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12:55 PM ET, May 9, 2016

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Michael Nunez / Gizmodo:
Former Facebook Workers: We Routinely Suppressed Conservative News  —  Facebook workers routinely suppressed news stories of interest to conservative readers from the social network's influential “trending” news section, according to a former journalist who worked on the project.
CNN:
Poll: 6-in-10 oppose bills like the North Carolina transgender bathroom law  —  Washington (CNN)Americans broadly oppose laws that would require transgender people to use facilities that correspond with their gender at birth rather than their gender identity, according to a new CNN/ORC Poll …
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Joshua Berlinger / CNN:
Showdown looms over North Carolina's bathroom bill  —  (CNN)It's deadline day for North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory.  —  The U.S. Justice Department sent his office a letter Wednesday claiming that the state's controversial bathroom law is in violation of the Civil Rights Act.
Pete Williams / NBC News:
North Carolina Sues Feds Over Controversial LGBT Law
Cortney O'Brien / Townhall.com:   Dozens of Parents Sue DOE Over Illinois Transgender Bathroom Law
Nick Gass / Politico:
Trump enlists Christie to head White House transition team  —  New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie will serve as the chairman of Donald Trump's transition team should he win the presidency, the presumptive Republican nominee's campaign announced Monday.  —  “Governor Christie is an extremely knowledgeable …
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Jordan Fabian / The Hill:
Obama itches for Trump fight  —  President Obama can't wait to take on Donald Trump  —  Obama has been largely sidelined in the presidential contest, a last-year officeholder with high approval ratings who has repeatedly shown he likes to spar with political foes.
Discussion: Politico and Heat Street
Ben Kamisar / The Hill:
Christie to lead Trump White House transition team
Allegra Kirkland / Talking Points Memo:   Trump Announces Chris Christie Will Take Charge Of His Transition Team
Fred Barnes / Weekly Standard:
He'll Do It His Way  —  Don't expect a New Trump.  —  If you're expecting Donald Trump to change now that he's the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, forget it.  Trump says he can act presidential any time he wants to.  But that time rarely comes.  There's a reason for this.
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Reuters:   Democrats gird for fight with Trump in U.S. Rust Belt states
Los Angeles Times:
Column What's Bernie Sanders' next move?
Discussion: Washington Monthly
Jonathan Cohn / The Huffington Post:
Hillary Clinton Is A Progressive Democrat, Despite What You May Have Heard
Discussion: New York Times
Nick Gass / Politico:
Trump: U.S. can never default because it prints money  —  Donald Trump assailed the media on Monday for what he said was a misrepresentation of his comments on debt, rejecting the notion that he would have the United States default on his debt.  —  “I said if we can buy back government debt as a discount.
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Ian Millhiser / ThinkProgress:   Trump's Dangerous National Debt Plan Is Also Unconstitutional
Nick Gass / Politico:
Trump, pivoting to general, lashes out at everyone
Discussion: Balloon Juice
Glenn Thrush / Politico:
‘I think he could come apart’  —  Mark Salter, the most prominent and most defiant Republican to announce his support of Hillary Clinton over Donald Trump, thinks the 2016 campaign could literally — no joke — drive the billionaire developer insane.  —  Salter, one of McCain's top aides during …
Discussion: Raw Story
Jim Hoft / The Gateway Pundit:
Rapper Azealia Banks Endorses Trump - Says Hillary Talks to Black People “Like We're Pets”  —  Rapper Azealia Banks endorsed Donald Trump in a series of tweets on Sunday.  —  WOW!  —  Right, black folk having been voting democrat for the last 70 years and we don't have s**t to show for it. http://twitter.com/...
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Fred Hiatt / Washington Post:   Democrats, don't celebrate Trump's nomination. Fear it.
Kurt Schlichter / Townhall.com:
I Am Going To Vote For Trump Though It Makes Me Want To Projectile Vomit
Discussion: Hot Air
Los Angeles Times:
