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NBC News:
First Read: The Democratic Race Isn't as Close as You Think It Is — First Read is a morning briefing from Meet the Press and the NBC Political Unit on the day's most important political stories and why they matter. — The Democratic race isn't as close as you think it is
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New York Times and Washington Post
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Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
Sanders Camp Flirts with Going Full “Burn It Down” — The New York Times posted an article late Wednesday evening which confirms and expands on much of what I've been hearing from within the Sanders campaign in recent weeks and days. The top leaders of the campaign are now saying openly …
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New Republic, Balloon Juice, Washington Monthly, Daily Kos and CANNONFIRE
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 …
Edward Morrissey / The Fiscal Times:
Get Ready for a Third Party Run from Bernie Sanders
Get Ready for a Third Party Run from Bernie Sanders
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Guardian, BuzzFeed, The Huffington Post and Hot Air
David Weigel / Washington Post:
Sanders, after coming up short in Kentucky, thanks the state for ‘great victory’
Sanders, after coming up short in Kentucky, thanks the state for ‘great victory’
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The Daily Caller
Jeff Stein / Vox:
Bernie Sanders's base isn't the working class. It's young people.
Bernie Sanders's base isn't the working class. It's young people.
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Mother Jones and New York Times
Riley Snyder / @politifact:
Allegations of fraud and misconduct at Nevada Democratic convention unfounded
Allegations of fraud and misconduct at Nevada Democratic convention unfounded
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Washington Post, Talking Points Memo, USA Today, The Week, The Slot, The Mahablog, MSNBC and Guardian
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.
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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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Washington Post, Politico, HYPELINE, The Stranger …, Breitbart, Daily Wire, Althouse and John Hawkins' Right Wing News
Meghan Keneally / ABC News:
Clinton Campaign Slams Donald Trump's Rape Accusation Against Bill Clinton
Clinton Campaign Slams Donald Trump's Rape Accusation Against Bill Clinton
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Politico
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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NBC News, Telegraph, Associated Press, Jihad Watch, BizPac Review, Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion, The Jawa Report, Towleroad, National Review, Washington Free Beacon, The Week, Truth Revolt, Scared Monkeys, CBS Dallas, Fox17, Joe.My.God., HYPELINE, The Right Scoop, Heat Street, Liberty Unyielding and CBS Philly
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Eric Bradner / CNN:
Hillary Clinton: Donald Trump not qualified to be president
Hillary Clinton: Donald Trump not qualified to be president
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Washington Post, Common Dreams, Business Insider, Mediaite and The Week
Associated Press:
The Latest: Greece: Egyptian plane finds some debris in sea
The Latest: Greece: Egyptian plane finds some debris in sea
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Fox News, The Gateway Pundit, Guardian and Sky News
Declan Walsh / New York Times:
Egypt and Greece Begin Search for Missing EgyptAir Plane
Egypt and Greece Begin Search for Missing EgyptAir Plane
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Daily Mail, CNN, ABC News, Associated Press, TheBlaze.com, Outside the Beltway, Vox, Heat Street, WLNS-TV, abc7.com, The Week, BuzzFeed and Drudge Retort
Sarah Ferris / The Hill:
Okla. Senate approves bill barring doctors from performing abortions — Oklahoma lawmakers on Thursday approved a bill making it a felony for doctors to perform abortions, which opponents say is essentially a ban on the procedure. — The Republican bill, which has been called …
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The Federalist Papers, The Week and LawNewz
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Drew Johnson / The Daily Caller:
EXCLUSIVE: David Koch Pledges Millions To Gary Johnson's Presidential Bid — Billionaire businessman and philanthropist David Koch has pledged “tens of millions of dollars” to help bankroll the campaign of Libertarian presidential candidate Gary Johnson, according to a source within Johnson's campaign.
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Rebecca Savransky / The Hill:
Libertarian Gary Johnson picks former Mass. governor for VP — Libertarian presidential candidate Gary Johnson has chosen former Massachusetts Gov. William Weld as his running mate, The Associated Press reported Wednesday. — Johnson, former governor or New Mexico, told the AP that Weld …
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Associated Press, alan.com, Hit & Run and Liberty Unyielding
Washington Post:
New poll finds 9 in 10 Native Americans aren't offended by Redskins name — Nine in 10 Native Americans say they are not offended by the Washington Redskins name, according to a new Washington Post poll that shows how few ordinary Indians have been persuaded by a national movement to change the football team's moniker.
