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MJ Lee / CNN:
Sanders meets with Obama, Reid ahead of final contest — (CNN)Hillary Clinton became the Democratic Party's presumptive presidential nominee this week — but for her challenger Bernie Sanders, the fight is not quite over. — The Vermont senator declared Tuesday night that he intends …
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Edward-Isaac Dovere / Politico:
Sanders supporters warn Obama: Don't try to stop Bernie — Bernie Sanders' supporters have some advice for President Barack Obama: Back off. — Thursday morning in the Oval Office, Obama will take his not-so-subtle campaign to ease Sanders out of an active campaign directly to the senator himself.
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Ron Fournier / The Atlantic:
Hillary Clinton's Truth Problem — The day after she sealed the Democratic presidential nomination, Hillary Clinton took a victory lap of the nation's top newsrooms and delivered the most predictable and practiced comments. She honored her mother. She trashed Donald Trump. She wooed Bernie Sanders' supporters.
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Dan Balz / Washington Post:
Obama offers a formal endorsement of Clinton; president also meets with Sanders — President Obama offered his formal endorsement of Hillary Clinton with a video Thursday and plans to campaign with the former secretary of state in Wisconsin next week, efforts aimed at speeding …
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Annie Karni / Politico:
President Obama endorses Hillary Clinton — President Barack Obama endorsed Hillary Clinton on Thursday, saying, “I don't think there's ever been someone so qualified to hold this office.” — The forceful show of support, which came after Obama met with Sen. Bernie Sanders for more than an hour …
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Nick Gass / Politico:
Sanders signals the end is near
Sanders signals the end is near
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Rebecca Savransky / The Hill:
Warren has concerns about being Clinton's VP: report
Warren has concerns about being Clinton's VP: report
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Jordan Fabian / The Hill:
Sanders pledges to work with Clinton after meeting with Obama
Sanders pledges to work with Clinton after meeting with Obama
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Stuart Rothenberg / Washington Post:
Trump continues to Violate Campaign Rule No. 1
Trump continues to Violate Campaign Rule No. 1
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Alexander Mallin / ABC News:
Bernie Sanders to Campaign Through DC Primary but Vows to Work With Hillary Clinton
Bernie Sanders to Campaign Through DC Primary but Vows to Work With Hillary Clinton
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Margaret Talev / Bloomberg:
Obama Meets Sanders as President Nears Clinton Endorsement
Nate Cohn / New York Times:
There Are More White Voters Than People Think. That's Good News for Trump. — One of the biggest reasons Donald Trump is considered to be a long shot to win the presidency is the diversity of the country. — As Joe Scarborough of MSNBC put it, “There are not enough white voters in America …
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Matt Bai / Yahoo:
The black hole within Donald Trump — I'm no advice columnist, and normally I wouldn't use this space for relationship counseling, but here's a small bit of wisdom that I've offered to a few friends over the years and that might be useful to Republicans in Washington.
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Jordyn Phelps / ABC News:
Elizabeth Warren to Call Donald Trump A “Loud, Nasty, Thin-Skinned Fraud” in Upcoming Speech
Elizabeth Warren to Call Donald Trump A “Loud, Nasty, Thin-Skinned Fraud” in Upcoming Speech
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Jim Hoft / The Gateway Pundit:
PAUL RYAN To Campaign for Hillary Clinton on “Face the Nation” - Trash Trump as Racist
PAUL RYAN To Campaign for Hillary Clinton on “Face the Nation” - Trash Trump as Racist
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Rich Lowry / Politico:
The Agony of the Trump Endorsers
The Agony of the Trump Endorsers
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Burgess Everett / Politico:
Warren: Trump is a ‘loud, nasty, thin-skinned fraud’
Warren: Trump is a ‘loud, nasty, thin-skinned fraud’
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CNN:
Donald Trump's ground game — (CNN)Donald Trump — who made a fortune in part by lending his name to business ventures on which he left a light touch — appears poised to take a similar approach to building his ground game. — The presumptive GOP nominee has argued he can put as many as 15 states …
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Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Today in 'Donald Trump's Campaign Is a Garbage Fire' — I love the smell of garbage in the morning. Smells like <s>victory</s> massive defeat. — If Donald Trump were an otherwise normal candidate — with a reasonable knowledge of public policy and no pronounced affection for authoritarian rulers …
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Joe Palazzolo / Wall Street Journal:
Appeals Court Upholds ‘Concealed Carry’ Restrictions — Federal court in California says Americans have no guaranteed right to carry concealed guns in public — Americans have no Second Amendment right to carry concealed guns in public, a federal appeals court in California ruled on Thursday …
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Pete Williams / NBC News:
9th Circuit Court of Appeals Says No Right to Concealed Gun Carry
9th Circuit Court of Appeals Says No Right to Concealed Gun Carry
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Brian Latimer / NBC News:
Texas Valedictorian, Scholarship Recipient Under Fire for Tweeting She's Undocumented — A young valedictorian from Texas has stirred controversy after she tweeted that she will be attending the University of Texas-Austin with a full scholarship and that she is undocumented.
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Tegna / WFAA-TV:
High school valedictorian reveals undocumented status in speech
High school valedictorian reveals undocumented status in speech
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Christian Gollayan / New York Post:
Turns out dating is really hard if you support Trump — Lifelong Republican David Goss, 35, was hanging out with his conservative friends in February when he came up with the idea of TrumpSingles.com, a dating website for supporters of the presumptive Republican presidential nominee.
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Glenn Thrush / Politico:
Morning Joe dishes on Trump, Zucker — Joe Scarborough is mastering the art of dealing Donald Trump the derision Trump loves to rain on others. — The “Morning Joe” co-host, former Florida congressman and longtime Friend of Donald found himself under fire during the early months …
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Ryan Browne / CNN:
What was Elon Musk doing at the Pentagon? — Washington (CNN)Elon Musk, the billionaire CEO of SpaceX and Tesla, met with Secretary of Defense Ash Carter Wednesday as the Pentagon looks to raise its technology game. — The focus of the closed-door get together was “innovation,” …
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Nancy A. Youssef / The Daily Beast:
CIA and Pentagon Bicker While Russia Wipes Out U.S.-Backed Rebels
CIA and Pentagon Bicker While Russia Wipes Out U.S.-Backed Rebels
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Christopher Ketcham / The Daily Beast:
Anarchists for Donald Trump—Let the Empire Burn — The left-contrarian arsonist crowd is larger and wider-spread than the cubicled creatures in the Clinton campaign have accounted for. — The historic opportunity of the 2016 election is one which Bernie Sanders likely will not have the courage …
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Bloomberg:
Welcome to Larry Page's Secret Flying-Car Factories — With Zee.Aero and Kitty Hawk, the Google co-founder looks to the skies. — Three years ago, Silicon Valley developed a fleeting infatuation with a startup called Zee.Aero. The company had set up shop right next to Google's headquarters …
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Rebecca Savransky / The Hill:
Roseanne Barr: ‘We would be so lucky’ if Trump won — Comedian Roseanne Barr is rooting for presumptive GOP nominee Donald Trump — to win the general election over likely rival Hillary Clinton — “I think we would be so lucky if Trump won,” she told The Hollywood Reporter.
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