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2:15 PM ET, June 1, 2016

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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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Matt Ford / The Atlantic:
The Art of the Swindle  —  Predators, by and large, do not attack the strongest prey in the wild.  They instead target the vulnerable, the very young, and the very old—the prey that is least able to defend itself.  —  Trump University, the defunct real-estate education program created …
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 …
New York Times:
Donald Trump and the Judge  —  Donald Trump's presidential candidacy presents decent people everywhere with a dilemma: Sprayed with an open fire hose of schoolyard insults, locker-room vulgarities and bizarre policy pitches by the presumptive Republican nominee, they must make hard choices.
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’  —  During a discussion on pockets of anti-immigrant beliefs in Europe, interviewer Michael Wolff asked Trump, “And Brexit?  Your position?”  —  “Huh?”  Trump asked in response, according to the Hollywood Reporter.  —  “Brexit,” Wolff then repeated.
Discussion: Vox, The Daily Caller and The Atlantic
UCLA:
Police investigating shooting on campus, 2 victims confirmed  —  Police are investigating a shooting in Engineering IV.  Police are on the scene and report that there are two victims.  The campus remains on lockdown.  —  People are being asked to shelter in place.  —  Updates will be posted as they become available.
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Joseph Serna / Los Angeles Times:
Shooting at UCLA prompts campus lockdown  —  Two people were injured in a shooting at UCLA on Wednesday morning, prompting a massive response from local and federal law enforcement, officials said.  —  The campus was placed on lockdown just after 10 a.m., as police searched for the gunman, according to the university.
Discussion: Raw Story and The Week
Allegra Kirkland / Talking Points Memo:
Police: 2 Victims In Shooting At UCLA Engineering Building
Discussion: CNN, ABC News and The Daily Caller
Anne Gearan / Washington Post:
Clinton launching national security case against Trump in California speech  —  Retired Army Col. Peter Mansoor plans to vote for Hillary Clinton for president this year, but not because the longtime Republican and former top aide to then-Gen. David Petraeus has had a political conversion.
Discussion: Bloomberg.com, Daily Kos and The Week
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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 …
Todd S. Purdum / Politico:   Whither Jerry Brown Goes, So Will Many Democrats
Abby Phillip / Washington Post:
Leading liberals begin new push to unify Democrats around Clinton
Discussion: Politicus USA
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.
Stacey Burling / Philly.com:
Study: More Americans are having gay sex  —  A growing number of Americans are having gay sex, or at least admitting to it.  And that's OK with more and more of us.  —  “People over time are reporting more same-sex sexual experiences than ever before,” said Brooke Wells …
Harper Neidig / The Hill:
Half of voters think Clinton's private email server use was illegal  —  Half of all voters think that Hillary Clinton  —  's use of a private email server during her time as secretary of State was illegal, according to a new Morning Consult poll released Wednesday.
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Annie Karni / Politico:
Emails block Clinton's pivot to positive
Discussion: The Hill, RedState, ABC News and NBC News
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.
Bloomberg:
Kristol Eyes Conservative Lawyer for Independent Presidential Run  —  Bill Kristol is considering recruiting David French to run against Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton, two Republicans tell Bloomberg Politics.  —  MarkHalperin  —  jheil  —  Two Republicans intimately familiar …
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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) …
Discussion: Washington Monthly and The Hayride
Charlie Spiering / Breitbart:
Records: Hillary Clinton Has Donated $70,000 To Veterans  —  Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and her husband Bill Clinton have donated $70,000 to veterans and military groups from their personal Clinton Family Foundation in recent years, according to public records.
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Rachel Stockman / LawNewz:
Guess Who Else Paid Out Big Bucks For Clinton Speeches?
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.
Discussion: Politico
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?
Discussion: Daily Kos and Politicus USA
Media Matters for America:
Rush Limbaugh Baffled By Evolution  —  RUSH LIMBAUGH (HOST): This woman obviously has not read Genesis, and even if she did it wouldn't have any impact on her.  But human beings travel all over the world to gawk at animals precisely because they're unusual, they're interesting, some are cute, some are deadly.
Discussion: Raw Story and Friendly Atheist
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CNN:
Cincinnati gorilla incident: Police investigating boy's family
Jesse Byrnes / The Hill:
MSNBC interrupts Libertarian candidate to talk to Clinton  —  MSNBC interrupted an interview with Libertarian Party presidential nominee Gary Johnson and running mate William Weld on Tuesday evening for a phone interview with Hillary Clinton  —  “Governors, I want to pause here for a second …
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Jonathan Swan / The Hill:
Million-dollar super-PAC donation coming for Libertarian ticket
Joe Pappalardo / Popular Mechanics:
The XCOR Lynx Spaceplane Might Be Down for the Count  —  With its anchor tenant's spaceplane put on ice, can one Texas spaceport shrug it off?  —  It is bound to happen.  There are so many space vehicles being designed, tested, and funded that some will never fly.
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.
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit and Daily Kos
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.
Discussion: The Daily Caller
 
 
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GOP Voters Are Rallying Behind Trump As If He Were Any Other Candidate
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Ed O'Keefe / Washington Post:
Inside Democrats' Trump-fueled scramble to take back the House
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