10 things you need to know today: May 1, 2012

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1. ANNIVERSARY OF BIN LADEN'S DEATH TRIGGERS CAMPAIGN SHOWDOWN

President Obama and his Republican rival, Mitt Romney, are stepping up an increasingly heated political battle over the death of Osama bin Laden. After the Obama re-election campaign released a video suggesting Romney wouldn't have made the tough call to launch the risky raid that killed bin Laden in Pakistan, Romney said "of course" he would have made the same decision as Obama. "Even Jimmy Carter would have given that order," said Romney, who arrives in New York City Tuesday to help former Mayor Rudy Giuliani mark Wednesday's anniversary of the death of the al Qaeda leader and 9/11 mastermind. [Christian Science Monitor]

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