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8:40 AM ET, May 22, 2016

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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.”
Discussion: BizPac Review, The Hill and Slantpoint
Maureen Dowd / New York Times:
Weakend at Bernie's  —  WASHINGTON — HILLARY CLINTON is the Democratic nominee.  —  Really.  —  Just ask her.  —  She should have been able to finally savor shattering that “highest, hardest glass ceiling” — the one she gloried in putting 18 million cracks in last time around …
Kristen East / Politico:
Sanders backs DNC chair's primary opponent
Discussion: Raw Story
Mike Stewart / Baltimore Sun:
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.
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Erik Brady / USA Today:   Exaggerator wins the 141st Preakness Stakes
Emily Shapiro / ABC News:
Preakness Day: 2 Horses Die, Jockey Injured in First Few Races
Discussion: Mediaite
Dillon Mullan / Washington Post:
Two horses die in first four races of Preakness Saturday
Discussion: CNN
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: Prntly
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: Raw Story and Bloomberg
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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Adrian Carrasquillo / BuzzFeed:
The Full Text Of Trump's First Address To A Major Hispanic Group Is Really Something
Jessie Hellmann / The Hill:
Trump reaches out to Hispanic Christians in video
Discussion: BizPac Review and Mediaite
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 …
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.
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.
Jim Hoft / The Gateway Pundit:
The Trump Wall Will Save Hundreds of Lives and Protect Women From Gang-Rape  —  Donald Trump stirred up controversy this past year for claiming “rapists” and “killers” are migrating over the United States' southern border.  —  Trump was right.  —  Rapists are crossing over into the US southern border.
Justen Charters / Independent Journal …:
She Shot Heartbreaking Footage From NYC Dorm On 9/11.  Now Millions Are Seeing What She Saw.  —  When it comes to September 11th, 2001, most of the footage we have seen comes from the news and media.  —  However, one girl who had a window's view to Ground Zero, recorded video of the horrific events that unfolded that morning.
Jessie Hellmann / The Hill:
Biden at West Point: Diversity on battlefield an ‘incredible asset’  —  advocated for diversity in the armed forces Saturday, telling West Point graduates in a commencement address that more women and openly gay soldiers will strengthen the country's armed forces.
Katie Leslie / Trail Blazers Blog:
T. Boone Pickens postponing major fundraising event for Donald Trump, cites scheduling issues  —  WASHINGTON — Texas oil tycoon T. Boone Pickens is postponing a fundraiser for Donald Trump that had been scheduled to take place at Pickens' ranch next month.  —  In a statement provided …
 
 
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Mark Plotkin / The Hill:
Mark Kirk is your most vulnerable senator of 2016
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
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 and The Other McCain
Naomi Jagoda / The Hill:
Trump filings from late '70s showed he paid no income taxes: report
Barbara Starr / CNN:
Top U.S. commander completes day-long secret visit to Syria
Xuan Thai / NBC News:
Behind Donald Trump's Nonexistent Florida Strategy in the General Election
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Ari Melber / NBC News:
New Trump Filing Undercuts Claims on Self-Funding
Discussion: RedState
Scott Eric Kaufman / Salon:
Fox News CEO Roger Ailes reportedly “snickering” with glee over failure of Megyn Kelly's Trump special
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
Allum Bokhari / Breitbart:
CNN pundit S.E Cupp has had enough of Trump fans calling her a “cuckservative.”
Discussion: CNN and Infowars
New York Times:
Key G.O.P. Donors Still Deeply Resist Donald Trump's Candidacy
Discussion: AOL, whorunsGov and The Hill
Mercury News:
San Francisco: Man seriously injured in mob attack
Philip Bump / Washington Post:
Don't look now, but Barack Obama is suddenly popular
Discussion: Booman Tribune and Politicus USA
David Harsanyi / Washington Post:
We must weed out ignorant Americans from the electorate
 

 
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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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