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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:
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 …
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
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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Vox, 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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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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Washington Post, Common Dreams, Business Insider, Mediaite and The Week
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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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, Althouse, Daily Wire 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
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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Associated Press, Daily Mail, Guardian, CNN, ABC News, TheBlaze.com, Outside the Beltway, Vox, Heat Street, WLNS-TV, abc7.com, The Week, BuzzFeed and Drudge Retort
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 Gary Johnson picks former Mass. governor for VP
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Associated Press, alan.com, Hit & Run and Liberty Unyielding
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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Sean Murphy / Associated Press:
Oklahoma lawmakers OK bill criminalizing performing abortion
Oklahoma lawmakers OK bill criminalizing performing abortion
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Politico, Rewire, Mashable, The New Civil Rights Movement, Washington Free Beacon, Washington Post and The Right Scoop
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, BizPac Review, CBS Miami, Mashable, Independent Journal …, NPR and CBS Chicago
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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, Fox News and Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Brian Stelter / CNNMoney:
Morley Safer, CBS news legend, dies at 84
Morley Safer, CBS news legend, dies at 84
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HYPELINE, The Scoop Blog, Fox News Insider, EconLog, NBC News and The Week, more at Mediagazer »
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, Hot Air, CBS DCCBS DC, NBCSports.com, NOLA River, The Week, The Right Scoop, 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, Guardian, LawNewz 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, Washington Post, Talking Points Memo and Post and Courier
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 …
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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Politico, Althouse, Daily Wire, New York Post, The Slot, Instapundit, The Week and CNN
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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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
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 ofThe Apprentice. In the summer of 2005, he thought he had found it …
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Political Wire
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
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, LawNewz and Raw Story
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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Talking Points Memo and The Resurgent, more at Mediagazer »
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, STAT, Washington Post, New York Magazine, Gizmodo and The Verge
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, The Last Refuge and The Daily Caller