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7:20 AM ET, May 9, 2016

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Los Angeles Times:
Column What's Bernie Sanders' next move?  —  Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., raises his fist in the air during a campaign rally at Milton High School in Milton, Mass., on Feb. 29, 2016.  —  Bernie Sanders has plenty of sound reasons for continuing his presidential campaign …
Discussion: Washington Monthly
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Reuters:
Democrats gird for fight with Trump in U.S. Rust Belt states  —  CLEVELAND/NEW YORK - Bracing for a general election fight with Donald Trump, Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton and her allies are putting resources into industrial states such as Ohio and Pennsylvania to try …
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 …
Discussion: The Last Tradition and Politico
Chris Cillizza / Washington Post:
The GOP's electoral-map problem is not about Trump.  It's about demographics.  —  Republicans have a major electoral map problem in November.  Major.  —  Donald Trump's victory last week in Indiana's primary not only effectively sealed the GOP nomination for the real estate billionaire …
Discussion: Booman Tribune
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 …
Corinne Heller / E! Online:
Ozzy Osbourne and Sharon Osbourne Split After More Than 33 Years of Marriage  —  It's over for Ozzy Osbourne and Sharon Osbourne.  —  The 67-year-old heavy metal rocker and the 63-year-old co-host of The Talk have broken up after more than 33 years of marriage, E! News has learned.
William Yardley / Los Angeles Times:
Wildfire at Fort McMurray quickly overtakes Canada's environmental debate  —  A wildfire was growing just outside Fort McMurray, but Matt Hepditch went to work in the oil sands the way he always does.  —  Some people had evacuated, though reports the night before suggested the fire …
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Associated Press:
MASSIVE ALBERTA WILDFIRE EXPECTED TO BURN FOR MONTHS
Discussion: Associated Press
Breitbart:
Paul Nehlen Tours Border with Breitbart Texas' Brandon Darby: ‘Agents Need a Fighter’  —  Paul Nehlen, the Wisconsin businessman who has launched a primary challenge to Rep. Paul Ryan, is currently touring the U.S.-Mexico border alongside Brandon Darby, the top editor of Breitbart Texas.
Discussion: ABC News
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Dan Riehl / Breitbart:
Paul Ryan Challenger Paul Nehlen: ‘He Has Betrayed Us All’
Rebecca Savransky / The Hill:
Veterans call on Trump to show respect  —  More than 50 veterans released a statement Sunday calling on presumptive GOP nominee Donald Trump  —  to show respect for the country's veterans and donate the millions of dollars he allegedly raised during a fundraiser several months ago.
Los Angeles Times:
Op-Ed The Republican Party is dead  —  I have been a Republican as long as I can remember.  Joining the Grand Old Party seemed like a natural choice for someone like me who fled the Soviet Union as a boy and came to Los Angeles with his mother and grandmother in 1976.
Ben Glaze / Mirror.co.uk:
‘Brexit’ could trigger World War Three, warns David Cameron  —  Mr Cameron will highlight the UK's role in bringing peace to Europe as he hits the referendum campaign trail  —  David Cameron will plead for Britain to stay in the EU and help prevent the Continent being ripped apart by another conflict.
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
Kurt Schlichter / Townhall.com:
I Am Going To Vote For Trump Though It Makes Me Want To Projectile Vomit  —  I intend to vote for Donald Trump, and just typing those words makes me throw up a little.  Make that a lot, and for distance.  Yeah, I know Trump is a clown, but so is Hillary Clinton, and while he's sort …
Discussion: Hot Air
Rebecca Savransky / The Hill:
NC governor: Feds gave us ‘unrealistic’ bathroom law deadline  —  North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory (R) said the federal government gave the state an “unrealistic” deadline to respond to a letter informing him that the state's bathroom law violates the Civil Rights Act.
Discussion: RedState
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Fox News:
NC Gov. McCrory says he'll answer Justice ultimatum on transgender bathroom issue by Monday deadline
Discussion: The Daily Caller and Joe.My.God.
Rebecca Savransky / The Hill:
Johnson sees third-party candidacy as ‘opportunity’  —  Former New Mexico Gov. Gary Johnson said in an interview on Sunday he sees a third-party candidacy as an opportunity, instead of as a threat.  —  “Well, I think it is a real opportunity.  I do think that [Hillary] Clinton and [Donald] …
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Adrienne Salazar / ABC News:
Gary Johnson Says 2016 Race ‘Real Opportunity’ for Libertarian Party
Associated Press:
NEW PRISON FOR DRUG BOSS ‘EL CHAPO’ SEEN AS LESS SECURE  —  MEXICO CITY (AP) — Questions arose on both sides of the border about the decision to relocate convicted drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman to a region that is one of his cartel's strongholds, and a Mexican security official acknowledged Sunday …
Discussion: Associated Press
Frank Bruni / New York Times:
Sex and the Singular Pol  —  WHEN the histories of this warped campaign are constructed, when a lasting inventory of its every last ignominy is done, Donald Trump's guarantee that all of his appendages measured up to greatness will be front, center and protuberant, evidence of the election's vulgar endowment.
Discussion: Hullabaloo, alan.com and Mediaite
 
 
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Dennis Ross / Politico:
Why Middle Eastern Leaders Are Talking to Putin, Not Obama
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Tom Brune / Newsday:
Lee Zeldin promotes Donald Trump and their shared history
Discussion: NY State of Politics
New York Times:
Lining Up for Change in Venezuela
Simon Romero / New York Times:
Conservative's Star Rises in Brazil as Polarizing Views Tap Into Discontent
David Weigel / Washington Post:
The year of the hated: Clinton and Trump, two intensely disliked candidates, begin their face-off
Paul Sperry / New York Post:
Obama's last act is to force suburbs to be less white and less wealthy
Sara Jerde / Talking Points Memo:
Trump: 'If I Was Jeb Bush, I Wouldn't Vote For Me Either'
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Breitbart:
Saudi Prince Begs America to Reject Trump
Discussion: Daily Mail
Evelyn Rupert / The Hill:
Trump tells crowd Clinton wants to ‘abolish’ Second Amendment
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
 

 
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