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Des Moines Register:
Grassley's court maneuver threatens his legacy, reputation — In late February, U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley was taking increasing fire for his refusal to hold hearings to replace the late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia. He dismissed questions about the impact the public uproar might have on his legacy.
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Tierney Sneed / Talking Points Memo:
BREAKING: SCOTUS Punts On Obamacare Contraceptive Case — In a surprise move Monday, the Supreme Court punted on a major Obamacare case challenging the law's contraceptive mandate, and specifically, how it accommodates religious nonprofits that object to birth control.
Lawrence Hurley / Reuters:
U.S. top court tosses rulings backing Obamacare contraception coverage
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Jennifer Haberkorn / Politico:
Supreme Court asks for Obamacare birth control compromise
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Adam Liptak / New York Times:
Justices, Seeking Compromise, Return Contraception Case to Lower Courts
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Patrick Healy / New York Times:
Little Is Off Limits as Donald Trump Plans Attacks on Hillary Clinton's Character — 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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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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New York Times:
Inside Donald Trump's Plans to Attack the Clintons, and Why They Might Fail
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Jessie Hellmann / The Hill:
Clinton: I'd put Bill ‘in charge of revitalizing the economy’
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CNN:
Trump: London mayor made ‘very rude statements’ about me — (CNN)Donald Trump said Monday London's new mayor made “very rude statements” about him — and the presumptive Republican presidential nominee warned he won't have a good relationship with British Prime Minister David Cameron if he's elected.
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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
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Mirror.co.uk:
Donald Trump slams Sadiq Khan and warns he may not have ‘good relationship’ with David Cameron
Ruth Davidson / The ITV Hub:
It can't be good if Donald Trump is US President
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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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Maria Puente / USA Today:
Police in Chicago suburb looking for missing Sinead O'Connor
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People.com:
Inside Donald Trump's '91 Apology for Pretending to Be His Own Spokesman - How Marla Maples Shamed Him Into Fessing Up — Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump flatly denied Friday that he posed as his own spokesman during a June 26, 1991, phone call to then-PEOPLE reporter Sue Carswell …
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Nathan McDermott / BuzzFeed:
Trump Ally Roger Stone Admits That Trump Posed As His Own PR Man
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Michael Falcone / ABC News:
The Note: More Troubles for Trump
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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 — 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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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.
Heidi M Przybyla / USA Today:
Clinton team looking for a VP who will be fighter, excite Sanders supporters — Hillary Clinton is considering a running mate who could make a direct appeal to supporters of Bernie Sanders, bridging a generational and political divide, according to four people close to the campaign.
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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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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 …
Thomas D. Williams, Ph.D. / Breitbart:
Princeton Prof: Transgenderism Not Scientific, ‘Superstitious Belief’ — A noted Princeton University professor has attacked the very notion of transgenderism, saying that the belief “that a woman can be trapped inside a man's body” is ludicrous and superstitious, with no basis in medical fact.
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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.
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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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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.
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Nick Gass / Politico:
Former Trump girlfriend hits back at ‘upsetting’ NYT cover story — The New York Times' article published Saturday with the headline “Crossing the Line: How Donald Trump Behaved With Women in Private” begins with an anecdote from a woman named Rowanne Brewer Lane, who as a 26-year-old model …
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Caitlin Yilek / The Hill:
Trump on Warren: ‘You mean Pocahontas?’ — Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump — is not reining in his attacks against Sen. Elizabeth Warren — (D-Mass.). — When New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd asked Trump if “he had been chided by any Republicans” …
Adam Kredo / Washington Free Beacon:
Congressman: Classified Details of Iran's Treatment of U.S. Sailors Will Shock Nation — The classified details behind Iran's treatment of several U.S. sailors who were captured by the Islamic Republic during a tense standoff earlier this year are likely to shock the nation …
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