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Associated Press:
Rebuking Trump, Obama Tells Graduates Walls Won't Solve Ills — President Barack Obama on Sunday urged college graduates to shun those who want to confront a rapidly changing world by building walls around the United States or by embracing ignorance, as he delivered a sharp and barely concealed critique of Donald Trump.
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Washington Post, John Hawkins' Right Wing News, WCBD News 2 and Politico
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Gardiner Harris / New York Times:
Obama Swipes at Trump, but Doesn't Name Him, in Speech at Rutgers
Obama Swipes at Trump, but Doesn't Name Him, in Speech at Rutgers
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USA Today, Friendly Atheist and The Week
Geoff Earle / Daily Mail:
Obama goes after Trump in Rutgers commencement address and slams building ‘walls,’ …
Obama goes after Trump in Rutgers commencement address and slams building ‘walls,’ …
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TMZ.com:
Arrested for Allegedly Attacking Bernie Sanders Supporter — “The Wire” star Wendell Pierce was arrested Saturday after allegedly physically assaulting a woman supporting Bernie Sanders. — Sources at the Loews Hotel in Atlanta tell us the actor struck up a convo with the woman and her boyfriend at around 3:30 AM.
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Radio and TV Talk, The Daily Beast, ABC News, Liberty Unyielding, Raw Story and LawNewz
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Jeralyn / TalkLeft:
Nevada Dems: Who Caused the Chaos?
Nevada Dems: Who Caused the Chaos?
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Fox News, RealClearPolitics, The American Mirror and CANNONFIRE
Philip Bump / Washington Post:
Here's what happened at Saturday's dramatic Nevada Democratic convention
Here's what happened at Saturday's dramatic Nevada Democratic convention
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The Hill, LasVegasSun.com, Guardian, Raw Story and The Last Refuge
Anne Gearan / Washington Post:
Even supporters agree: Clinton has weaknesses as a candidate. What can she do? — Hillary Clinton's declining personal image, ongoing battle to break free of the challenge from Sen. Bernie Sanders and struggle to adapt to an anti-establishment mood among voters this year have become caution signs …
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CNN, CBS New York and CNNMoney
Sarah K. Burris / Raw Story:
Baptism turns violent when Hawaii man is shot in the back at Seventh-day Adventist church — DON'T MISS STORIES. FOLLOW RAW STORY! — A Honolulu church was the scene of a violent Baptism Sunday, when a man was shot in the back at the Samoa-Tokelau Seventh-day Adventist Church.
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Honolulu Star-Advertiser and Associated Press
Wall Street Journal:
Donald Trump Wouldn't Have Had the Ready Cash to Self-Finance Entire Campaign — Analysis — With Trump now moving to raise big sums, estimate of his 2016 income shows him likely short of the ready cash he would have needed to fund his entire campaign — Donald Trump, after long saying …
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Juan Williams / The Hill:
Trump, false promises and the economy — “It's the economy, stupid!” That was Democratic strategist James Carville's famous bottom line on the 1992 presidential election. — Fast forward to 2016 and once again it looks like “It's the economy, stupid.” — , the likely Democratic nominee …
Brian Stelter / CNNMoney:
Mark Zuckerberg to host Glenn Beck at Facebook — Mark Zuckerberg invited prominent conservative media figures, including Glenn Beck and Dana Perino, to a meeting at Facebook's headquarters this week. — The meeting, scheduled for Wednesday, is aimed at addressing the alleged suppression …
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The Gateway Pundit, Politico, New York Magazine and Glenn Beck, more at Mediagazer »
Edward-Isaac Dovere / Politico:
Castro moves to stop VP fire from the left — Targeted by progressive activists hoping to kill his chances of being Hillary Clinton's running mate, Julián Castro is set this week to announce changes to a hot-button Housing and Urban Development program to sell bad mortgages on its books.
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Political Wire
New York Times:
Inside Donald Trump's Plans to Attack the Clintons — Donald J. Trump plans to attack the character, honesty and authenticity of Hillary and Bill Clinton in the months ahead, in hopes of increasing their unpopularity among voters and deflecting attention from his vulnerabilities.
Michelle Moons / Breitbart:
Ben Carson Reveals Five Names on Trump VP List — Dr. Ben Carson confirmed five people on presumptive GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump's list of potential vice presidential running mates in a recent interview. — Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, the 2008 VP running mate to John McCain …
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Mashable, Little Green Footballs, Daily Mail, CNN, The Last Refuge and Hullabaloo
Luciana Lopez / Reuters:
Democrats use Trump as bogeyman to get people to vote — Democratic Party activists in some U.S. states are using Donald Trump, the Republican presidential candidate who has stirred controversy with his comments about illegal immigrants and women, as the centerpiece of their “get out the vote” campaign for the November elections.
Andrew Kaczynski / BuzzFeed:
Trump Predicts Refugees With ISIS Phones Will Commit 9/11 Size Attack In The U.S. — “Who pays their monthly charges, right?” — Nicholas Kamm / AFP / Getty Images — w.soundcloud.com — Donald Trump said Sunday that he believes refugees will launch a terrorist attack …
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The Hill, New York Magazine, AOL and Raw Story
Ellen Huet / Bloomberg:
Tech Startups Come Up With Some Creative Definitions for ‘Profitable’ — Facing a tougher fundraising environment, on-demand companies are touting financial metrics to show the health of their businesses—using whichever definition looks rosiest. — Last September, SpoonRocket was running out of money.
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 …
Sam Knight / New Yorker:
Enter Left — The astonishing political emergence of Jeremy Corbyn, the left-wing leader of the British Labour Party, is the sort of thing that passes for normal in Western democracies these days. Since the economic crash in 2008, anti-establishment types have cropped up everywhere.
Dan Lamothe / Washington Post:
Disagreements slow Pentagon's plan to allow transgender service members — Months before Defense Secretary Ashton B. Carter said the Pentagon would take steps toward allowing transgender people to serve openly in the military, Army Staff Sgt. Patricia King last year became what she believes …
Kurt Schlichter / Townhall.com:
Clinton's Crimes and Comey's Choice — FBI Director James Comey knew he had to make a decision that would change his life, and maybe the history of his country, as he surveyed the piles of papers spread out in his office. The Deputy Director in charge of the investigation of Hillary Clinton …
Dave Helling / Kansas City Star:
Trade policy issues are blurring old lines, turning politics in 2016 inside out — Candidates and their supporters feud over protections for American workers vs. free trade — The political lines are scrambled — some Republicans now oppose freer trade, while Democrats support it