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Leon H. Wolf / RedState:
Trump Campaign Releases a Video Defending Trump University... that is Itself a Scam — So the Trump campaign has released a video with purported testimonials from Trump University students which I guess is supposed to show that Trump University was not a scam.
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New York Times:
Former Trump University Workers Call the School a ‘Lie’ and a ‘Scheme’ in Testimony — In blunt testimony revealed on Tuesday, former managers of Trump University, the for-profit school started by Donald J. Trump, portray it as an unscrupulous business that relied on high-pressure sales tactics …
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Nick Gass / Politico:
Clinton camp leverages Rubio ‘con man’ hit on Trump — Hillary Clinton's campaign on Wednesday looked to take up the mantle of Mitt Romney and Marco Rubio, who once denounced Donald Trump as a “con man,” kicking off a series of tweets hitting the presumptive GOP nominee for his business practices …
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Matt Ford / The Atlantic:
The Art of the Swindle
The Art of the Swindle
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Common Dreams, Guardian and New York Magazine
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Judge tries to reseal Trump University documents
Judge tries to reseal Trump University documents
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The Gateway Pundit
Douglas E. Schoen / Wall Street Journal:
Clinton Might Not Be the Nominee — A Sanders win in California would turbocharge the mounting Democratic unease about her viability. — There is now more than a theoretical chance that Hillary Clinton may not be the Democratic nominee for president. — How could that happen …
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Washington Examiner, Liberal Values, The Talking Dog, RedState, CANNONFIRE, naked capitalism and Washington Post
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Anne Gearan / Washington Post:
Clinton launching national security case against Trump in California speech
Clinton launching national security case against Trump in California speech
Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
Trump Has Solid Lead Over Clinton in Georgia
Trump Has Solid Lead Over Clinton in Georgia
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Washington Post, The Last Refuge, Political Insider blog and Guardian
CNN:
CNN Poll of Polls: Two points separate Clinton and Trump
CNN Poll of Polls: Two points separate Clinton and Trump
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The Daily Caller, whorunsGov, Truth Revolt, Hot Air and Washington Post
Abby Phillip / Washington Post:
Leading liberals begin new push to unify Democrats around Clinton
Leading liberals begin new push to unify Democrats around Clinton
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Realtime Politics and Politicus USA
Harry Enten / FiveThirtyEight:
GOP Voters Are Rallying Behind Trump As If He Were Any Other Candidate
GOP Voters Are Rallying Behind Trump As If He Were Any Other Candidate
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Washington Post, New York Magazine, Hot Air, The Resurgent, Guardian and Towleroad
Thomas L. Friedman / New York Times:
Politicians and the Lies That Matter
Peter Nicholas / Wall Street Journal:
Nurses Seek Democratic Showdown
Nurses Seek Democratic Showdown
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Washington Post and The Daily Caller
Los Angeles Times:
Two dead in shooting at UCLA, campus on lockdown — Joseph Serna , Richard Winton , Hailey Branson-Potts , James Queally and Kate Mather Contact Reporters — Two people were killed in a shooting at UCLA on Wednesday morning, prompting a massive response from local and federal law enforcement, the LAPD confirmed.
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UCLA:
Campus reopens after apparent murder-suicide, classes canceled — At a news conference, UCLA Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost Scott Waugh characterized the events as “tragic” and provided updates about how the shooting would affect campus operations. — “I want to say that our hearts go out to the victims,” Waugh said.
