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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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The Daily Beast:
‘Dilbert’ Creator Scott Adams Tries to Sell Interviews With Gilroy Garlic Festival Shooting Survivors — After the mass shooting, he advertised his new app that would somehow let people set a price for their stories—and give him a 20 percent cut. — As police in Gilroy, California …
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Associated Press
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.
CBS News:
At least 4 dead, 15 wounded in shooting at Gilroy Garlic Festival in San Francisco Bay area — What we know: — 4 dead, including a six-year-old boy and a gunman, 15 others wounded in shooting at Gilroy Garlic Festival in city some 80 miles southeast of San Francisco
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NBC Bay Area, ThinkProgress, Hot Air, New York Post and Townhall
Ellyn Santiago / Heavy.com:
Santino William Legan: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know
Santino William Legan: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know
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ABC News, CBS San Francisco, Rolling Stone and Law & Crime
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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Salon, Hullabaloo, Axios, The Resurgent, Daily Kos and The Daily Beast
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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Trump's new racist tweetstorm is actually a sign of weakness — Whenever President Trump unleashes one of his racist attacks, the political world tends to go through a now-predictable cycle. We are first told Republicans think Trump's latest racist display is brilliant politics, a view often pushed by Trump himself.
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Shareblue Media, PJ Media Home, CNSNews, Mediaite and POLITICUSUSA
Washington Post:
House Republicans plan yearly retreat in Baltimore despite Trump's attacks — President Trump on Saturday called Baltimore a “very dangerous & filthy place” and suggested that Democratic politicians, including Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, had made the city all but uninhabitable.
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ABC News, Political Wire, The Guardian, Fox News, The Independent, Baltimore Sun, Washington Press and PJ Media Home, more at Mediagazer »
David A. Graham / The Atlantic:
Trump's Twitter Attacks Are Backfiring
Trump's Twitter Attacks Are Backfiring
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Common Dreams and Slate, 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
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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Politico:
POLITICO Playbook PM: NYT tackles the Biden age question
POLITICO Playbook PM: NYT tackles the Biden age question
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Vanity Fair and Washington Post
New York Times:
Kamala Harris Sets Up Debate Showdown on Health Care With New Plan
Kamala Harris Sets Up Debate Showdown on Health Care With New Plan
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HuffPost, Splinter and twitchy.com
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, Washington Post, CNN, Axios and One America News Network
Rahm Emanuel / gen.medium.com:
A Memo to Our Democratic Presidential Candidates
A Memo to Our Democratic Presidential Candidates
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Axios and BizPac Review
Heather Caygle / Politico:
Top DCCC staffer out amid diversity uproar — The executive director of House Democrats' campaign arm is stepping down amid an outcry from Democratic lawmakers over the lack of diversity in the committee's senior ranks. — Executive Director Allison Jaslow, a close confidante …
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National Review, Political Wire and Roll Call
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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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CNSNews, The Week, National Review and Splinter
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.
Adam Behsudi / Politico:
Warren moves to outflank Trump on trade — Elizabeth Warren released a trade plan Monday that's closer to Donald Trump's agenda than Barack Obama's. — The sweeping trade agenda, posted on Medium ahead of a town hall in Toledo, Ohio, on Monday evening, channels many of the critiques …
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Annie Linskey / Washington Post:
Warren announces plan to negotiate trade deals more openly
Warren announces plan to negotiate trade deals more openly
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Axios
Issues & Insights:
Trump's Attack on Baltimore Doesn't Go Far Enough — Say what you want about President Trump's Twitter habits, he has a way of suddenly bringing an issue to the surface that people have long known about, but never wanted to confront. The only problem with his latest tweetstorm about Baltimore is that he hasn't gone far enough.
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RedState, Daily Wire and BizPac Review
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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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New York Times:
Why Joe Biden's Age Worries Some Democratic Allies and Voters
Why Joe Biden's Age Worries Some Democratic Allies and Voters
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National Review
Salvador Rizzo / Washington Post:
The school busing debate between Joe Biden and Kamala Harris
The school busing debate between Joe Biden and Kamala Harris
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National Review
VICE:
Michigan's White, Blue-Collar Voters Helped Give Trump the White House. Will They Turn on Him in 2020? — WARREN, Michigan — Ryan Hartung has worked at General Motors' Warren transmission plant for 13 years, a short stretch compared to his dad and many others who put in decades at the plant.
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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The Gateway Pundit, Talking Points Memo and Patterico's Pontifications
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 …
Jamelle Bouie / New York Times:
The Trump Strain in American History — White supremacy has its own peculiar logic, to which the president is peculiarly attuned. — President Trump has done nothing for his white working-class voters. His signature tax cut was a giveaway to powerful business interests and wealthy heirs.
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VICE and The Daily Beast
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
Alan Fram / Associated Press:
In early fundraising surge, vulnerable House Dems bank cash — WASHINGTON (AP) — The Republican pathway for recapturing House control in next year's election charges straight through the districts of the most vulnerable Democratic incumbents, especially freshmen.
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Talking Points Memo, Political Wire and Axios
CNN:
GOP senators give tepid response to Trump's pick for spy chief — Trump nominates Rep. John Ratcliffe as new intel chief — (CNN)President Donald Trump's choice of Rep. John Ratcliffe to replace respected former Sen. Dan Coats as Director of National Intelligence in one of the most powerful …
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The Moderate Voice, Washington Monthly and Media Matters for America
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 …
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.