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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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Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Judge tries to reseal Trump University documents — Just as documents unsealed in a class-action lawsuit over Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump's Trump University real estate program made a huge splash in the media, the judge who ordered the release of the information is trying to put some of it back under wraps.
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Caitlin Yilek / The Hill:
Judge in Trump University reseals some documents — The judge who ordered the release of hundreds of documents related to the lawsuit over Donald Trump — 's Trump University real estate program has now resealed some of the documents. — The move comes a day after 381 documents …
Jeffrey Toobin / New Yorker:
What Donald Trump Thinks Judges Are Good For
What Donald Trump Thinks Judges Are Good For
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Nick Gass / Politico:
Clinton camp leverages Rubio ‘con man’ hit on Trump
Clinton camp leverages Rubio ‘con man’ hit on Trump
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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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Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
Trump Has Solid Lead Over Clinton in Georgia — PPP's new Georgia poll finds that the prospect of Democrats flipping the state blue in the Presidential race may have diminished with the unification of Republican voters around Donald Trump in the last month.
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Mark Murray / NBC News:
Dead Heat in California: Clinton, Sanders Tied in New Poll
Dead Heat in California: Clinton, Sanders Tied in New Poll
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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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Thomas L. Friedman / New York Times:
Politicians and the Lies That Matter
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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Anne Gearan / Washington Post:
Clinton launching national security case against Trump in California speech
Clinton launching national security case against Trump in California speech
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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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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 for the day — 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.
Fox News:
2 dead after murder-suicide on UCLA campus
2 dead after murder-suicide on UCLA campus
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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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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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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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Jesse Byrnes / The Hill:
Trump involved in 3,500 lawsuits: report — could become the most litigious commander in chief ever elected, according to a new analysis that found an unprecedented number of lawsuits involving a presidential candidate. — Trump and his businesses have been involved in at least 3,500 legal actions …
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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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Mark Hensch / The Hill:
Trump apparently stumped by ‘Brexit’ question
Trump apparently stumped by ‘Brexit’ question
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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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cmnh.org:
Scientists Pioneer New Method to Identify Mantises — Scientists from The Cleveland Museum of Natural History have pioneered a new method to identify praying mantises. They described a new species of leaf-dwelling mantis by establishing a female genitalia character system.
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Rachel Feltman / Washington Post:
New praying mantis honors Ruth Bader Ginsburg, equality and frilly neckwear
New praying mantis honors Ruth Bader Ginsburg, equality and frilly neckwear
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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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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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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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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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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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ESPN:
Kenneth Starr stepping down as Baylor chancellor — Kenneth Starr is resigning as chancellor at Baylor in the wake of a huge shakeup at the university, but he will continue to teach in the law school, the former school president told ESPN's Joe Schad on Wednesday.
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Clinton tech aide plans to take the Fifth at deposition — A former information technology adviser to Hillary Clinton plans to exercise his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination at a deposition next week and wants to prevent any video recording being made of the session.
Norm Ornstein / Politico:
How Trump Is Using the Presidency to Sell Trump Inc. — It is almost impossible to separate Donald Trump the presidential candidate from Donald Trump the businessman and huckster—one whose name is synonymous with the many hotels, buildings, golf courses and products, including a university …
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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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CNN:
Source: Obama ‘ready to explode’ onto 2016 campaign trail — (CNN)President Barack Obama heads to Elkhart, Indiana, on Wednesday to tout the economic progress made since his first visit there in 2009, but he is also expected to wade into the 2016 election — and he's “ready to go” on the campaign trail, a source says.
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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.
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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