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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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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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RedState, Washington Times and The Right Scoop
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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Claire Phipps / Guardian:
EgyptAir flight MS804 disappears from radar between Paris and Cairo - live updates — Airline says plane, which took off from France's Charles de Gaulle airport late on Wednesday night, has gone missing with 66 people on board — An EgyptAir passenger jet carrying 66 passengers has vanished en route to Cairo.
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Daily Mail:
March 19, 1972: Flight 763 Cairo to Aden — The EgyptAir plane crashed into the Shamsan Mountains on approach to Aden International Airport, killing all 30 people on board. — August 23, 1976: Flight 321 Cairo to Luxor — Three armed terrorists hijacked the flight with 95 passengers …
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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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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 …
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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
Karl Rove / Wall Street Journal:
What If Clinton Gets Indicted? — It would scramble the campaign if Hillary or her aides lose the vital FBI primary. — Despite losing the Oregon primary while barely eking out a win in Kentucky, Hillary Clinton emerged with 51 of Tuesday's delegates to Bernie Sanders's 55.
Tim Mak / The Daily Beast:
Dying GOP Senator Apologizes to Muslims for Donald Trump — Bob Bennett spent his last days letting Muslims know how sorry he was that an Islamophobe had become his party's all-but-certain nominee. — Former GOP senator Bob Bennett lay partially paralyzed in his bed on the fourth floor of the George Washington University Hospital.
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Frank Thorp V / NBC News:
GOP Senator Bob Bennett Apologized to Muslims for Trump While on Deathbed — In the final days of his life, former Utah Republican Senator Bob Bennett turned to his son and asked him, “Are there any Muslims in this hospital?” — The question caught his son, Jim Bennett, off-guard.
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Political Wire
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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Aaron Klein / Breitbart:
EXCLUSIVE-Clinton Rape Accuser Juanita Broaddrick: NY Times Should Interview Bill's Alleged Female Victims — During an interview today, Bill Clinton's rape accuser Juanita Broaddrick suggested the New York Times spend the same amount of energy investigating claims of sexual assault …
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Nick Gass / Politico:
Donald Trump accuses Bill Clinton of rape
Donald Trump accuses Bill Clinton of rape
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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.
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Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Trump's list snubs top legal conservatives — Donald Trump's list of 11 potential Supreme Court nominees seemed intended to reassure some of longtime conservatives still jittery about his populist-fueled candidacy. However, what immediately caught the eye of many legal observers was the absence …
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Jill Colvin / U.S. ELECTIONS:
Trump unveils list of his top Supreme Court picks
Trump unveils list of his top Supreme Court picks
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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 …
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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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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Josh Harkinson / Mother Jones:
White Nationalist Party Claims More of Its Members Are Now Trump Delegates — On May 10, Los Angeles attorney William Johnson resigned as a delegate for Donald Trump to the Republican National Convention after Mother Jones reported that Johnson is the leader of the white nationalist American Freedom Party.
Esther Yu-Hsi Lee / ThinkProgress:
Meet Maryora, A Teen Who May Be Deported To Her Death In The Next Month — WASHINGTON D.C. — Maryora Nicole Urbina is an effusive 15-year-old in her freshman year at a Chicago, Illinois- area high school. She enjoys her science classes and dreams about becoming a pediatrician one day.
Ken Armstrong / Mother Jones:
When He Was 16, This Man Threw One Punch—and Went to Jail for Life — Will the Supreme Court give him, and hundreds like him, a chance at freedom? … Tony Clayton was 30 years old, and just two years out from passing the Louisiana bar, when he walked into court in February of 1994, prepared to try his first murder case.
Steven Nelson / US News:
Gay Gun Group Believes Its D.C. Court Win Puts Homophobes on Notice — 'Don't attack gay people because that could be a really bad decision,' Pink Pistols leader says after what may prove a fleeting concealed carry victory. — Streets would be safer if violent people fear armed victims, gun rights advocates say.
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LGBTQ Nation, Joe.My.God., John Hawkins' Right Wing News, Hit & Run and New York Times
Daniel Horowitz / Conservative Review:
The Most Important Battle of the Week: Blocking Obama's War on the Suburbs — Imagine if vulnerable Republican incumbents, instead of curling up into a fetal position in the face of Democrat attacks, had an 80-20 issue relevant to the everyday lives of their constituents to shove down the throats of their opponents?
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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 Free Beacon and Political Wire
Iris Salem / CBS Los Angeles:
Woman Accused Of Taking Bat To Man's Car For Staying In Front Of Gas Pump For Too Long — LANCASTER (CBSLA.com) — A violent confrontation was caught on camera at a gas station in the High Desert. — Cellphone video of the incident from the Valero gas station in Lancaster showed …
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Detroit News:
Projection: Michigan business taxes at a net loss — Lansing — Michigan corporations will see an overall income tax refund and effectively contribute nothing to the state coffers in 2016, according to new projections now forcing the Republican-led Legislature to cut back spending plans.
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