A.M. Links: House Passes No Strings Attached Debt Limit Bill, Rand Paul Joins Lawsuit Against NSA, Entertainment Reporter Mistakes Samuel Jackson for Laurence Fishburne

The House
passed a bill that suspends the debt ceiling until March 2015.
Twenty-eight Republicans and all but two voting Democrats supported
the measure.
Rand Paul is
joining a lawsuit by FreedomWorks, for which Ken Cuccinelli is
serving as lead counsel, against the Obama administration over the
NSA’s domestic surveillance programs.
A House Armed Services Committee report
blames the White House for not providing sufficient security
for the U.S. compound in Benghazi, while debunking the claim that a
rapid response team was ordered to stand down and pointing out that
such a force would not have been able to arrive in Benghazi in
time.
A new study
finds death row inmates who maintain their innocence are nearly
3 times more likely to reject a last meal.
The Raelian UFO cult will
open the first clitoral restoration hospital in Africa in
Burkina Faso next month.
An entertainment reporter for KTLA in Los Angeles
mistook Samuel Jackson for Laurence Fishburne in a live
interview. Jackson told the reporter he was “as crazy as the people
on Twitter.”