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 - Ben Carson cancels Johns Hopkins commencement speech over anti-gay remarks
 - North Korea claims to have “striking means” on standby
 - Georgia firefighters taken hostage “relieved” ordeal over
 - 4,300 Syrians killed in airstrikes, says Human Rights Watch
 - Critics rip Obama’s new budget
 - Organic Eden Foods’ quiet right-wing agenda
 - Wall Street Dem covers up her past and runs again
 - Tennessee: Ayn Rand’s vision of paradise
 - Anonymous: Rehtaeh Parsons’ rapists will be held accountable
 - China cancels “Django Unchained” premiere
 - Did this 25-year-old foreign service officer have to die?
 - CISPA passes committee, heads to House vote
 - Could Obama really learn something from Reagan?
 - Must-see morning clip: Anthony Weiner gears for a comeback
 - Aurora Truther arrested for harassing families
 - Vast majority of New Yorkers want more NYPD oversight
 - High school students school us about rape culture
 - Irin Carmon: How to talk about a woman’s looks
 - The GOP’s opening shot on Obama’s Social Security cuts
 - Maine wilderness hermit captured after 30 years, 1,000 burglaries
 - Jay-Z writes “Open Letter” in response to haters
 - Chartered bus overturns on North Texas highway
 - Gun control bill clears Senate hurdle
 - Ann Coulter “jokes” about killing Meghan McCain, Fox News deletes the blog post
 - In Nebraska: Old friends, “Mad Men” and chatting about divorce
 - Obama’s entitlement plan was four years in the making
 - Where our tax dollars should go
 - Louis C.K.: “Race doesn’t mean what it used to in America”
 - Why do we love to look at strangers’ family photographs?
 - Mark Zuckerberg launches political group
 - The Masters presents a phony, sanitized South
 - Jan Brewer blocks anti-Planned Parenthood provision of Medicaid bill
 - Report: Progressive group taped McConnell
 - Bitcoin economics explained
 - GOP plots to rig the court
 - Arkansas Exxon spill much larger than initially thought
 - Rematch for Bachmann
 - Newlywed discovers she is allergic to her husband’s sperm
 - “Point Break” remake really happening
 - Will the Christian right flee the GOP?
 - Pam Geller’s racist talk at synagogue canceled
 - “The Listener”: The David Foster Wallace of bodily functions
 - The much improved “Veep”
 - Gitmo defense lawyers: Our emails are being read
 - Dave Agema to Tony Perkins: Being gay is like being an alcoholic
 - Attorneys: Gitmo hunger strike could lead to deaths
 - HP Lovecraft, pulp philosopher
 - Michelle Obama’s underrated role in gun debate
 - Classified Pentagon report says North Korea legitimate threat
 - National Hockey League announces initiative for gay athletes
 - Controversial gay marriage study author may be political operative
 - Is the small nonprofit in big trouble?
 - Who should be cast in the “Point Break” remake?
 - Manning trial reporters told to “police” selves
 - Can women save the economy?
 - The kids are alright: 3 stories that will restore your faith in teenagers
 - Soviet spacecraft possibly spotted on Mars
 - Investors dump Microsoft, PC stocks following bleak report
 - Fox adapting “Go the F**k to Sleep” into feature film
 - Progress Kentucky: Worst super PAC ever?
 - Students and hackers train for cybersecurity jobs
 - Pick of the week: Terrence Malick’s rapturous, religious love story
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