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2:40 PM ET, June 4, 2016

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Robert Lipsyte / New York Times:
Muhammad Ali, Titan of Boxing and the 20th Century, Dies at 74  —  Muhammad Ali, the three-time world heavyweight boxing champion who helped define his turbulent times as the most charismatic and controversial sports figure of the 20th century, died on Friday.  He was 74.
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Jon Schuppe / NBC News:
Muhammad Ali, ‘The Greatest of All Time’, Dead at 74  —  Heavyweight champion Muhammad Ali stands over fallen challenger Sonny Liston, shouting and gesturing shortly after dropping Liston with a short hard right to the jaw on May 25, 1965, in Lewiston, Maine.  The bout lasted only one minute into the first round.
David Remnick / New Yorker:
The Outsized Life of Muhammad Ali  —  What a loss to suffer, even if for years you knew it was coming.  Muhammad Ali, who died Friday, in Phoenix, at the age of seventy-four, was the most fantastical American figure of his era, a self-invented character of such physical wit, political defiance …
Discussion: CANNONFIRE
The White House:
Statement from President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama on the Passing of Muhammad Ali  —  Muhammad Ali was The Greatest.  Period.  If you just asked him, he'd tell you.  He'd tell you he was the double greatest; that he'd “handcuffed lightning, thrown thunder into jail.”
Discussion: New York Times, USA Today and The Week
Ali Breland / Politico:
Obamas, Clintons and Trump pay tribute to Muhammad Ali
Discussion: Clinton Foundation
The New / New York Times:
Muhammad Ali's Words Stung Like a Bee, Too
Discussion: Guardian, USA Today and Newser
Dave Zirin / The Nation:
‘I JUST WANTED TO BE FREE’: THE RADICAL REVERBERATIONS OF MUHAMMAD ALI
Discussion: ThinkProgress and Yahoo Sports
CBS News:
​Muhammad Ali, boxing legend and cultural icon, dies
Discussion: CBS New York and fox8.com
Jonathan Eig / Wall Street Journal:   Muhammad Ali, the Greatest, Dies at 74
Steve Almasy / CNN:
Muhammad Ali dies at 74
Discussion: fox13now.com, Daily Kos and alan.com
Associated Press:
Beyond California, Sanders Signaling Post-Primary Future  —  The end of the primaries looming, Bernie Sanders' political revolution — and how far he's willing to take his presidential campaign — may hinge on the outcome of the California primary.  —  Hillary Clinton is poised to clinch …
Discussion: Washington Post
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Louis Nelson / Politico:
Warren pulls no punches in latest Trump attack  —  Donald Trump is an “insecure moneygrubber,” Sen. Elizabeth Warren told the assembled Democrats of Massachusetts at the state's party convention Saturday.  —  He is also, according to Warren's prepared remarks: Scary, loud, outrageous …
Discussion: Politicus USA and U.S. Uncut
Alberto R. Gonzales / Washington Post:
Alberto R. Gonzales: Trump has a right to ask if Judge Gonzalo Curiel is fair  —  If judges aren't seen as impartial, the public will lose faith in the rule of law.  —  Donald Trump suggested this week that U.S. District Court Judge Gonzalo Curiel can't give him a fair hearing.
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Paul Waldman / Washington Post:
The media have reached a turning point in covering Donald Trump.  He may not survive it.  —  The news media have come in for a lot of criticism in the way they've reported this election, which makes it exactly like every other election.  But something may have changed just in the last few days.
Discussion: neo-neocon, Daily Kos and Texas Monthly
Andreas Fuhrmann / redding.com:
Cheadle: I'm Trump's ‘African-American’  —  Presidential Candidate Donald Trump talks to Gregory Cheadle of Redding, right, after his speech at the Redding Municipal Airport.  Trump called out Cheadle as “my African-American over here” during his speech.  —  Andreas Fuhrmann/Record Searchlight …
Katie J.M. Baker / BuzzFeed:
Here Is The Powerful Letter The Stanford Victim Read Aloud To Her Attacker … TRENDING  —  One night in January 2015,  —  two Stanford University graduate students biking across campus spotted a freshman thrusting his body on top of an unconscious, half-naked woman behind a dumpster.
Discussion: Newser
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New York Times:
The Benghazi Committee's Dead End  —  After running a congressional oversight committee like a Republican opposition research shop for more than two years, Representative Trey Gowdy appears to be gearing up for the finale.  Democrats on the Select Committee on Benghazi expect that a final report …
Mark Hensch / The Hill:
Reid looking into replacing Warren if she's Clinton's VP: report  —  (D-Nev.) is reviewing ways to keep Sen. Elizabeth Warren  —  's (D-Mass.) seat blue if she becomes vice president, according to The Boston Globe.  —  Warren is heavily rumored to be in the mix to be Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton
Discussion: USA Today and The Gateway Pundit
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Eric Posner / New York Times:
And if Elected: What President Trump Could or Couldn't Do  —  DONALD TRUMP clearly holds grudges.  He has hurled insults at governors, senators, a judge who recently ruled against him and Miss Universe 2014.  He has also attacked the press, arguing that as president he will “open up” …
Discussion: Prairie Weather
Ariane Lange / BuzzFeed:
“Idiocracy” Writer Says Donald Trump Made The Movie A Reality Faster Than He Ever Imagined  —  Idiocracy screenwriter Etan Cohen talks to BuzzFeed News about his 2006 movie “coming true” with the 2016 election and the anti-Trump ads he's working on with Camacho himself, Terry Crews.
Carmine Sabia / BizPac Review:
Hillary made another major screwup on emails that could cost intelligence officials lives  —  Want more hot BPR News stories?  Sign up for our morning blast HERE  —  This could be the smoking gun that proves Hillary Clinton violated the Espionage Act with her private email server.
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Patrick Howley / Breitbart:
Hillary Clinton posted and shared the names of concealed U.S. intelligence officials on her unprotected email system.
Discussion: Pirate's Cove
 
 
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Matthew Yglesias / Vox:
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