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A.B. Stoddard / The Hill:
Clouds loom for Clinton — Things could be worse for Hillary Clinton — 's presidential candidacy, perhaps an indictment pending in her email scandal, but these are still awful days in her campaign. While there are many threats to her prospects she cannot control, like an FBI investigation …
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Washington Post:
Clinton's inexcusable, willful disregard for the rules — HILLARY CLINTON'S use of a private email server while secretary of state from 2009 to 2013 has been justifiably criticized as an error of judgment. What the new report from the State Department inspector general makes clear is that it also was not a casual oversight.
Amy Chozick / New York Times:
Emails Add to Hillary Clinton's Central Problem: Voters Just Don't Trust Her
Emails Add to Hillary Clinton's Central Problem: Voters Just Don't Trust Her
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Wasserman Schultz fights to keep her job
Wasserman Schultz fights to keep her job
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Jim Newell / Slate:
Elizabeth Warren Knows How to Attack Trump. Why Doesn't Hillary?
Elizabeth Warren Knows How to Attack Trump. Why Doesn't Hillary?
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Washington Monthly, Common Dreams, Hullabaloo, CNN and The Last Tradition
Associated Press:
Clinton email use broke federal rules: inspector's report
Clinton email use broke federal rules: inspector's report
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John Santucci / ABC News:
Donald Trump to Jimmy Kimmel: My Past Pro-Clinton Comments Were “A Little Bit” Insincere — During an appearance on “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” Wednesday night, Donald Trump admitted that he wasn't sincere when he made glowing comments about Bill and Hillary Clinton prior to his bid for the presidency.
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Ben Schreckinger / Politico:
Trump, Sanders seemingly agree to debate — Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders have seemingly agreed in principle to give the world the debate it's been waiting for. — Appearing on ABC's “Jimmy Kimmel Live” in a show that aired Wednesday night, Trump said he would be willing to debate Sanders …
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Danny Freeman / NBC News:
Bernie Sanders Agrees to Debate Donald Trump
Bernie Sanders Agrees to Debate Donald Trump
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Bernie Sanders / CBS News:
Trump tells Kimmel he'd be willing to debate Sanders for charity
Trump tells Kimmel he'd be willing to debate Sanders for charity
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Joshua Green / Bloomberg:
How to Get Trump Elected When He's Wrecking Everything You Built — A day in the life of Reince Priebus, reluctant GOP peacemaker. … When Donald Trump wrapped up the Republican presidential nomination on May 3 by winning Indiana and forcing Ted Cruz from the race, it fell to Reince Priebus …
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Bloomberg:
Bill Kristol Says He Sees Romney ‘Thinking Seriously’ About Third-Party Run — A spokesperson for Romney, who's said he isn't running in 2016, declined to comment. — haddadmedia — Mitt Romney may not have seen his last presidential campaign after all, according to Bill Kristol.
Ben Kamisar / The Hill:
Trump: Romney ‘walks like a penguin’
Trump: Romney ‘walks like a penguin’
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Andrew Ross Sorkin / New York Times:
Peter Thiel, Tech Billionaire, Reveals Secret War With Gawker — A billionaire Silicon Valley entrepreneur was outed as being gay by a media organization. His friends suffered at the hands of the same gossip site. Nearly a decade later, the entrepreneur secretly financed a lawsuit to try to put the media company out of business.
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Felix Salmon / Fusion:
Peter Thiel just gave other billionaires a dangerous blueprint for perverting philanthropy — Funding Hulk Hogan's lawsuit against Gawker? That's not cool. Actively going out to find potential plaintiffs who might have cases against Gawker and then giving them the money to bring those cases?
Marc Caputo / Politico:
Trump fires top aide — Donald Trump's presidential campaign on Wednesday night announced it had parted ways with its national political director, Rick Wiley — a move that appears to stem in part from an ongoing turf war atop the campaign. — Wiley was the first high-profile hire by Paul Manafort …
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Kristin Salaky / Talking Points Memo:
Obama: World Leaders Are Right To Be ‘Rattled’ By Donald Trump (VIDEO) — President Barack Obama expressed concern Thursday that world leaders were “rattled” by the rise of presumptive GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump. — Speaking at a press conference in Japan …
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Arlette Saenz / ABC News:
World Leaders ‘Rattled’ by Donald Trump as the Presumptive GOP Nominee, Obama Says
World Leaders ‘Rattled’ by Donald Trump as the Presumptive GOP Nominee, Obama Says
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Howard Fineman / The Huffington Post:
Donald Trump's Top Adviser: ‘This Is Not A Hard Race’ — Paul Manafort explains why his boss is “gonna win,” no prob. — Global Editorial Director, The Huffington Post — Donald Trump “sees himself more as the chairman of the board” of the country. — ALEXANDRIA, Va. …
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Ruby Cramer / BuzzFeed:
Bill Clinton Gets Into 30-Minute Debate With A 24-Year-Old Bernie Fan — SANTA FE, N.M. — Five different times, aides tried to drag him away from the booth where Josh Brody, a 24-year-old supporter of Bernie Sanders, was holding forth about all that had gone wrong in the 1990s: welfare, NAFTA, Wall Street.
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Molly Ball / The Atlantic:
This Is How a Revolution Ends — SANTA MONICA, Calif. …
This Is How a Revolution Ends — SANTA MONICA, Calif. …
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Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
Audiotape: Katie Couric documentary falsely depicts gun supporters as ‘idiots’ — It looks as though Katie Couric stunned her interviewees. Knocked them out with a bombshell inquiry: “Let me ask you another question: If there are no background checks for gun purchasers, how do you prevent felons or terrorists from purchasing a gun?”
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Nell Frizzell / Guardian:
The men who live as dogs: 'We're just the same as any person on the high street' — Ahead of a new documentary, Spot, Bootbrush and Kaz open up about their community — t's easy to laugh at a grown man in a rubber dog suit chewing on a squeaky toy. Maybe too easy, in fact …
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Michael Scherer / TIME:
Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe Invited Chinese Donor to Hillary Clinton's Home — A donation to the Clinton Foundation followed weeks later — Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe invited the Chinese businessman whose donations to him have been named as a focus of Justice Department investigators …
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John McCormick / Bloomberg:
Clinton Beats Trump With Middle-Income Rust Belt Voters: Bloomberg Poll — Donald Trump trails Hillary Clinton by 7 percentage points among middle-income voters in the Rust Belt, a key demographic he almost certainly needs to become president. — Likely voters with annual family incomes …
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Cristina Marcos / The Hill:
House passes resurrected LGBT measure — House Democrats on Wednesday resurrected a measure ensuring equal protections for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people after their last attempt erupted in chaos last week. — Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney (D-N.Y.) reprised his amendment …
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