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Chris Geidner / BuzzFeed:
Tech Company: We Will Put Up $10 Million For Bernie-Trump Debate  —  WASHINGTON — A technology investment company has offered to put up the $10 million for charity that Donald Trump said on Thursday would be needed to hold a debate with Bernie Sanders.  —  [Update at 4:38 p.m. …
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Hadas Gold / Politico:
Donald Trump backs out of debate with Bernie Sanders  —  Donald Trump will not participate in a debate with Sen. Bernie Sanders, the presumptive GOP presidential nominee said in a statement Friday.  —  In a statement, Trump slammed Sanders, Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton …
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 …
Meghan Keneally / ABC News:
‘Mr. Trump, What Are You Afraid Of?’  Sanders Responds After Donald Backs From Debate  —  Donald Trump backed down from much-hyped hypothetical debate he wanted to have with Sen. Bernie Sanders.  —  Trump, who has now secured enough delegates to clinch the Republican nomination, said that …
Nolan D. McCaskill / Politico:
Sanders camp: Maybe Trump is ‘chickening out’ of debate  —  The Bernie Sanders-Donald Trump debate could be one of the biggest televised events of the year.  But whether it will even happen is a different story, Sanders' campaign said Friday, accusing the folks in Trump's camp of dragging their feet.
Discussion: Comedy Central and Guardian
Dahlia Lithwick / Slate:
Fellow Liberals, Let's Stop Doing These Things
Mark Plotkin / The Hill:   Why Wasserman Schultz must go
Cathleen Decker / Los Angeles Times:
Analysis Why Bernie Sanders keeps popping up in California's out-of-the-way places
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Howard Kurtz / Fox News:
Nominee or not, why is Trump still smacking Republicans around?
Discussion: Hot Air
Larry O'Connor / Hot Air:
Welp... Hillary doesn't know how to use a computer  —  We're told that Hillary Clinton is the smartest, most qualified and most capable person to ever run for President.  Ever. … Let's face it, we're lucky that she's even lowering herself to the demeaning process of having to earn votes in the presidential election.
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Julian Hattem / The Hill:
Feds fight to prevent Clinton deposition in email case  —  The Obama administration is trying to prevent former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton  —  from being deposed in an ongoing open records case connected to her use of a private email server.  —  Late Thursday evening …
Discussion: Hot Air
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 …
CNN:
Obama in Hiroshima calls for ‘world without nuclear weapons’  —  Hiroshima (CNN)Barack Obama on Friday became the first sitting U.S. president to visit Hiroshima, where he called for a “world without nuclear weapons” during his remarks at the city's Peace Memorial Park.  —  Obama visits Hiroshima
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Curtis Houck / NewsBusters:
Brian Williams: U.S. Is ‘The Only Nation to Have Used’ Nuclear Weapons ‘In Anger’
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.
bioRxiv:
Report of Partial findings from the National Toxicology Program Carcinogenesis Studies of Cell Phone Radiofrequency Radiation in Hsd: Sprague Dawley® SD rats (Whole Body Exposure)  —  Abstract  —  The US National Toxicology Program (NTP) has carried out extensive rodent toxicology …
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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 …
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Andrew Kaczynski / BuzzFeed:
Trump Withheld Alimony From Marla Maples When She Threatened His Presidential Ambitions  —  “Our purpose was to send a message that she was playing close to the fire.  That should slow her down,” Trump's lawyer said at the time.  —  Timothy A. Clary / AFP / Getty Images
Tom Phillips / Guardian:
World's scariest school run?  Chinese children tackle 800-metre cliff  —  Children as young as six from Atuler village in Sichuan province have to scale a huge rockface using rickety ladders  —  Authorities in south-west China have vowed to come to the aid of an isolated mountain village …
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Ashley May / USA Today:
15 Chinese children make deadly climb to school
Discussion: Slantpoint
David Roberts / Vox:
Donald Trump's horrifying gullibility, as revealed in his energy speech  —  Donald Trump's speech this week at a petroleum conference in North Dakota showcased the energy policies we can expect from a Trump administration.  But more importantly, it revealed a great deal about how Trump will develop and manage policy.
Jim Dalrymple II / BuzzFeed:
Trump's California Drought Plan: “We're Going To Start Opening Up The Water”  —  The Republican presidential candidate suggested California should stop “taking the water and shoving it out to sea.”  The comment suggests he'd divert water away from wetlands and toward farms.  —  Chris Carlson / AP
Jodi Guglielmi / People.com:
Amber Heard Accuses Johnny Depp of Domestic Violence with Graphic Photo of Bruise: ‘This Was Not an Isolated Event,’ Says Source  —  Amber Heard has filed a domestic violence restraining order against Johnny Depp, as a source tells PEOPLE “this was not an isolated event.”
CNNMoney:
Donald Trump under oath: Trump University's promises crumble  —  The ads for his university were classic Donald Trump — Trump stares into the camera and proclaims:  —  “We're going to have professors and adjunct professors that are absolutely terrific people, terrific brains, successful.
Christopher Massie / BuzzFeed:
Bernie Sanders Gets In Snippy Exchange With California Radio Hosts  —  “All right, look, if you don't like government, my friend, that's fine,” the Democratic presidential candidate said in a contentious interview on the John and Ken Show on KFI radio.  —  David Mcnew / AFP / Getty Images
Discussion: Mediaite and The Daily Caller
Monica Langley / Wall Street Journal:
Behind Mitt Romney's Increasingly Lonely Challenge to Donald Trump  —  The 2012 GOP presidential nominee reflects on the waves he created by attacking the 2016 candidate and how he increasingly finds himself a voice in the wilderness  —  SAN DIEGO— Mitt Romney's advisers begged him not to go to war with Donald Trump.
Discussion: Political Wire and The Week
Peter Sterne / Politico:
The fall of Salon.com  —  A Facebook page dedicated to celebrating the 20th anniversary of digital media pioneer Salon is functioning as a crowdsourced eulogy.  —  Dozens of Salon alumni have, over the past several months, posted their favorite stories from and memories …
CNN:
A dreaded superbug found for the first time in a U.S. woman  —  (CNN)The United States' first known case of a superbug that cannot be killed by a last resort-style kind of antibiotic was detailed in a report by the U.S. Department of Defense on Thursday.  —  Centers for Disease Control …
Allegra Kirkland / Talking Points Memo:
McConnell On Trump: Our System Will Prevent ‘Big Mistakes’ (VIDEO)  —  Apparently trying to reassure those worried about GOP nominee Donald Trump's take-no-prisoners approach to politics, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) is issuing a reminder that all commanders-in-chief face systemic …
 
