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6:25 PM ET, June 8, 2016

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Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
Pennsylvania Close; Sanders Supporter Unity Would Make It Not Close  —  PPP's new Pennsylvania poll finds a close race between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump in the state, although both a generic Democratic candidate and Bernie Sanders have more substantial leads that bode well for Clinton's chances …
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Gabriel Debenedetti / Politico:
Inside the bitter last days of Bernie's revolution  —  There's no strategist pulling the strings, and no collection of burn-it-all-down aides egging him on.  At the heart of the rage against Hillary Clinton and the Democratic Party, the campaign aides closest to him say, is Bernie Sanders.
Allegra Kirkland / Talking Points Memo:
MoveOn To Sanders: ‘Undemocratic Superdelegates’ Can't Overturn Voters  —  One of the largest advocacy groups to endorse Bernie Sanders on Wednesday gently nudged the Vermont senator toward the exit, arguing that the Democratic nomination can't be won on the backs of “undemocratic superdelegates.”
New York Times:
Hillary Clinton Made History, but Bernie Sanders Stubbornly Ignored It  —  Revolutions rarely give way to gracious expressions of defeat.  —  And so, despite the crushing California results that rolled in for him on Tuesday night, despite the insurmountable delegate math and the growing pleas …
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Top supporters of Bernie Sanders gently tell him: It's time
New York Times:
After Victory in California, Hillary Clinton Turns Toward Donald Trump
John Wagner / Washington Post:
Sanders's rationale for staying in the race may no longer include winning
Discussion: Politico
Scott Clement / Washington Post:
Will Bernie Sanders supporters rally behind Hillary Clinton now? Here's what we know.
James Hohmann / Washington Post:
The Daily 202: Primary wins show Hillary Clinton needs the left less than pro-Sanders liberals think
Bloomberg:
Trump Says ‘No Reason’ to Raise $1 Billion for Campaign  —  In his first interview after the final day of Republican nomination contests, he also said his running-mate search was focused on four or five politicians.  —  michaelcbender  —  Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald …
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Zeke J Miller / TIME:
Donald Trump Says He's ‘Disappointed’ by Criticism From Republican Leaders  —  “I didn't think it was necessary”  —  Presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump said in an interview Wednesday that he was “disappointed and surprised” by Republican leaders who criticized his comments about a federal judge as “racist.”
Discussion: Politico
John Amato / Latest from Crooks and Liars:
Jeffrey Lord Makes A Mockery Out Of CNN's Election Night Coverage UPDATED  —  There comes a time when a network has to take action against one of their panel members, because they routinely stray from the topic at hand, invent historical analogies and fabricate events that never took place, and refuse to answer simple questions.
Discussion: Los Angeles Times and Hullabaloo
Francis Wilkinson / Bloomberg:   The Republican Party Can Get Even Worse
Alex Griswold / Mediaite:
Conservative Radio Host Hugh Hewitt Says GOP Should Change Convention Rules to Dump Trump  —  Conservative talk show host Hugh Hewitt argued Wednesday morning that the Republican Party should make an unprecedented effort to change the Republican National Convention rules to allow them to dump Donald Trump as their nominee.
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Streiff / RedState:
BREAKING.  Hugh Hewitt Calls For Convention To Reject Trump (FULL AUDIO)  —  Whoa.  —  This morning talk show host Hugh Hewitt called for the GOP convention to change the rules to allow for an alternative candidate to be selected.  (Full disclosure, Hewitt is affiliated with Salem Media Group which owns RedState.)
Thomas L. Friedman / New York Times:
Dump the G.O.P. for a Grand New Party  —  If a party could declare moral bankruptcy, today's Republican Party would be in Chapter 11.  —  This party needs to just shut itself down and start over — now.  Seriously, someone please start a New Republican Party!  —  America needs a healthy two-party system.
Leon H. Wolf / RedState:
RUMORS: Scott Walker Would Accept Nomination if Trump Implodes Before Convention  —  Rumors are starting to float around that Scott Walker is open to accepting the nomination at the convention, if the wheels continue to come off the Trump train and the rules are changed to unbind the delegate.
Discussion: WKOW 27, Hot Air, The Hill and Politico
Fredreka Schouten / USA Today:
Exclusive: Koch's team to meet Trump's camp, but industrialist remains skeptical  —  WICHITA, Kan. — Top officials within Charles Koch's powerful policy network plan to meet with aides to presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, the industrialist told USA TODAY on Wednesday.
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Jason Noble / Des Moines Register:
Grassley equates Trump's judge comments with Sotomoyor's ‘wise Latina’ logic
Yaniv Kubovich / Haaretz:
At Least Three Killed, Seven Wounded in Shooting Attack at Food and Retail Center in Central Tel Aviv  —  Shooting occurred at Sarona Market, a food and retail center in central Tel Aviv.  Two gunmen captured and are in police custody.  —  Zen Subscribe now
Discussion: The Atlantic, Fox News, Jihad Watch and NPR
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BBC:
Tel Aviv shooting: Three killed in shopping centre attack
Discussion: CNN and mrctv.org/videos
Cal Thomas:
Trump Interview - The Transcript  —  CT: My grandparents used to play a parlor game.  It went like this: Tell me who you are without telling me your name or what you do.  We have seen your tough exterior, but who are you at your core and what is your basic philosophy and worldview?
CBS News:
Student who helped stop Stanford sexual assault describes what he saw  —  A northern California judge faces outrage over the sentence he handed down in a sexual assault case at Stanford University.  Brock Turner was given six months in jail for the assault of a woman outside a fraternity party.
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Julian Hattem / The Hill:
FBI: Everything on Clinton is ‘evidence’ or ‘potential evidence’  —  The FBI is treating everything on the private server used to run former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton  —  's personal email account as evidence or possible evidence as part of the federal investigation connected to the machine …
Discussion: Hot Air
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Andrew Kaczynski / BuzzFeed:
Rep. Duncan Hunter Compares Judge Curiel To An Iraqi-American Judging Chris Kyle  —  “Here you have Chris Kyle, who's killed a whole bunch of bad guys in Iraq.  Would that be a fair trial for Chris Kyle?  If you had that judge there?  Probably not.”  —  Win Mcnamee / Getty Images  —  w.soundcloud.com
Katie Mettler / Washington Post:
Two guys allegedly tried to rob a French McDonald's, but off-duty special forces unit was eating inside  —  When the two armed men entered the McDonald's in Besancon, a city in eastern France near the Switzerland border, they found about 40 people dining on fried, fast food.
Discussion: Instapundit
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Henry Samuel / Telegraph:
Armed robbers thwarted trying to hold up McDonald's where 11 special forces officers happened to be eating dinner
Discussion: NPR
Amanda Marcotte / Salon:
Dilbert has gone fascist: The strange unrequited love Scott Adams seems to have for Donald Trump  —  The Dilbert creator insists he's not a Trump backer, but the way he talks about him suggests otherwise  —  Scott Adams, the creator of “Dilbert,” wants you to know he does not love Donald Trump.
Discussion: The Federalist
Julian Hattem / The Hill:
State Dept. changes course, will probe edited video  —  The State Department is backing off from its decision to close the book on an investigation into an edited video of a 2013 press briefing.  —  Despite claiming last week that the department would not continue to dig to find out who deleted …
Zach Carter / The Huffington Post:
Harry Reid Wants Elizabeth Warren To Be Vice President  —  He likes winning.  —  Senior Political Economy Reporter, The Huffington Post  —  Ryan Grim  —  Washington bureau chief for The Huffington Post  —  Sen. Elizabeth Warren, (D-Mass.) and Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) have history.
Gilad Shiloach / Vocativ:
New ISIS ‘Kill’ List Claims To Target Thousands Of Americans  —  ISIS “kill” lists have called on ISIS loyalists to attack everyone from Minnesota cops to State Department employees and ordinary Americans  —  A pro-ISIS “hacking” group calling itself the United Cyber Caliphate distributed its latest “kill” list this week.
John Nichols / The Nation:
The Republican Party Just Crashed and Burned in California  —  The GOP won't even have a Senate candidate on the ballot in the nation's largest state.  —  By ,  —  Fifty years ago, California was a reasonably Republican state—with a Republican named Reagan on his way to being elected governor …
Discussion: Raw Story
 
