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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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Donald J Trump for President:
DONALD J. TRUMP RELEASES LIST OF POTENTIAL UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT JUSTICES — (New York, NY) May 18, 2016 - Today Donald J. Trump released the much-anticipated list of people he would consider as potential replacements for Justice Scalia at the United States Supreme Court.
Christine Rousselle / Townhall.com:
Here's Who Donald Trump Would Put On The Supreme Court — Donald Trump has released a list of 11 people who he would nominate to the Supreme Court to fill the vacancy created by Justice Antonin Scalia's death if he is elected this November. Trump promised in March to eventually release a list of names.
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John Yoo / National Review:
Trump's Judicial Appoints List Is Filled with Outstanding Conservatives
Trump's Judicial Appoints List Is Filled with Outstanding Conservatives
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Power Line
Leon H. Wolf / RedState:
Trump's SCOTUS List is Meaningless because the Word of a Pathological Liar is Worthless
Trump's SCOTUS List is Meaningless because the Word of a Pathological Liar is Worthless
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Right Wing Watch and The Resurgent
Alex Griswold / Mediaite:
Trump's Proposed SCOTUS Nominee Sure Seems to Mock Him a Lot on Twitter
Trump's Proposed SCOTUS Nominee Sure Seems to Mock Him a Lot on Twitter
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Jeremy Diamond / CNN:
Trump unveils his potential Supreme Court nominees
Trump unveils his potential Supreme Court nominees
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Forbes and The American Spectator
Dana Blanton / Fox News:
Fox News Poll: Trump tops Clinton, both seen as deeply flawed candidates — Donald Trump tops Hillary Clinton in a hypothetical head-to-head matchup, according to a new Fox News Poll that also finds majorities of voters feel both frontrunners lack strong moral values and will say anything to get elected.
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Hadas Gold / Politico:
Bernie Sanders accepts Fox News debate invitation
Bernie Sanders accepts Fox News debate invitation
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Julia Manchester / CNN:
Sanders campaign manager: DNC chairwoman ‘throwing shade’ on Bernie
Sanders campaign manager: DNC chairwoman ‘throwing shade’ on Bernie
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Gabriel Sherman / New York Magazine:
Why Rupert Murdoch Decided to Back Donald Trump
Why Rupert Murdoch Decided to Back Donald Trump
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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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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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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.
Sky News:
An EgyptAir flight from Paris to Cairo is thought to have crashed into the sea with 56 passengers and 10 crew on board - including one British national. — Flight MS804 departed the French capital at 11.09pm (CEST) before vanishing, according to what the airline described as “an informed source”.
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Claudia Koerner / BuzzFeed:
EgyptAir Flight Carrying 69 People Disappears From Radar
EgyptAir Flight Carrying 69 People Disappears From Radar
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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.
David Weigel / Washington Post:
Trump's appeal stretches to suburbs that had been trending blue — DOYLESTOWN, Pa. — At the Bucks County Democrats' first meeting since the April 26 Pennsylvania primary, one worry dominated: Donald Trump had done better than expected in this blue-leaning exurban expanse north and east of Philadelphia.
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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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The Verge
Drew Harwell / Washington Post:
Trump's business booms as he runs for president, financial disclosures show — Business has boomed in Donald Trump's financial empire during the time he has run for president, according to an analysis of his federal disclosure forms. — The documents, including a lengthy filing released Wednesday …
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Tim Hains / RealClearPolitics:
Cenk Uygur: “CNN Never Showed You” What Really Happened At Nevada Dem Convention — The Young Turks host Cenk Uygur explains how CNN exposed its pro-Clinton bias this weekend. — “You're so biased you don't even see it,” he said about the hosts of the news network.
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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CNN:
Mitt Romney ends recruiting efforts for an independent candidate — Washington (CNN)Mitt Romney won't launch a third-party presidential campaign of his own and has stopped trying to recruit somebody else to do it. — The 2012 Republican nominee had attempted to recruit a challenger to Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton.
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Jon Ward / Yahoo:
The roots of Mitt Romney's anti-Trump fervor
The roots of Mitt Romney's anti-Trump fervor
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Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
How I Acted Like A Pundit And Screwed Up On Donald Trump — Since Donald Trump effectively wrapped up the Republican nomination this month, I've seen a lot of critical self-assessments from empirically minded journalists — FiveThirtyEight included, twice over — about what they got wrong on Trump.
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Hot Air, Business Insider and Princeton Election Consortium
John Paul Tasker / CBC News:
Trudeau accused of ‘manhandling’ Conservative, elbowing NDP MP in House uproar — ‘There is not a parallel in contemporary Canadian history,’ NDP House leader says following Commons uproar — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was accused of “manhandling” Opposition whip Gord Brown …
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Ben Oldach / WHOTV:
School Mourns 13-Year-Old Killed Tragically in Hammock — DES MOINES, Iowa — A Catholic school is falling on their faith after one of their classmates was tragically killed over the weekend. — Peri Sagun, 13, was on a hammock at her Des Moines home on Saturday.
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John Hinderaker / Power Line:
The Tragedy of Democratic Socialism — We have chronicled the catastrophic decline of Venezuela's economy under socialists Hugo Chavez and Nicolas Maduro. The situation has gotten so bad that even the New York Times has taken note: “Dying Infants and No Medicine: Inside Venezuela's Failing Hospitals.”
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BBC, American Enterprise Institute and Washington Post