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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:
Police investigating shooting on campus, 2 dead — Police have confirmed that two people are dead in a shooting at UCLA's Engineering IV building. Police are now sweeping the building, looking for a shooter. — Police are investigating a shooting in Engineering IV.
Lauren Meltzer / CBS Los Angeles:
LAPD: 2 Dead In Apparent Murder-Suicide On UCLA Campus; Lockdown Lifted
LAPD: 2 Dead In Apparent Murder-Suicide On UCLA Campus; Lockdown Lifted
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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 …
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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.
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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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Jacob Gershman / Wall Street Journal:
Ex-Employees Criticize Trump University, Calling It ‘Scheme’ and ‘Total Lie’
Ex-Employees Criticize Trump University, Calling It ‘Scheme’ and ‘Total Lie’
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Guardian
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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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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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.
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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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CNN:
CNN Poll of Polls: Two points separate Clinton and Trump — Washington (CNN)With the final primaries of the 2016 nomination season approaching, a new CNN Poll of Polls finds the candidates most likely to lead their parties into the general election are locked in a tight contest.
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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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Martin Longman / Washington Monthly:
Obamacare Breaks Through in Louisiana
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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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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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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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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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.
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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 …
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 …
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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Robert Costa / Washington Post:
Conservative Tennessee attorney David French is urged to enter presidential race as independent — Tennessee attorney David French, who in recent years has become a prominent right-wing writer, is being urged by some conservative leaders to make a late entry into the 2016 presidential race …
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.
Michelle Cottle / The Atlantic:
The Lament of the Anti-Trump Republican Women — What could possibly be more ulcer-inducing than being a member of the endlessly repudiated and humiliated Republican establishment this election cycle? Easy: being a female member of said establishment. — It's unsettling enough …
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.
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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Jeffrey Toobin / New Yorker:
What Donald Trump Thinks Judges Are Good For — In one respect, Donald Trump has been unusually explicit about his judicial preferences. Last month, Trump, the presumptive Republican nominee, announced a list of judges whom he might nominate for the Supreme Court, if he's elected President.
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Richard N. Velotta / Las Vegas Review-Journal:
Las Vegas Sands Corp., Steven Jacobs reach confidential settlement in wrongful termination case — The Las Vegas Sands Corp. Tuesday settled a six-year-long lawsuit filed by a former top executive of its Macau operations. — A confidential settlement was reached between Sands and Steven Jacobs …
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