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Ben Terris / Washington Post:
Is Ben Carson the worst or the best surrogate of all time? Yes. — COLUMBUS, Ohio — Ben Carson, the neurosurgeon turned presidential candidate turned unfiltered pitchman for Donald Trump and now part of the presumptive nominee's vice presidential search committee, sat in the back of a Town Car …
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Bob Gates on how Trump stands out from past presidents — Former Defense Secretary Bob Gates has worked with eight presidents, Republican and Democrat—and the biggest difference between them and presumptive GOP nominee Donald Trump is that they all were “willing to listen,” he said in an interview airing Sunday.
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Megan Messerly / LasVegasSun.com:
Clinton adds to delegate lead with Nevada convention win — Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Saturday again won Nevada at the state Democratic convention, after her opponent, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, scored a surprise delegate victory out of the county conventions last month.
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Alex Pfeiffer / The Daily Caller:
Chaos At Nevada Democratic Convention As Bernie Fans Boo Barbara Boxer [VIDEO] — Upset Bernie Sanders supporters booed California Sen. Barbara Boxer , a Hillary Clinton supporter, during a contentious Nevada Democratic Convention Saturday. — “We need civility in the Democratic Party …
Jen Yamato / The Daily Beast:
How the Smashing Pumpkins' Billy Corgan Became an SJW-Hating Conservative Crusader — Gen-X icon and Obama conspiracy theorist Billy Corgan slammed Bernie Sanders and compared liberal activists to the KKK during an appearance on Info Wars. How did he get here?
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Kyle Cheney / Politico:
State GOP leaders crush ‘Never Trump’ rebellions — Republican activists chose party unity over “never Trump” resistance Saturday, with party leaders in one state after another pressuring their members fall in line behind the presumptive nominee — and even punishing those who refused.
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Associated Press:
ISRAELI LEADER: IRAN MOCKS WWII HOLOCAUST, PREPARES ANOTHER — JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu lashed out at Iran Sunday for staging a Holocaust-themed cartoon contest that mocked the Nazi genocide of 6 million Jews during World War II and said the Islamic Republic was busy planning for another one.
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Brianna Gurciullo / Politico:
Bill Clinton: ‘I killed myself to give the Palestinians a state’
Bill Clinton: ‘I killed myself to give the Palestinians a state’
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Martha Gellhorn / The Atlantic:
The Arabs of Palestine … ACCORDING to Arab politicians and apologists, this is what happened, this is the authentic view, these are the facts. Doubt is treasonous. There can be only one truth, according to Arab politicians and apologists, and it belongs to them:
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Maureen Dowd / New York Times:
The Mogul and the Babe — WASHINGTON — WE are in one of those rare unharmonic convergences when reality is more absurd than satire. — So I decided to dispense with satire and simply call Donald Trump at Trump Tower on Friday to hear about his trip to survey the damage from the volcanic eruption of his imminent nomination.
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Glenn Beck / Facebook:
Updated: Sunday 12:30am — I was contacted by Mark Zuckerberg's office this morning about going out to see him in Menlo Park Wednesday. — They have had the same problem that many in media and Silicon Valley face: suppression of conservative voices and ideas.
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Rebecca Savransky / The Hill:
GOP chief: Voters don't care about Trump's personal life — Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus said in an interview Sunday that voters' opinions of Donald Trump — will likely not be influenced by a New York Times article about how the presumptive GOP nominee treated women in private.
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Kyle Smith / New York Post:
Obama doesn't think rapists, armed robbers, drug dealers are ‘criminals’ — MORE FROM: — It's only May, but I think I've found the euphemism of the year: According to Team Obama, criminals should now be declared “justice-involved individuals.” — The neo-Orwellianism comes to us …
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Jeff Greenfield / Politico:
The Vice Presidency No One Should Want — If you're masochistic enough to plow through the next three months of vice presidential speculation, you might want to pause and ask a more fundamental question: Why would anybody want that job under Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump?
Tim Ross / Telegraph:
Boris Johnson: The EU wants a superstate, just as Hitler did — The European Union is pursuing a similar goal to Hitler in trying to create a powerful superstate, Boris Johnson says. — In a dramatic interview with the Telegraph, he warns that while bureaucrats in Brussels are using …
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Jim Hoft / The Gateway Pundit:
Four Migrant Teens Face Trial for Raping High School Girl on Swedish Pleasure Cruise — In April, five men were arrested on suspicion of gang raping a girl on-board a special, high school kids-only pleasure cruise in Sweden. The men were accused of gang-raping an unidentified woman, and face charges of aggravated rape.
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