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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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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 — The allegations raised against Donald Trump in a recent New York Times article are nothing compared to the Clintons' history, the presumptive Republican nominee said in an interview with Fox News' “Hannity” aired Wednesday night.
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Daily Kos and The New Civil Rights Movement
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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Clash Daily
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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Vox, Guardian, TheBlaze.com, BuzzFeed, Outside the Beltway, Mother Jones, The Week, abc7.com, Heat Street and Drudge Retort
CNN:
EgyptAir missing plane MS804: Live updates
EgyptAir missing plane MS804: Live updates
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France 24, Heat Street, ABC News, Media Matters for America and Truth Revolt
Sky News:
An EgyptAir flight from Paris to Cairo is thought to have crashed into the sea with 56 passengers …
An EgyptAir flight from Paris to Cairo is thought to have crashed into the sea with 56 passengers …
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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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@politifact, Washington Free Beacon, Roll Call, Shakesville, Mediaite, Washington Post, The Week, Daily Kos, Los Angeles Times, Seven Days and Vox
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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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Vox, Hullabaloo and Cafe HayekCafe Hayek
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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ProFootballTalk, The Daily Caller and The Week
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 …
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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Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Trump's list snubs top legal conservatives
Trump's list snubs top legal conservatives
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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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New York Magazine, Gizmodo and The Verge
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.
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.
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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Raw Story
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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RedState
Arturo Garcia / Raw Story:
D.C. security guard arrested for blocking trans woman from using womens' restroom — A security guard was arrested on Wednesday after harassing a trans woman trying to use the womens' restroom inside a Washington D.C. grocery store, WRC-TV reported. — The unidentified guard was charged …
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WJLA-TV, The Daily Caller, Joe.My.God. and The New Civil Rights Movement
Chris Nashawaty / EW.com:
WARREN BEATTY AS HOWARD HUGHES: SEE THE EXCLUSIVE FIRST LOOK OF RULES DON'T APPLY — 'I've had the idea of making a movie about Howard Hughes in mind for a long time,' Beatty tells EW in a brand-new interview — Warren Beatty was last in front of a camera 15 years ago …
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AOL
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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