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Jillian Kay Melchior / Heat Street:
BREAKING: Burlington College Closes Due To “Crushing Weight of Debt” Acquired By Jane Sanders — Burlington College announced today that it will close on May 27 after it found itself unable to recover from “the crushing weight of the debt” incurred under Jane O'Meara Sanders, the college's former president and wife of Bernie Sanders.
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The Gateway Pundit
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Zach Despart / Burlington Free Press:
Burlington College to shut down programs — After years of financial trouble, Burlington College announced Monday the school will shut down its academic programs. — “It is with great sense of loss to the educational community that Burlington College's progressive and unique educational model …
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Washington Post, Hot Air, Business Insider, The Week and Washington Free Beacon
Blake Neff / The Daily Caller:
Congressional Candidate Accidentally Shares Porn Tastes On Facebook — A Congressional candidate in Virginia's 8th District has posted a photo on Twitter that incidentally includes a glimpse of his pornography tastes. — Mike Webb initially ran as a Republican for the 8th District seat …
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Ashley Feinberg / Gawker:
Close Your Porn Tabs Before Posting Screenshots to Your Congressional Campaign Page
Close Your Porn Tabs Before Posting Screenshots to Your Congressional Campaign Page
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Raw Story, Independent Journal … and The New Civil Rights Movement
Taegan Goddard / Political Wire:
Candidate Accidentally Shares His Pornography Tastes
Sinead O'Connor / TMZ.com:
Missing, Possibly ‘Suicidal’ — Sinead O'Connor has gone missing, and police have reason to believe she's at risk of suicide. — The singer went out on a bicycle ride Sunday around 1 PM in the Chicago suburb of Wilmette, and has not been seen since. Someone called cops to report …
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Chicago Tribune:
Singer Sinead O'Connor has been located, Wilmette police say — Singer Sinead O'Connor is reportedly missing in the Chicago area after a bike ride May 15, 2016. Police in Wilmette say they are looking for the Irish singer after she failed to return. (Reuters)
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AOL, Towleroad and The Daily Caller
Adam Liptak / New York Times:
Justices, Seeking Compromise, Return Contraception Case to Lower Courts — WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court announced on Monday that it would not rule in a major case on access to contraception. In an unsigned, unanimous opinion, it instructed lower courts to explore whether a compromise was possible.
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Tierney Sneed / Talking Points Memo:
BREAKING: SCOTUS Punts On Obamacare Contraceptive Case
BREAKING: SCOTUS Punts On Obamacare Contraceptive Case
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Reuters, New York Magazine, Daily Kos, The Daily Caller and The Week
David G. Savage / Los Angeles Times:
Supreme Court ruling should clear the way to free birth control for women with religious employers
Supreme Court ruling should clear the way to free birth control for women with religious employers
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Mother Jones and National Review
Dahlia Lithwick / Slate:
Supreme Court on Contentious Contraception Case: We're Not Gonna Decide
Supreme Court on Contentious Contraception Case: We're Not Gonna Decide
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The Hill, ThinkProgress, Washington Post, Politico, Washington Monthly and SCOTUSblog
Todd Feurer / CBS Chicago:
Nightmarish Lines Continue At Airport Security Checkpoints — CHICAGO (CBS) — Travelers flying out of Chicago just can't catch a break. With increasingly long lines to get through security at the city's airports, many travelers have been missing their flights, and some ended up sleeping at O'Hare International Airport on Sunday.
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Hot Air and CBS San Francisco
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Laura Podesta / abc7chicago.com:
Passengers stranded at O'Hare Airport due to long TSA lines
Passengers stranded at O'Hare Airport due to long TSA lines
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Chicago Tribune, WISH-TV and The American Mirror
Harriet Baskas / NBC News:
TSA Lines Causing Frowns? Send in the Clowns! (and Tiny Horses)
TSA Lines Causing Frowns? Send in the Clowns! (and Tiny Horses)
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WJBF-TV
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
How the Clinton team will go after Donald Trump — Can Hillary Clinton beat Donald Trump in part by laying out a programmatic economic agenda that is designed to make a concrete difference in Americans' lives? Or does that risk being too conventional an approach that fails to reckon with the unpredictable nature of Trump's appeal?
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The Daily Beast and Althouse
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Sarah Frier / Bloomberg:
Twitter to Stop Counting Photos and Links in 140-Character Limit — Company said to make the change in next couple of weeks — CEO Jack Dorsey aims to make it easier to compose tweets — Twitter Inc. will soon stop counting photos and links in their 140-character limit for tweets, according to a person familiar with the matter.
CNNMoney:
How Donald Trump turned the tables on The New York Times — Donald Trump woke up Monday staring down the barrel of a terrible news week. A scathing New York Times report about his “unsettling” treatment of women was the talk of the morning shows and looked set to dominate the news cycle for days.
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Nick Gass / Politico:
Former Trump girlfriend hits back at ‘upsetting’ NYT cover story
Former Trump girlfriend hits back at ‘upsetting’ NYT cover story
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Tegna / KVUE-TV:
Whole Foods accuser drops lawsuit over cake … AUSTIN - The man who said an employee at Whole Foods, Inc. wrote a homophobic slur on a cake has withdrawn his lawsuit and now says the company “did nothing wrong.” — Jordan Brown made the initial allegations more than three weeks ago.
