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New York Times:
Gilroy Festival Shooting in California Kills at Least 3 — At least three people were killed and 12 more were injured in a shooting at a garlic festival in Gilroy, Calif., on Sunday, the authorities said. — A suspect carrying an assault-style rifle was fatally shot by the Gilroy police …
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San Francisco Chronicle:
Gilroy Garlic Festival shooting: 3 killed, 15 wounded, gunman dead — A gunman with an assault-type rifle opened fire at the Gilroy Garlic Festival on Sunday evening, killing three and wounding 15 others, some critically, before being killed by police, Gilroy police said. A 6-year-old boy was among the dead.
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Justin Doom / ABC News:
At least 3 killed, including 6-year-old, in shooting at garlic festival in California — At least three people, plus a suspect, died after a shooting at the annual Gilroy Garlic Festival in California. — Among those killed on Sunday was a 6-year-old boy, his grandmother told ABC San Francisco station KGO.
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Timothy L. O'Brien / Bloomberg:
Trump's Racism Infests the Republican Party — As his latest foray into bigotry shows, the president is feeling empowered by the lack of opposition from within the GOP. — Back in February, Representative Elijah Cummings, a black Democrat, stood up for his friend, Representative Mark Meadows, a white Republican.
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Common Dreams, The Daily Beast, POLITICUSUSA and Splinter
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Peter Baker / New York Times:
Trump Accuses Black Congressman and Allies of Being Racist, Deepening Feud
Trump Accuses Black Congressman and Allies of Being Racist, Deepening Feud
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Hannah Knowles / Washington Post:
Trump attacked Baltimore. The city's newspaper wrote a scathing response.
Trump attacked Baltimore. The city's newspaper wrote a scathing response.
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Axios, VICE, Daily Kos and twitchy.com, more at Mediagazer »
Herb Keinon / Jerusalem Post:
32,000 Jews live in Baltimore district, Trump: ‘No human’ wants to
32,000 Jews live in Baltimore district, Trump: ‘No human’ wants to
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Jewish Insider
Connie Bruck / New Yorker:
Alan Dershowitz, Devil's Advocate — The noted lawyer's long, controversial career—and the accusations against him. — “A lie is a lie is a lie,” Whoopi Goldberg said. It was May 2nd, and she was on the set of “The View,” the daytime talk show that she co-hosts.
Daniel Chaitin / Washington Examiner:
John Ratcliffe: AG William Barr will deliver justice to any Obama officials who committed crimes — A top Republican investigator said accountability is coming for any of those individuals who may have committed crimes during the Trump-Russia investigation.
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No More Mister Nice Blog, RedState, Washington Post, Fox News, The Gateway Pundit, Mediaite and Politico
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New York Times:
Dan Coats to Step Down as Intelligence Chief; Trump Picks Loyalist for Job
Dan Coats to Step Down as Intelligence Chief; Trump Picks Loyalist for Job
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Kevin Breuninger / CNBC:
Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats is leaving office after clashing with Trump on national security
Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats is leaving office after clashing with Trump on national security
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The Atlantic, POLITICUSUSA and Axios
Kamala Harris / Medium:
My Plan For Medicare For All — There is perhaps no more complicated or more personal issue for Americans than health care. I know this from my own personal life, caring for my mother as she battled colon cancer. And I also know it from talking to so many Americans in this campaign …
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Christopher Cadelago / Politico:
Kamala Harris' new health plan: Medicare for all — with private insurers
Kamala Harris' new health plan: Medicare for all — with private insurers
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Hot Air, Axios, Washington Post and CNN
Natasha Korecki / Politico:
‘He realizes now that he screwed up’: Biden scrambles to recover from debate flop — Not long after his anemic performance in the first presidential debate, as his poll numbers began to slide, Joe Biden had conversations with nervous donors and personally assured them his campaign was on track.
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Rebecca Buck / CNN:
First on CNN: Booker reaches donor threshold for future debate
First on CNN: Booker reaches donor threshold for future debate
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Axios and Political Wire
Fred Hiatt / Washington Post:
Don't get complacent. Things really are that bad under Trump. — The economy is humming. We're not at war (much). So he can't be that bad, right? — Steadfast NeverTrumpers may find it hard to believe, but I'm hearing that argument more and more lately, as people try to come to terms …
Kevin M. Kruse / New York Times:
The Real Problem With Trump's Rallies — There are a lot of similarities between the president and George Wallace of Alabama. But there's also one big difference. — Mr. Kruse is a professor of history at Princeton. — President Trump's political rallies are certainly a spectacle, but a spectacle we've seen before.
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Jake Sherman / Politico:
DCCC in ‘complete chaos’ as uproar over diversity intensifies — The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee is in full-blown turmoil. — Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee Chairwoman Cheri Bustos (D-Ill.) was set to make an unplanned trip to Washington from her district Monday amid …
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National Review, Splinter and Political Wire
Daniel Lippman / Politico:
The print reader-in-chief: Inside Trump's retro media diet — He slams the mainstream media as dishonest liars. He calls journalists the “enemy of the people.” He rages at the television hosts he watches during his “Executive Time.” He hasn't held a traditional White House press conference …
Kyle Cheney / Politico:
With Sunday surge, nearly half of House Democrats back impeachment inquiry — Four more rank-and-file Democrats called for opening an impeachment inquiry against President Donald Trump on Sunday, inching lawmakers closer to a significant symbolic milestone: a majority of all House Democrats.
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Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
Inside Donald Trump's ‘brilliant and sinister’ merchandising operation — Brad Parscale had just boarded a Jet Blue flight earlier this month when the paper straw he was using ripped in half. — As he tried to keep his iced tea from spilling onto his suit, the annoyed Trump campaign manager tweeted …
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Talking Points Memo
Patrick Reevell / ABC News:
Vladimir Putin critic Alexey Navalny hospitalized with suspected poisoning, doctor says — A doctor for Russia's most prominent opposition leader, Alexey Navalny, has suggested the activist has been poisoned after he was hospitalized Sunday after falling mysteriously ill in a Moscow jail.
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Radio Free Europe/Radio … and Balloon Juice
Washington Post:
Trump thinks racist rhetoric will help him in 2020. The data suggest otherwise. — Backlash to Trump's rhetoric could offset any gains. — President Trump's “go back” tweets, directed at four congresswomen of color, elicited strong condemnation of both the president …
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Political Wire
John Huey / Washington Post:
Robert Mueller and what all men of a certain age know — John Huey is a former editor in chief of Time Inc. and lives in Charleston, S.C. — As a man of a certain age, I have a few thoughts on last week's testimony by former special counsel Robert S. Mueller III and the avalanche of punditry that has ensued in its aftermath.
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Jonathan Swan / Axios:
How Robert Mueller shielded Trump's budget deal
Sam Levine / HuffPost:
Texas Made An Example Out Of Crystal Mason — For Trying To Vote — She's appealing a five-year prison sentence and fighting to save her home, all so the state can prop up the myth of “voter fraud.” There are serious questions about the case against her. — RENDON, Texas ― …
Clare Foran / CNN:
Democrats hint to White House hopefuls at edges of the debate stage: Consider running for Congress — (CNN)Democrats on Capitol Hill have a message for presidential hopefuls John Hickenlooper, the former governor of Colorado, and Steve Bullock, the current governor of Montana: you'd make great senators.