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Jon Ralston / Ralston Reports:
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.
Discussion: Balloon Juice and naked capitalism
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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.
Discussion: The Week and Blue Nation Review
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 …
Nick Anderson / Washington Post:
Vermont college that Bernie Sanders's wife once led is closing
Discussion: Hot Air
Todd Feurer / CBS Chicago:
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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Alan Levin / Bloomberg:   Complaints Over Airport Security Delays Surged 10-Fold in March
Laura Podesta / abc7chicago.com:
Passengers stranded at O'Hare Airport due to long TSA lines
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Blake Neff / The Daily Caller:
Congressional Candidate Accidentally Shares Porn Tastes On Facebook
Discussion: Political Wire
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 …
Discussion: Taylor Marsh and The Week
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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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 …
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 …
Discussion: Political Wire
Ian Millhiser / ThinkProgress:
Scalia's Death Just Saved Thousands Of Women's Access To Birth Control  —  Zubik v. Burwell was supposed to be an epic showdown over the power of religious objectors to limit the rights of others.  A sequel to the Court's 2014 decision in Burwell v. Hobby Lobby, Zubik involved regulations …
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Adam Liptak / New York Times:
Justices, Seeking Compromise, Return Contraception Case to Lower Courts
Jon Nicosia / Mediaite:
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 …
Discussion: alan.com and Raw Story
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
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 …
Discussion: Daily Kos, RedState and The Nation
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.
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.
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” …
BBC:
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 …
Matt DeRienzo / Connecticut Post:
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 …
Discussion: Mother Jones
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.
Jonathan Swan / The Hill:
Ralph Nader: Dem superdelegates are 'Hillary's cronies'  —  is unfairly winning the Democratic nomination with unelected superdelegates and closed primaries that shut out independent voters who prefer Bernie Sanders  —  “If he had an open primary, he'd have beaten her,” Nader told The Hill in a Facebook Live interview on Monday.
Discussion: Politico
Robert Costa / Washington Post:
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.
Discussion: The Hill and NBC News
Adrian Carrasquillo / BuzzFeed:
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 …
 
 
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U.S. backs arming new Libyan government to fight Islamic State
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Philip Rucker / Washington Post:
Trump: Rescind Obama's transgender directives, but ‘protect everybody’
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U.S. Discloses Saudi Holdings of Treasuries for First Time
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Iran: U.S. Encouraging Islamic Republic to Keep Illicit Missile Tests Secret
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