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8:35 PM ET, May 20, 2016

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Amie Parnes / The Hill:
Clinton fury with Sanders grows  —  is growing in ClintonWorld.  —  In public, Clinton aides and allies have kept their anger checked, decrying the rowdy outbursts at Nevada's state convention last weekend but saying they believe Sanders will ultimately do the right thing by helping to unite the Democratic Party.
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Jeremy Diamond / CNN:
Trump tells NRA Clinton will abolish 2nd Amendment  —  Louisville, Kentucky (CNN)Donald Trump on Friday told the National Rifle Association that Hillary Clinton would take away the right to bear arms, moments after the gun group endorsed the presumptive GOP nominee at its annual meeting here.
Sahil Kapur / Bloomberg:
Sanders, Defiant on the Stump, Quietly Reassures Democrats on Unity  —  Some Democrats worry the underdog's aggressive campaign risks party unity and plays into Donald Trump's hands.  —  As tensions were escalating between Bernie Sanders and Democratic Party leaders over the chaos caused …
Lisa Hagen / The Hill:
Army of Sanders supporters fuming over Wasserman Schultz  —  supporters aren't fond of Hillary Clinton  —  But they really don't like Debbie Wasserman Schultz, the Democratic National Committee chairwoman and Florida lawmaker.  —  Sanders supporters blame Wasserman Schultz …
Discussion: Liberal Values
Shiksappeal / shiksappeal speaks:
“Berned” by Bernie Sanders
Discussion: Shakesville
Taegan Goddard / Political Wire:   Trump Says Clinton Will Abolish the 2nd Amendment
Jim Hoft / The Gateway Pundit:
SENATOR BOXER Claims Bernie Supporters Made Her Fear for Her Life: “It Was Scary” (VIDEO)
Discussion: CNN
Drew Harwell / Washington Post:
Trump once revealed his income tax returns.  They showed he didn't pay a cent. … The last time information from Donald Trump's income-tax returns was made public, the bottom line was striking: He had paid the federal government $0 in income taxes.  —  The disclosure, in a 1981 report …
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Sahil Kapur / Bloomberg:
Hillary Clinton Opposes Heller Gun Rights Ruling, Adviser Says
Tommy Christopher / Mediaite:
Old Donald Trump Tax Returns Show He Paid Zero Taxes for At Least Two Years
Discussion: Washington Post and Guardian
Jeremy Diamond / CNN:
Rick Perry: I'm willing to be Trump's VP
CNN:
Source: Suspect shot near White House  —  Shooting near White House, U.S. Park Service says  — “Shooting on W. Executive Dr. PIO en route to 17th and Pennsylvania,” the U.S. Park Police tweeted  —  Washington (CNN)Secret Service officers shot a male suspect near a security checkpoint near …
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Emily Shapiro / ABC News:
Secret Service Shoots Man Carrying Gun Near White House
Discussion: Daily Wire
Peter Hermann / Washington Post:
Person shot and wounded outside White House
New York Times:   Secret Service Shoots Man Near White House
George Dvorsky / Gizmodo:
The World's Largest Solar Plant Just Torched Itself  —  Misaligned mirrors are being blamed for a fire that broke out yesterday at the world's largest solar power plant, leaving the high-tech facility crippled for the time being.  It sounds like the plant's workers suffered through a real hellscape, too.
Discussion: The Daily Caller
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Associated Press:
Mirrors blamed for fire at world's largest solar plant
maroon5.com:
We have announced that we will be canceling our upcoming shows in Charlotte and Raleigh, North Carolina  —  We have announced that we will be canceling our upcoming shows in Charlotte and Raleigh, North Carolina because of the recent passage of the HB2 legislation.  This was a difficult decision for us to make as a band.
