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5:45 PM ET, May 15, 2016

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TMZ.com:
Arrested for Allegedly Attacking Bernie Sanders Supporter  —  “The Wire” star Wendell Pierce was arrested Saturday after allegedly physically assaulting a woman supporting Bernie Sanders.  —  Sources at the Loews Hotel in Atlanta tell us the actor struck up a convo with the woman and her boyfriend at around 3:30 AM.
Discussion: Raw Story and LawNewz
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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.
Alex Pfeiffer / The Daily Caller:
Chaos At Nevada Democratic Convention As Bernie Fans Boo Barbara Boxer [VIDEO]
Discussion: CANNONFIRE and Hot Air
Associated Press:
Rebuking Trump, Obama Tells Graduates Walls Won't Solve Ills  —  President Barack Obama on Sunday urged college graduates to shun those who want to confront a rapidly changing world by building walls around the United States or by embracing ignorance, as he delivered a sharp and barely concealed critique of Donald Trump.
Discussion: Washington Post and Politico
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Geoff Earle / Daily Mail:
Obama goes after Trump in Rutgers commencement address and slams building ‘walls,’ isolationism, and ‘conspiracy theories’ - and even defends the ‘rigged’ political system  — Hailed diversity at 250-year old campus, while slamming past boycott of ex-State Department head Conoleezza Rice as ‘misguided’
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit and alan.com
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 …
Discussion: Breitbart, Hullabaloo, Guardian and AOL
Andrew Kaczynski / BuzzFeed:
Trump Predicts Refugees With ISIS Phones Will Commit 9/11 Size Attack In The U.S.  —  “Who pays their monthly charges, right?”  —  Nicholas Kamm / AFP / Getty Images  —  w.soundcloud.com  —  Donald Trump said Sunday that he believes refugees will launch a terrorist attack …
Discussion: The Hill and Raw Story
ABC News:
‘This Week’ Transcript: Reince Priebus and Sen. Jeff Sessions  —  THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT FOR ‘THIS WEEK’ ON May 15, 2016 and it will be updated.  —  UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Starting right now on THIS WEEK with George Stephanopoulos, Trump under fire.  Questions on taxes.
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Rebecca Savransky / The Hill:   GOP chief: Voters don't care about Trump's personal life
Kelly Cohen / Washington Examiner:
RNC chief Priebus on third party: ‘May as well jump off’ a building
Tré Goins-Phillips / TheBlaze.com:
CNN's Jake Tapper Brutally Fact Checks Clinton's Email Claims — See What He Found Out  —  CNN anchor Jake Tapper teamed up with FactCheck.org to examine Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton's claims about her private email server — and the results weren't pretty.
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?
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Associated Press:
ISRAELI LEADER: IRAN MOCKS WWII HOLOCAUST, PREPARES ANOTHER
Discussion: 12NewsNow.Com and Algemeiner.com
Brianna Gurciullo / Politico:
Bill Clinton: ‘I killed myself to give the Palestinians a state’
Discussion: Informed Comment and Israel Matzav
CBS News:
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.
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.
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 …
Michael Crowley / Politico:
When Donald Trump brought Miss Universe to Moscow  —  On June 18, 2013, Donald Trump had some exciting news: He would soon be whisking dozens of the world's most beautiful women to Russia.  —  “The Miss Universe Pageant will be broadcast live from MOSCOW, RUSSIA on November 9th,” …
Discussion: Hullabaloo
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 to fall in line behind the presumptive nominee — and even punishing those who refused.
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Jim Hoft / The Gateway Pundit:   BREAKING UPDATE: Nebraska Republicans PASS RESOLUTION to Reprimand #NeverTrump Senator Ben Sasse
Sheryl Sandberg / BostonGlobe.com:
It's the hard days that determine who you are  —  Sheryl Sandberg, the chief operating officer of Facebook and author of “Lean In,” delivered the commencement speech at the University of California, Berkeley, on Saturday.  Below is an edited version of her remarks.
 
 
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Jim Hoft / The Gateway Pundit:
Socialism Is Dying Everywhere from Europe to South America - Except in the US
Rebecca Savransky / The Hill:
Dem rep: Trump ‘not even sincere about his own bigotry’
Mark Landler / New York Times:
For Obama, an Unexpected Legacy of Two Full Terms at War
Discussion: Althouse
Martha Gellhorn / The Atlantic:
The Arabs of Palestine … ACCORDING to Arab politicians …
Discussion: Israel Matzav
Jen Yamato / The Daily Beast:
How the Smashing Pumpkins' Billy Corgan Became an SJW-Hating Conservative Crusader
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Tim Ross / Telegraph:
Boris Johnson: The EU wants a superstate, just as Hitler did
Discussion: AOL
Jim Hoft / The Gateway Pundit:
Four Migrant Teens Face Trial for Raping High School Girl on Swedish Pleasure Cruise
Cyra Master / The Hill:
Speaker: Puerto Rico relief bill ready ‘in the coming days’
The Independent:
Venezuela's president has accused the US of plotting a coup against him
Discussion: Infowars and Common Dreams
Paul Joseph Watson / Infowars:
Scenes From The Venezuela Apocalypse: “Countless Wounded” After 5,000 Loot Supermarket Looking For Food
Greg Ip / Wall Street Journal:
Donald Trump's Plans Don't Add Up. Do Voters Care?
Discussion: Mother Jones
 

 
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