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6:55 AM ET, May 5, 2015

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Ann Colwell / CNN:
Texas shooting: Who is Pamela Geller?  —  Cartoon contest organizer: I'm anti-jihad 02:07  —  Story highlights  —  (CNN)When two men opened fire outside a contest for Prophet Mohammed cartoons in a Dallas suburb Sunday night, Pamela Geller was the first to call it an attack on free speech.
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Evan McMurry / Mediaite:
Pamela Geller Battles CNN Host over Garland Shooting: Why Is Media ‘Targeting’ Us?
CAIR:   CAIR Condemns Attack on Anti-Islam Event in Texas
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Megan McArdle / Bloomberg View:
What the Clintons Haven't Learned  —  Tuesday will be the unveiling of what can be breathlessly awaited only in campaign season: a book on the Clinton Foundation, and allegations of a torrent of sleazy foreign cash that has poured into its coffers.  I'm already on record as saying that the author …
David Lerman / Bloomberg Business:
State Department Says No Evidence Donations Influenced Hillary Clinton
Fox News:
Conflicting reports on gun incident in Baltimore  —  The unidentified man is seen in a stretcher after being shot Monday by Baltimore police.  (Fox News)  —  DEVELOPING: Conflicting reports about a police chase that may have involved gunfire roiled Baltimore Monday, just a week after riots rocked the city.
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Ahiza Garcia / Talking Points Memo:   VIDEO: Fox Issues Startling On-Air Retraction: ‘Nobody Has Been Shot’
Ahiza Garcia / Talking Points Memo:
VIDEO: Fox News Reporter Says He Saw Black Man Shot While Running From Police
Discussion: Daily Kos
cbp.gov:
Cocaine Found in Underwear By CBP at JFK  —  JAMAICA, N.Y. — U. S. Customs and Border Protection officers in New York are always discovering interesting concealment methods.  Hiding cocaine in his underwear is another way that a would-be smuggler attempted to transport illegal drugs into the United States.
Hannah Scheller / Lexington Herald-Leader:
Willie Cauley-Stein's name change is official  —  Former University of Kentucky basketball star Willie Cauley-Stein's hyphenated last name is official now, as is a change in his middle name.  —  Cauley-Stein, 21, was born Willie Durmond Cauley Jr. He filed a name-change order Friday …
Peter Sullivan / The Hill:
ObamaCare program saves Medicare $400M  —  A pilot program created under ObamaCare to change Medicare's payment system saved almost $400 million and will be expanded, the administration announced Monday.  —  An independent report released by the Department of Health and Human Services …
Brian Dulle / KSNT-TV:
Note on restaurant receipt to Kansas governor goes viral  —  TOPEKA (KSNT) - A photo posted on social media regarding a note on a receipt given to Kansas Governor Sam Brownback has gone viral overnight.  —  The photo posted by former waitress Chloe Hough shows a credit card receipt …
Meredith ShinerPolitical / Yahoo Politics:
The Mike Huckabee record: An early advocate for criminal justice reform  —  In the eight years since Mike Huckabee left the governor's mansion in Arkansas, the former state executive has become better known as “Huckabee,” the brand — television host, author, pundit, 2008 Iowa caucuses winner.
Discussion: Bloomberg Business
Ahiza Garcia / Talking Points Memo:
Chuck Norris: Don't Trust The Gov't On A Possible Military Takeover Of Texas  —  The actor who starred in the TV show “Walker, Texas Ranger” wrote on Sunday that he thinks concerns about a possible military takeover of Texas might well be justified.  —  Actor Chuck Norris …
New York Post:
Shot NYPD cop dies  —  Brian Moore (left) and Demetrius Blackwell  —  NYPD Officer Brian Moore died Monday after his distraught family removed him from life support, law-enforcement sources said.  —  A grim-faced Police Commissioner Bill Bratton was seen entering the hospital around 12:30 …
New York Times:
Dave Goldberg, Silicon Valley Executive, Died of Head Trauma, Mexican Official Says  —  SAN FRANCISCO — Dave Goldberg, the chief executive of SurveyMonkey and husband of Sheryl Sandberg of Facebook, died of head trauma Friday night after he collapsed at the gym at a private resort in Mexico, according to a Mexican government official.
Daily Mail:
Pamela Geller, co-founder and President of Stop Islamization of America, also spoke just before the two gunmen opened fire  —  Wilders, who has sparked controversy for linking the Koran with terrorism, speaks at the Muhammad Art Exhibit and Contest  —  The event had already been the subject …
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Liz GoodwinSenior / Yahoo Politics:
Obama-inspired foundation gets its start, with $80 million in the bank  —  President Barack Obama announced Monday that a new nonprofit aimed at empowering young men and boys of color has already raised $80 million from PepsiCo, Deloitte and other corporate sponsors.
Yahoo Politics:
The Ben Carson campaign website: A review  —  Late Sunday evening, retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson went on a local Ohio television station to let the world know that he's seeking the Republican nomination for president.  Whether the world was listening is a whole different story.
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Trip Gabriel / New York Times:
Ben Carson Says He'll Seek 2016 G.O.P. Nomination
Alice Ollstein / ThinkProgress:
Scott Walker Says He Would Crush What's Left Of Unions If Elected President  —  Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (R) campaigning in New Hampshire, a marriage equality state.  —  CREDIT: AP Photo/Jim Cole  —  Though he has yet to officially declare his bid for president, Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker …
 
 
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Andrew Higgins / New York Times:
An Uphill Campaign in Norway to Promote LSD as a Human Right
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Joby Warrick / Washington Post:
Scientists: EPA's curbs on coal-burning will save thousands of lives
Charles Ommanney / National Review:
Unions Donate to Sharpton's Nonprofit and Win Airtime on Sharpton's MSNBC Show. Hmmm.
Margaret Newkirk / Bloomberg Business:
‘Duck Dynasty’ Keeps Tax Break as Bobby Jindal Cuts Louisiana Colleges
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New York Senate leader Skelos, son charged with corruption
Carimah Townes / ThinkProgress:
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Tom Kludt / CNNMoney:
Bill O'Reilly takes a crack at standup
Discussion: Mediaite and Talking Points Memo
Jeff Clements / The Hill:
Citizens United: The view from the ivory tower has a blind spot
Chris Geidner / BuzzFeed:
A Fox News Contributor On Being Gay, The GOP, And Religious Liberty
 

 
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New York Times:
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