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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 …
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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 …
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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.
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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 …
Donald J Trump for President:
DONALD J. TRUMP STATEMENT ON DEBATING BERNIE SANDERS — Based on the fact that the Democratic nominating process is totally rigged and Crooked Hillary Clinton and Deborah Wasserman Schultz will not allow Bernie Sanders to win, and now that I am the presumptive Republican nominee …
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Dahlia Lithwick / Slate:
Fellow Liberals, Let's Stop Doing These Things
Fellow Liberals, Let's Stop Doing These Things
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Jesse Byrnes / The Hill:
Young Turks host offers $1M for Trump, Sanders debate
Young Turks host offers $1M for Trump, Sanders debate
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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
Analysis Why Bernie Sanders keeps popping up in California's out-of-the-way places
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New York Times:
Donald Trump's Campaign Stumbles as It Tries to Go Big — BISMARCK, N.D. — A constant stream of changes and scuffles are roiling Donald J. Trump's campaign team, including the abrupt dismissal this week of his national political director. — A sense of paranoia is growing among …
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Howard Kurtz / Fox News:
Nominee or not, why is Trump still smacking Republicans around?
Nominee or not, why is Trump still smacking Republicans around?
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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 …
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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.
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
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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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Jarrod Alonge / BuzzFeed:
We Found It — The Most Racist Ad Of 2016
We Found It — The Most Racist Ad Of 2016
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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
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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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.”
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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 …
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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
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New York Times:
Text of President Obama's Speech in Hiroshima, Japan — The following is a transcript of President Obama's speech in Hiroshima, Japan, as recorded by The New York Times. — Seventy-one years ago, on a bright cloudless morning, death fell from the sky and the world was changed.
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 …
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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.
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Telegraph:
Elderly couple who cut wealthy neighbour's grass verge for 12 years given land in ‘squatters’ rights' ruling — A couple who cut a grass verge outside their wealthy neighbour's home for 12 years have been given the land by a judge in a “squatters' rights” ruling following a lengthy court battle.
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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 …
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 …
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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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Conor Friedersdorf / The Atlantic:
A Dialogue With a 22-Year-Old Donald Trump Supporter — For several days, I've been corresponding with a 22-year-old Donald Trump supporter. He is white, has a bachelor's degree, and earns $50,000 to $60,000 per year. — He lives near San Francisco. — “I recently became engaged …
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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 …
Knoxville News-Sentinel:
Lawmaker burns traffic camera ticket, urges Tennesseans to ignore them — By Tom Humphrey of the Knoxville News Sentinel — NASHVILLE — State Rep. Andy Holt is urging Tennesseans to ignore traffic camera tickets and emphasizing his point by burning a citation in a video that apparently has received more than 325,000 Facebook views.
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