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12:00 PM ET, May 27, 2016

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Philip Klein / Washington Examiner:
Donald Trump has exposed Marco Rubio  —  In the late stages of his doomed presidential campaign, Sen. Marco Rubio declared that the front-runner for his party's nomination was “a con artist.”  But it turns out that Donald Trump wasn't the only GOP presidential candidate pulling the wool over people's eyes.
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Benjy Sarlin / MSNBC:
Donald Trump pledges to rip up Paris climate agreement in energy speech  —  In a rare prepared speech, Donald Trump outlined his energy policy in Bismarck, North Dakota.  —  Trump is known for bucking conservative orthodoxy but, on Thursday, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee largely hewed to the typical Republican line.
Yamiche Alcindor / New York Times:
Die-Hard Bernie Sanders Backers See F.B.I. as Answer to Their Prayers  —  ANAHEIM, Calif. — Senator Bernie Sanders may be trailing Hillary Clinton by hundreds of delegates, and Mrs. Clinton may be treating the Democratic nomination as hers, but Julie Crowell, a stay-at-home mother …
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Seung Min Kim / Politico:
Sanders angers Democrats with Trump debate ploy  —  For some Democrats, Bernie Sanders' latest gambit — challenging Donald Trump to a debate to cap all debates — is the last straw.  —  “Bulls**t,” said Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia.  “That confirms what we've been saying.
Cathleen Decker / Los Angeles Times:
Analysis Why Bernie Sanders keeps popping up in California's out-of-the-way places
Tamara Keith / NPR:
Why Some Clinton Supporters Are Not ‘Really Ready To Go Public’
Discussion: Towleroad
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Trump's Delusions of Competence  —  In general, you shouldn't pay much attention to polls at this point, especially with Republicans unifying around Donald Trump while Bernie Sanders hasn't conceded the inevitable.  Still, I was struck by several recent polls showing Mr. Trump favored …
Discussion: Daily Kos
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Mark Hensch / The Hill:
Joe Scarborough to Clinton: ‘Stop lying’ about emails
Discussion: Politico, Zero Hedge and LewRockwell
Nick Denton / Gawker:
An Open Letter to Peter Thiel  —  Nearly a decade ago, after you had opened up to friends and colleagues, a gay writer for Gawker shared an item with the readers of Valleywag, a section for news and gossip about the rich and powerful of Silicon Valley.  “Peter Thiel, the smartest VC in the world, is gay,” wrote Owen Thomas.
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David Wright / CNN:
‘Game on’ — Trump, Sanders to debate?  —  Donald Trump agrees to debate Bernie Sanders  —  (CNN)Could a debate between presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump and Democratic candidate Bernie Sanders be in the works?  —  Trump says he'd “love to.”  —  Who's really winning presidential race?
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USA Today:
Trump: I'll debate Sanders for $10 million for women's health issues
Nick Gass / Politico:
Trump: I'll debate Bernie for $10 million
Discussion: CNBC, Washington Post, The Week and RedState
Los Angeles Times:
Obama becomes first U.S. president to visit Hiroshima, and calls on the world to morally evolve  —  President Obama lays a wreath at Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park in Hiroshima, Japan, on Friday, becoming the first sitting U.S. president to travel to the site of the first nuclear bomb ever deployed in warfare.
