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The sour grapes revolution that rocked the Paris Hotel — On the eve of the Nevada Democratic Convention in Las Vegas, Friday the 13th as the calendar would have it, Bernie Sanders issued a news release asking for good fortune on that traditionally unlucky day.
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From Bernie Sanders Supporters, Death Threats Over Delegates — Thrown chairs. Leaked cellphone numbers. Death threats spewed across the Internet. — No, this is not the work of Donald J. Trump supporters, some of whom have harassed critics of the presumptive Republican presidential nominee.
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The Week and Blue Nation Review


It's Time for Bernie Sanders to Pack Up and Go Home
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Washington Post, Common Dreams, Washington Monthly and Balloon Juice


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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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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Vermont college that Bernie Sanders's wife once led is closing
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MichelleMalkin.com and Hot Air


Close Your Porn Tabs Before Posting Screenshots to Your Congressional Campaign Page — Mike Webb is running for U.S. Congress in Virginia's 8th district, and he would really appreciate your vote. He would also appreciate, judging from a screenshot uploaded to his Facebook page earlier today …
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Congressional Candidate Accidentally Shares Porn Tastes On Facebook — A Congressional candidate in Virginia's 8th District has posted a photo on Twitter that incidentally includes a glimpse of his pornography tastes. — Mike Webb initially ran as a Republican for the 8th District seat …
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Political Wire


Nightmarish Lines Continue At Airport Security Checkpoints — CHICAGO (CBS) — Travelers flying out of Chicago just can't catch a break. With increasingly long lines to get through security at the city's airports, many travelers have been missing their flights, and some ended up sleeping at O'Hare International Airport on Sunday.
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Hot Air and CBS San Francisco
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Passengers stranded at O'Hare Airport due to long TSA lines
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Chicago Tribune, WAVY-TV and The American Mirror

TSA Lines Causing Frowns? Send in the Clowns! (and Tiny Horses)
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WISH-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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Man apologizes, withdraws Whole Foods gay slur cake lawsuit
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Trump on tone: I'm ‘fighting for survival’ — , in an excerpt from an interview with Fox News host Megyn Kelly, referred to himself as a “messenger” in characterizing his campaign rhetoric. — When Kelly commented, in a preview of the interview set to air Tuesday, on Trump being …
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Taylor Marsh and The Week

Personal Thoughts on the LBD/Sweater Moment that Went Viral — After receiving a number of requests for interviews regarding my LBD/Sweater moment on the KTLA Morning News this weekend, I thought I would share a few personal thoughts. — For those who missed what happened Saturday …
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New York Times, AOL, The Daily Caller, KTLA and CBS Detroit

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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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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The Gateway Pundit, Fox News, Media Matters for America, Los Angeles Times, Mediaite, Rewire, The Nation, CBS New York, WOOD-TV, NBC News, Slantpoint and RealClearPolitics

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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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.


Woman mistaken for transgender harassed in Walmart bathroom — DANBURY - Aimee Toms was washing her hands in the women's bathroom at Walmart in Danbury Friday when a stranger approached her and said, “You're disgusting!” and “You don't belong here!” — After momentary confusion …
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Mother Jones


Mediaite Exclusive: CNN Cancelled Wilmore Appearance in Retaliation for WHC Dinner Jokes — Anyone who watched Larry Wilmore's White Correspondents Dinner speech last month can understand why CNN might not have been thrilled with it. There were jokes questioning why Wolf Blitzer is still on the air …

Justices, Seeking Compromise, Return Contraception Case to Lower Courts — WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court announced on Monday that it would not rule in a major case on access to contraception. In an unsigned, unanimous opinion, it instructed lower courts to explore whether a compromise was possible.
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Supreme Court ruling should clear the way to free birth control for women with religious employers
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National Review, Slate, Mother Jones and Washington Post

Obama Says Republican Concerns About Trump Mean His Supreme Court Pick Should Get A Vote — Legal Editor Chris Geidner interviewed the president from the Roosevelt Room in the White House. — President Obama told BuzzFeed News Monday that the GOP is “looking at a Republican nominee” …
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The New Civil Rights Movement, New York Times, Talking Points Memo, LawNewz and The Week


Trump Campaign Canceled A Reporter's Interview After They Heard Him Speak Spanish — Marcos Stupenengo, a freelance correspondent working for TV Azteca, got an interview with Donald Trump — initially. He had no trouble when he asked to come to Trump Tower in New York on Monday to interview …


John Kasich: 'Running third party doesn't feel right' — Watch the full exclusive interview with Ohio Gov. John Kasich on “Anderson Cooper 360” at 8 p.m. ET on CNN. — Washington (CNN)John Kasich said Monday that he would not mount a third party bid for the White House …
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The Rich Kids of... North Korea! Secretive state now has its own ‘one-percenters’ who love paying nearly a typical month's wage on iced coffee in downtown ‘Pyonghattan’ — We've seen the Rich Kids of London, Russia and China - and now the rich kids of North Korea are joining the action.
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Instapundit

Donald Trump to meet with Henry Kissinger, GOP's foreign-policy eminence — NEW YORK — Donald Trump is scheduled to meet here Wednesday with former secretary of state Henry Kissinger as the Republican Party's presumptive presidential nominee looks to develop his foreign-policy expertise, according to three people close to Trump.


Rift Between Labor and Environmentalists Threatens Democratic Turnout Plan — WASHINGTON — A rift between environmentalists and labor, two pillars of the Democratic coalition, broke open acrimoniously on Monday, when a group of big unions threatened to boycott an ambitious …
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Power Line


Iran arrests eight for ‘un-Islamic’ Instagram modelling — Iran has arrested eight people working for online modelling agencies deemed to be “un-Islamic”, the prosecutor of Tehran's cybercrimes court has said. — The arrests are part of an operation that has seen women targeted …
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The Week


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, Liberal Values, New York Times, Mediaite and Althouse

Five people who are never going to be Donald Trump's vice president — We don't know all that much about who Donald Trump is going to pick — or even consider — as his vice presidential running mate. In fact, the most insight we have on Trump's VP thinking is who he's not going to pick.
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Snowden Archive — SIDtoday is the internal newsletter for the NSA's most important division, the Signals Intelligence Directorate. After editorial review, The Intercept is releasing nine years' worth of newsletters in batches, starting with 2003. The agency's spies explain a surprising amount …
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New York Times, Gizmodo, Common Dreams and Balloon Juice

Park Service: Bison calf euthanized after tourists put it in vehicle — Some concerned tourists in Yellowstone National Park thought a bison calf was cold and put it in their SUV on May 9. Courtesy of Karen Richardson — UPDATE: Yellowstone has explained why they euthanized the animal.
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