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Jon Ralston / Ralston Reports:
The sour grapes revolution that rocked the Paris Hotel — On the eve of the Nevada Democratic Convention in Las Vegas, Friday the 13th as the calendar would have it, Bernie Sanders issued a news release asking for good fortune on that traditionally unlucky day.
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Balloon Juice and naked capitalism
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Charles P. Pierce / Esquire:
It's Time for Bernie Sanders to Pack Up and Go Home
It's Time for Bernie Sanders to Pack Up and Go Home
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Washington Post, Common Dreams, Washington Monthly and Balloon Juice
Alan Rappeport / New York Times:
From Bernie Sanders Supporters, Death Threats Over Delegates
From Bernie Sanders Supporters, Death Threats Over Delegates
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The Week and Blue Nation Review
Jonathan Swan / The Hill:
Ralph Nader: Dem superdelegates are 'Hillary's cronies'
Ashley Feinberg / Gawker:
Close Your Porn Tabs Before Posting Screenshots to Your Congressional Campaign Page — Mike Webb is running for U.S. Congress in Virginia's 8th district, and he would really appreciate your vote. He would also appreciate, judging from a screenshot uploaded to his Facebook page earlier today …
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Mashable, Friendly Atheist, Raw Story, Independent Journal … and The New Civil Rights Movement
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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 …
Taegan Goddard / Political Wire:
Candidate Accidentally Shares His Pornography Tastes
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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CANNONFIRE and 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, Washington Free Beacon and The Week
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
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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Breitbart, WJBF-TV, AOL, WHNT-TV, WCBD News 2, WGN-TV, KFOR-TV and Clash Daily
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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abc7chicago.com, Mediaite, Associated Press, AOL, Independent Journal …, KTLA, WGN-TV, Raw Story, Fox 59, FOX News Radio and WREG-TV
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Liberte Chan / Life of Liberté:
Personal Thoughts on the LBD/Sweater Moment that Went Viral — After receiving a number of requests for interviews regarding my LBD/Sweater moment on the KTLA Morning News this weekend, I thought I would share a few personal thoughts. — For those who missed what happened Saturday …
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New York Times, AOL, The Daily Caller, KTLA and CBS Detroit
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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New York Times, Talking Points Memo, 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 Daily Caller, The Atlantic, New Republic, Common Dreams, Techdirt, Hullabaloo, Daily Kos, Mediaite, Hit & Run and Balloon Juice
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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The Gateway Pundit, Fox News, Media Matters for America, Mediaite, Los Angeles Times, The Nation, NBC News, Rewire, WOOD-TV and RealClearPolitics
David Horowitz / Breitbart:
No Apologies for Calling Bill Kristol ‘Renegade Jew’ — My article “Bill Kristol: Republican Spoiler, Renegade Jew” has created something of a firestorm on social media (#RenegadeJew) and inspired some illiterate and unjust attacks on Breitbart.com and also me.
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neo-neocon, Talking Points Memo and The Daily Caller
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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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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
Jesse Byrnes / The Hill:
Trump on tone: I'm ‘fighting for survival’ — , in an excerpt from an interview with Fox News host Megyn Kelly, referred to himself as a “messenger” in characterizing his campaign rhetoric. — When Kelly commented, in a preview of the interview set to air Tuesday, on Trump being …
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The Week
Adam Kredo / Washington Free Beacon:
Iran: U.S. Encouraging Islamic Republic to Keep Illicit Missile Tests Secret — A senior Iranian military commander claimed that U.S. officials are quietly encouraging the Islamic Republic to keep its illicit ballistic missile tests a secret so as not to raise concerns in the region, according to Persian language comments.
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MEMRI and The Gateway Pundit
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Adam Kredo / Washington Free Beacon:
Congressman: Classified Details of Iran's Treatment of U.S. Sailors Will Shock Nation
Congressman: Classified Details of Iran's Treatment of U.S. Sailors Will Shock Nation
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Hot Air and The Right Scoop
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, Washington Examiner, AOL, Mediaite, RedState and American Prospect
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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The Hill, Talking Points Memo, AOL, Hot Air, Guardian, RedState and Business Insider
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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WGN-TV, Fox News Insider, Washington Post, KTLA, AOL, Raw Story, 12NewsNow.Com, Boing Boing, NPR, Fox News and Mashable
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
Robert Costa / Washington Post:
Donald Trump to meet with Henry Kissinger, GOP's foreign-policy eminence — NEW YORK — Donald Trump is scheduled to meet here Wednesday with former secretary of state Henry Kissinger as the Republican Party's presumptive presidential nominee looks to develop his foreign-policy expertise, according to three people close to Trump.
Andrea Wong / Bloomberg:
U.S. Discloses Saudi Holdings of Treasuries for First Time — Kingdom held $116.8 billion as of March, Treasury data show — Figures had been grouped with mostly OPEC nations since 1974 — The Treasury Departmentreleased a breakdown of Saudi Arabia's holdings of U.S. debt …
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Wolf Street
Jon Nicosia / Mediaite:
Mediaite Exclusive: CNN Cancelled Wilmore Appearance in Retaliation for WHC Dinner Jokes — Anyone who watched Larry Wilmore's White Correspondents Dinner speech last month can understand why CNN might not have been thrilled with it. There were jokes questioning why Wolf Blitzer is still on the air …