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10:35 PM ET, May 3, 2015

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Susan Edelman / New York Post:
Woman to become NY firefighter despite failing crucial fitness test  —  The FDNY for the first time in its history will allow someone who failed its crucial physical-fitness test to join the Bravest, The Post has learned.  —  Rebecca Wax, 33, is set to graduate Tuesday from the Fire Academy without passing …
Discussion: BizPac Review and The PJ Tatler
Emily Bazelon / New York Times:
Jon Krakauer's ‘Missoula,’ About Rape in a College Town  —  Three years ago, a young woman befriended by the powerhouse author Jon Krakauer and his wife told them she had been raped when she was a teenager by a boy she knew and, later, for a second time, by a family friend.  She was still struggling to recover.
CNN:
Protests erupt in Tel Aviv, Israel 6 photos  —  Israeli police officers detain an Israeli Ethiopian.  —  Hide Caption  —  6 of 6  —  Story highlights  —  Tel Aviv, Israel (CNN)Protests in Tel Aviv over alleged police mistreatment of Ethiopian Jews turned violent Sunday …
Discussion: The Week, Balloon Juice and The Agonist
Arit John / Bloomberg Business:
Martin O'Malley: 'Wouldn't Think of Announcing' 2016 Campaign Anywhere but Baltimore  —  No Democrat is having a harder time moving away from the tough-on-crime 90s than former Maryland Governor Martin O'Malley, whose potential presidential campaign has been plagued in the last week by questions …
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John Wagner / Washington Post:
O'Malley says Baltimore would be setting for announcement of presidential bid
Discussion: Political Wire
Ben Schreckinger / Politico:
Martin O'Malley: Baltimore unrest a ‘heartbreaking setback’
Discussion: The Week
Evan McMurry / Mediaite:
Fmr. CNN Anchor Soledad O'Brien to Journalists: Stop Saying ‘Thug’  —  Former CNN host Soledad O'Brien told her old network's Reliable Sources Sunday morning that journalists had an obligation to choose their words more carefully than simply calling protesters, however violent, “thugs,” …
Discussion: BostonGlobe.com
Washington Post:
The Clintons, a luxury jet and their $100 million donor  —  Bill Clinton was planning a charity trip to Latin America and needed a big plane.  —  For Frank Giustra, who had never met the former president, this was an opportunity.  The Canadian mining magnate and onetime Hollywood studio owner stepped …
Ben Schreckinger / Politico:
John Boehner sees a national policing crisis  —  House Speaker John Boehner says there's a national crisis in relations between black communities and law enforcement.  —  “I do,” he said when asked in an interview aired Sunday on NBC's “Meet the Press” whether he believes that such a crisis exists.
Discussion: Bloomberg View and The Week
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Ben Schreckinger / Politico:
John Kasich on a 2016 bid: 'I don't really do odds'
Discussion: Bloomberg Business
Justin George / Baltimore Sun:
Exclusive look inside the Freddie Gray investigation  —  Unlimited Access.  Try it Today!  Your First 10 Days Always $0.99
Mark Hensch / The Hill:
Jeb Bush: Our enemies must ‘fear’ US again  —  Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush argued Saturday that American foreign policy should frighten the nation's enemies abroad with its strength.  —  “The basic policy should be our friends know we have their back over the long haul …
Discussion: Booman Tribune
LeftOfCenter / Latest from Crooks and Liars:
Kimberley Strassel Blames Baltimore's Troubles On Teachers Unions  —  Kimberley Strassel writes a weekly column for the Wall Street Journal, so naturally she subscribes to all the Conservative [talking points] lies.  She denies the SCIENCE of man-made climate change and she's A-OK …
ABC News:
‘This Week’ Transcript: Fallout From Baltimore  —  ANNOUNCER: This Week, bombshell arrests, explosive nationwide reaction to those six officers charged in Baltimore.  The very latest on the massive marches.  —  Ready for Hillary: he's a folk singing socialist, Bernie Sanders is ready to shake up the Democratic primary.
Discussion: Common Dreams and Hullabaloo
Brendan O'Neill / Reason:
Meet the Vagina Voters  —  The women voting for Hillary because she's a woman are setting feminism back a hundred years.  —  “I intend to vote with my vagina.”  —  Have you ever read a more squirm-inducing sentence than that?  It appeared in a pro-Hillary piece in Dame magazine …
Glenn Harlan Reynolds / USA Today:
Want a lawless police force?  Federalize it: Column  —  Accountability comes from having law enforcement under multiple umbrellas.  —  In the wake of the Baltimore riots, Al Sharpton is calling for the federal takeover of local police.  Like most ideas from the loathsome Rev. Sharpton, this is a lousy one.
BREITBART.COM:
Baltimore Rally: Burn Down Stores to Get Them ‘Out of Our Communities’  —  During a large rally in front of Baltimore's City Hall, a young man introduced as “Brother Rose,” in winding and sometimes incoherent speech, praised the burning of a CVS store at the corner of Pennsylvania and North Avenues.
 
 
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Tiffany DeMasters / fox13now.com:
Suspect dead after man with concealed carry permit intervenes in alleged carjacking in Orem
Discussion: FOX6Now.com and Q13 FOX News
Ben Kamisar / The Hill:
Child found misplaced Capitol Police gun in Boehner's bathroom
Discussion: Hot Air
Ben Schreckinger / Politico:
Elijah Cummings praises Baltimore response to Gray death
Discussion: ABC News
 Earlier Items: 
Walter Russell Mead / The American Interest:
Media Gives President a Pass Again
Eric Lichtblau / New York Times:
F.E.C. Can't Curb 2016 Election Abuse, Commission Chief Says
Discussion: Mediaite and Washington Post
Dan Balz / Washington Post:
Conservative Party's fortune is cautionary tale for GOP
Discussion: Washington Monthly
Nicholas Kristof / New York Times:
‘Inequality Is a Choice’
Discussion: Daily Kos
Timothy Cama / The Hill:
GOP rep introduces bill to gut EPA
Timothy Egan / New York Times:
The End of California?  —  ANGELS CAMP, Calif. — IN a normal year …