High school yearbook misidentifies Muslim student as ‘Isis Phillips’  —  A high school yearbook is supposed to be a keepsake, but for a Muslim student in Rancho Cucamonga it will be a painful reminder of being misidentified as “Isis Phillips” in a photo that showed her smiling and wearing a hijab.
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Associated Press:   Muslim Student Says Yearbook ID'd Her As ‘Isis Phillips’
Jonathan Swan / The Hill:
GOP operatives on the prowl for secret Clinton transcripts  —  Republican operatives are scouring the country for transcripts, notes or secret recordings of Hillary Clinton  —  's paid speeches to Goldman Sachs in hopes of finding damaging material for the general election.
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Megan Cassella / Reuters:
Speaker Ryan says he would step down as Republican convention chair if Trump asks: report  —  U.S. House Speaker Paul Ryan said on Monday he would step down as chairman of the Republican Party's July convention if presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump asked him to do so, a Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reporter said on Twitter.
Discussion: Political Wire
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Jeremy W. Peters / New York Times:
Donald Trump's Warning to Paul Ryan Signals Further G.O.P. Discord
Ben Rhodes:
How We Advocated for the Iran Deal  —  In recent years, few things have been as exhaustively debated or written about than the Iran deal.  —  That debate reignited this week after a long article about me included a section about the Iran deal.  There are many issues raised in an article of this length …
Bobby Jindal / Wall Street Journal:
I'm Voting Trump, Warts and All  —  I stand by all my criticisms of the New Yorker, but the stakes for the country are too great to elect Clinton.  —  Some of my fellow Republicans have declared they will never, under any circumstances, vote for Donald Trump.
Associated Press:
Philippine mayor ahead in unofficial count for president  —  MANILA, Philippines (AP) — A brash mayor known for sex jokes and a pledge to end crime within six months — by killing suspected criminals if necessary — strongly led an unofficial vote count in Monday's Philippine presidential election …
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Associated Press:
HARD-TALKING MAYOR FAVORED TO BE NEXT PHILIPPINE PRESIDENT
Discussion: The Daily Beast, NBC News and Hot Air
Paul Bedard / Washington Examiner:
Cashing in: Illegal immigrants get $1,261 more welfare than American families, $5,692 vs. $4,431  —  Illegal immigrant households receive an average of $5,692 in federal welfare benefits every year, far more than the average “native” American household, at $4,431, according to a new report on the cost of immigration released Monday.
Wall Street Journal:
Twitter Bars Intelligence Agencies From Using Analytics Service  —  Social media firm cuts access to Dataminr, a service used to identify unfolding terror attacks, political unrest  —  Twitter Inc. cut off U.S. intelligence agencies from access to a service that sifts through the entire output …
 
 
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U.S. Role in Afghanistan Turns to Combat Again, With a Tragic Error
David Cantor / The74Million:
United Front: Teachers Unions Quietly Spend Millions on ‘Grassroots’ Groups
E.J. Dionne Jr / Washington Post:
Make America empathetic again
Discussion: Daily Kos
New York Daily News:
New York nail salons must pay $2M for cheating workers out of fair wages
Discussion: New York Magazine and Raw Story
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Man charged in attack on W.Va. State Senate candidate attack
Breitbart:
London's Iconic Red Buses To Declare ‘Glory To Allah’
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Dara Lind / Vox:
The reasons Americans want to move to Canada are the reasons it's really hard to do it
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Lisa Rein / Washington Post:
Yosemite, sponsored by Starbucks? National Parks to start selling some naming rights
Discussion: Raw Story
Alex Zielinski / ThinkProgress:
The Latest Strategy To Prevent Women From Getting A Safe Abortion
Discussion: alan.com
Brian Faler / Politico:
Congress says no Puerto Rico bailout, but tax deal beat it to the punch
Discussion: Washington Post and The Hill
Ben Glaze / Mirror.co.uk:
‘Brexit’ could trigger World War Three, warns David Cameron
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
 

 
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