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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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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 …
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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Washington Post, Talking Points Memo, USA Today, The Week, The Slot, The Mahablog, Guardian, MSNBC, CBS New York, Independent Journal … and Balloon Juice
Karl Rove / Wall Street Journal:
What If Clinton Gets Indicted?
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
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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BuzzFeed, Guardian, The Huffington Post and Hot Air
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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The Gateway Pundit, Fox News, Common Dreams, Scott Adams Blog, HYPELINE, Washington Times, LifeNews.com and The Daily Caller
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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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Daily Wire, Althouse, John Hawkins' Right Wing News and alan.com
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, FiveThirtyEight, Washington Examiner, TPNN, BizPac Review, AOL, Politico, Washington Times, The Right Scoop and FOX News Radio
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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The Gateway Pundit, Associated Press, Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion, The Jawa Report, BizPac Review, NBC News, KTLA, Fox17, National Review, Towleroad, Washington Free Beacon, Truth Revolt, The Week, CBS Dallas, Joe.My.God., HYPELINE, Scared Monkeys, The Right Scoop, Liberty Unyielding and CBS Philly
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Claire Phipps / Guardian:
EgyptAir flight MS804 disappears from radar between Paris and Cairo - live updates
EgyptAir flight MS804 disappears from radar between Paris and Cairo - live updates
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Breitbart, Reuters, Politico, CNN, New York Magazine, Gizmodo, AOL, Shakesville, TalkLeft, The Daily Caller and The Week
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, Guardian, CNN, ABC News, Heat Street, TheBlaze.com, Vox, Outside the Beltway, BuzzFeed, abc7.com, The Week and Drudge Retort
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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Talking Points Memo, Washington Monthly, Mediaite, Daily Mail, AOL, BillMoyers.com, Washington Times, The Week and Raw Story
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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.
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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NOLA River, CBS DCCBS DC, Hot Air, WWBT-TV, NBCSports.com, The Daily Caller, ProFootballTalk and The Week
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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Politico, Washington Post, Talking Points Memo and Post and Courier
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Ben Weyl / Politico:
House votes to bar confederate flag from VA cemeteries
House votes to bar confederate flag from VA cemeteries
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Political Insider blog and The Daily Caller
Wall Street Journal:
Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump Face Hurdle Not Seen in Modern History — Elections are always a game of positives versus negatives. If you're the candidate, you do your best to talk yourself up and your opponent down. This year's presidential brawl will test the depths of those downs and …
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Aaron Klein / Breitbart:
EXCLUSIVE-Clinton Rape Accuser Juanita Broaddrick: NY Times Should Interview Bill's Alleged Female Victims
EXCLUSIVE-Clinton Rape Accuser Juanita Broaddrick: NY Times Should Interview Bill's Alleged Female Victims
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New York Times, FOX News Radio, The Gateway Pundit, Clash Daily, Bloomberg, New York Post, The Slot, Washington Free Beacon, Guardian, The Week, Raw Story, CNN, The Last Tradition and LawNewz
Nick Gass / Politico:
Donald Trump accuses Bill Clinton of rape
Donald Trump accuses Bill Clinton of rape
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Daily Kos and The New Civil Rights Movement
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 …
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, Business Insider, Hullabaloo, Patterico's Pontifications and Cafe HayekCafe Hayek
Mzielinska / CBS New York:
‘60 Minutes’ Correspondent Morley Safer Dead At 84 — NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — Legendary “60 Minutes” correspondent Morley Safer has died at age 84. — His death comes just days after he formally retired after 46 seasons with the program. — WATCH: Morley Safer: A Reporter's Life
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Brian Stelter / CNNMoney:
Morley Safer, CBS news legend, dies at 84
Morley Safer, CBS news legend, dies at 84
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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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Washington Post, New York Magazine, Gizmodo and The Verge
BBC:
Venezuela Maduro OAS: Latin American ‘traitor’ row escalates — The head of the Organization of American States (OAS), Luis Almagro, has accused the Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro of being “a traitor”. — In a series of Twitter posts addressed directly to Mr Maduro, Mr Almagro also called him a “petty dictator”.
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USA Today, Hit & Run and New York Times
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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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Raw Story, The American Conservative, Fox17, FOX31 Denver and LawNewz
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, Washington Free Beacon and Political Wire
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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ABC News, National Review, Algemeiner.com, Betsy's Page, Josh Blackman's Blog, Washington Post, Business Insider, Raw Story and Politicus USA
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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Politico
Jeff Stein / Vox:
Bernie Sanders's base isn't the working class. It's young people. — After Bernie Sanders crushed Hillary Clinton in the West Virginia primary last week, the national media was ready with an explanation: the white working class. — The New York Times and The Atlantic, for instance …
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Mother Jones and New York Times
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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Daily Wire, The Slot, Instapundit and Daily Kos
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.
Christine Wang / CNBC:
Uber to start testing self-driving car in Pittsburgh — Uber said Thursday that it plans to unleash its test car onto the streets of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania within the next few weeks. — The makers of the ride-hailing app said that a driver will be in its Ford Fusion while it is in self-driving mode.
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