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8:25 AM ET, May 18, 2015

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KWTX-TV:
Sunday Biker Gang Shooting Leaves Nine Dead, Several Injured … Headlines List  —  Three rival motorcycle gangs turned a local restaurant into a shooting gallery Sunday afternoon and when the gunfire was over, nine people were dead and several were injured.
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Associated Press:
Police: 9 Dead From Texas Shootout Among Rival Biker Gangs  —  WACO, Texas — Nine people were killed Sunday and some others injured after a shootout erupted among rival biker gangs at a Central Texas restaurant, sending patrons and bystanders fleeing for safety, a police spokesman said.
Dana Ford / CNN:
Reports: 9 dead in Waco, Texas, shooting  —  (CNN)Nine people were killed Sunday in a shooting among rival bikers in Waco, Texas, CNN affiliates KXXV and KXTX reported.  —  “Multiple injuries to include multiple fatalities,” the Waco Police Department said in a post on Facebook.
Discussion: Washington Post
KCEN-TV:   BREAKING: Nine Dead in Shooting at Twin Peaks
Eli Stokols / Politico:
Bush insists he's not writing off Iowa  —  Skepticism runs high about the former Florida governor's intentions for the February caucuses.  —  DES MOINES, Iowa - His brother won the caucuses here in 2000.  His likely campaign manager is a veteran Iowa campaign strategist.
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Ed O'Keefe / Washington Post:
Jeb Bush: No constitutional right to same-sex marriage  —  Former Florida governor Jeb Bush reiterated in a new interview that he doesn't believe that same-sex marriage is a constitutional right.  —  The high court is expected to rule next month on the constitutionality of same-sex marriage …
Discussion: Catholic Online and Liberaland
Politico:
Scott Walker's Iowa dilemma
Discussion: The Reaction
Washington Post:
Large GOP field has party leaders anxious about their chances in '16
Discussion: The Reaction
Connie Cass / Associated Press:   Iraq War Judged a Mistake by Today's White House Hopefuls
Maureen Dowd / New York Times:   He Is Heavy. He's My Brother.
Daniel J. McGraw / Politico:
The GOP is dying off.  Literally.  —  Lead image by Getty.  —  It turns out that one of the Grand Old Party's biggest—and least discussed—challenges going into 2016 is lying in plain sight, written right into the party's own nickname.  The Republican Party voter is old—and getting older …
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James Fallows / The Atlantic:
How Fox News Is (Still) Hurting the Republicans  —  January 30, 1995, the beginning of modern media-political history: Rupert Murdoch (right) announcing that Roger Ailes will run the newly launched Fox News (Peter Morgan / Reuters)  —  Let me recommend for your weekend reading …
Wednesday Martin / New York Times:
Poor Little Rich Women  —  WHEN our family moved from the West Village to the Upper East Side in 2004, seeking proximity to Central Park, my in-laws and a good public school, I thought it unlikely that the neighborhood would hold any big surprises.  For many years I had immersed myself …
Sarah Kaplan / Washington Post:
Dean Potter, extreme climber, dies in Yosemite base jumping accident  —  Yet again, Dean Potter was hurtling through the air.  A dead tree stood on the ground below him, a strange tug at the space between his shoulders came from above.  —  Potter, already a famous rock climber, had been having this dream night after night.
Rachana Pradhan / Politico:
Skyrocketing Medicaid signups stir state expansion fights  —  Some GOP governors are saying: “I told you so.”  —  Medicaid enrollment under Obamacare is skyrocketing past expectations, giving some GOP governors who oppose the program's expansion under the health law an “I told you so” moment.
Lloyd Grove / The Daily Beast:
ABC Colleague: George Stephanopoulos 'Really Isn't a Journalist'  —  If ABC's chief anchor thought two apologies over his undeclared Clinton Foundation donations would be enough to pacify his critics, he was wrong.  —  It has been a rough weekend for ABC News's embattled chief anchor, George Stephanopoulos, and an even worse Sunday.
Discussion: CNN and Ed Driscoll
Julie Hirschfeld Davis / New York Times:
Obama to Limit Military-Style Equipment for Police Forces  —  WASHINGTON — President Obama on Monday will ban the federal provision of some types of military-style equipment to local police departments and sharply restrict the availability of others, administration officials said …
Discussion: The Week
Peter Jamison / Los Angeles Times:
Kamala Harris calls Loretta Sanchez's Native American ‘war cry’ shocking  —  U.S. Senate candidate and Atty. Gen. Kamala Harris was at a loss for words Saturday when told that her principal opponent, U.S. Rep. Loretta Sanchez of Santa Ana, had been videotaped making a joke …
Discussion: The Week, BuzzFeed, Mediaite and LAist
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In religious and political gesture, Pope confers sainthood on two Palestinians
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