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10:35 AM ET, May 11, 2016

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Nolan D. McCaskill / Politico:
Trump pins a nickname on Bernie Sanders  —  Touting his Tuesday night victories, Donald Trump unveiled a new moniker for yet another political adversary: “Crazy Bernie.”  —  “Big wins in West Virginia and Nebraska,” the presumptive Republican presidential nominee tweeted Wednesday morning.
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Trip Gabriel / New York Times:
Bernie Sanders Wins West Virginia, Prolonging Race With Hillary Clinton  —  Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont captured the West Virginia primary on Tuesday, according to The Associated Press, forcing Hillary Clinton to continue a costly and distracting two-front battle: to lock …
Alex Seitz-Wald / NBC News:
Donald Trump Supporters Boost Bernie Sanders in West Virginia
Discussion: Mediaite and CBS News
Stephen Collinson / CNN:
Sanders beats Clinton in West Virginia, CNN projects
Ruby Cramer / BuzzFeed:   Clinton Faces Hard Reality Of Unity In Trump Country
Media Matters for America:
NRA's Ted Nugent Promotes Fake Video Of Hillary Clinton Being Shot
Discussion: Mediaite
Abby Phillip / Washington Post:
Sanders, Trump easily win West Virginia primary; Trump picks up Nebraska too
Associated Press:
AP Interview: Trump narrows VP list as he moves into general  —  NEW YORK (AP) — Shifting swiftly to the general election, Donald Trump says he's narrowed his list of potential running mates to “five or six” people and doesn't want to accept public money to finance a fall campaign against likely Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton.
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Michael Goodwin / New York Post:
Hillary Clinton is unraveling quickly  —  MORE FROM:  —  A liberal friend is very concerned about the Republican Party.  He tells me that Donald Trump will make it impossible for anybody anywhere running under the “R” column to win election.  Even a dogcatcher in Podunk is doomed!
Discussion: The Last Tradition
New York Times:
Donald Trump, Bucking Calls to Unite, Claims ‘Mandate’ to Be Provocative  —  Donald J. Trump's behavior in recent days — the political threats to the House speaker, Paul D. Ryan; the name-calling on Twitter; the attacks on Hillary Clinton's marriage — has deeply puzzled Republicans who expected …
Rachael Bade / Politico:
Paul Ryan is stuck in a Trump trap  —  Paul Ryan knows he's in a squeeze.  —  The Wisconsin Republican has spent two decades building a brand as a serious conservative with a friendly demeanor, who totes budget charts to town halls and is more prone to a back slap than a back stab.
Discussion: NBC News
Ronan Farrow / Hollywood Reporter:
My Father, Woody Allen, and the Danger of Questions Unasked (Guest Column)  —  EMAIL ME  —  Despite Dylan Farrow's damning allegations of sexual abuse, the director of Cannes' opening film today remains beloved by stars, paid by Amazon and rarely interrogated by media as his son, Ronan Farrow …
Discussion: TVNewser, twitchy.com and Reuters
Josh Harkinson / Mother Jones:
Trump Selects a White Nationalist Leader as a Delegate in California  —  On Monday evening, California's secretary of state published a list of delegates chosen by the Trump campaign for the upcoming Republican presidential primary in the state.  Trump's slate includes William Johnson …
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Margaret Chadbourn / ABC News:
Joe Biden: ‘I Would Have Been the Best President’  —  Vice President Joe Biden says he “would have been the best president” if he had mounted a successful campaign in the 2016 election, but that forgoing the race was the right decision for his family.  —  Speaking with “Good Morning America” …
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Here's the Real Reason Everybody Thought Trump Would Lose  —  We thought Republicans were less, well, dumb.  —  Why did almost everybody fail to predict Donald Trump's victory in the Republican primaries?  Nate Silver blames the news media, disorganized Republican elites, and the surprising appeal of cultural grievance.
Steve Thomma / Politico:
'You Can Try to Lock Us Out, But We're Not Going Away'  —  In our third annual survey, the White House press corps reveals what it's really like covering Obama—and whoever comes next.  —  The White House Correspondents' Dinner is mostly a yearly schmoozefest for politicians, celebrities and the media.