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Claire Ricke / KXAN-TV:
Man apologizes, withdraws Whole Foods gay slur cake lawsuit
Man apologizes, withdraws Whole Foods gay slur cake lawsuit
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David Horowitz / Breitbart:
Bill Kristol: Republican Spoiler, Renegade Jew — While millions of Republican primary voters have chosen Donald Trump as the party's nominee, Bill Kristol and a small but well-heeled group of Washington insiders are preparing a third party effort to block Trump's path to the White House.
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David Horowitz / Breitbart:
No Apologies for Calling Bill Kristol ‘Renegade Jew’
No Apologies for Calling Bill Kristol ‘Renegade Jew’
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neo-neocon, Talking Points Memo and The Daily Caller
Chris Geidner / BuzzFeed:
Obama Says Republican Concerns About Trump Mean His Supreme Court Pick Should Get A Vote — Legal Editor Chris Geidner interviewed the president from the Roosevelt Room in the White House. — President Obama told BuzzFeed News Monday that the GOP is “looking at a Republican nominee” …
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Talking Points Memo, New York Times, The New Civil Rights Movement, LawNewz and The Week
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Michael Isikoff / Yahoo:
Senate report on CIA torture is one step closer to disappearing — CIA Director John Brennan, Sen. Dianne Feinstein. (Photo Illustration: Yahoo News; photos: AP, Reuters) — The CIA inspector general's office — the spy agency's internal watchdog — has acknowledged it “mistakenly” …
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The Atlantic, The Daily Caller, New Republic, Common Dreams, Techdirt, Hullabaloo, Daily Kos, Mediaite, Hit & Run and Balloon Juice
Charles P. Pierce / Esquire:
It's Time for Bernie Sanders to Pack Up and Go Home — Let's talk about this huge mess in Nevada over *four* delegates. — For months now, I've been searching for the perfect piece of YouTube flotsam to sum up my feelings about the noisy and petulant endgame of the Democratic presidential primary process.
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Washington Monthly, Washington Post, Common Dreams and Balloon Juice
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Alan Rappeport / New York Times:
Bernie Sanders Supporters Voice Ire at Nevada Democratic Party
Bernie Sanders Supporters Voice Ire at Nevada Democratic Party
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Blue Nation Review
Matt DeRienzo / Connecticut Post:
Woman mistaken for transgender harassed in Walmart bathroom — DANBURY - Aimee Toms was washing her hands in the women's bathroom at Walmart in Danbury Friday when a stranger approached her and said, “You're disgusting!” and “You don't belong here!” — After momentary confusion …
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Mother Jones
Theodore Schleifer / CNN:
John Kasich: 'Running third party doesn't feel right' — Watch the full exclusive interview with Ohio Gov. John Kasich on “Anderson Cooper 360” at 8 p.m. ET on CNN. — Washington (CNN)John Kasich said Monday that he would not mount a third party bid for the White House …
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Talking Points Memo, The Hill, RedState, Guardian, AOL, Hot Air and Business Insider
Adrian Carrasquillo / BuzzFeed:
Trump Campaign Canceled A Reporter's Interview After They Heard Him Speak Spanish — Marcos Stupenengo, a freelance correspondent working for TV Azteca, got an interview with Donald Trump — initially. He had no trouble when he asked to come to Trump Tower in New York on Monday to interview …
Nathan McDermott / BuzzFeed:
Trump Ally Roger Stone Admits That Trump Posed As His Own PR Man — Roger Stone, a longtime political ally and former campaign adviser to Donald Trump, admitted on Saturday that Trump posed as his own publicist in the early 1990s, likening Trump's actions to the Founding Fathers.
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Washington Post, RedState, Washington Examiner, AOL, Mediaite and American Prospect
East Idaho News:
Park Service: Bison calf euthanized after tourists put it in vehicle — Some concerned tourists in Yellowstone National Park thought a bison calf was cold and put it in their SUV on May 9. Courtesy of Karen Richardson — UPDATE: Yellowstone has explained why they euthanized the animal.
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CNN:
Trump: London mayor made ‘very rude statements’ about me — (CNN)Donald Trump said Monday London's new mayor made “very rude statements” about him — and the presumptive Republican presidential nominee warned he won't have a good relationship with British Prime Minister David Cameron if he's elected.
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Independent Journal …, Blue Nation Review, Mother Jones, The Gateway Pundit and Mediaite
Los Angeles / Associated Press:
U.S. backs arming new Libyan government to fight Islamic State — Islamic State fighters in Sirte, Libya, wear masks in an image taken from a video posted online by the group' supporters — W.J. Hennigan and Tracy Wilkinson — The U.S. government and other world powers are prepared …
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US Department of State, TalkLeft and The Week
Tierney Sneed / Talking Points Memo:
Wisconsin Lawmakers Who Cheered Impact Of Voter ID Law Revealed In Court — The former staffer to a Wisconsin state Republican senator who went public last month with accusations that the state's voter ID law was passed by GOPers looking for a political advantage elaborated on the claims …
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JSOnline, WisPolitics Election Blog and madison.com
Daily Mail:
The Rich Kids of... North Korea! Secretive state now has its own ‘one-percenters’ who love paying nearly a typical month's wage on iced coffee in downtown ‘Pyonghattan’ — We've seen the Rich Kids of London, Russia and China - and now the rich kids of North Korea are joining the action.
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Instapundit and Washington Post
Sarah Kliff / Vox:
3 states are down to one Obamacare insurer. What if they fall to zero? — There are at least three states that currently have just one health insurer planning to sell on their Obamacare marketplace in 2017: Alaska, Alabama, and Wyoming. — The health care law doesn't have a backup plan …
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Wall Street Journal, Arizona Republic, Slantpoint, AR SQUARED and New York Times