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2:50 PM ET, May 16, 2016

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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.
Discussion: Daily Kos and The Week
Lawrence Hurley / Reuters:
U.S. top court tosses rulings backing Obamacare contraception coverage
Jennifer Haberkorn / Politico:
Supreme Court asks for Obamacare birth control compromise
Richard Wolf / USA Today:
Supreme Court sends ‘contraceptive mandate’ cases back to lower courts
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New York Times:
Inside Donald Trump's Plans to Attack the Clintons, and Why They Might Fail  —  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.
Discussion: Daily Kos
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
Reuters:   Donald Trump Slams Cameron And Khan On Islam Comments: 'Don't Pretend It's Not A Problem'
Mirror.co.uk:
Donald Trump slams Sadiq Khan and warns he may not have ‘good relationship’ with David Cameron
Discussion: alan.com
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 …
Discussion: WhoWhatWhy
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Michael Falcone / ABC News:
The Note: More Troubles for Trump
Discussion: FiveThirtyEight and Politico
Dan Merica / CNN:
Pro-Clinton super PAC to start airing general election ads on Wednesday
Discussion: RedState
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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Goldie Taylor / The Daily Beast:
Wendell Pierce of ‘The Wire’ Arrested After Fight Over Bernie Sanders
James Hohmann / Washington Post:
The Daily 202: The presidency is Hillary Clinton's to lose. Here are 12 ways she could lose it.
Discussion: Power Line, Politico and Mediaite
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 …
Discussion: Mediaite, AOL, WREG-TV and KFOR-TV
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Maria Puente / USA Today:
Police in Chicago suburb looking for missing Sinead O'Connor  —  Sinead O'Connor, the Irish singer with a history of mental illness, is missing in a Chicago suburb, according to police.  —  A check-for-well-being alert, sent out by police Sgt. Michael Robinson in the village of Wilmette …
Discussion: The Daily Caller and The Week
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.
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 …
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 …
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” …
Discussion: Daily Kos and RedState
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.
Adelle Nazarian / Breitbart:
Glenn Beck, Anti-Trump Conservatives to Meet with Facebook's Zuckerberg  —  On Wednesday, billionaire Mark Zuckerberg will hold a meeting with “leading conservatives,” embattled The Blaze head Glenn Beck, and former George W. Bush Administration official and co-host of Fox News Channel's The Five Dana Perino …
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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.
Sarah Kliff / Vox:
3 states are down to one Obamacare insurer.  What if they fall to zero?  —  There are at least three states that currently have just one health insurer planning to sell on their Obamacare marketplace in 2017: Alaska, Alabama, and Wyoming.  —  The health care law doesn't have a backup plan …
Matt Zapotosky / Washington Post:
Prosecutors: Longtime Pa. congressman abused his office ‘over and over again’  —  PHILADELPHIA — Federal prosecutors on Monday began laying out a complicated criminal corruption case against Rep. Chaka Fattah Sr. of Pennsylvania on Monday, telling jurors the longtime Democratic legislator abused his office …
Discussion: Associated Press
 
 
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Yahoo:
In surprising turnabout, Oklahoma eyes Medicaid expansion
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Doyle McManus / Los Angeles Times:
Column Election forecasting in the age of Trump
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Ezra Klein / Vox:
Obama on Trump: “In politics and in life, ignorance is not a virtue”
Discussion: Liberty Unyielding
Austin American-Statesman:
Pastor to drop lawsuit against Whole Foods over anti-gay slur on cake
Discussion: Raw Story and The Daily Caller
Tommy Christopher / Mediaite:
Mark Halperin Thinks Sexual Assault is Legal
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Olaf Ekberg / The American Mirror:
Christina Aguilera: Hillary ‘stared’ at my chest!
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Jim Hoft / The Gateway Pundit:
Homeland Security Official: ISIS Training Terrorists South of Border With Help from Mexican Drug Cartels
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Kenneth P. Vogel / Politico:
Trump backers face ‘scam PAC’ charges
Discussion: RedState and The Week
Charles M. Blow / New York Times:
Trump's Asymmetric Warfare
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Juan Williams / The Hill:
Trump, false promises and the economy
Kurt Schlichter / Townhall.com:
Clinton's Crimes and Comey's Choice
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Castro moves to stop VP fire from the left
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Baptism turns violent when Hawaii man is shot in the back at Seventh-day Adventist church
 

 
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