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Rep. Paul Ryan / GazetteXtra:
Paul Ryan: Donald Trump can help make reality of bold House policy agenda — When Donald Trump became the Republican Party's presumptive nominee for president one month ago, many Republicans like me faced a big question. — Six months earlier, in October, as I was taking the job as House speaker …
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Frank Schultz / GazetteXtra:
Paul Ryan says he will vote for Donald Trump — The speaker of the House of Representatives says he will vote for Donald Trump. — Rep. Paul Ryan made that statement in a column submitted Thursday for publication in The Gazette, his hometown newspaper. — The statement at least partially answers …
Detroit News:
Snyder decides against endorsing Trump for president — Gov. Rick Snyder has sidelined himself in the race for president, choosing not to make an endorsement of Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump. — The Republican governor also did not endorse in the March 8 primary …
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Katie Reilly / TIME:
Read Hillary Clinton's Speech on Donald Trump and National Security — “Donald Trump's ideas aren't just different - they are dangerously incoherent” — Hillary Clinton tore into presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump during a speech on national security Thursday, casting him as …
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Matthew Yglesias / Vox:
CNN has finally figured out how to cover Donald Trump's constant lying — Covering Donald Trump is great for ratings, and Trump is unusually willing to appear on cable television at basically all times, which is convenient for the cable networks. But cable news has often struggled …
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Zack Beauchamp / Vox:
Hillary Clinton just made her best case against Donald Trump — Hillary Clinton just took her biggest shot yet at the idea of President Donald Trump. — Thursday afternoon, Clinton gave a speech that was billed as a major foreign address. Indeed, the speech was structured …
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Nolan D. McCaskill / Politico:
Clinton warns electing Trump would be ‘historic mistake’
Clinton warns electing Trump would be ‘historic mistake’
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Amy Chozick / New York Times:
Hillary Clinton to Portray Donald Trump's Foreign Policy Positions as Dangerous
Hillary Clinton to Portray Donald Trump's Foreign Policy Positions as Dangerous
Dan Merica / CNN:
Hillary Clinton: Trump is ‘temperamentally unfit’ to be president
Hillary Clinton: Trump is ‘temperamentally unfit’ to be president
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Wkrn Web / WKRN-TV:
Pilot killed after U.S. Navy Blue Angels jet crashes in Smyrna — SMYRNA, Tenn. - A pilot was killed after a U.S. Navy Blue Angels jet crashed Thursday afternoon in Smyrna ahead of the Great Tennessee Airshow this weekend. — The F/A-18 aircraft crashed at 3 p.m. behind the Sam Davis Home …
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Tennessean.com:
Fire chief: 1 dead after Navy Blue Angel jet crash in Smyrna … This photo was taken moments after the crash of a Blue Angel jet outside the Smyrna Airport on Thursday afternoon. Becca Cullison-Burgess / FOR THE TENNESSEAN — 1 of 4 — Last Slide — Next Slide
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Fox News:
Pilot killed after US Navy Blue Angels jet crashes in Tennessee
Pilot killed after US Navy Blue Angels jet crashes in Tennessee
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Hunter Walker / Yahoo:
Bill Clinton delivers a sharp message to Donald Trump and his base — CRANFORD, N.J. — President Bill Clinton dismissed presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump's policies as “divisive” and ineffective at a Wednesday campaign event for his wife, Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton.
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Ronald Kessler For / Daily Mail:
EXCLUSIVE: Hillary ‘triggered’ suicide of President Bill Clinton's counsel Vince Foster when she attacked and humiliated him in front of White House staff one week before his death, FBI agents claim — Deputy White House Counsel Vince Foster shot himself with a .38 caliber revolver …
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Los Angeles Times:
UCLA gunman had accused slain professor of stealing his computer code, sources say — Police respond to the UCLA campus after a shooting Wednesday. (Al Seib / Los Angeles Times) — The gunman who shot and killed a UCLA professor Wednesday has been identified as Mainak Sarkar …
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Louis Nelson / Politico:
Holder on Joe Wilson's outburst: They should have told him to ‘sit the f— down’ — Recalling Rep. Joe Wilson's 2009 outburst during President Barack Obama's address to a joint session of Congress, former Attorney General Eric Holder didn't mince words regarding the South Carolina congressman.
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Michael A. Fletcher / The Undefeated:
A Question of Racism — What's behind the vitriol in the opposition to Obama?
A Question of Racism — What's behind the vitriol in the opposition to Obama?
