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9:00 PM ET, May 16, 2016

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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.
Discussion: 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 …
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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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)
Discussion: 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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David G. Savage / Los Angeles Times:
Supreme Court ruling should clear the way to free birth control for women with religious employers
Discussion: Mother Jones and National Review
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.
Discussion: 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
Harriet Baskas / NBC News:
TSA Lines Causing Frowns? Send in the Clowns! (and Tiny Horses)
Discussion: 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?
Discussion: The Daily Beast and Althouse
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Patrick Healy / New York Times:
Little Is Off Limits as Donald Trump Plans Attacks on Hillary Clinton's Character
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
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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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’
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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Des Moines Register:
Grassley's court maneuver threatens his legacy, reputation
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” …
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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Alan Rappeport / New York Times:
Bernie Sanders Supporters Voice Ire at Nevada Democratic Party
Discussion: 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 …
Discussion: 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 …
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 …
Discussion: Politico, alan.com and Mediaite
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.
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.
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.
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 …
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 …
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.
Discussion: 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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FACT SHEET: Expanding College Access Through the Dual Enrollment Pell Experiment
Mother Jones:
AT $229 BILLION, THE toll from gun violence would have been $47 billion more than Apple's 2014 …
Baltimore Sun:
Freddie Gray case: Officer Miller takes stand as Officer Nero trial continues
Discussion: The Last Refuge and LawNewz
Philip Rucker / Washington Post:
Trump: Rescind Obama's transgender directives, but ‘protect everybody’
Discussion: Mediaite and The Right Scoop
Andrea Wong / Bloomberg:
U.S. Discloses Saudi Holdings of Treasuries for First Time
Discussion: Wolf Street
Matea Gold / Washington Post:
Building trade unions denounce labor partnership with billionaire environmentalist Tom Steyer
Discussion: Politico and The Daily Caller
Tampa Bay Times:
Opponents call on Carlos Beruff to apologize for calling Obama ‘an animal’
Discussion: Talking Points Memo and Mediaite
Kmdougherty / CBS Philly:
Going To Church Could Help You Live Longer, Study Says
 Earlier Items: 
Heather Long / CNNMoney:
America's top 10 job-killing companies
Discussion: Hot Air
Caitlin MacNeal / Talking Points Memo:
Vulnerable GOP Sen. Ron Johnson Retreats On Endorsing Donald Trump
Adam Kredo / Washington Free Beacon:
Iran: U.S. Encouraging Islamic Republic to Keep Illicit Missile Tests Secret
Discussion: MEMRI and The Gateway Pundit
Seung Min Kim / Politico:
Centrist Democrats: We can work with President Trump
Discussion: Raw Story
Allegra Kirkland / Talking Points Memo:
Trump's Ex-Butler Still Wants Obama Killed After Secret Service Questions Him
Discussion: Balloon Juice and Mediaite
National Review:
Exclusive: In Koch World ‘Realignment,’ Less National Politics
 

 
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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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