 
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Nick Gass / Politico:
Scarborough rips Trump: Prove you're not a bigot
Discussion: The Daily Beast and Hullabaloo
Henry Samuel / Telegraph:
Waitress assaulted on French Riviera for ‘serving alcohol’ on first day of holy month of Ramadan
Discussion: Pamela Geller
Jon Boone / Guardian:
Pakistani woman burned daughter alive over marriage dispute
Discussion: Mediaite and AOL
Tresa Baldas / Detroit Free Press:
Teen sues cop: You need a warrant to check my breath for booze
Discussion: NBC News and Hit & Run
Michael Gordon / The Charlotte Observer:
FBI found hundreds of classified files on Petraeus biographer Broadwell's computer
Discussion: LawNewz and Raw Story
 Earlier Items: 
Peter Beinart / The Atlantic:
Hillary Clinton's Remarkable Comeback
Tim Devaney / The Hill:
Only one Republican backing resolution to honor Muhammad Ali
Jay Cost / Weekly Standard:
An Open Letter to Mitt Romney
Discussion: The Week
Oliver Jj Lane / Breitbart:
REPORT: Migrants Burn Down Asylum Centre After Not Receiving Ramadan Wake Up Call
Joseph Lawler / Washington Examiner:
Goldman Sachs: Obamacare forcing hundreds of thousands into part-time work
Discussion: RedState and The Daily Caller
Hadas Gold / Politico:
The taunt Clinton supporters think will haunt Trump gets airtime in new ad
 

 
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Bloomberg:
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Financial Times:
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