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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.
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Truth Revolt
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
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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Peter Hermann / Washington Post:
Person shot and wounded outside White House
Person shot and wounded outside White House
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Eli Stokols / Politico:
Trump scores NRA backing and attacks ‘Heartless Hillary’ — LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Despite his past support for gun control, Donald Trump scored the powerful endorsement of the National Rifle Association on Friday and turned immediately to launch a new attack line on his Democratic opponent.
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Jeremy Diamond / CNN:
Rick Perry: I'm willing to be Trump's VP — Louisville, Kentucky (CNN)Former Texas Gov. Rick Perry, who once called Donald Trump “a cancer on conservatism,” said Friday he would be willing to serve as the presumptive Republican nominee's vice president. — Perry said he will do whatever …
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Trail Blazers Blog and Political Wire
John Santucci / ABC News:
NRA Endorses Donald Trump for President
NRA Endorses Donald Trump for President
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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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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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Fox News, Campus Reform, Daily Wire, The College Fix, The Daily Caller and WTVR-TV
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Heide Brandes / Reuters:
Oklahoma introduces measure to impeach Obama over bathroom rights — Oklahoma's Republican-dominated legislature has filed a measure calling for President Barack Obama's impeachment over his administration's recommendations on accommodating transgender students, saying he overstepped his constitutional authority.
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Washington Post, Washington Monthly and Political Wire
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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Mother Jones and Politicus USA
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.
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RADAR, The Horn News and Joe Hoft
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 …
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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Friendly Atheist, The New Civil Rights Movement, Raw Story and Towleroad
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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Daily Kos and Hullabaloo
Christopher Mele / New York Times:
‘America Was Never Great’ Hat Leads to Death Threats — A Staten Island woman who supports Senator Bernie Sanders said she received death threats after photos of her wearing a cap with the message “America Was Never Great” were posted widely on social media.
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Gothamist, Racked, Right, Scripting News and Shakesville
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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Donna Abu-Nasr / Bloomberg:
Suspicious Eyes and Shut Mosques Show Anger at Brussels Muslims — “Integration for me is the Kalashnikov of modern times” — For Hassan Rahali and Hassan Beqqada, it's the looks they get on the street or subway. — Both men are councilors in Muslim neighborhoods of Brussels …
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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The Gateway Pundit
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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AOL, Associated Press and KRON4.com
Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
GOP elite line up behind Donald Trump — The Never Trump moment is over. — While a small group of Republicans has wrung its hands raw over the choice between the GOP's nominee and Hillary Clinton, the party's firmament - social and intellectual conservatives, the lobbyist and donor class …
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NBC News:
NYC Man Who Joined Then Escaped ISIS Speaks Out Against ‘Evil’ — American ISIS Informant: ‘I Lost Sight of How People Could Be So Evil’ 3:32 — He left the United States to join ISIS and then fled the group after five months. Now a New York City man is revealing the disturbing details …
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Truth Revolt, Independent Journal …, Daily Mail and Just Security
Suzanne DeWitt Hall / The Huffington Post:
Jesus: The First Transgender Man — Freelance scribbler, cookbookophile, imagiplationist, and one of Rumplepimple's moms. — The current flap in conservative Christian circles about bathroom access is a bit baffling. They shout about God not making mistakes, as if God only works in binaries …
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RedState, The Federalist Papers and Truth Revolt
Sarah Grant / Rolling Stone:
Original Beastie Boys Member John Berry Dead at 52 — Beastie Boys credit guitarist for coming up with the band's name — John Berry, an original member of hip-hop group the Beastie Boys, died Thursday morning at 7:30 a.m. at a hospice in Danvers, Massachusetts. He was 52.