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3:30 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 …
Edward Morrissey / The Fiscal Times:
Get Ready for a Third Party Run from Bernie Sanders
Niall Stanage / The Hill:
Liberal media turns on Sanders
Discussion: Democracy Now and Fox News
David Weigel / Washington Post:
Sanders, after coming up short in Kentucky, thanks the state for ‘great victory’
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Karl Rove / Wall Street Journal:
What If Clinton Gets Indicted?
Discussion: The Hill
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.
Meghan Keneally / ABC News:
Clinton Campaign Slams Donald Trump's Rape Accusation Against Bill Clinton
Discussion: Politico
Eric Bradner / CNN:
Hillary Clinton: Donald Trump not qualified to be president
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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CNN:   Oklahoma Legislature passes bill criminalizing abortion
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
Drew Johnson / The Daily Caller:
EXCLUSIVE: David Koch Pledges Millions To Gary Johnson's Presidential Bid  —  Billionaire businessman and philanthropist David Koch has pledged “tens of millions of dollars” to help bankroll the campaign of Libertarian presidential candidate Gary Johnson, according to a source within Johnson's campaign.
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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 …
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.
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
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Cristina Marcos / The Hill:
House votes to restrict Confederate flag in national cemeteries
Bloomberg:
House Votes for Easier Veterans Access to Medical Marijuana
Discussion: Vox
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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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 …
Ashe Schow / Washington Examiner:
New evidence shows Rolling Stone rape hoaxer created her ‘rapist’  —  We already knew that “Jackie,” the woman who told Rolling Stone she was gang-raped at the University of Virginia, likely fabricated the attack.  But new evidence shows that she created an email address for her fake attacker after the alleged attack occurred.
Discussion: The College Fix and Instapundit
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T. Rees Shapiro / Washington Post:
Lawyers in Rolling Stone lawsuit file new evidence that ‘Jackie’ created fake persona
Discussion: Hit & Run, Hot Air, AOL and Mediaite
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.
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.
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.
Discussion: Slantpoint
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Nolan D. McCaskill / Politico:
Lt. Gen. Flynn: I'm trying to improve Trump's foreign policy talk
Discussion: RedState
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.
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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Larry O'Connor / Hot Air:
Exhibit A: Facebook characterizes Patricia Heaton's pro-life message as ‘anti-abortion’
Discussion: LifeNews.com
Glenn Updated / Glenn Beck:
The Most Disturbing Thing About My Meeting With Mark Zuckerberg
Daily Mail:
The trolls who take sneak photos of you through your TV and turn it into porn: How images …
Nick Gass / Politico:
Poll: Transgender bathroom laws split Americans
Discussion: LGBTQ Nation
Jennifer Bendery / The Huffington Post:
House Passes Bill That Lets Government Contractors Fire People For Being LGBT
Jack Jenkins / ThinkProgress:
Pope Francis To Employers Who Don't Offer Health Care: You Are ‘True Leeches’
Discussion: ncronline.org
Bloomberg:
Trump Taps Washington Lawyer Who Vetted Sarah Palin
Discussion: CNN, Washingtonian and Daily Kos
 Earlier Items: 
Bill Allison / Bloomberg:
Shadow Banks Clinton Flags as Risky Put Millions Into Her Run
Jeff Stein / Vox:
Bernie Sanders's base isn't the working class. It's young people.
Discussion: Mother Jones and New York Times
Daniel Horowitz / Conservative Review:
The Most Important Battle of the Week: Blocking Obama's War on the Suburbs
New York Times:
What Would It Take for Donald Trump to Deport 11 Million and Build a Wall?
Discussion: The Week
Iris Salem / CBS Los Angeles:
Woman Accused Of Taking Bat To Man's Car For Staying In Front Of Gas Pump For Too Long
Discussion: alan.com
Esther Yu-Hsi Lee / ThinkProgress:
Meet Maryora, A Teen Who May Be Deported To Her Death In The Next Month
Tim Mak / The Daily Beast:
Dying GOP Senator Apologizes to Muslims for Donald Trump
 

 
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Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple is testing a more conversational version of Siri, dubbed “LLM Siri”, with plans to release it in spring 2026 as part of iOS 19 and macOS 16

Kent Walker / The Keyword:
Google says the DOJ's “wildly overbroad proposal goes miles beyond the Court's decision”, would hurt US consumers, and jeopardize the US' global tech leadership

 
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