Claire Landsbaum / New York Magazine:
Why Hillary Clinton Is Avoiding Press Conferences — She's playing to her strengths, as any politician would. — Pin It — Hillary Clinton hasn't held a press conference in 180 days. That fact hasn't been lost on reporters who cover her, nor has it escaped the notice of her Republican opponent.
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Matthew Balan / NewsBusters:
Daily Mail Editor: ‘A Lot’ of the Reporters Covering Hillary Are ‘Fans,’ ‘In Awe’
Daily Mail Editor: ‘A Lot’ of the Reporters Covering Hillary Are ‘Fans,’ ‘In Awe’
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Sheboygan Press Media:
Party leads to alleged sexual assault — SHEBOYGAN - A 19-year-old Grafton man is facing first degree sexual assault charges after drinking at a party and allegedly threatening to cut a woman if she didn't have sex with him. — Anthony J. Zingale, who was also charged with carrying a concealed weapon …
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Seanna Adcox / Associated Press:
Haley talks of Trump, Confederate flag ahead of anniversary — COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley said Thursday she wishes Donald Trump communicated differently because bad things result from divisive rhetoric, as evidenced by last June's massacre in Charleston.
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Adrian Carrasquillo / BuzzFeed:
The RNC's New Hispanic Media Director Bashed Trump Nonstop For Months — After the Republican National Committee Hispanic Media Director left Wednesday because of discomfort with working to elect Donald Trump, the RNC moved quickly to announce a replacement: commentator and journalist Helen Aguirre Ferré.
Philip Klinkner / Vox:
The easiest way to guess if someone supports Trump? Ask if Obama is a Muslim. — You can ask just one simple question to find out whether someone likes Donald Trump more than Hillary Clinton: Is Barack Obama a Muslim? If they are white and the answer is yes, 89 percent of the time that person …
Ken Shepherd / Washington Times:
Journalists need to denounce State Department ‘censorship’: CNN's Jake Tapper — Asked for his thoughts about the State Department's admission on Wednesday that it edited a 2013 press briefing to remove comments by a spokeswoman — Foggy Bottom initially passed off the omission as a technical glitch …
Josh Harkinson / Mother Jones:
Trump Delegate Says Current US Leaders May Need to Be “Killed” — Last December, Donald Trump's presidential campaign approved David Riden to be a delegate candidate on the Tennessee ballot, and when the state held its primary in March, voters selected Riden to go to the Republican National Convention.
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David McCabe / The Hill:
Trump's aversion to data puts RNC on the hot seat — 's apparent uninterest in using data and analytics in his campaign is putting pressure on the Republican National Committee (RNC), which could be forced to fill the gaps in the general election. — The RNC says it is ready for the challenge …
Andrew Kaczynski / BuzzFeed:
Mark Cuban: Trump “Appears To Never To Have Met A Lie He Didn't Love” — “From what I see today, I think he would be a puppet president.” — Billionaire businessman and investor Mark Cuban, who earlier this week questioned Donald Trump's billionaire status, told BuzzFeed News …
Mark Hosenball / Reuters:
Some officials worry about briefing Trump, fearing spilled secrets — Some U.S. intelligence officials are concerned that Donald Trump's “shoot from the hip” style could pose national security risks as they prepare to give him a routine pre-election briefing once he is formally anointed as the Republican presidential nominee.
Dan Rather / Facebook:
I felt a shudder down my spine yesterday watching Donald Trump's fusilade against the press. This is not a moment to be trifled with. It wasn't his first tirade and it won't be his last. — I was reminded of my college journalism professor, the late Hugh Cunningham …
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Michael Tarm / Associated Press:
APNewsBreak: Official says Prince died of opioid overdose — CHICAGO (AP) — Tests show that Prince died of an opioid overdose, a law-enforcement official told The Associated Press on Thursday. — The 57-year-old singer was found dead April 21 at his Minneapolis-area estate.
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Tom Vanden Brook / USA Today:
3 Fort Hood soldiers dead, 6 missing after Army truck overturns in flooding — FORT HOOD, Texas — At least three soldiers were killed Thursday at Foot Hood in Texas when their truck overturned in a creek, according to the Army. — Rescue crews remained on the scene late Thursday afternoon.
Ezra Klein / Vox:
Elon Musk believes we are probably characters in some advanced civilization's video game — By far the best moment of Recode's annual Code Conference was when Elon Musk took the stage and explained that though we think we're flesh-and-blood participants in a physical world …
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