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Shane Goldmacher / Politico:
Donald Trump is Not Expanding the GOP — Donald Trump likes to say he has created a political movement that has drawn “millions and millions” of new voters into the Republican Party. “It's the biggest thing happening in politics,” Trump has said. “All over the world, they're talking about it,” he's bragged.
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Nolan D. McCaskill / Politico:
Poll: Trump narrows Clinton's lead nationally to 3 points — Donald Trump continues to cut into Hillary Clinton's lead nationally, according to a national NBC News| SurveyMonkey poll released Tuesday. — Trump has reduced the 5-point advantage Clinton held last week to just 3 percentage points.
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Morning Consult, Common Dreams, Scared Monkeys, Hot Air, Political Wire and The Week
Michael Falcone / ABC News:
The Note: The Anti-Trump Playbook
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Politico, Boston Herald and Washington Times
Alan Rappeport / New York Times:
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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Shakesville, Washington Free Beacon, The Gateway Pundit, The Week and Blue Nation Review
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New York Times:
Donald Trump Borrows From Bernie Sanders's Playbook to Woo Democrats
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American Prospect, BillMoyers.com and Washington Post
Jon Ralston / Ralston Reports:
The sour grapes revolution that rocked the Paris Hotel
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Balloon Juice, Common Dreams and naked capitalism
NV Dems:
The Facts about the Nevada Democratic State Convention on Saturday
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The Daily Caller
Jonathan Swan / The Hill:
Ralph Nader: Dem superdelegates are 'Hillary's cronies'
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Politico
Brian Stelter / CNNMoney:
NYT stands by Trump story; attorney says lawsuit a ‘possibility’ — On Monday one of the Trump Organization's attorneys suggested that Donald Trump might sue The New York Times over a Sunday front page story about his behavior around women. — Then on Tuesday morning, another Trump attorney said …
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ThinkProgress, Talking Points Memo, The Atlantic, USA Today, Page Six, Politico, Washington Post, LawNewz, Raw Story, AOL, ABC News, The Gateway Pundit, Mediaite and Blue Nation Review
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The Hill:
Hillary's unlikely ally: The media — has an unlikely ally in her bid to defeat Donald Trump — this fall: the media. — The Democratic presidential front-runner has had a long, contentious relationship with the press, most notably in her 2008 run for the White House. But 2016 figures to be much different.
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Hot Air
Associated Press:
Hundreds stranded, passengers sleeping in COTS: TSA security lines of up to THREE HOURS cause chaos at Chicago O'Hare as national staff shortage at airports makes thousands miss flights — Dozens of passengers had to spend the night at Chicago's O'Hare International Airport Sunday night due to long security lines
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Israel Matzav
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Todd Feurer / CBS Chicago:
Nightmarish Lines Continue At Airport Security Checkpoints
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Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion, Hot Air and CBS San Francisco
Jonathan Martin / New York Times:
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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New York Magazine, The Week and Washington Post
New York Times:
The Crippled Supreme Court — Every day that passes without a ninth justice undermines the Supreme Court's ability to function, and leaves millions of Americans waiting for justice or clarity as major legal questions are unresolved. — On Monday, the eight-member court avoided issuing …
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Media Matters for America, FiveThirtyEight, SCOTUSblog and Common Dreams
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Daily Mail:
Newlywed husband divorces his wife hours after the ceremony because she was too busy texting her friends to have sex on their wedding night — A husband divorced his wife hours after their wedding because she was too busy texting her friends to consummate the marriage.
Chris Cillizza / Washington Post:
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.
Rebecca Savransky / The Hill:
Ex-Trump employee: 'He thinks he's going to be king' — The former head of construction at Trump Tower in New York said Monday she couldn't believe presumptive GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump — wants to be president. — “I couldn't imagine him ever doing a job where he would be beholden …
Nick Anderson / Washington Post:
For the poor in the Ivy League, a full ride isn't always what they imagined — NEW YORK — To reach the Ivy League after growing up poor seems like hitting the jackpot. Students get a world-class education from schools that promise to meet full financial needs without making them take out loans.
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Ashley Feinberg / Gawker:
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 …
David Wasserman / FiveThirtyEight:
Why Pennsylvania Could Decide The 2016 Election — When most people think of battleground America, they think of Florida and Ohio, two of only three states (along with Nevada) that have voted for the winner of every presidential election since 1996. They tend not to think of Pennsylvania as a classic …
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Political Wire
Ed O'Keefe / Washington Post:
Some conservatives are still plotting to stop Trump at the GOP convention — The top ranks of the Republican Party may be coalescing around Donald Trump, but grass-roots conservative activists are still trying to find a way to stop him at the party's convention in July.
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Politico
Liberte Chan / Life of Liberté:
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
NEWS.com.au:
Dutch researchers are learning how to grow food on Mars and the Moon — ESTABLISHING a human colony on the Moon and travelling to Mars has been the stuff of dreams since the dawn of the space age. — But these visions face many hurdles. How can humans survive for months or years in the ultra-hostile environment of space?
Dave Levinthal / Center for Public Integrity:
Death threats directed at elections regulator — FEC Commissioner Ann Ravel targeted for views on Internet regulation — FEC Commissioner Ann Ravel. — Sarah Whitmire/Center for Public Integrity — In October 2014, then-Federal Election Commission Vice Chairwoman Ann Ravel did what she often does …
Jesse Byrnes / The Hill:
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
David Edwards / Raw Story:
Noam Chomsky: Today's GOP is ‘the most dangerous’ threat to the species ‘in human history’ — DON'T MISS STORIES. FOLLOW RAW STORY! — Acclaimed political theorist Noam Chomsky warned this week that today's Republican Party could literally be “the most dangerous organization in human history.”
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Democracy Now
Ruth Graham / Slate:
Can the Christian Left Be a Real Political Force? — Trump's rise has thrown the religious right into turmoil. How Democrats could become the party of God. — In late November of 1973, about 50 evangelical leaders convened at a shabby YMCA hotel in Chicago for what they hoped would be a generation-defining gathering.
Robert Kuttner / American Prospect:
The Entente Between Trump and the Republican Elite — Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks during a rally in Spokane, Washington, Saturday, May 7, 2016. — An earlier version of this article appeared at The Huffington Post. — We are starting to see the sorry spectacle …
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Daily Kos, The Nation and ABC News
NBC News:
Majority of Republican Voters Trust Trump Over Ryan to Lead Party — Clinton, Trump Reveal Likely Attack Plans for General Election Debates 2:01 — While many Republicans inside Washington see House Speaker Paul Ryan as the leader of the Republican Party, voters see things differently.
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Talking Points Memo
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