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11:35 AM ET, May 22, 2016

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Gary Langer / ABC News:
A Post-Primary Rally Boosts Trump, Albeit with Challenges Aplenty (POLL)  —  A new ABC News/Washington Post poll shows a close contest in presidential election preferences, with Republicans lining up behind Donald Trump as their party's presumptive nominee while the continued Democratic race …
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Dan Balz / Washington Post:
Poll: Election 2016 shapes up as a contest of negatives  —  The coming presidential race between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump begins in a virtual dead heat, a competition between two candidates viewed unfavorably by a majority of the current electorate and with voters motivated as much by whom …
Discussion: RedState and Hot Air
Paul Bedard / Washington Examiner:
Begrudging WaPo poll: Trump 46%, Clinton 44%  —  It's not the headline, and it takes 219 words to get there, but a new Washington Post poll on the presidential race reveals that Republican Donald Trump leads Democrat Hillary Clinton among registered voters 46 percent to 44 percent.
Discussion: Althouse and Prntly
Mark Murray / NBC News:
Clinton's Lead Over Trump Shrinks to 3 Points: New NBC News/WSJ Poll  —  Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton Clash over Gun Control 2:10  —  Hillary Clinton's advantage over Donald Trump has narrowed to just three points — resulting in a dead-heat general-election contest with more than five months …
Jessie Hellmann / The Hill:
Sanders: Clinton can beat Trump in November  —  Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders  —  said he believes front-runner Hillary Clinton  —  could beat presumptive GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump  —  in November, but that his campaign brings more excitement that could help …
Discussion: Politico
New York Daily News:
KING: Here's why I'm leaving the Democratic Party after this presidential election and you should too  —  Many of you aren't religious, so please forgive me for recalling my roots as a preacher and starting us off with a simple verse of scripture.  —  “The love of money is the root of all kinds of evil.”
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ABC News:
‘This Week’ Transcript: Sen. Bernie Sanders  —  THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT FOR ‘THIS WEEK’ ON May 22, 2016 and it will be updated.  —  STEPHANOPOULOS: And Senator Sanders joins us now.  Senator, thank you for joining us again today.  —  SANDERS: My pleasure.
Discussion: Politicus USA
CNN:
Sanders says he's backing DNC chair's primary opponent, wouldn't reappoint her to DNC
Yamiche Alcindor / New York Times:
Bernie Sanders's Feud With the Democratic Leadership Heats Up
Kristen East / Politico:
Sanders backs DNC chair's primary opponent
Discussion: Political Wire and Raw Story
Salon:
We beat Donald Trump by mocking Donald Trump: What Bill Maher and Barack Obama understand about whipping a bully  —  Trump's weakness is ridicule.  Even if Jon Stewart is sitting this one out, Democrats need to embrace serious satire  —  Donald Trump's absurd yet frighteningly real campaign …
Erik Brady / USA Today:
Exaggerator wins the 141st Preakness Stakes  —  BALTIMORE — Exaggerator won the Preakness Stakes on a sloppy track Saturday, ending a Triple Crown bid by Kentucky Derby winner Nyquist, who lost for the first time in nine career starts.  —  Cherry Wine finished second, with Nyquist third.
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Mike Stewart / Baltimore Sun:
Preakness 2016: Horses Pramedya and Homeboykris die at early Preakness Day races
Emily Shapiro / ABC News:
Preakness Day: 2 Horses Die, Jockey Injured in First Few Races
Discussion: Scared Monkeys and Mediaite
Sarah Wheaton / Politico:
NRA facing member backlash over Trump endorsement  —  LOUISVILLE, Ky. — With its last-minute decision to formally endorse Donald Trump, the National Rifle Association put itself out in front of the fight for Republican party unity.  —  Just a day later, it's already taking flak.
Discussion: The Hill, miamiherald, Infowars and RedState
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Sabrina Siddiqui / Guardian:
Trump and Clinton on guns: two visions of race, justice and policing in the US
Discussion: Mediaite, Raw Story and Bloomberg
David Cay Johnston / Politico:
Just What Were Donald Trump's Ties to the Mob?  —  In his signature book, The Art of the Deal, Donald Trump boasted that when he wanted to build a casino in Atlantic City, he persuaded the state attorney general to limit the investigation of his background to six months.
Jennifer Crockett / WDSU-TV:
St. John sheriff: 5-year-old kills self with father's gun  —  Haley Moore died at the hospital Saturday  —  Five-year-old Haley Moore was spending the weekend at her dad's house with her older sister and brother.  The family was supposed to go see a movie Saturday.
Matthew Boyle / Breitbart:
Exclusive — Donald J. Trump: Hillary Clinton's Plans for More Illegal Immigration Into America a ‘Disaster for Our Country’  —  NEW YORK CITY, New York — Donald J. Trump, the billionaire real estate magnate and presumptive 2016 GOP presidential nominee, told Breitbart News in an exclusive interview …
Discussion: alan.com
Matthew Yglesias / Vox:
Bruenighazi: How a feisty Bernie blogger's firing explains Democratic politics in 2016  —  Late in the afternoon on Friday, a press statement appeared on the website of the think tank Demos that set significant segments of policy twitter and left-wing political twitter ablaze.
Ben Kamisar / The Hill:
GOP Hispanic leaders open to reconciling with Trump  —  Prominent Hispanic conservatives say they could back Donald Trump  —  if the presumptive GOP nominee changes his tone and walks back some of his policy positions.  —  Republican Latino leaders have chaffed at Trump's call for a wall …
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Washington Post:
Primed to fight the government  —  A fast-growing U.S. movement armed with guns and the Constitution sees a dire threat to liberty  —  B.J. Soper took aim with his AR-15 semiautomatic rifle and fired a dozen shots at a human silhouette target.  Soper's wife and their 16-year-old daughter practiced drawing pistols.
 
