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18 Arrested in Seattle Protests
By Matt Cantor 
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US Man Sentenced to 15 Years Hard Labor in N. Korea
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Kris Kross Rapper Kelly Dead at 34
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Renee Ellmers: Cancer Patients Were Where ‘We Should’ve Gone First’ To End Sequestration (VIDEO)
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Rep. Renee Ellmers (R-N.C.) appeared on Wednesday’s edition of “All in With Chris Hayes,” admitting that the government’s priorities on sequestration were not carried out in the right order.
Ellmers introduced a bill last month aimed at preventing sequestration cuts from harming cancer patients on Medicare. As of April 1, payments under that plan for cancer-related drugs and services suffered a two percent cut. Two days later, The Washington Post detailed how that hit displaced thousands of cancer patients, leaving them long distances or hospital capacity issues.
On Wednesday, President Barack Obama signed a bill ending furloughs on air traffic controllers — a measure that swiftly passed the House and Senate over a two-day span. When asked by Hayes what her reaction was to Congress fixing the FAA’s situation first, Ellmers leveled about how she felt.
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How Dzokhar's Friends Learned the Truth: FBI
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Hackers Hit Labor Dept. Website
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Six Ways The GOP Can Make The Mass. Senate Race Competitive
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The Republican establishment breathed a sigh of relief when Boston businessman Gabriel Gomez won Tuesday’s GOP primary in the Massachusetts special Senate race, believing he represents the party’s best chance at an unlikely pick-up in liberal Massachusetts.
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Ted Cruz Will Never Be President
By The Huffington Post News Editors
During the 2012 election cycle I occasionally ran stories declaring that various Republicans being touted as White House material “will never be president.” Sarah Palin after her narcissistic Gabby Giffords meltdown; Newt Gingrich early in his race-baiting campaign; Mitt Romney after his British Olympics screw-up.
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Tim Johnson Awards Charles Bledsoe Purple Heart
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SIOUX FALLS, S.D. — As Army soldier Charles Bledsoe was being loaded onto a Jeep with a gunshot wound to the abdomen nearly 70 years ago, he heard someone say, “Give him his last rites.”
“I looked around to see who that was getting the last rites,” Bledsoe recalled. “I went, `The hell.’ It was me.”
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Obama’s ‘Permission Structure’ Phrase Draws Attention
By The Huffington Post News Editors
* Phrase used at news conference sparks curiosity
* Favorite term of Obama aides hauled out by president
By Steve Holland and Caren Bohan
WASHINGTON, May 1 (Reuters) – It sounds like something teenagers need before borrowing their parents’ car, but “permission structure” is actually a phrase being tossed around by President Barack Obama to describe his efforts to make deals with Republicans.
At a news conference on Tuesday, Obama expressed frustration with resistance to his ideas among congressional Republicans, saying that he thought “deep down” some of them wanted to “do the right thing” but worry about such consequences as being challenged in primary elections.
He said the only way to break the impasse might be to “create a permission structure” to allow them to do what’s best for the country.
The phrase puzzled reporters and was mocked by Republicans seeking to highlight what they see as Obama’s ineffectiveness in pushing his agenda in Congress.
The term “permission structure” has been around for years, in politics and marketing. It was once defined by a marketing executive as pushing “the proper buttons that need to be pushed” to get people to purchase a product they otherwise would shun.
A famous Chicago politician, former Representative Dan Rostenkowski, was said to have gotten re-elected amid a scandal by winning the endorsements of respectable allies, thus giving voters a “permission structure” that enabled them to vote for him.
White House spokesman Jay Carney, asked about it Wednesday, told reporters the phrase is “common usage” around the White House.
In the case of the budget talks, a “permission structure” might involve Obama agreeing to cuts in cherished social safety-net programs, which would then create the conditions where Republicans might be able to support his demand for closing tax loopholes and deductions enjoyed mostly by the wealthy.
The phrase has been used frequently within
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J.R. Smith Struggles, Knicks Lose To Celtics After Arriving For Game 5 Wearing Black ‘Funeral’ Clothes
By The Huffington Post News Editors
NEW YORK — J.R. Smith came back. His shot didn’t.
Smith returned from his one-game suspension and joined his Knicks teammates in wearing black as they prepared for the Boston Celtics’ “funeral.”
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Amanda Bynes Is Topless In New Twitpics (PHOTOS)
By The Huffington Post News Editors
Just yesterday, Amanda Bynes stripped down to her bra and snapped some photos, and lo and behold she’s still taking pictures now that her bra has come off.
On Wednesday, the 27-year-old actress tweeted topless photos of herself to close to 800,000 followers.
