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7:05 AM ET, May 18, 2016

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Bernie Sanders:
Sanders Statement on Nevada  —  FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. - U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders on Tuesday issued the following statement:  —  “It is imperative that the Democratic leadership, both nationally and in the states, understand that the political world is changing and that millions of Americans …
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Daniel Strauss / Politico:
Sanders sticks it to the Democratic Party  —  In the wake of a chaotic state convention that resulted in death threats for party officials and vandalism to party headquarters, the Democratic establishment asked Bernie Sanders for his help Tuesday in getting some of his overzealous supporters to stand down.
Manu Raju / CNN:
Dems' new fear: Sanders revolt could upend Democratic convention  —  (CNN)Sen. Barbara Boxer, a veteran of Democratic politics, says she never saw anything quite like this before.  —  Loud cursing, shouting, obscene gestures and vile insults, including crude comments about the female anatomy.
Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
Grandiosity As Addictive As Smack  —  With this new blow-up over whatever happened over the weekend in Nevada we see the pretty real and even dire consequences of lying to your supporters.  The Sanders campaign, especially campaign manager Jeff Weaver, has been saying for weeks that Sanders …
Gabriel Debenedetti / Politico:
More Sanders staffers exit campaign  —  A handful of high-level staffers have left Bernie Sanders' campaign in recent days, including his director of technology and three of the four members of his original senior leadership team in California — a state his team has said is critical to his bid for the Democratic nomination.
Daniel Strauss / Politico:
Wasserman Schultz on Sanders' response to Nevada chaos: ‘Anything but acceptable’  —  Democratic National Committee Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz panned Bernie Sanders' response to reports of violence at the Nevada Democratic state convention over the weekend, calling it “anything but acceptable.”
Discussion: ABC News and Raw Story
Abby Phillip / Washington Post:
Clinton declares victory in Kentucky primary; Sanders wins in Oregon  —  Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton declared victory in the Kentucky primary on Tuesday, potentially disrupting a string of expected primary losses this month that had threatened to weaken her even as she turned …
Ben Kamisar / The Hill:
Trump: Clinton should drop out if she loses Kentucky  —  should “drop out” if she can't win Tuesday's Kentucky primary as he laid into his likely general election opponent in a series of tweets.  —  “Do you think Crooked Hillary will finally close the deal?
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit and Politico
Daniel Halper / Weekly Standard:   Sanders: ‘Shots Were Fired Into My Campaign Office in Nevada’
Mickey Rapkin / DuJour:
Lady and the Trump  —  Donald and Melania Trump live in a 30,000-square-foot triplex at the top of his namesake tower on Fifth Avenue, and as the race toward the presidency gets shorter and more frenzied, the ratings-hungry cable news networks have started coming to them.
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Mark Hensch / The Hill:
Melania Trump: ‘Unbelievable’ Chris Matthews commented on me
Al Weaver / Washington Examiner:
Melania Trump: My husband is ‘not Hitler’
Discussion: Guardian
Richmond Times-Dispatch:
NOLAND, MARY ANNE  —  NOLAND, Mary Anne Alfriend.  Faced with the prospect of voting for either Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton, Mary Anne Noland of Richmond chose, instead, to pass into the eternal love of God on Sunday, May 15, 2016, at the age of 68.  Born in Danville, Va. …
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Jim Hoft / The Gateway Pundit:   IT'S OFFICIAL: DONALD TRUMP Breaks Bush Record With Most Votes Ever for Republican Primary Candidate
Matthew Boyle / Breitbart:   Exclusive — Rand Paul Supports Donald Trump as Nominee: ‘I Stand by That Pledge’
Fox News:
Megyn Kelly Special: Trump defends tone, says bid will be ‘complete waste’ if he doesn't win  —  Donald Trump, in an extensive interview with Fox News' Megyn Kelly, responded to critics of his barbed campaign style by saying he never would have been successful in the primary race if he had acted …
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Julia Jacobo / ABC News:
Donald Trump Wins Oregon GOP Primary, AP Reports
Associated Press:
Adelson Implores Republican Jewish Leaders to Support Trump
Reuters:
Exclusive: Trump would talk to North Korea's Kim, wants to renegotiate climate accord  —  Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump said on Tuesday he is willing to talk to North Korean leader Kim Jong Un to try to stop Pyongyang's nuclear program, proposing a major shift in U.S. policy toward the isolated nation.
Gideon Resnick / The Daily Beast:
George Zimmerman Taunts Trayvon Martin's Parents: 'They Didn't Raise Their Son Right'  —  The man who killed the teenager and ignited the Black Lives Matter movement explains why he's selling the gun, what he thinks of Hillary and Trump, and why he's the real victim.
Discussion: AOL, Raw Story and Mediaite
NBC News:
Hillary Clinton Holds Slim National Lead Over Donald Trump: Poll  —  Race between Clinton, Trump narrows 5:50  —  Over the past couple of weeks, Donald Trump has become the presumptive Republican nominee and Hillary Clinton has continued to inch closer to the magic number of delegates she needs to lock up the Democratic contest.
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Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
McCain In Deep Trouble in GOP Primary; Trump, Clinton Close in AZ
Discussion: Politicus USA
Dan Nowicki / Arizona Republic:
Sen. John McCain attacks Ann Kirkpatrick over ‘Obamacare’ vote
Discussion: Daily Kos
Paul Gowder:
SSRN has been captured by the enemy of open knowledge.  —  Elsevier just bought SSRN.  Here's why you should be upset, and what we can do about it.  —  For those of you who aren't familiar with the academic publishing racket, SSRN is (was?) a huge repository of open-access preprint papers …
Matt Coughlin / Morning Call:
Substitute teacher at Easton High arrested for sex with teen in cemetery, police say  —  Of The Morning Call … EASTON — A married 49-year-old substitute teacher was interrupted by Easton police while she was having sex with a 17-year-old boy in the Easton Cemetery earlier this month, police said.
Discussion: WNEP-TV and fox13now.com
Marianne LeVine / Politico:
White House details sweeping measure to raise wages  —  The White House revealed details Tuesday of its most sweeping action to fight income inequality since President Barack Obama signed the Affordable Care Act into law.  And unlike Obamacare, it will require no input from Congress.
Discussion: ABC News
Andrew Rafferty / NBC News:
Clinton Moves Within 100 Delegates of Nomination  —  Sanders: ‘We Are In Until the Last Ballot is Cast’ 2:08  —  Hillary Clinton is the apparent winner of the Kentucky Democratic primary Tuesday night and rival Sen. Bernie Sanders will win in Oregon, NBC News projects.
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Discussion: fox13now.com and Raw Story
Meeri Kim / Washington Post:
‘Forest bathing’ is latest fitness trend to hit U.S. - ‘Where yoga was 30 years ago’  —  Over thousands of years of human history, we have effectively become an indoor species.  Particularly for those of us trapped in the cubicle life, often the only times we regularly step foot outside is for our daily work commute or to run errands.
Nick Gass / Politico:
Trump boasts about ‘tremendous cash flow’ in new financial report  —  Donald Trump on Tuesday boasted that he has filed a new personal financial disclosure report, one that shows - according to Trump's campaign - “tremendous cash flow” and income in excess of a half a billion dollars.
Scott Adams Blog:
Scott Adams' Blog  —  Here's a good summary on Business Insider of the top 14 likely VP picks for Trump.  See if you can predict who Trump will choose.  —  Few things are harder to predict than a VP choice because the situation stays fluid until the actual selection.
Discussion: Althouse
 
 
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Reuters:
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