 
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Eugene Scott / CNN:
Mark Cuban: I'd listen if Clinton wanted to talk about VP — but she needs ‘to go more to center’
Jonathan Franklin / Guardian:
Zookeepers shoot man with tranquiliser while trying to save him from lions
Discussion: Slantpoint and Althouse
Mark Plotkin / The Hill:
Mark Kirk is your most vulnerable senator of 2016
Jessie Hellmann / The Hill:
Biden at West Point: Diversity on battlefield an ‘incredible asset’
Mike Miller / Independent Journal Review:
‘Never Trump Guy’ Locks Horns With Fox News' Eric Bolling-Let's Just Say It Doesn't End Well
Discussion: RedState and Mediaite
Jim Hoft / The Gateway Pundit:
The Trump Wall Will Save Hundreds of Lives and Protect Women From Gang-Rape
 Earlier Items: 
Katie Leslie / Trail Blazers Blog:
T. Boone Pickens postponing major fundraising event for Donald Trump, cites scheduling issues
New York Times:
EgyptAir Was Aware of Threats to Security, Including One Scribbled on Plane
Discussion: BizPac Review and AOL
Mike Carlson / National Review:
Sorry, I Still Won't Ever Vote for Trump
Discussion: RedState
Naomi Jagoda / The Hill:
Trump filings from late '70s showed he paid no income taxes: report
Justen Charters / Independent Journal …:
She Shot Heartbreaking Footage From NYC Dorm On 9/11. Now Millions Are Seeing What She Saw.
Ari Melber / NBC News:
New Trump Filing Undercuts Claims on Self-Funding
Discussion: RedState
Allum Bokhari / Breitbart:
CNN pundit S.E Cupp has had enough of Trump fans calling her a “cuckservative.”
Discussion: CNN and Infowars
 

 
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Athena Stavrou / The Independent:
More than 230 media industry professionals, including anonymous BBC staff, sign a letter accusing the BBC of bias favoring Israel in coverage of Gaza

Dominick Mastrangelo / The Hill:
Conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt quits as a contributing columnist at WaPo, after abruptly leaving a Post live video event hosted by Jonathan Capehart

Devin Gordon / New York Times:
AI in Hollywood is a tech leap with a vast impact but remains a tool, not a replacement, for creatives; its speed, quality, and cost allow for VFX breakthroughs

 
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