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RedState, ABC News, The Federalist Papers, Daily Wire, The Daily Caller, NBCSports.com, Hot Air, CBS DCCBS DC, The Week, The Right Scoop, NOLA River, WWBT-TV and ProFootballTalk
The Hill:
Chaos in House after GOP votes down LGBT measure … The House floor devolved into chaos and shouting on Thursday as a measure to ensure protections for members of the LGBT community narrowly failed to pass after Republican leaders urged their members to change their votes.
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Talking Points Memo and Daily Kos
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Cristina Marcos / The Hill:
House votes to restrict Confederate flag in national cemeteries
House votes to restrict Confederate flag in national cemeteries
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Politico, Talking Points Memo, Washington Post and Post and Courier
CBS News:
60 Minutes' Morley Safer dies at 84 — Longtime CBS newsman Morley Safer of “60 Minutes” and Vietnam War reporting fame dies at 84 — Morley Safer, the CBS newsman who changed war reporting forever when he showed GIs burning the huts of Vietnamese villagers and went on to become …
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New York Times, The Atlantic, Outside the Beltway, Mashable, CBS Miami, EconLog, Independent Journal …, NPR and CBS Chicago, more at Mediagazer »
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Mzielinska / CBS New York:
‘60 Minutes’ Correspondent Morley Safer Dead At 84
‘60 Minutes’ Correspondent Morley Safer Dead At 84
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Deadline, 12NewsNow.Com, Jewish Telegraphic Agency and The Scoop Blog
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 …
Ashe Schow / Washington Examiner:
New evidence shows Rolling Stone rape hoaxer created her ‘rapist’ — We already knew that “Jackie,” the woman who told Rolling Stone she was gang-raped at the University of Virginia, likely fabricated the attack. But new evidence shows that she created an email address for her fake attacker after the alleged attack occurred.
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The College Fix and Instapundit
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Camille Paglia / Salon:
PC feminists misfire again, as fearful elite media can't touch Donald Trump — A boastful, millionaire New Yorker liked the company of beautiful women? This is why NYT can't lay a glove on Trump — Zap! If momentum were a surge of electromagnetic energy, Donald Trump against all odds has it now.
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Daily Wire, New York Post, The Slot, Instapundit, The Week and CNN
Al Jazeera English:
Top US general defends Donald Trump — In a special web extra, General Michael Flynn, former head of the US Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) under President Barack Obama, discusses his informal role as an adviser to presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump.
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Slantpoint
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Nolan D. McCaskill / Politico:
Lt. Gen. Flynn: I'm trying to improve Trump's foreign policy talk
Lt. Gen. Flynn: I'm trying to improve Trump's foreign policy talk
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RedState
U.S. Department of Justice:
Waldorf Man Indicted for Illegal Transport of Explosives, Illegal Possession of a Machine Gun and Child Pornography Offenses — Greenbelt, Maryland - A federal grand jury indicted Caleb Andrew Bailey, age 30, of Waldorf, Maryland late yesterday on various charges.
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Talking Points Memo, Mother Jones, Raw Story and LawNewz
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.
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RedState, Vox, Crooked Timber, Business Insider, Hullabaloo, Patterico's Pontifications and Cafe HayekCafe Hayek
Bill Allison / Bloomberg:
Shadow Banks Clinton Flags as Risky Put Millions Into Her Run — Clinton targets shadow banking in Wall Street regulatory plan — Blackstone, Centerbridge Partners among Clinton donors — Hillary Clinton has vowed to be tougher on Wall Street than any other presidential candidate …
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Washington Monthly and Washington Free Beacon
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 …
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Forbes, Washington Post, New York Magazine, Gizmodo and The Verge
Nola Marketplace / WGNO:
Say what? State lawmaker tries to add age, weight limits for strippers in Louisiana — BATON ROUGE, La. (WGNO) - A state representative proposed - then pulled - a measure in the state House Wednesday that would have required strippers in Louisiana to be no older than 28 and weigh no more than 160 pounds.
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The Advocate, Washington Post, Raw Story, The American Conservative, Shakesville, Fox17, FOX31 Denver and LawNewz
John Santucci / ABC News:
Trump Campaign Announces Expanded Role For Paul Manafort — Donald Trump will change the role for one of his campaign's top advisors, ABC News has learned. — Sources within the campaign said that Trump will name Paul Manafort to the new role of Campaign Chairman and Chief Strategist.
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Politico and The Daily Caller