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5:40 PM ET, May 19, 2016

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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
Discussion: 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 …
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 …
Niall Stanage / The Hill:
Liberal media turns on Sanders
Discussion: Democracy Now and Fox News
Jessie Hellmann / The Hill:
Clinton: 'There is no way I won't be' nominee
Discussion: The Last Refuge
Edward Morrissey / The Fiscal Times:
Get Ready for a Third Party Run from Bernie Sanders
David Weigel / Washington Post:
Sanders, after coming up short in Kentucky, thanks the state for ‘great victory’
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Jeff Stein / Vox:
Bernie Sanders's base isn't the working class. It's young people.
Discussion: Mother Jones
Karl Rove / Wall Street Journal:   What If Clinton Gets Indicted?
Wall Street Journal:
Democrats Fear an Unruly July Convention in Philadelphia
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.
Meghan Keneally / ABC News:
Clinton Campaign Slams Donald Trump's Rape Accusation Against Bill Clinton
Discussion: Politico
CNN:
EgyptAir Flight 804 disappears
NBC News:
EgyptAir Jet Crash More Likely Terror Than Malfunction: Official
Discussion: Hot Air, Associated Press and AOL
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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John Bresnahan / Politico:
House erupts in chaos after LGBT vote
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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 …
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 …
Discussion: Vox, Mediaite and Political Wire
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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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.
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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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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Josh Harkinson / Mother Jones:
Trump Delegate Indicted on Federal Weapons and Child Porn Charges
Discussion: Joe.My.God. and LawNewz
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.
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 …
Discussion: alan.com
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 …
Sara Jerde / Talking Points Memo:
Dennis Hastert Ordered To Report To Federal Prison On June 22  —  A federal judge on Thursday ordered former House Speaker Dennis Hastert (R-IL) to report to prison next month to serve a 15-month sentence in a hush money case prosecutors said stemmed from allegations of sexual abuse.
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Josh Gerstein / Politico:   Hastert ordered to report to prison in June
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.
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 …
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.
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.
Discussion: JustOneMinute
 
 
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USITC:
USITC RELEASES REPORT CONCERNING THE LIKELY IMPACT OF THE TRANS-PACIFIC PARTNERSHIP (TPP) AGREEMENT
Discussion: The Daily Caller and Mother Jones
John Santucci / ABC News:
Trump Campaign Announces Expanded Role For Paul Manafort
Matt Drange / Forbes:
Facebook Makes It Easy For Users To Report Suspected Gun Sales
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Steve Goldstein / MarketWatch:
Golfer Phil Mickelson profited from Dean Foods insider trades, SEC says
Discussion: Forbes, LawNewz and CBS Dallas
Larry O'Connor / Hot Air:
Exhibit A: Facebook characterizes Patricia Heaton's pro-life message as ‘anti-abortion’
Discussion: National Review and LifeNews.com
Daily Mail:
The trolls who take sneak photos of you through your TV and turn it into porn: How images …
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Nick Gass / Politico:
Poll: Transgender bathroom laws split Americans
Discussion: LGBTQ Nation
Jack Jenkins / ThinkProgress:
Pope Francis To Employers Who Don't Offer Health Care: You Are ‘True Leeches’
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David French / National Review:
It's Not Wrong to Be White
Discussion: The Federalist
 

 
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Bloomberg:
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