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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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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 …


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.


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 …
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Clinton: Trump is in the pocket of the gun lobby
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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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‘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.
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Weakend at Bernie's — WASHINGTON — HILLARY CLINTON is the Democratic nominee.
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Politico, No More Mister Nice Blog and Mediaite

Bernie Sanders's Feud With the Democratic Leadership Heats Up
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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 …


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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Preakness 2016: Horses Pramedya and Homeboykris die at early Preakness Day races
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Preakness Day: 2 Horses Die, Jockey Injured in First Few Races
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Scared Monkeys and Mediaite

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.
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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 …
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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.
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Politico, bradford-delong.com, Mother Jones and Demos

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.
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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.

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.


Zookeepers shoot man with tranquiliser while trying to save him from lions — Two lions shot dead and man gravely injured after getting into animals' enclosure at Santiago zoo, stripping naked and taunting them into attacking him — A man who climbed into a lion enclosure …
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