Discussion: Slantpoint
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Kathleen Parker / Washington Post:
After Trump, the GOP may need a better voting system
New York Times:
Suicide on Periscope Prompts France to Open Inquiry  —  PARIS — French officials have opened an investigation after a distraught young woman recorded herself on Periscope, the live video-streaming app, describing her despair and then killing herself by jumping in front of a commuter train in suburban Paris.
Discussion: AOL, Mashable, Gizmodo and The Verge
Shane Goldmacher / Politico:
Trump launches tax plan rewrite  —  Donald Trump's campaign has enlisted influential conservative economists to revise his tax package and make it more politically palatable by slashing the $10 trillion sticker price.  Their main targets: Lifting the top tax rate from Trump's original plan …
Thomas B. Edsall / New York Times:
How Many People Support Trump but Don't Want to Admit It?  —  No one is more perplexed by Donald Trump than the leaders of the Republican Party.  On May 5, after Trump effectively clinched the Republican nomination, Paul Ryan famously asked:  —  As the speaker of the Republican-dominated House …
Discussion: Vox
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Democratic focus groups reveal warning signs about Donald Trump  —  Focus groups of swing voters have picked up some warning signs for Democrats about Donald Trump's general election candidacy: While those swing voters are willing to see Trump as a risky, divisive figure …
Betsy Rothstein / The Daily Caller:
About That Woman Dana Loesch Called Flat-Chested... Whoops.  —  Conservative radio host Dana Loesch may want to bury her head in sand for a day or two.  —  Not that she wasn't entitled to trash CNN commentator Kayleigh McEnany for saying anyone who doesn't support Donald Trump isn't really conservative.
Bloomberg:
Huawei Prepares for Robot Overlords and Communication with the Dead  —  Chinese technology giant Huawei is preparing for a world where people live forever, dead relatives linger on in computers and robots try to kill humans.  —  Huawei is best known as one of the world's largest producers …
Discussion: The Verge
Tampa Bay Times:
Tampa Bay Walmarts get thousands of police calls.  You paid the bill.  —  Design and graphics by MARTIN FROBISHER and ELI MURRAY  —  Police come to shoo away panhandlers, referee parking disputes and check on foul-mouthed teenagers.  —  They are called to arrest the man who drinks …
Daily Mail:
Sex abuse victim in her 20s allowed to choose euthanasia in Holland after doctors decided her post-traumatic stress and other conditions were incurable  —  A former victim of child sex abuse has ended her life under Dutch euthanasia laws because she could not live with her mental suffering.
George Dvorsky / Gizmodo:
Teen Discovers Lost Maya City Using Ancient Star Maps  —  Using an unprecedented technique of matching stars to the locations of temples on Earth, a 15-year-old Canadian student says he's discovered a forgotten Maya city in Central America.  Images from space suggest he may actually be onto something.
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Darryl Fears / Washington Post:
One city's solution to drinking water contamination? Get rid of every lead pipe.
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
McConnell: Trump is underestimated
Discussion: Politico
Noah Rothman / Commentary Magazine:
Trump Paralyzed Hillary's Campaign
Discussion: Instapundit and ThinkProgress
Stephen Taub / Institutional Investor's Alpha:
The 2016 Rich List of the World's Top-Earning Hedge Fund Managers
Joe Douglass / KATU-TV:
Deputies say Domino's Pizza crew helps save man's life
Discussion: Slantpoint, KOIN-TV and WNEP-TV
Fox News:
ISIS claims female Russian spy infiltrated terror network
Discussion: Daily Mail
Clare Trapasso / realtor.com:
Prepping for Doomsday: Bunkers, Panic Rooms, and Going Off the Grid
Discussion: Infowars and ParaPundit
 Earlier Items: 
Ken Meyer / Mediaite:
S.E. Cupp: ‘Idiots’ Are Attacking Paul Ryan Because ‘Thinking’ Is Elitist Now
Miranda Blue / Right Wing Watch:
Religious Right Activists Demand Disney Heroine Get A Boyfriend, Stop ‘Homosexualizing Kids’
Stuart Rothenberg / Roll Call:
Clinton Starts with a Decisive Advantage
AJ Willingham / CNN:
World's Oldest Cat dethroned by even older cat Scooter
Kyle Mantyla / Right Wing Watch:
'They're Only Using Us For Their Own Power': Glenn Beck Unloads On The GOP
Discussion: Mediaite
Steerpike / Coffee House:
Revealed: Emma Watson named in latest Panama Papers leak
 

 
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