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6:00 PM ET, May 18, 2016

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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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Leon H. Wolf / RedState:
Trump's SCOTUS List is Meaningless because the Word of a Pathological Liar is Worthless  —  Donald Trump has released a list of people who he is apparently going to consider for Supreme Court nominees to replace Antonin Scalia.  Off the top of my head the only two names I recognize are Sykes and Willett …
Discussion: The Resurgent and Right Wing Watch
Donald J Trump for President:
DONALD J. TRUMP RELEASES LIST OF POTENTIAL UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT JUSTICES  —  (New York, NY) May 18, 2016 - Today Donald J. Trump released the much-anticipated list of people he would consider as potential replacements for Justice Scalia at the United States Supreme Court.
Associated Press:
Discussion: Raw Story
Alex Griswold / Mediaite:
Trump's Proposed SCOTUS Nominee Sure Seems to Mock Him a Lot on Twitter  —  Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump released the names of eleven federal judges he would consider nominating to the Supreme Court to fill its open spot Wednesday.  Whether or not his campaign team vetted …
Discussion: LawNewz
Alan Rappeport / New York Times:
Donald Trump Releases List of Supreme Court Picks
Discussion: Althouse
Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
It Comes From the Very Top  —  For months I'd thought and written that Sanders campaign manager Jeff Weaver was the key driver of toxicity in the the Democratic primary race.  Weaver has been highly visible on television, far more than campaign manager's tend to be.
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Niall Stanage / The Hill:
Amid Democratic infighting, polls are improving for Trump  —  appears to be making rapid progress in unifying Republican voters behind his presidential bid even as Democratic discord between backers of Hillary Clinton  —  reaches new highs.  —  An NBC News/SurveyMonkey poll released Tuesday …
James Hohmann / Washington Post:
The Daily 202: Liberal allies turning on Bernie Sanders after Nevada donnybrook
Tim Hains / RealClearPolitics:   Cenk Uygur: “CNN Never Showed You” What Really Happened At Nevada Dem Convention
Margaret Talev / Bloomberg:
Clinton, Democrats Confronting Dangerous Divisions Within Party
Sacramento Bee:
Bernie Sanders can't afford to stay silent any longer
Joy-Ann Reid / The Daily Beast:
Come on, Bernie, Time to Level With Your Dreamers
Discussion: Courier-Journal, Slate and Raw Story
Chris Moody / CNN:
Bernie Sanders, Democratic establishment battle boils over
Michael Falcone / ABC News:
The Note: Regrets, He Had a Few
David Weigel / Washington Post:
Trump's appeal stretches to suburbs that had been trending blue  —  DOYLESTOWN, Pa. — At the Bucks County Democrats' first meeting since the April 26 Pennsylvania primary, one worry dominated: Donald Trump had done better than expected in this blue-leaning exurban expanse north and east of Philadelphia.
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Associated Press:   Ex-governor: More ugly women than attractive women in US
Mary McNamara / Los Angeles Times:
Review Megyn Kelly goes too easy on Donald Trump in her Fox infomercial, er, special  —  Donald Trump appears on “Megyn Kelly Presents.”  (Eric Liebowitz / Fox)  —  After the weeks of hype and the queasy hopes of an anxious nation, it all became clear:  —  Megyn Kelly didn't ask Donald Trump …
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Jon Ward / Yahoo:
The roots of Mitt Romney's anti-Trump fervor  —  Mitt Romney has ruled out an independent bid for president and is not actively recruiting any more potential candidates to do so at the moment, though he remains hopeful someone will emerge, allies told Yahoo News Tuesday.
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Ben Oldach / WHOTV:
School Mourns 13-Year-Old Killed Tragically in Hammock  —  DES MOINES, Iowa — A Catholic school is falling on their faith after one of their classmates was tragically killed over the weekend.  —  Peri Sagun, 13, was on a hammock at her Des Moines home on Saturday.