Discussion: The Daily Caller
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Jack Shafer / Politico:
How Donald Trump Destroyed the Interview  —  The interview is the Niagara that fills the news ocean.  A quick check of the front page of the New York Times, a scan of any 30-minute block of CNN, or a few clicks on the POLITICO home page establish it: For generations, the interview …
Discussion: Political Wire
Kevin Grasha / Cincinnati.com:
At 96, Dr. Heimlich finally uses his life-saving technique  —  When he heard that a resident was choking, Perry Gaines, maître d' for the Deupree House dining room, ran toward the table.  —  Gaines has been trained in the Heimlich maneuver and has performed it at least twice …
Discussion: Raw Story and CBS New York
Jonah Bromwich / New York Times:
Chinese Detergent Ad Draws Charges of Racism  —  A Chinese laundry detergent commercial has spurred outrage online, with many social media users accusing it of blatant racism.  —  In the commercial for Qiaobi laundry detergent, an Asian woman shoves a detergent pod into the mouth of a black worker …
Discussion: Vox, Shanghaiist and Althouse
Anna Fifield / Washington Post:
The secret life of Kim Jong Un's aunt, who has lived in the U.S. since 1998  —  NEW YORK — Wandering through Times Square, past the Naked Cowboy and the Elmos and the ticket touts, she could be any immigrant trying to live the American Dream.  —  A 60-year-old Korean woman with a soft perm …
Discussion: Mediaite, Newser and The Week
Edgard Portela / NewsBusters:
Bernie Hits Bump on Univision: Speechless on Socialism's Failures  —  The Democrats' socialist candidate for President of the United States, Bernie Sanders, was seriously tripped up this week in an interview with Univision's León Krauze.  —  When asked to explain the failure …
Gabriel Debenedetti / Politico:
RNC scrambles to calm state GOP officials  —  The Republican National Committee is scrambling to respond to increasingly frantic concerns from state GOP officials that the party has not provided enough field organizers and will be badly outgunned by Democrats in battleground states.
The Hill:
Bible verse prompts GOP walkout after LGBT vote labeled a sin  —  A House conservative went after dozens of fellow Republicans on Thursday with suggestions that they'd sinned for backing an anti-discrimination proposal against gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people.
Jesse Byrnes / The Hill:
Trump: ‘You have to be wealthy in order to be great’  —  declared Thursday that “you have to be wealthy in order to be great,” while promising to add wealth to the country.  —  The comment from the billionaire businessman and presumptive GOP presidential nominee came during a speech …
Discussion: Political Wire and The Week
Peter Manso / Politico:
My Bizarre Dinner Party with Donald Trump, Roy Cohn and Estee Lauder  —  Roy Cohn's weekend house wasn't large, maybe two bedrooms, a brown shingle lovely that stood over a burbling brook at the end of a long, wooded driveway in north Greenwich, Connecticut.
Discussion: The Week
Selected HHS Blog Posts:
Early Detection of New Antibiotic Resistance  —  Just over a year ago, President Obama released a National Action Plan for Combating Antibiotic Resistant Bacteria.  As part of that plan, he also charged the Department of Defense (DoD), Department of Agriculture (USDA) and Department of Health …
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Washington Post:
The superbug that doctors have been dreading just reached the U.S.
Telegraph:
Obama's naive idealism has caused havoc as America makes the same mistakes over and over again  —  How do you distinguish a foreign policy “idealist” from a “realist,” an optimist from a pessimist?  Ask one question: Do you believe in the arrow of history?  Or to put it another way, do you think history is cyclical or directional?
David Gelles / New York Times:
They Tilt Right, but Top Chief Executives Don't Give to Trump  —  The C-suite leans right.  —  Republican candidates have drawn overwhelming support from the highest-paid chief executives in the country this election cycle, according to an analysis by the Center for Responsive Politics conducted for The New York Times.
Discussion: Equilar
 
 
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Rosie Gray / BuzzFeed:
Inside A White Nationalist Conference Energized By Trump's Rise
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Jennifer Peltz / Associated Press:
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Arjun Kharpal / CNBC:
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Juliet Eilperin / Washington Post:
In a rare occurrence, Obama speaks his mind about Trump for the world to hear
Discussion: Political Wire
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Sub sailor's photo case draws comparisons to Clinton emails
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Alex Roarty / Roll Call:
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Daily Mail:
Senior Saudi cleric bans taking photographs of cats in a bid to stop people trying ‘to be like Westerners’
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Michael Gartland / New York Post:
New York City is about to become a lot more disgusting
Discussion: The Daily Caller
CNN:
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Brian Tashman / Right Wing Watch:
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