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8:00 AM ET, May 16, 2016

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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.
Discussion: The Daily Caller and Mother Jones
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Gardiner Harris / New York Times:
Obama Swipes at Trump, but Doesn't Name Him, in Speech at Rutgers
Laura Crimaldi / BostonGlobe.com:
Elizabeth Warren to graduates: embrace the unexpected
Discussion: Talking Points Memo and Raw Story
Geoff Earle / Daily Mail:
Obama goes after Trump in Rutgers commencement address and slams building ‘walls,’ …
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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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 …
Discussion: The Week and Balloon Juice
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 …
Discussion: CNN, CBS New York and CNNMoney
Dan Merica / CNN:
Pro-Clinton super PAC to start airing general election ads on Wednesday  —  Covington, Kentucky (CNN)Priorities USA, the big money pro-Hillary Clinton super PAC, will begin airing general election ads against presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump on Wednesday, according to a spokesman.
Discussion: Political Wire
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 …
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.
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 …
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 …
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.
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.
Discussion: Political Wire
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 …
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 …
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.
Liz Kreutz / ABC News:
Discussion: Associated Press and Politico
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.
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 …
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.
 
 
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Donald Trump / ITV:
Trump warns of poor relationship with Cameron over PM's refusal to withdraw ‘divisive, stupid and wrong’ comment
Discussion: Politico, NBC News, Guardian and Mashable
Angela Chen / Gizmodo:
A Major Law Firm Will Soon Be Using A Robotic Lawyer
Discussion: Hit & Run
Kurt Schlichter / Townhall.com:
Clinton's Crimes and Comey's Choice
Elisabeth Rosenthal / New York Times:
Sorry, We Don't Take Obamacare
Discussion: Viking Pundit
Dave Helling / Kansas City Star:
Trade policy issues are blurring old lines, turning politics in 2016 inside out
Christopher Williams / Telegraph:
Google faces record-breaking fine for web search monopoly abuse
Discussion: Gizmodo, VentureBeat and The Verge
Nate Eaton / East Idaho News:
Yellowstone tourists put bison calf in car because they're worried it's cold
Kevin Poulsen / Wired:
The Ukrainian Hacker Who Became the FBI's Best Weapon—And Worst Nightmare
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South Florida / Sun-Sentinel:
Shark bite in Boca Raton: Woman taken to hospital with nurse shark attached to her arm
Discussion: Associated Press and AOL
The Hill:
Puerto Rico debt becomes constitutional fight on the right
David Barrett / Telegraph:
Beyoncé clothing range is made by ‘sweat shop labourers on £4.30 a day’
Jenna Wortham / New York Times:
'RuPaul's Drag Race' Highlights the Struggle for Acceptance
Ian Lovett / New York Times:
Squatters See a New Frontier in the Empty Homes of Las Vegas
Discussion: Eschaton
Sheryl Sandberg / BostonGlobe.com:
It's the hard days that determine who you are
Tré Goins-Phillips / TheBlaze.com:
CNN's Jake Tapper Brutally Fact Checks Clinton's Email Claims — See What He Found Out
 

 
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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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