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Mark Hensch / The Hill:   Maroon 5 cancels NC shows over bathroom law
New York Times:
Stop the Polling Insanity  —  OVER the past few weeks, cable news networks and other media sites have trumpeted wild fluctuations and surprising results in polling on the presumed general-election matchup between Donald J. Trump and Hillary Clinton.  —  The Reuters/Ipsos tracking poll showed …
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Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Obama's War on Inequality
Warner Todd Huston / Breitbart:
Target Suing Man Who Saved Teen Girl from Stabbing in Its Store  —  In 2013, everyone agreed that Michael Turner saved the life of a teenaged girl who was attacked in a Pennsylvania Target store.  Now, Target is suing him.  —  When she was sixteen, Allison Meadows was shopping in an East Liberty …
Jane Mayer / New Yorker:
Sting of Myself  —  Amateurish spies like James O'Keefe III attempt to sway the 2016 campaign.  —  As Dana Geraghty recalls it, March 16th was a “rather quiet Wednesday.”  That afternoon, she was in her cubicle at the Open Society Foundations, on West Fifty-seventh Street …
David A. Fahrenthold / Washington Post:
Trump said he raised $6 million for vets.  Now, his campaign says it was less.  —  One night in January, Donald Trump skipped a GOP debate, and instead held his own televised fundraiser for veterans.  At the end of the night, Trump proclaimed it a huge success: “We just cracked $6 million, right?
New York Times:
Forty Percent of the Buildings in Manhattan Could Not Be Built Today  —  New York City's zoning code turns 100 this year.  That may not sound like cause for celebration — except maybe for land-use lawyers and Robert Moses aficionados.  Yet for almost every New Yorker …
Discussion: Daily Wire
Hadas Gold / Politico:
Carlson: Glenn Beck 'acted like he was auditioning to be Mark Zuckerberg's manservant' at Facebook meeting  —  Daily Caller editor-in-chief and Fox News contributor Tucker Carlson is not happy with how Glenn Beck acted at the Facebook meeting for conservatives this week.
Steven Shepard / Politico:
Why Donald Trump's poll numbers are surging  —  The Trump Bump has arrived.  —  After wrapping up an acutely fractious primary in which Donald Trump and his opponents lobbed scores of personal, playground insults at one another, the presumptive GOP nominee has quickly unified the vast majority …
Discussion: Fox News, BizPac Review and Clash Daily
Sally Bronston / NBC News:
Dallas Mavericks Owner Mark Cuban for Clinton's Veep?  —  Mark Cuban Would ‘Absolutely’ Listen to Clinton About Running as VP 0:42  —  Mark Cuban, billionaire entrepreneur and owner of the Dallas Mavericks, says he would “absolutely” listen to Hillary Clinton about running as her vice president.
Gabriel Sherman / New York Magazine:
The Fox News star's much-hyped interview with Donald Trump exposed the limits of her mainstream appeal.  —  Megyn Kelly's much-publicized broadcast special with Donald Trump was supposed to launch the Fox News star into the stratosphere of television anchordom.
Discussion: Breitbart, The Last Refuge and The Week
fda.gov:
Changes to the Nutrition Facts Label … The FDA today finalized the new Nutrition Facts label for packaged foods to reflect new scientific information, including the link between diet and chronic diseases such as obesity and heart disease.  The new label will make it easier for consumers to make better informed food choices.
Kyle Mantyla / Right Wing Watch:
Kim Davis: Gays Were Trying To Shove The Supreme Court Ruling ‘Down My Throat And Make Me Eat It For My Dinner’  —  On the latest episode of “Truths That Transform” from D. James Kennedy Ministries, the organization's president, Frank Wright, interviewed Kentucky county clerk Kim Davis …
Matt Krantz / USA Today:
A third of cash is owned by 5 U.S. companies  —  The rising cash holdings of U.S. corporations is increasingly in the hands of a few U.S. companies, with just five tech firms having grabbed a third of it.  And nearly three-quarters of cash held by non-financial U.S. companies is stashed overseas outside the long arm of Uncle Sam.
Jim Hoft / The Gateway Pundit:
BREAKING: Hillary Campaign Accused of Mass Cheating in Kentucky Primary- 4,000 Votes Scratched to Give Hillary Win  —  According to several reports the Hillary Clinton Campaign cheated in order to give her the win in Kentucky.  —  In Pike County Kentucky, card readers reportedly malfunctioned and votes were fully erased.
Discussion: Joe Hoft, RADAR and The Horn News
Heide Brandes / Reuters:
Some in Oklahoma statehouse urge Obama impeachment over bathroom rule  —  Republican state lawmakers in Oklahoma have introduced a resolution urging the state's congressional delegation to start an effort to impeach President Barack Obama over a White House recommendation that schools accommodate transgender students.
 
 
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