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5:15 PM ET, May 5, 2016

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Donald J. Trump / Facebook:
Happy Cinco de Mayo!  The best taco bowls are made in Trump Tower Grill.  I love Hispanics!
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Ben Sasse / Facebook:
AN OPEN LETTER TO MAJORITY AMERICA  —  TO: Those who think both leading presidential candidates are dishonest and have little chance of leading America forward:  —  (...or, stated more simply)  —  TO: The majority of America:  —  Note: If you are one of those rare souls …
Joe Klein / TIME:
Why the Clintons Don't Fear the Coming Armageddon With Donald Trump  —  Hillary Clinton's ultimate trump card will not be her gender but her relative humanity  —  On the night that Donald Trump effectively won the Republican nomination for President, Hillary Clinton observed radio silence.
Discussion: Washington Monthly
Philip Rucker / Washington Post:
Mitt Romney will skip Trump's nominating convention in Cleveland … Mitt Romney, the 2012 Republican presidential nominee, plans to skip this summer's Republican National Convention in Cleveland where Donald Trump will be officially nominated — an unusual move that underscores the deep unease …
Danielle Allen / Washington Post:
Hillary Clinton is walking into Donald Trump's trap  —  The writer is a political theorist at Harvard University and a contributing columnist for The Post.  —  Donald Trump has set a big, fat trap for Hillary Clinton, and so far she has stepped right into it.  He turned his attacks against women against her.
Discussion: Liberal Values, Althouse and The Slot
David Roberts / Vox:
Why the media will lift Trump up and tear Clinton down  —  It now seems all but certain that the presidential election will see Donald Trump face off against Hillary Clinton.  —  We find ourselves at the tail end of a brief period of clarity.  For the past few months …
Seung Min Kim / Politico:
McCain on tape: Trump damages my reelection hopes  —  Publicly, John McCain insists Donald Trump will have a negligible effect on his campaign for reelection.  But behind closed doors at a fundraiser in Arizona last month, the Republican senator and two-time presidential hopeful offered a far more dire assessment to his supporters.
Julian Hattem / The Hill:
GOP experts choose exile over Trump
Ben Kamisar / The Hill:
Dole alone in not shunning GOP convention
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
Wall Street Journal:
The Trump Reality  —  He may be the highest variable nominee in American history.
Discussion: Guardian
Andrew Kaczynski / BuzzFeed:
Woman Who Built Trump Tower Says She's Backing Clinton Over Trump
Discussion: Shakesville
Nick Gass / Politico:
Scarborough: I won't vote for Trump if he doesn't change
Streiff / RedState:
BREAKING. Donald Trump Renounces His Own Tax Plan
Discussion: TheStreet.com
Mother Jones:
Clinton Releases a Brutal Anti-Trump Ad
Ronald Brownstein / The Atlantic:
The Republican Party's Woman Problem
Discussion: New York Magazine
Betsy McCaughey / New York Post:   Donald Trump's policy plans are real, detailed — and great
Media Matters for America:
STUDY: Trump Won The Fox Primary, Doubling Any Other Candidate In Interview Airtime
Discussion: Salon
Shushannah Walshe / ABC News:
Mitt Romney to Skip July's GOP Convention
Discussion: The Last Refuge and Yahoo
fda.gov:
FDA takes significant steps to protect Americans from dangers of tobacco through new regulation  —  Rule extending oversight to all tobacco products, including e-cigarettes, allows agency to address public health concerns such as youth access to tobacco products … For Immediate Release
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Jayne O'Donnell / USA Today:
Feds announce final e-cigarette rule that nearly bans them
Discussion: Vox, Complex, NPR and LawNewz
Tarini Parti / BuzzFeed:
New Trump Finance Chair Has Given Twice As Much To Democrats As To The GOP  —  Donald Trump has hired a Wall Street tycoon who has donated more than twice as much to Democrats as to Republicans to be his campaign's finance chair, according to a review of Federal Election Commission filings.
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Fredreka Schouten / USA Today:
