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 …

‘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.

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 …

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.

Preakness 2016: Horses Pramedya and Homeboykris die at early Preakness Day races  —  Homeboykris, ridden by Horacio Karamanos, wins the first race of the day on a muddy track ahead of the 141st Preakness Stakes horse race at Pimlico Race Course, Saturday, May 21, 2016, in Baltimore.

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.

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.

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.

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 …

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.

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 …