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Shane Goldmacher / Politico:
Donald Trump is Not Expanding the GOP — Donald Trump likes to say he has created a political movement that has drawn “millions and millions” of new voters into the Republican Party. “It's the biggest thing happening in politics,” Trump has said. “All over the world, they're talking about it,” he's bragged.
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Nolan D. McCaskill / Politico:
Poll: Trump narrows Clinton's lead nationally to 3 points — Donald Trump continues to cut into Hillary Clinton's lead nationally, according to a national NBC News| SurveyMonkey poll released Tuesday. — Trump has reduced the 5-point advantage Clinton held last week to just 3 percentage points.
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Political Wire, Morning Consult, Hot Air and The Week
Robert Kuttner / American Prospect:
The Entente Between Trump and the Republican Elite — Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks during a rally in Spokane, Washington, Saturday, May 7, 2016. — An earlier version of this article appeared at The Huffington Post. — We are starting to see the sorry spectacle …
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Daily Kos, The Nation and RedState
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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Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion, Hot Air and CBS San Francisco
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Associated Press:
Hundreds stranded, passengers sleeping in COTS: TSA security lines of up to THREE HOURS cause chaos …
Brett Rosner Updated / WSB-TV:
Long TSA lines snake through Atlanta airport
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
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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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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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
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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Zach Despart / Burlington Free Press:
Burlington College to shut down programs
Burlington College to shut down programs
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Nick Anderson / Washington Post:
Vermont college that Bernie Sanders's wife once led is closing
Vermont college that Bernie Sanders's wife once led is closing
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Hot Air
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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Blake Neff / The Daily Caller:
Congressional Candidate Accidentally Shares Porn Tastes On Facebook
Congressional Candidate Accidentally Shares Porn Tastes On Facebook
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Political Wire
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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Taylor Marsh and The Week
Jonathan Martin / New York Times:
Rift Between Labor and Environmentalists Threatens Democratic Turnout Plan — WASHINGTON — A rift between environmentalists and labor, two pillars of the Democratic coalition, broke open acrimoniously on Monday, when a group of big unions threatened to boycott an ambitious …
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Political Wire
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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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
Ian Millhiser / ThinkProgress:
Scalia's Death Just Saved Thousands Of Women's Access To Birth Control — Zubik v. Burwell was supposed to be an epic showdown over the power of religious objectors to limit the rights of others. A sequel to the Court's 2014 decision in Burwell v. Hobby Lobby, Zubik involved regulations …
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Adam Liptak / New York Times:
Justices, Seeking Compromise, Return Contraception Case to Lower Courts
Justices, Seeking Compromise, Return Contraception Case to Lower Courts
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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National Review, Slate, Mother Jones and Washington Post
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 …
Chris Cillizza / Washington Post:
Five people who are never going to be Donald Trump's vice president — We don't know all that much about who Donald Trump is going to pick — or even consider — as his vice presidential running mate. In fact, the most insight we have on Trump's VP thinking is who he's not going to pick.
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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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Ed O'Keefe / Washington Post:
Some conservatives are still plotting to stop Trump at the GOP convention — The top ranks of the Republican Party may be coalescing around Donald Trump, but grass-roots conservative activists are still trying to find a way to stop him at the party's convention in July.
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Politico and Political Wire
BBC:
Iran arrests eight for ‘un-Islamic’ Instagram modelling — Iran has arrested eight people working for online modelling agencies deemed to be “un-Islamic”, the prosecutor of Tehran's cybercrimes court has said. — The arrests are part of an operation that has seen women targeted …
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Christian Science Monitor, New York Times and The Week
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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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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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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