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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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Business Insider, 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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RedState, New Republic, Washington Post, Washington Monthly, Balloon Juice, 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 …
Jessie Hellmann / The Hill:
Clinton: 'There is no way I won't be' nominee
Clinton: 'There is no way I won't be' nominee
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The Last Refuge
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, The Hill, 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
Karl Rove / Wall Street Journal:
What If Clinton Gets Indicted?
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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Eric Bradner / CNN:
Hillary Clinton: Donald Trump not qualified to be president — (CNN)Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton criticized presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump on Thursday, saying his recent behavior shows he's not qualified to president.
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The Atlantic, Washington Post, Mediaite, Common Dreams, Business Insider and The Week
Daily Mail:
Hillary Clinton says she does not feel she needs to defend Bill's honor
Hillary Clinton says she does not feel she needs to defend Bill's honor
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Mediaite
Fox News:
Trump refers to alleged Bill Clinton sexual indiscretions as ‘rape’
Trump refers to alleged Bill Clinton sexual indiscretions as ‘rape’
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Washington Post, The Stranger …, Althouse, HYPELINE, Daily Wire, Politico, John Hawkins' Right Wing News and Breitbart
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
Dana Blanton / Fox News:
Fox News Poll: Clinton's negatives surpass Trump's
Fox News Poll: Clinton's negatives surpass Trump's
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Townhall.com, Washington Examiner, TPNN, FiveThirtyEight, RedState, AOL, National Review, BizPac Review, Washington Times, Politico, The Right Scoop and FOX News Radio
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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Rewire, The New Civil Rights Movement, Talking Points Memo, Guardian, LawNewz, Daily Kos and Human Rights Campaign
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Cristina Marcos / The Hill:
House votes to restrict Confederate flag in national cemeteries — The House approved a Democratic proposal on Thursday to limit the display of the Confederate flag in national cemeteries. — A majority of Republicans rejected Rep. Jared Huffman's (D-Calif.) amendment to a spending bill …
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The Atlantic, ThinkProgress, Politico, NBC News, UPI, Breitbart, Post and Courier and Talking Points Memo
John Bresnahan / Politico:
House erupts in chaos after LGBT vote — The House erupted in chaos Thursday morning with Democrats crying foul after Republicans hastily convinced a few of their own to switch their votes and narrowly block an amendment intended to protect lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people from discrimination.
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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CBS News, Hit & Run, Lawyers, Guns & Money, TPNN, Washington Post, Hot Air, The American Conservative, Washington Times, Guardian and HYPELINE
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Rebecca Savransky / The Hill:
Libertarian Gary Johnson picks former Mass. governor for VP
Libertarian Gary Johnson picks former Mass. governor for VP
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Associated Press, Independent Journal …, Liberty Unyielding and Hit & Run
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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Hot Air, The Federalist Papers, The Week and LawNewz
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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.
McKay Coppins / BuzzFeed:
Donald Trump Wanted A White-Versus-Black Season Of “The Apprentice” — A decade before he launched his presidential bid, Donald Trump was a reality TV sensation in search of a new gimmick for the upcoming season of The Apprentice. In the summer of 2005, he thought he had found it …
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Vox, Mediaite and Political Wire
Glenn Updated / Glenn Beck:
The Most Disturbing Thing About My Meeting With Mark Zuckerberg — Yesterday, I had an opportunity to meet with some of the senior staff at Facebook, including the CEO and COO. I found the meeting deeply disturbing — but not for the reasons you might think.
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The Hill, Politico, Talking Points Memo, Arthur Brooks, The Resurgent, New York Times and Washington Post, more at Mediagazer »
Allegra Kirkland / Talking Points Memo:
GOP Senator: US Suffers From ‘Under-Incarceration Problem’ — Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) said that the United States suffers from an “under-incarceration” problem in a Thursday speech rejecting a bipartisan criminal justice bill. — “Take a look at the facts,” Cotton told an audience …
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Nick Gass / Politico:
Sen. Tom Cotton: U.S. has ‘under-incarceration problem’
Sen. Tom Cotton: U.S. has ‘under-incarceration problem’
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Washington Monthly
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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Vox, RedState, Raw Story, Talking Points Memo and LawNewz
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Josh Harkinson / Mother Jones:
Trump Delegate Indicted on Federal Weapons and Child Porn Charges
Trump Delegate Indicted on Federal Weapons and Child Porn Charges
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Joe.My.God. and LawNewz
Joel B. Pollak / Breitbart:
Exclusive: James O'Keefe Outs Himself in George Soros Investigation — Project Veritas founder and pioneering investigative reporter James O'Keefe has revealed exclusively to Breitbart News that he has been forced to abandon an ambitious undercover investigation into billionaire left-wing …
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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 …
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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Jonathan H. Adler / Washington Post:
Bloggers behaving badly: Krugman and DeLong edition — False accusations can travel throughout the blogosphere before the truth has even logged in. When newspapers make mistakes or false accusations, they publish corrections. That's not always the case with bloggers, however.
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JustOneMinute
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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Althouse, Daily Wire, New York Post, The Slot, Instapundit, Guardian, The Week and Raw Story
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
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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Telegraph, NBC News, Guardian, New York Times, Associated Press, BizPac Review, Jihad Watch, The Jawa Report, AOL, Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion, National Review, Towleroad, Bloomberg, The Week, Washington Free Beacon, Sky News, CBS Dallas, Truth Revolt, The Right Scoop, Liberty Unyielding, Joe.My.God., Fox17, Scared Monkeys, HYPELINE, neo-neocon, Heat Street and CBS Philly
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