RNC Chair Priebus: You don’t plead the fifth if you’re innocent. Watch.

A TPM reader checks in from the Boy Scouts of America’s national meeting in Texas, where the national council will vote today on whether to lift the ban on gay scouts:

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With so much other stuff going on with tornados and the FBI shooting in Florida and all the scandal talk that I suspect most of you have still heard about this. But in case not, in England yesterday two men, apparently Britons of African ancestry (they spoke with British accents) attacked an off duty soldier in broad daylight and decapitated him.

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We asked newly announced mayoral candidate Anthony Weiner whether he’d asked the Clintons for their endorsement. Here’s what he told us.

Army Sergeant charged with secretly videotaping and photographing nude female cadets in the bathrooms at West Point.

Earlier we heard that very weird story of a friend of Tamerlan Tsarnaev who had allegedly confessed to some involvement with that 2011 triple murder before being shot by an FBI agent during questioning. The latest report says “it was no longer clear whether Todashev lunged at the agent with a knife.”

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So why did Anthony Weiner announce his mayoral campaign at midnight? Here’s the answer.

Don Rumsfeld suggests gay marriage may lead to polygamy.

Late Update: You learn something new every day. While I was checking some information about Rumsfeld I stumbled across the fact that Rumsfeld was one of the lead sponsors of the original Freedom of Information Act. Would not have expected that.

Chairman Darrell Issa (R-CA) is now saying that he believes Lois Lerner has waived her right to take the fifth by giving a general statement asserting her innocence.

Cable news can’t quit cracking jokes as Anthony Weiner makes his return to the stage with a run for New York City mayor.

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