In the first photo, which she captioned, “Rawr!,” Bynes obscured a clear view of her breasts by crossing her arm over her body, and in another photo, her long blonde hair just barely covers her nipples. Fittingly, she wrote “Long hair don’t care” along with the second photo.
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Kenneth Bae Sentenced: American Sentenced To 15 Years Hard Labor For Crimes Against North Korea
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SEOUL, South Korea — An American detained for nearly six months in North Korea has been sentenced to 15 years of “compulsory labor” for unspecified crimes against the state, Pyongyang announced Thursday.
The sentencing of Kenneth Bae, described by friends as a devout Christian and a tour operator, will further complicate already strained relations between Pyongyang and Washington as the countries pursue tentative diplomacy following weeks of warlike threats from North Korea.
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8-Year-Old Atticus Lane-Dupre Receives Make-A-Wish Dream To Play Against The Portland Timbers
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PORTLAND, Ore. — After missing his team’s final soccer game last season because of cancer treatment, 8-year-old Atticus Lane-Dupre made sure his teammates were in on his wish to scrimmage against the Portland Timbers.
On Wednesday, the Timbers and Make-A-Wish Oregon treated Atticus’ team, the Green Machine, to a game at Jeld-Wen Field. More than 3,000 fans came out to lend their support.
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Chris Kelly Dead: Kris Kross Rapper Dies At Age 34
By The Huffington Post News Editors
Chris Kelly, member of the rap group Kris Kross, is dead, an investigator with the Fulton County Medical Examiner’s Office confirmed to the Huffington Post. Kelly was 34.
The Medical Examiner’s Office said it could not provide more details about the circumstances of his death at this time.
An unnamed source told CBS Atlanta that Kelly was found dead at his Atlanta home.
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Pentagon Ready To Ask Congress For Sequestration Break
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* Officials have been citing Syria, Korea
* Request would follow exceptions for airlines
By David Lawder and David Alexander
WASHINGTON, May 1 (Reuters) – The Pentagon is preparing to ask Congress soon for more authority to shift funds to cope with automatic spending cuts, confronting lawmakers with another exception to the “sequester” just days after they gave a break to the flying public and the airline industry.
The request may be sent to the House of Representatives’ Appropriations Committee as early as next week, a House Republican aide said on Wednesday.
The Pentagon won increased budget flexibility in March, but officials have told members of Congress they believe it was insufficient to cover shortfalls in training and operations.
The Defense Department move would follow closely the fix last week to ease airline flight delays caused by the temporary furloughs of air-traffic controllers by the Federal Aviation Administration.
The cuts, known as “sequestration,” were originally hatched by Washington in 2011 as a way to force the White House and Congress to find an alternative budget deal rather than have spending cuts kick in automatically.
But policymakers failed to reach such a deal earlier this year and the cuts – totaling $109 billion for the current fiscal year – took effect on March 1.
Defense spending has taken the single biggest hit from the automatic cuts, with a $46 billion reduction through the Sept. 30 end of the fiscal year.
One House aide said the request would cite a shortfall in war-fighting because of higher than expected costs of withdrawing from Afghanistan.
Pentagon officials paved the way for the move in testimony to congressional committees over the past few weeks in which they expressed worries about the sequester’s impact on military readiness, particularly with tensions rising in Syria and Korea.
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Matthew Rhys on ‘The Americans’ And His Sexy Undercover ‘Staches
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It’s hard not to look at the array of cover identities Matthew Rhys has used on the FX network spy drama “The Americans” and not conclude that they should star in a Web spinoff called “The Porn Identity.”
“That’s brilliant!” Rhys said with a laugh, when pitched the idea.
We actually did get into a reasonably non-silly discussion of identity and how Rhys approached the theme of assimilation within the context of the drama, in which he and Keri Russell play Russian spies posing as American suburbanites. But we’ll get to that after Rhys divulges the details on some of the secret identities he’s used on the show.
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Armless man fights ticket for failing to buckle seat belt
SASKATOON, Saskatchewan, May 2 (UPI) — An armless man in western Canada says he will do whatever it takes to fight a ticket for failing to wear a seatbelt.
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California Gun Control Bill, SB 140, Signed Into Law By Jerry Brown
By The Huffington Post News Editors
California Governor Jerry Brown signed into law Wednesday a measure that increases funding to confiscate the tens of thousands of weapons owned illegally throughout the state.
SB 140, authored by Mark Leno (D-San Francisco), allocates $24 million to identify and seize assault weapons owned by convicted criminals and individuals with serious mental illnesses.
“Today, each California community is a step closer to being safer,” Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg (D-Sacramento) said in a statement. “This swift action by the Legislature and the Governor to enforce the laws we already have is a wise and worthy investment to reduce gun violence.”
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