Ted Cruz's $10 million donor backs Donald Trump
Discussion: CNN and AOL
FOX Carolina 21:
Tow truck owner said he refused service to woman because she supports Bernie Sanders  —  A local tow truck driver said he refused to tow a woman's car after he saw Bernie Sanders stickers on the vehicle.  —  Kenneth Shupe said he was called to pick up a woman stranded on I-26 in Asheville on Monday.
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Dana Liebelson / The Huffington Post:
Tow Truck Driver Leaves Woman With Disabilities On Side Of Highway Because She Supports Bernie Sanders
Discussion: Washington Post
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
This brutal new ad shows the shredding machine that awaits Trump  —  THE MORNING PLUM:  —  Predictably enough, the hand-wringing has already begun among some Democrats over the prospect of Donald Trump waging “unpredictable” attacks on Hillary Clinton and the possibility that the Clinton camp will be …
Barack Obama:
A Nation of Second Chances  —  Earlier this spring, I met with a group of individuals whose sentences were commuted either by President Bush, President Clinton, or myself.  They were all at different stages of a new chapter in their lives, but each of their stories was extraordinary.
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Jordan Fabian / The Hill:
Obama commutes sentences of 58 prisoners
Discussion: ThinkProgress
The Cook Political Report:
New Electoral Scorecard Ratings in 13 States  —  This has been an exceedingly unpredictable year.  Although we remain convinced that Hillary Clinton is very vulnerable and would probably lose to most other Republicans, Donald Trump's historic unpopularity with wide swaths of the electorate …
J.K. Trotter / Gawker:
The Best of New York Times Columnist Ross Douthat's Incorrect Predictions That Trump Would Lose the GOP Nomination  —  The demises of Ted Cruz and John Kasich's primary campaigns almost certainly assure, in the absence of some intervening event or act of God, that Donald Trump will be the Republican nominee for President.
Colin Campbell / Raleigh News & Observer:
NC won't meet Obama administration's Monday deadline on House Bill 2, House speaker says  —  Department of Justice says HB2 violates the U.S. Civil Rights Act and Title IX  —  Tim Moore: ‘We will take no action by Monday’  —  House Speaker Tim Moore said Thursday that legislators won't meet …
NBC News:
Hacker ‘Guccifer’: I Got Inside Hillary Clinton's Server  —  The Romanian hacker who first exposed Hillary Clinton's private email address is making a bombshell new claim — that he also gained access to the former Secretary of State's “completely unsecured” server.
David Samuels / New York Times:
The Aspiring Novelist Who Became Obama's Foreign-Policy Guru  —  How Ben Rhodes rewrote the rules of diplomacy for the digital age.  —  Picture him as a young man, standing on the waterfront in North Williamsburg, at a polling site, on Sept. 11, 2001, which was Election Day in New York City.
Discussion: EconLog
 
 
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CNN:
First on CNN: FBI interviews Clinton aides including Huma Abedin as part of email probe
Maxine Bernstein / Oregonian:
Oregon standoff defendant Sean Anderson apologizes for inflammatory video messages from refuge
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The Independent:
Mayor of London 2016 - the candidates at a glance
Discussion: Business Insider
Dave Itzkoff / New York Times:
Chelsea Handler: Impulsive, Provocative and Streaming on Netflix
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 Earlier Items: 
Bryce Covert / ThinkProgress:
Donald Trump Walks Back His Only Detailed Economic Proposal
Discussion: Wall Street Journal and alan.com
Tim Devaney / The Hill:
Social Security moves to block the mentally ill from purchasing guns
Austin Ramzy / New York Times:
KFC, With New Nail Polish, Redefines Chicken Fingers
Discussion: NPR, The Week, WNEP-TV and CBS Los Angeles
Jim Rutenberg / New York Times:
The Republican Horse Race Is Over, and Journalism Lost
Katie Van-Syckle / Variety:
MSNBC's Chris Matthews Caught on Hot Mic Ogling Melania Trump
 

 
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