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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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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 …
Shiksappeal / shiksappeal speaks:
“Berned” by Bernie Sanders — Last fall, a fellow disability activist and close friend of mine introduced me to Bernie Sanders. From the moment I first heard his platform, I was hooked. After living abroad several years in a country with socialized medicine and heavily subsidized education …
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Shakesville
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.
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John Santucci / ABC News:
NRA Endorses Donald Trump for President
NRA Endorses Donald Trump for President
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Jeremy Diamond / CNN:
Rick Perry: I'm willing to be Trump's VP
Rick Perry: I'm willing to be Trump's VP
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Eli Stokols / Politico:
Trump scores NRA backing and attacks ‘Heartless Hillary’
Trump scores NRA backing and attacks ‘Heartless Hillary’
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Taegan Goddard / Political Wire:
Trump Says Clinton Will Abolish the 2nd Amendment
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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Tommy Christopher / Mediaite:
Old Donald Trump Tax Returns Show He Paid Zero Taxes for At Least Two Years
Old Donald Trump Tax Returns Show He Paid Zero Taxes for At Least Two Years
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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
Secret Service Shoots Man Carrying Gun Near White House
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Peter Hermann / Washington Post:
Person shot and wounded outside White House
Person shot and wounded outside White House
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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
Obama's War on Inequality
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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 …
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UPDATE: “Hampden-Sydney College Has Rehired Gen. Boykin” - via Fox News — I am deeply grateful for all the support - through social media, calls and emails - that I have received over the past few days. This situation has been a great reminder of how our # FirstAmendment principles are worth standing up for and defending.
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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?
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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.
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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.
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The Daily Caller
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.
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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 …
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.
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 …
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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.
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RADAR, The Horn News and Joe Hoft
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 …
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Raw Story
Heide Brandes / Reuters:
Oklahoma lawmakers to consider resolution urging Obama impeachment over bathroom policy — Oklahoma's Republican-dominated legislature has introduced a resolution calling on the state's congressional delegation to seek articles of impeachment against President Barack Obama …
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Andrew Kaczynski / BuzzFeed:
Trump Repeatedly Told Trump U There Was No Bubble Months Before Housing Collapse — “They are not just talking heads or book smart academics, they have decades of hands on experience and all three of them take the bubble talk with a pinch of salt.” — Spencer Platt / Getty Images
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Michael S. Schmidt / New York Times:
‘I Quit,’ Handcuffed Man Says in Video of Fatal Encounter With Georgia Police — WASHINGTON — As Chase Sherman was returning home with his parents and fiancée from his brother's wedding in November, he began to hallucinate. Apparently reacting to synthetic marijuana he had taken days earlier …
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Ian Millhiser / ThinkProgress:
A Federal Judge Just Ordered A Dox Attack Against 100,000 Innocent People — A federal judge with a history of anti-immigrant sentiment ordered the federal government to turn over the names, addresses and “all available contact information” of over 100,000 immigrants living within the United States.
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Andrew Kaczynski / BuzzFeed:
Here's The Audio Of Trump Discussing Blacks Vs. Whites “Apprentice” — NBC, Trump said, wasn't happy with the idea. — w.soundcloud.com — In early 2005, Donald Trump explained to radio host Howard Stern that he had considered hosting a version of his show The Apprentice pitting black contestants vs. white ones.
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