Top Items:
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.
RELATED:
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.
Discussion:
Washington Post, Raw Story, New York Magazine, Los Angeles Times, Vox, Outside the Beltway, Hullabaloo, The Root, Althouse, Boing Boing, liberalamerica.org, Mashable and The Big Lead
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
Obamas, Clintons and Trump pay tribute to Muhammad Ali
Discussion:
ABC News, Business Insider, Clinton Foundation, The Daily Caller and Independent Journal …
Dave Zirin / The Nation:
‘I JUST WANTED TO BE FREE’: THE RADICAL REVERBERATIONS OF MUHAMMAD ALI
‘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
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
Corky Siemaszko / NBC News:
Muhammad Ali in ‘Grave Condition’ in Phoenix Hospital
Muhammad Ali in ‘Grave Condition’ in Phoenix Hospital
Discussion:
Los Angeles Times, The Atlantic, Courier-Journal, WGN-TV, fox13now.com, FOX31 Denver, KTOO and Newser
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:
Daily Kos and Texas Monthly
RELATED:
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.
Discussion:
Talking Points Memo, Wall Street Journal, Daily Kos, 89.3 KPCC, New York Magazine, The Atlantic and The Nation
Theodore Schleifer / CNN:
CNN's Ana Navarro tears into Trump over criticism of Mexican-American judge
CNN's Ana Navarro tears into Trump over criticism of Mexican-American judge
Discussion:
Raw Story, Business Insider and Joe.My.God.
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 …
Discussion:
New York Times, CNN, NBC News, Newser, BizPac Review, Raw Story and Mediaite
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 and Politico
RELATED:
Los Angeles Times:
Opinion Hillary Clinton is the better candidate to take on Trump
Opinion Hillary Clinton is the better candidate to take on Trump
Discussion:
CNN, Realtime Politics, San Francisco Chronicle and Politico
Dan Merica / CNN:
Clinton: Trump deserves some blame for violence outside events
Clinton: Trump deserves some blame for violence outside events
Discussion:
Wall Street Journal, The Gateway Pundit, MichelleMalkin.com, Hot Air, Politico, Truth Revolt, Joe.My.God., twitchy.com and whorunsGov
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 …
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
RELATED:
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.
Discussion:
RedState, Washington Examiner and Shadow and Act
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.
Discussion:
John Hawkins' Right Wing News
RELATED:
Matthew Yglesias / Vox:
That time Donald Trump said there were no Muslim American sports heroes — Muhammed Ali played many roles over the course of a life that sadly ended yesterday. High on the list are that he was an iconic boxing champion and probably the first American Muslim to be really widely known.
Discussion:
The Right Scoop and Politicus USA
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
Jon Henley / Observer:
Sweden leads the race to become cashless society — Swedes are blazing a trail in Europe, with banks, buses, street vendors and even churches expecting plastic or virtual payment — In 1661, Stockholms Banco, the precursor to the Swedish central bank, issued Europe's first banknotes …