Susan Svrluga / Washington Post:
UCLA shooting: Police say two killed in murder-suicide, campus deemed safe after lockdown
UCLA shooting: Police say two killed in murder-suicide, campus deemed safe after lockdown
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CNN, The Jawa Report, ABC News, The Daily Caller and EveryJoe
Lauren Meltzer / CBS Los Angeles:
LAPD: 2 Dead In Murder-Suicide On UCLA Campus; Lockdown Lifted
LAPD: 2 Dead In Murder-Suicide On UCLA Campus; Lockdown Lifted
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Michael Wolff / Hollywood Reporter:
The Donald Trump Conversation: Politics' “Dark Heart” Is Having the Best Time Anyone's Ever Had — At home in Beverly Hills, the candidate talks Murdoch, what he's reading, how he'll redo electoral math and Ari Emanuel's offer to script his convention. — The long day is ending for Donald Trump …
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Caitlin MacNeal / Talking Points Memo:
Donald Trump Appears Unfamiliar With Term ‘Brexit’
Donald Trump Appears Unfamiliar With Term ‘Brexit’
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Vox, The Atlantic and The Daily Caller
Kevin Litten / New Orleans Times-Picayune:
Louisiana begins enrolling 375,000 people into Medicaid — Gov. John Bel Edwards unveils “Healthy Louisiana,” the replacement for Bayou Health, during a news conference at CareSouth Center in Baton Rouge. … Department of Health and Hospitals will begin the massive task Wednesday (June 1) …
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Rewire and The Hayride
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Martin Longman / Washington Monthly:
Obamacare Breaks Through in Louisiana
Andrew Kaczynski / BuzzFeed:
Mark Cuban Questions Whether Trump Is Actually A Billionaire — “I'm not so sure Donald knows what he's not good at.” — Ezra Shaw / Getty Images — w.soundcloud.com — Billionaire entrepreneur Mark Cuban on Wednesday questioned whether Donald Trump is actually a billionaire …
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Talking Points Memo, The Hill and The Federalist
Matthew Herper / Forbes:
From $4.5 Billion To Nothing: Forbes Revises Estimated Net Worth Of Theranos Founder Elizabeth Holmes — Last year, Elizabeth Holmes topped the FORBES list of America's Richest Self-Made Women with a net worth of $4.5 billion. Today, FORBES is lowering our estimate of her net worth to nothing.
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ESPN:
PGA Tour to move tournament from Trump Doral to Mexico City — DUBLIN, Ohio — The longtime PGA Tour event at Miami's Trump Doral resort is leaving South Florida and heading to Mexico City in 2017, with an official announcement scheduled for Wednesday afternoon at the Memorial Tournament.
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Talking Points Memo and The Daily Caller
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Mercatus Site Feed:
SUMMARY AND KEY FINDINGS — The financial health of each state can be analyzed through the states' own audited financial reports. By looking at states' basic financial statistics on revenues, expenditures, cash, assets, liabilities, and debt, states may be ranked according to how easily …
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Katy O'Donnell / Politico:
How the GOP effort to oust IRS chief could backfire — For over a year, House conservatives have been clamoring to remove IRS Commissioner John Koskinen. But now that the impeachment process is moving forward, they face a delicate decision: Are they willing to toss 200-plus years of precedent to bring him down?
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RedState, Daily Kos and Politicus USA
Anya / People.com:
House Speaker Paul Ryan Reveals the ‘Hardest Question’ He Gets (and It's Not About Donald Trump) — Wisconsin congressman Paul Ryan says he wasn't trying to make parenting history last fall when he accepted the job of House Speaker on one condition: weekends off at home with his wife and their three kids.
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Talking Points Memo and Politico
National Geographic:
Your Top 10 Questions About the Pluto Flyby Answered — Are you ready for New Horizons' close encounter on Tuesday? Learn why the spacecraft won't be stopping at the dwarf planet and much more. — Enlarge — NASA's New Horizons spacecraft will fly within 8,000 miles of Pluto on Tuesday …
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Washington Monthly and NBC News
USA Today:
Exclusive: Trump's 3,500 lawsuits unprecedented for a presidential nominee — Our project found about 3,500 legal actions involving Trump, including 1,900 where he or his companies were a plaintiff and about 1,300 in which he was the defendant. Due to his branding value, Trump is determined to defend his name and reputation.
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Kara O'Neill / Mirror.co.uk:
Secret apocalypse bunker ‘buried beneath Denver airport as US government prepares for end of days’ — Some believe that the airport is hiding a series of tunnels and secret bases that will be used in the event of the end of the world — Conspiracy theorists claim a secret bunker …
Thomas B. Edsall / New York Times:
The Anti-P.C. Vote — We know that resentment is driving much of Donald Trump's success — resentment of elites, of the political class, of illegal immigrants, of protesters, of the media — and perhaps most particularly of changes in the demographic makeup of the country that Trump and his followers find unwelcome.
Mark Hensch / The Hill:
Cory Booker laces into Trump in VP tryout — Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) on Wednesday fueled speculation that he could be Hillary Clinton — 's vice presidential pick with an all-out assault on Donald Trump — at a campaign event in New Jersey. — “The issues we hear Donald Trump talking …
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