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6:30 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 …
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
Maria Puente / USA Today:
Police in Chicago suburb looking for missing Sinead O'Connor
Discussion: Guardian, The Week and The Daily Caller
Harriet Baskas / NBC News:
TSA Lines Causing Frowns?  Send in the Clowns! (and Tiny Horses)  —  With mounting delays around the country being blamed on Transportation Security Administration cutbacks and increased passenger traffic, airports are turning to musical performers and free sweets to keep travelers' tempers in check.
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Todd Feurer / CBS Chicago:
Nightmarish Lines Continue At Airport Security Checkpoints
Discussion: Hot Air and CBS San Francisco
Laura Podesta / abc7chicago.com:
Passengers stranded at O'Hare Airport due to long TSA lines
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
Des Moines Register:
Grassley's court maneuver threatens his legacy, reputation  —  In late February, U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley was taking increasing fire for his refusal to hold hearings to replace the late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia.  He dismissed questions about the impact the public uproar might have on his legacy.
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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
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, Althouse and CBS News
Heidi M Przybyla / USA Today:
Clinton team looking for a VP who will be fighter, excite Sanders supporters  —  Hillary Clinton is considering a running mate who could make a direct appeal to supporters of Bernie Sanders, bridging a generational and political divide, according to four people close to the campaign.
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New York Times:
Inside Donald Trump's Plans to Attack the Clintons, and Why They Might Fail
Discussion: Daily Kos
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.
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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Reuters:   Donald Trump Slams Cameron And Khan On Islam Comments: 'Don't Pretend It's Not A Problem'
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.
Discussion: KTLA, WNEP-TV, Boing Boing and NBC News
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Nate Eaton / East Idaho News:
Yellowstone tourists put bison calf in car because they're worried it's cold
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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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” …
Tierney Sneed / Talking Points Memo:
BREAKING: SCOTUS Punts On Obamacare Contraceptive Case  —  In a surprise move Monday, the Supreme Court punted on a major Obamacare case challenging the law's contraceptive mandate, and specifically, how it accommodates religious nonprofits that object to birth control.
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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.
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 …
National Review:
Exclusive: In Koch World ‘Realignment,’ Less National Politics  —  On a frigid Tuesday in February, a team of top political operatives from the Freedom Partners Chamber of Commerce, the umbrella group that controls political activities for the sprawling donor network led by billionaire industrialists Charles …
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.
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 and Mediaite
Thomas D. Williams, Ph.D. / Breitbart:
Princeton Prof: Transgenderism Not Scientific, ‘Superstitious Belief’  —  A noted Princeton University professor has attacked the very notion of transgenderism, saying that the belief “that a woman can be trapped inside a man's body” is ludicrous and superstitious, with no basis in medical fact.
 
 
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Reuters:
U.S. House to weigh $622.1 million in new Zika funding
Discussion: Infowars
Matea Gold / Washington Post:
Building trade unions denounce labor partnership with billionaire environmentalist Tom Steyer
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Matt DeRienzo / Connecticut Post:
Woman mistaken for transgender harassed in Walmart bathroom
Discussion: Mother Jones
Tampa Bay Times:
Opponents call on Carlos Beruff to apologize for calling Obama ‘an animal’
Discussion: Talking Points Memo and Mediaite
McKay Coppins / BuzzFeed:
Sources: Trump Campaign Manager Working On A Book
Kmdougherty / CBS Philly:
Going To Church Could Help You Live Longer, Study Says
Caitlin MacNeal / Talking Points Memo:
Vulnerable GOP Sen. Ron Johnson Retreats On Endorsing Donald Trump
 Earlier Items: 
Adam Kredo / Washington Free Beacon:
Iran: U.S. Encouraging Islamic Republic to Keep Illicit Missile Tests Secret
Discussion: MEMRI and The Gateway Pundit
Allegra Kirkland / Talking Points Memo:
Trump's Ex-Butler Still Wants Obama Killed After Secret Service Questions Him
Discussion: Balloon Juice and Mediaite
Zack Kopplin / The Daily Beast:
School Teaching Creationism With Video From Islamic Sex Cult
Discussion: LawNewz, Raw Story and Mediaite
Caitlin Yilek / The Hill:
Trump on Warren: ‘You mean Pocahontas?’
Discussion: Vox, Daily Kos and RedState
Tommy Christopher / Mediaite:
Mark Halperin Thinks Sexual Assault is Legal
Discussion: The Daily Caller
People.com:
Inside Donald Trump's '91 Apology for Pretending to Be His Own Spokesman - How Marla Maples Shamed Him Into Fessing Up
Discussion: WhoWhatWhy
Denise Grady / New York Times:
Man Receives First Penis Transplant in the United States
 

 
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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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