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3:40 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.
Discussion: Fox News, Mediaite and The Daily Caller
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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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Michelle Malkin / Townhall.com:
Exclusive: The Story You Haven't Yet Heard About Bowe Bergdahl's Desertion
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.
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Caitlin MacNeal / Talking Points Memo:
McCrystal: Don't ‘Judge’ Bergdahl And The Prisoner Swap Yet (VIDEO)  —  Retired Gen. Stanley McCrystal on Wednesday said it was too soon to “judge” Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl and the Obama administration's decision to negotiate for his release from the Taliban.  —  “I think we're going to have to wait …
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.
Discussion: Mediaite, Politico, CNN and Gawker
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Danika Fears / New York Post:
Obama snapped pumping iron at hotel gym  —  Even the president pumps iron at the hotel gym.  —  A fellow gym user snapped a few covert shots and video of President Obama lifting weights at a 5-star hotel in Warsaw, Poland — evidently without being seen by the president's security team — then posted them on his Facebook page.
Leslie Larson / NY Daily News:
Footage of Obama's Warsaw workout prompts security questions
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.
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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 …
Thomson Reuters Foundation / Trust.org:
Idaho hometown of newly freed soldier cancels planned celebration  —  The hometown of U.S. Army Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl has canceled a rally planned for later this month celebrating his release from five years of Taliban captivity, a municipal official told Reuters on Wednesday, amid allegations that he was a deserter.
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
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ThinkProgress:
Ohio May Take Away Low-Income Women's Access To The Most Effective Form Of Birth Control  —  The Ohio legislature is currently considering a measure that would institute a sweeping ban on insurance coverage for abortion in state residents' public and private health plans.
Discussion: Liberal Values and Daily Kos
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Kristen Mitchell / The Columbus Dispatch:
Ohio bill would restrict abortion coverage
Discussion: Hit & Run and The Raw Story
John Hult / Argus Leader:
Annette Bosworth arrested on perjury and election fraud charges  —  Former U.S. Senate candidate Annette Bosworth has turned herself into the Minnehaha County Jail following the issuance of a warrant for her arrest.  —  Attorney General Marty Jackley issued the warrant for Bosworth this morning.
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 …
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: susiemadrak.com
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 …
Stephen Dinan / Washington Times:
Harvard grad Chuck Schumer fails history, credits Jefferson for Bill of Rights  —  Sen. Charles E. Schumer, New York Democrat, stumbled Tuesday over basic American history, crediting Thomas Jefferson for authorship of the Bill of Rights during a debate over the First Amendment and campaign finance.
 
 
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Ana Campoy / Wall Street Journal:
School District's Use of Worker Visa Program Draws Scrutiny
Discussion: Fox News
Detroit's Fox 2:
Gruesome road trip: Clinton Township man drives cross-country with a dead woman in passenger seat
Discussion: The Raw Story and Washington Post
Keith Bradsher / New York Times:
Crowds Gather in Hong Kong for 25th Anniversary of Tiananmen Killings
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
Marisa Guthrie / Hollywood Reporter:
Lara Logan Back at Work on ‘60 Minutes’
Chris Geidner / BuzzFeed:
Supreme Court Denies Attempt To Stop Oregon Same-Sex Marriages
 Earlier Items: 
Adam J. White / Weekly Standard:
Hot and Bothered: When Liberals Want Conservatives to Talk About Climate Change Instead of the Middle Class
Discussion: Vox
RealClearPolitics Video Log:
Turley: Obama The President That Richard Nixon Always Wanted To Be
Discussion: Althouse and protein wisdom
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
CNN:
U.S. official: ‘Dangerous’ Russian jet fly-by was ‘straight out of a movie’
Discussion: Mashable
Kim Brooks / Salon:
The day I left my son in the car
Discussion: Unfogged and susiemadrak.com
 

 
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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”

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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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