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9:55 AM ET, May 19, 2016

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CNN:
EgyptAir Flight 804 disappears  —  (CNN)EgyptAir Flight 804 heading from Paris to Cairo disappeared from radar with 69 people on board, the airline said.  —  The plane was flying at 37,000 feet when it disappeared shortly after entering Egyptian airspace, the airline tweeted.
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Daily Mail:
March 19, 1972: Flight 763 Cairo to Aden  —  The EgyptAir plane crashed into the Shamsan Mountains on approach to Aden International Airport, killing all 30 people on board.  —  August 23, 1976: Flight 321 Cairo to Luxor  —  Three armed terrorists hijacked the flight with 95 passengers …
Discussion: Clash Daily
Claire Phipps / Guardian:
EgyptAir flight MS804 disappears from radar between Paris and Cairo - live updates  —  Airline says plane, which took off from France's Charles de Gaulle airport late on Wednesday night, has gone missing with 66 people on board  —  An EgyptAir passenger jet carrying 66 passengers has vanished en route to Cairo.
Kim Fox / Bloomberg:   Manisha Jha manishajha03
Associated Press:
THE LATEST: EGYPTIAN MINISTER SAYS NO CRASH CAUSE RULED OUT
Discussion: NBC News
Rasmussen Reports:
White House Watch: Trump 42%, Clinton 37%  —  Donald Trump has now grown his lead over Hillary Clinton in Rasmussen Reports' first weekly White House Watch survey.  —  Trump earns 42% support to Clinton's 37% when Likely U.S. Voters are asked whom they would vote for if the presidential election were held today.
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
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Dana Blanton / Fox News:
Fox News Poll: Trump tops Clinton, both seen as deeply flawed candidates  —  Donald Trump tops Hillary Clinton in a hypothetical head-to-head matchup, according to a new Fox News Poll that also finds majorities of voters feel both frontrunners lack strong moral values and will say anything to get elected.
Wall Street Journal:
Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump Face Hurdle Not Seen in Modern History  —  Elections are always a game of positives versus negatives.  If you're the candidate, you do your best to talk yourself up and your opponent down.  This year's presidential brawl will test the depths of those downs and …
Discussion: Political Wire
Dana Blanton / Fox News:
Fox News Poll: Clinton's negatives surpass Trump's
Discussion: RedState and The Right Scoop
Tim Mak / The Daily Beast:
Dying GOP Senator Apologizes to Muslims for Donald Trump  —  Bob Bennett spent his last days letting Muslims know how sorry he was that an Islamophobe had become his party's all-but-certain nominee.  —  Former GOP senator Bob Bennett lay partially paralyzed in his bed on the fourth floor of the George Washington University Hospital.
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Frank Thorp V / NBC News:
GOP Senator Bob Bennett Apologized to Muslims for Trump While on Deathbed  —  In the final days of his life, former Utah Republican Senator Bob Bennett turned to his son and asked him, “Are there any Muslims in this hospital?”  —  The question caught his son, Jim Bennett, off-guard.
Discussion: Political Wire
Jill Colvin / U.S. ELECTIONS:
Trump unveils list of his top Supreme Court picks  —  JERSEY CITY, N.J. (AP) — Donald Trump, the presumptive Republican nominee for president, has released a list of 11 potential Supreme Court justices he plans to vet to fill the seat of late Justice Antonin Scalia if he's elected to the White House.
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Donald J Trump for President:
DONALD J. TRUMP RELEASES LIST OF POTENTIAL UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT JUSTICES
Mark Antonio Wright / National Review:
Trump's Judicial Appoints List Is Filled with Outstanding Conservatives
Fox News:
Trump refers to alleged Bill Clinton sexual indiscretions as ‘rape’  —  Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump used the word “rape” Wednesday evening to describe alleged sexual misconduct by former President Bill Clinton.  —  Trump made the comment during an interview with Fox News' Sean Hannity.
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Nick Gass / Politico:
Donald Trump accuses Bill Clinton of rape
Aaron Klein / Breitbart:
EXCLUSIVE-Clinton Rape Accuser Juanita Broaddrick: NY Times Should Interview Bill's Alleged Female Victims
Robert Kagan / Washington Post:
This is how fascism comes to America  —  Robert Kagan is a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and a contributing columnist for The Post.  —  The Republican Party's attempt to treat Donald Trump as a normal political candidate would be laughable were it not so perilous to the republic.
New York Times:
Bernie Sanders, Eyeing Convention, Willing to Harm Hillary Clinton in the Homestretch  —  Defiant and determined to transform the Democratic Party, Senator Bernie Sanders is opening a two-month phase of his presidential campaign aimed at inflicting a heavy blow on Hillary Clinton in California …
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Tim Hains / RealClearPolitics:   Cenk Uygur: “CNN Never Showed You” What Really Happened At Nevada Dem Convention
John Carreyrou / Wall Street Journal:
Theranos Voids Two Years of Edison Blood-Test Results  —  Company led by Elizabeth Holmes withdraws all Edison results from 2014 and 2015, issues tens of thousands of corrected blood-test reports  —  Theranos Inc. has told federal health regulators that the company voided two years of results …
Discussion: Gizmodo and The Verge
Drew Harwell / Washington Post:
Trump's business booms as he runs for president, financial disclosures show  —  Business has boomed in Donald Trump's financial empire during the time he has run for president, according to an analysis of his federal disclosure forms.  —  The documents, including a lengthy filing released Wednesday …
Discussion: Mother Jones
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Wall Street Journal:
Disclosure Form Details Donald Trump's Income Sources
Discussion: Forbes
Matt Taibbi / Rolling Stone:
R.I.P., GOP: How Trump Is Killing the Republican Party  —  Donald Trump crushed 16 GOP opponents in one of the most appalling, vicious campaigns in history.  His next victim?  The entire Republican Party  —  Indianapolis, Indiana, May 3rd, 2016, a little before 8:30 p.m. Texas …
New York Times:
Donald Trump's Immigration Plan: Big Promises, Bigger Doubts  —  Big promises are to be expected from presidential candidates, but reality often intrudes.  The elder George Bush broke the “no new taxes” pledge that helped lead to his election.  And Barack Obama's administration has yet …
Discussion: The Week
Esther Yu-Hsi Lee / ThinkProgress:
Meet Maryora, A Teen Who May Be Deported To Her Death In The Next Month  —  WASHINGTON D.C. — Maryora Nicole Urbina is an effusive 15-year-old in her freshman year at a Chicago, Illinois- area high school.  She enjoys her science classes and dreams about becoming a pediatrician one day.
Detroit News:
Projection: Michigan business taxes at a net loss  —  Lansing — Michigan corporations will see an overall income tax refund and effectively contribute nothing to the state coffers in 2016, according to new projections now forcing the Republican-led Legislature to cut back spending plans.
Discussion: Raw Story
 
 
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