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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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The Daily Beast, CBS News and Althouse
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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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No More Mister Nice Blog, Mediaite, Blue Nation Review, The Week, NBC News and Washington Monthly
New York Times:
Inside Donald Trump's Plans to Attack the Clintons, and Why They Might Fail
Inside Donald Trump's Plans to Attack the Clintons, and Why They Might Fail
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Daily Kos
Jessie Hellmann / The Hill:
Clinton: I'd put Bill ‘in charge of revitalizing the economy’
Clinton: I'd put Bill ‘in charge of revitalizing the economy’
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Breitbart, Taylor Marsh, The Federalist Papers, John Hawkins' Right Wing News, Hot Air, Forbes, New York Times, RedState, TPNN, ABC News, BizPac Review and Politico
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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The Gateway Pundit
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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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Washington Post, The Week and Washington Free Beacon
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.
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New York Magazine, Daily Kos and The Week
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Dahlia Lithwick / Slate:
Supreme Court on Contentious Contraception Case: We're Not Gonna Decide
Supreme Court on Contentious Contraception Case: We're Not Gonna Decide
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Mother Jones, Washington Monthly, Los Angeles Times, National Review and Washington Post
Lawrence Hurley / Reuters:
U.S. top court tosses rulings backing Obamacare contraception coverage
U.S. top court tosses rulings backing Obamacare contraception coverage
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Infowars and John Hawkins' Right Wing News
Jennifer Haberkorn / Politico:
Supreme Court asks for Obamacare birth control compromise
Supreme Court asks for Obamacare birth control compromise
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Washington Post, ABC News and Mother Jones
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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Chicago Tribune:
Singer Sinead O'Connor has been located, Wilmette police say
Singer Sinead O'Connor has been located, Wilmette police say
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AOL and The Daily Caller
Maria Puente / USA Today:
Police in Chicago suburb looking for missing Sinead O'Connor
Police in Chicago suburb looking for missing Sinead O'Connor
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The Week and The Daily Caller
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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Independent Journal …, Mother Jones, The Gateway Pundit and Mediaite
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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
Trump warns of poor relationship with Cameron over PM's refusal to withdraw ‘divisive, stupid and wrong’ comment
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ThinkProgress, New York Times, Guardian, Politico, Washington Times and Mashable
Ruth Davidson / The ITV Hub:
It can't be good if Donald Trump is US President
It can't be good if Donald Trump is US President
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NBC News, Reuters, Politico, Guardian, Washington Post, Washington Times and The Daily Caller
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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Caitlin MacNeal / Talking Points Memo:
Vulnerable GOP Sen. Ron Johnson Retreats On Endorsing Donald Trump
Michael Falcone / ABC News:
The Note: More Troubles for Trump
The Note: More Troubles for Trump
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Politico and FiveThirtyEight
CNNMoney:
How Donald Trump turned the tables on The New York Times — Donald Trump woke up Monday staring down the barrel of a terrible news week. A scathing New York Times report about his “unsettling” treatment of women was the talk of the morning shows and looked set to dominate the news cycle for days.
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Media Matters for America, Raw Story, Vox, Mediaite, Above the Law and Washington Free Beacon
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Nick Gass / Politico:
Former Trump girlfriend hits back at ‘upsetting’ NYT cover story
Former Trump girlfriend hits back at ‘upsetting’ NYT cover story
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Fox News, Washington Post, Vox, Los Angeles Times, RealClearPolitics, Media Matters for America, USA Today, Slantpoint, The Gateway Pundit, Mediaite, ECHIDNE OF THE SNAKES, WISH-TV, The Nation, NBC News, Business Insider, Taylor Marsh, TPNN, Daily Mail, Althouse, Hot Air, Talking Points Memo, Raw Story, BizPac Review, The Daily Caller, Washington Free Beacon and National Review
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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Washington Monthly and Media Matters for America
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.
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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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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Adam Kredo / Washington Free Beacon:
Iran: U.S. Encouraging Islamic Republic to Keep Illicit Missile Tests Secret — A senior Iranian military commander claimed that U.S. officials are quietly encouraging the Islamic Republic to keep its illicit ballistic missile tests a secret so as not to raise concerns in the region, according to Persian language comments.
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MEMRI and The Gateway Pundit
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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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Washington Monthly, The Week and Los Angeles Times
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Nate Eaton / East Idaho News:
Yellowstone tourists put bison calf in car because they're worried it's cold — YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK, Wyo. — We've heard a lot about tourists trying to touch wildlife at Yellowstone National Park but this story takes personal encounters with animals a bit further.
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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 …
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ThinkProgress, New York Magazine and Hullabaloo
Nathan McDermott / BuzzFeed:
Trump Ally Roger Stone Admits That Trump Posed As His Own PR Man — Roger Stone, a longtime political ally and former campaign adviser to Donald Trump, admitted on Saturday that Trump posed as his own publicist in the early 1990s, likening Trump's actions to the Founding Fathers.
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RedState, Washington Examiner, Political Wire, Washington Post and American Prospect
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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New Republic, Common Dreams, Daily Kos, Techdirt, Mediaite and Hit & Run
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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John Hawkins' Right Wing News, The Federalist Papers and The Daily Caller