memeorandum: Op-Ed Don't remember Muhammad Ali as a sanctified sports hero. He was a powerful, dangerous political force (Dave Zirin/Los Angeles Times)

9:00 AM ET, June 5, 2016

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Devin Henry / The Hill:

Sanders, Clinton fight for green vote in tight Calif. race — are both hoping green voters will put them over the top as they near the end of a tight California primary fight. — Clinton this week locked up two key endorsements — from an environmental group and Gov. Jerry Brown (D) …

Aleister / The Gateway Pundit:

Elizabeth Warren Claims She's Against Democrat Superdelegate System Then Admits She is One (VIDEO) — Talk about speaking with a forked tongue. — At a Democratic Party event this weekend, Elizabeth Warren claimed she's opposed to her party's superdelegate system.

Gintautas Dumcius / Union-News:

Sen. Elizabeth Warren: 'I don't believe in super-delegates' — WATCH: Sen. Elizabeth Warren on Super-Delegates — LOWELL - U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren, who remains publicly unaligned in the 2016 presidential primary between Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders, is no fan of super-delegates.

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Lauren Dezenski / Politico:
Warren: 'I don't believe in superdelegates'

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Louis Nelson / Politico:
Warren pulls no punches in latest Trump attack

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Mark Hensch / The Hill:
Reid looking into replacing Warren if she's Clinton's VP: report

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Associated Press:
Sanders Predicts Democratic Convention Will Be Contested

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Dan Balz / Washington Post:

Pushing racial boundaries, Trump draws rebuke from a fretful GOP — Donald Trump, whose campaign for president has crashed through one barrier after another, has again moved his candidacy into highly questionable territory, threatening to stir more racial animosity in an already divided country …

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Mark Hensch / The Hill:

Former attorney general: Trump right to question judge's fairness — Former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales says Donald Trump — is right to challenge the fairness a judge overseeing lawsuits against him. — “An independent judiciary is extremely important.

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CNN: Ryan, Clinton slam Trump over racial criticism of judge

David Mack / BuzzFeed:

We Spoke To The Family In This Trump Tweet And They're Not Happy — The picture was not taken at a Trump rally, but rather at a black family reunion in Cincinnati last year. — On Saturday morning, Donald Trump shared a tweet from a supporter that purported to show a black family on the “Trump Train.”

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Oliver Willis / Addicting Info:
Trump Tweets FAKE Photo Of Black Supporters After Racist Meltdown

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Maria Sacchetti / BostonGlobe.com:

Criminal immigrants reoffend at higher rates than ICE has suggested — They were among the nation's top priorities for deportation, criminals who were supposed to be sent back to their home countries. But instead they were released, one by one, in secret across the United States.

Dave Zirin / Los Angeles Times:

Op-Ed Don't remember Muhammad Ali as a sanctified sports hero. He was a powerful, dangerous political force — Muhammad Ali with his chief attorney Hayden Covington, right, on June 19, 1967 in Houston, Tex., as Ali goes to trial on charges of refusing to be inducted into the armed services.

Michael Falcone / ABC News:
What Muhammad Ali Once Said About Donald Trump's Muslim Ban Proposal

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The White House:
Statement from President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama on the Passing of Muhammad Ali

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Rick Wilson / Heat Street:

After Judge Curiel, What Will Endorsing Donald Trump do To GOP Candidates? — Dear Republicans: — Imagine it's the Fall of this year and you're a U.S. House or Senate candidate in a swing district or state. Your Democratic opponent is running a low-risk campaign, having pivoted to the slightly-center-left with aplomb.

Matt Viser / BostonGlobe.com:

Trump campaign pays women less than men — WASHINGTON — Donald Trump has paid men on his campaign staff one-third more than women, while Hillary Clinton has compensated men and women equally, according to a Globe analysis of payroll data for both campaigns.

Bob Fredericks / New York Post:

Trump: Hillary hates Obama but sucks up to him to avoid jail — More On: — Donald Trump came up with a new insult for Hillary Clinton on Friday, calling her a “thief” and charging that she sucks up to President Obama so he will keep her out of jail over her email scandal. — “Hillary hates Obama.

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VICE News:

Exclusive: Snowden Tried to Tell NSA About Surveillance Concerns, Documents Reveal — On the morning of May 29, 2014, an overcast Thursday in Washington, DC, the general counsel of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI), Robert Litt, wrote an email to high-level officials …

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