 
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Curtis Houck / NewsBusters:
English, Spanish Networks Refuse to Cover Katie Couric Gun Control Editing Scandal
Discussion: Townhall.com
Glenn Harlan Reynolds / USA Today:
Why the president needs to be white, male and Republican: Glenn Reynolds
Lachlan Markay / Washington Free Beacon:
Free Beacon Poll: Paul Ryan Leads GOP Challenger by 73 Points
Jacob Pramuk / CNBC:
Yellen: Rate hike probably appropriate in the coming months
David S. Bernstein / Politico:
How Hillary Loses  —  It's a terrifying moment for Democrats …
 Earlier Items: 
Telegraph:
Elderly couple who cut wealthy neighbour's grass verge for 12 years given land in ‘squatters’ rights' ruling
Discussion: Newser
Conor Friedersdorf / The Atlantic:
A Dialogue With a 22-Year-Old Donald Trump Supporter
Discussion: Raw Story
New York Times:
Text of President Obama's Speech in Hiroshima, Japan
Anna Fifield / Washington Post:
The secret life of Kim Jong Un's aunt, who has lived in the U.S. since 1998
Discussion: The Week, Mediaite and Newser
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Trump's Delusions of Competence
 

 
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Caitlin Huston / The Hollywood Reporter:
Internal memo: Hearst Magazines president announces layoffs as part of a decision to “reallocate resources” to “continue our focus on digital innovation”

Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica:
FCC Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel announced she will leave the agency on January 20; she was the first woman to be confirmed to lead the agency

Lachlan Cartwright / The Ankler:
Sources: MSNBC renewed Rachel Maddow's contract early this fall, but with a pay cut; MSNBC bosses' plan to shake up daytime and weekend programming

 
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