senate Runoff
Discussion: Bloomberg View
Kevin Sieff / Washington Post:
Exclusive: Afghan villagers recall when Bergdahl stumbled into their midst  —  Among the most tantalizing mysteries surrounding Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl's departure from his U.S. military base in 2009 is this: Was he trying to find the Taliban?  Or did he simply wander away and get captured?
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Greta Van Susteren / Gretawire:
THIS IS SO DANGEROUS!!!  What is WRONG WITH THE SECRET SERVICE???!!???  If Polish tabloids can get these pics (and video) with a camera lens, is there anyone who doesn't think the President is vulnerable to someone armed?  —  As you know, President Obama is traveling in Europe.
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Leslie Larson / NY Daily News:
Footage of Obama's Warsaw workout prompts security questions
Yahoo! News:
McChrystal on Bergdahl: 'We don't leave Americans behind.  That's unequivocal'  —  Retired Gen. Stanley McChrystal on Wednesday urged Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl's critics not to “judge” him until all the facts are in and sharply defended the extensive and risky search efforts that claimed the lives of some of his fellow soldiers.
Discussion: Taegan Goddard's …
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John Feehery / Wall Street Journal:
Obama the Velcro President  —  They said that Ronald Reagan was the Teflon President.  Nothing, not even Iran-Contra, could stick to him.  —  Barack Obama is the Velcro President.  Everything is sticking to him.  —  He probably thought he could get some major political mileage …
James Covert / New York Post:
City Council members rip Walmart's charity of ‘dangerous dollars’  —  More than half the members of the City Council have fired off a letter to Walmart demanding that it stop making millions in charitable contributions to local groups here.  —  Twenty-six of the 51 members of the Council charged …
Adam Liptak / New York Times:
Justices Reject Call to Halt Gay Marriages in Oregon  —  WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Wednesday rejected a request to halt same-sex marriages in Oregon.  The court's one-line order gave no reasons for declining to issue a stay.  —  Many gay and lesbian couples have gotten married …
Discussion: SCOTUSblog
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Chris Geidner / BuzzFeed:
Supreme Court Denies Attempt To Stop Oregon Same-Sex Marriages
Adam Auriemma / Wall Street Journal:
Solved: People Magazine's Hillary Clinton Cover Mystery  —  Attention Twitter: We can confirm that's not a walker.  —  Hillary Clinton's appearance on the cover of the People magazine raised some eyebrows Wednesday—and not for her comments on a potential run in 2016 or about Monica Lewinsky.
Richard Goldstein / New York Times:
Don Zimmer, Who Spent 60 Eventful Years in Baseball, Dies at 83  —  Don Zimmer, the stubby, Popeye-muscled baseball lifer with the unforgettable jowls whose passion for the game endured through more than 60 years as a player, manager, coach and adviser, died on Wednesday in Dunedin, Fla. He was 83.
Discussion: Outside the Beltway
Joe Palazzolo / Wall Street Journal:
Cyberbullying Law Challenged in Court  —  New York Jurists to Decide if Criminal Statute Violates Freedom of Speech; Other States and Localities Await Precedent  —  New York's high court on Thursday will consider one of the first legal challenges to state and local laws that make it a crime …
Matt Stoller / VICE:
The VICE Reader: The Con-Artist Wing of the Democratic Party  —  Former US Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner (left) yucking it up at a meeting of global elites in 2009.  Photo via Flickr user IMF  —  The most consequential event of this young century has been the financial crisis.
Discussion: Bloomberg View and susiemadrak.com
Alana Goodman / Washington Free Beacon:
Hillary to New York Times: Back Off  —  Some of Hillary Clinton's closest aides blasted the New York Times for what they said was unfair coverage of the former first lady during a recent secret meeting with the paper's Washington bureau, the Washington Free Beacon has learned.
Discussion: NewsBusters and ABC News
Ana Campoy / Wall Street Journal:
School District's Use of Worker Visa Program Draws Scrutiny  —  Texas District Allegedly Exploited H-1B Program in Recruiting Teachers From Overseas.  —  GARLAND, Texas—As this city outside Dallas turned heavily Hispanic over the past decade, its school district hired foreign teachers …
Discussion: Fox News
Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar / Associated Press:
NOW APPLICATION ‘INCONSISTENCIES’ VEX HEALTH LAW  —  FILE - This May 14, 2014 file photo shows Sylvia Mathews Burwell, President Barack Obama's nominee to become secretary of Health and Human Services testifying on Capitol Hill in Washington.  More than 2 million people who got health insurance …
 
 
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Tom Brewster / Guardian:
Life sentences for serious cyberattacks are proposed in Queen's speech
Discussion: The Verge
New York Times:
T-Mobile and Sprint Zeroing In on a $32 Billion Merger
Discussion: The Hill and Deadline.com
Detroit's Fox 2:
Gruesome road trip: Clinton Township man drives cross-country with a dead woman in passenger seat
Discussion: Washington Post and The Raw Story
Keith Bradsher / New York Times:
Crowds Gather in Hong Kong for 25th Anniversary of Tiananmen Killings
Stephen Dinan / Washington Times:
Harvard grad Chuck Schumer fails history, credits Jefferson for Bill of Rights
Emma Brown / Washington Post:
Wilson High principal comes out as gay at school's Pride Day
Corey Mead / The Atlantic Online:
The Radical Practicality of Reparations
Discussion: The Great Debate
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Thomson Reuters Foundation / Trust.org:
Idaho hometown of newly freed soldier cancels planned celebration
Adam J. White / Weekly Standard:
Hot and Bothered: When Liberals Want Conservatives to Talk About Climate Change Instead of the Middle Class
Discussion: Vox
Adam Weinstein / Gawker:
Zany NRA Video Attacks Media For Labeling Shootings as “Shootings”
Discussion: Mediaite and Joe. My. God.
Paul Krugman / American Prospect:
The Rich, the Right, and the Facts: Deconstructing the Inequality Debate
Discussion: susiemadrak.com
 

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

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