Discussion: WNEP-TV, KXAN-TV, FOX31 Denver, KTLA and KFOR-TV
Kathleen Parker / Washington Post:
Hillary Clinton's viral nightmare: A video of her ‘lying for 13 minutes’  —  You could say that it all depends on how you define “lie.”  Or, perhaps, that it's hell to have a public record.  —  Either way, Hillary Clinton's vast résumé of, shall we say, inconsistencies, is the dog that caught the car and won't let go.
Robert Draper / New York Times:
Mr. Trump's Wild Ride  —  Down the homestretch with the impossible nominee.  —  'H  —  ave you seen the latest polls?  I'm beating Hillary.  Donald Trump was on the phone with a man he had never met, a Republican delegate in Pennsylvania.  It was May 2, one day before the Indiana primary election …
Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
How I Acted Like A Pundit And Screwed Up On Donald Trump  —  Since Donald Trump effectively wrapped up the Republican nomination this month, I've seen a lot of critical self-assessments from empirically minded journalists — FiveThirtyEight included, twice over — about what they got wrong on Trump.
Warner Todd Huston / Breitbart:
Obama Spending Millions of Tax Dollars on Summer Jobs for Refugees  —  A new report reveals that President Obama is throwing the weight of the federal government behind a program to secure summer jobs for hundreds of “refugees” brought into the U.S. by the President's refugee program guided by the United Nations.
Hadas Gold / Politico:
Donald Trump's gold-plated convention  —  Donald Trump has shoved just about every tradition in modern presidential politics out the window, and now he's preparing to trash one more — the dog and pony show known as the Republican National Convention.  —  From speaking slots to prime …
Mtschnyder / CBS Dallas:
Shopper Upset Man Allowed To Use Women's Dressing Room In Ross  —  MESQUITE (CBSDFW.COM) - A Forney woman says a Ross department store in Mesquite let a man into the women's dressing room Monday.  —  “I was in the dressing room, when we heard a man's voice,” said Lisa Stickles, who says she quickly told a manager.
Keagan Harsha / FOX31 Denver:
Kindergartner suspended for bringing bubble gun to class  —  BRIGHTON, Colo. — A 5 year-old girl was suspended from kindergarten on Monday for bringing a gun to Southeast Elementary School.  —  It sounds alarming, but the weapon was a bubble gun, a popular plastic toy sold at stores across Colorado.
Elise Young / Bloomberg:
Disabled Earn Pennies as Caregivers Debate Clinton's Raise Plan  —  Democratic presidential candidates bash 78-year-old loophole  —  Paychecks for simple tasks in community charities' workshops  —  Hillary Clinton's call to raise the minimum wage for disabled Americans who earn pennies per hour …
Discussion: Cafe HayekCafe Hayek
Madalyn Mendoza / MySanAntonio.com:
School defends video of San Antonio students jumping rope with cat intestines, PETA upset  —  ‘This was not meant to be degrading or disrespectful,’ a school spokesperson said.  —  People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) has petitioned Winston Churchill High School after a video surfaced …
 
 
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Fox News Insider:
Phil Robertson Supporting Trump, Willing to Be His ‘Spiritual Adviser’
John Hudson / Foreign Policy:
Congressman Seeks Ham Sandwich to Defeat ISIS
Kristina Wong / The Hill:
House adopts amendment that slashes National Security Council
Ian Hanchett / Breitbart:
MSNBC's Brzezinski: Wasserman Schultz ‘Should Step Down,’ Dem Primary ‘Has Been Unfair’ To Sanders
Betsy McCaughey / New York Post:
The Clintons are hitting the big screen (kind of)
Discussion: Betsy's Page and TPNN
 Earlier Items: 
Tim Mak / The Daily Beast:
She Sued Donald Trump, but Still Loves Him
Discussion: Raw Story
Politico:
3 Rs who may go independent — TRUMP'S FALL BATTLE PLAN: Maine, Minnesota, Georgia …
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Michael Grunwald / Politico:
High-speed rail gets a four-year delay
Discussion: Mother Jones
Stephen O'Neill / The Drum:
How my spoof anti-Trump billboard went viral around the world
Discussion: Business Insider and AOL
WSAZ-TV:
31 Kentucky counties report election fraud Tuesday