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8:45 AM ET, May 16, 2016

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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
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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.
Maggie Severns / Politico:
Hillary Clinton's union problem
Discussion: ThinkProgress
Heidi M Przybyla / USA Today:
Clinton team looking for a VP who will be fighter, excite Sanders supporters
Discussion: Political Wire and The Week
Patrick Healy / New York Times:
Little Is Off Limits as Donald Trump Plans Attacks on Hillary Clinton  —  Donald J. Trump plans to throw Bill Clinton's infidelities in Hillary Clinton's face on live television during the presidential debates this fall, questioning whether she enabled his behavior and sought to discredit the women involved.
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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.
Liz Kreutz / ABC News:
Bill Clinton Would Be ‘In Charge of Revitalizing the Economy,’ Hillary Clinton Says
Discussion: Associated Press and Politico
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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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
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 …
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
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 …
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
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
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.
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 …
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 …
Denise Grady / New York Times:
Man Receives First Penis Transplant in the United States  —  A man whose penis was removed because of cancer has received the first penis transplant in the United States, at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston.  —  Thomas Manning, 64, a bank courier from Halifax, Mass., underwent the 15-hour transplant operation on May 8 and 9.
Discussion: The Week
New York Times:
Solar Project Pairs Muslims and Jews to Aid West Bank Farmers  —  AUJA, West Bank — Samer Atiyat, a Palestinian farmworker, had climbed halfway up a 20-foot date palm and was trimming stalks that held rich clusters of the fruit, still green and unripe.  Working near the Dead Sea on land …
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.
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 …
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.
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
 
 
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Paul Caron / TaxProf Blog:
Why Are There So Few Conservative/Libertarian Law Profs, Even Though They Are More Productive Scholars …
Discussion: New York Times and Althouse
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
Sam Knight / New Yorker:
Enter Left  —  The astonishing political emergence of Jeremy Corbyn …
Dan Lamothe / Washington Post:
Disagreements slow Pentagon's plan to allow transgender service members
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
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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
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
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
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