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7:20 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.
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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
Ian Lovett / New York Times:
Squatters See a New Frontier in the Empty Homes of Las Vegas
Discussion: Eschaton
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: Hullabaloo, Guardian and AOL
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Michelle Moons / Breitbart:
Ben Carson Reveals Five Names on Trump VP List  —  Dr. Ben Carson confirmed five people on presumptive GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump's list of potential vice presidential running mates in a recent interview.  —  Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, the 2008 VP running mate to John McCain …
Discussion: The Last Refuge
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 …
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,’ …
Discussion: alan.com and The Gateway Pundit
Fox News:
Reince Priebus reacts to questions about Trump's character; Must the Republican Party unite behind Donald Trump?  —  This is a rush transcript from “Fox News Sunday,” May 15, 2016.  This copy may not be in its final form and may be updated.  —  CHRIS WALLACE, FOX NEWS ANCHOR: I'm Chris Wallace.
Discussion: Politicus USA and Althouse
Jenna Wortham / New York Times:
'RuPaul's Drag Race' Highlights the Struggle for Acceptance  —  On the penultimate episode of this season's “RuPaul's Drag Race,” the last four contestants gathered backstage, waiting to find out who would be eliminated from the competition to be named “America's Next Drag Superstar.”
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
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.
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
Wall Street Journal:
Donald Trump Wouldn't Have Had the Ready Cash to Self-Finance Entire Campaign — Analysis  —  With Trump now moving to raise big sums, estimate of his 2016 income shows him likely short of the ready cash he would have needed to fund his entire campaign  —  Donald Trump, after long saying …
Discussion: Balloon Juice
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 …
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
 
 
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Sheryl Sandberg / BostonGlobe.com:
It's the hard days that determine who you are
Michael Crowley / Politico:
When Donald Trump brought Miss Universe to Moscow
Discussion: Hullabaloo
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: Oliver Willis and Althouse
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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
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’
Paul Joseph Watson / Infowars:
Scenes From The Venezuela Apocalypse: “Countless Wounded” After 5,000 Loot Supermarket Looking For Food
 

 
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Caitlin Huston / The Hollywood Reporter:
Internal memo: Hearst Magazines president announces layoffs as part of a decision to “reallocate resources” to “continue our focus on digital innovation”

Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica:
FCC Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel announced she will leave the agency on January 20; she was the first woman to be confirmed to lead the agency

Lachlan Cartwright / The Ankler:
Sources: MSNBC renewed Rachel Maddow's contract early this fall, but with a pay cut; MSNBC bosses' plan to shake up daytime and weekend programming

 
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