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6:20 PM ET, May 19, 2016

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NBC News:
First Read: The Democratic Race Isn't as Close as You Think It Is  —  First Read is a morning briefing from Meet the Press and the NBC Political Unit on the day's most important political stories and why they matter.  —  The Democratic race isn't as close as you think it is
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Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
Sanders Camp Flirts with Going Full “Burn It Down”  —  The New York Times posted an article late Wednesday evening which confirms and expands on much of what I've been hearing from within the Sanders campaign in recent weeks and days.  The top leaders of the campaign are now saying openly …
New York Times:
Bernie Sanders, Eyeing Convention, Willing to Harm Hillary Clinton in the Homestretch  —  Defiant and determined to transform the Democratic Party, Senator Bernie Sanders is opening a two-month phase of his presidential campaign aimed at inflicting a heavy blow on Hillary Clinton in California …
Niall Stanage / The Hill:
Liberal media turns on Sanders
Discussion: Democracy Now and Fox News
Jessie Hellmann / The Hill:
Clinton: 'There is no way I won't be' nominee
Discussion: The Last Refuge
David Weigel / Washington Post:
Sanders, after coming up short in Kentucky, thanks the state for ‘great victory’
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Edward Morrissey / The Fiscal Times:
Get Ready for a Third Party Run from Bernie Sanders
Karl Rove / Wall Street Journal:   What If Clinton Gets Indicted?
Rasmussen Reports:
White House Watch: Trump 42%, Clinton 37%  —  Donald Trump has now grown his lead over Hillary Clinton in Rasmussen Reports' first weekly White House Watch survey.  —  Trump earns 42% support to Clinton's 37% when Likely U.S. Voters are asked whom they would vote for if the presidential election were held today.
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Eric Bradner / CNN:
Hillary Clinton: Donald Trump not qualified to be president  —  (CNN)Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton criticized presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump on Thursday, saying his recent behavior shows he's not qualified to president.
Meghan Keneally / ABC News:
Clinton Campaign Slams Donald Trump's Rape Accusation Against Bill Clinton
Discussion: Politico
CNN:
EgyptAir Flight 804 disappears
Dana Blanton / Fox News:
Fox News Poll: Clinton's negatives surpass Trump's
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John Bresnahan / Politico:
House erupts in chaos after LGBT vote  —  The House erupted in chaos Thursday morning with Democrats crying foul after Republicans hastily convinced a few of their own to switch their votes and narrowly block an amendment intended to protect lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people from discrimination.
Cristina Marcos / The Hill:
House votes to restrict Confederate flag in national cemeteries  —  The House approved a Democratic proposal on Thursday to limit the display of the Confederate flag in national cemeteries.  —  A majority of Republicans rejected Rep. Jared Huffman's (D-Calif.) amendment to a spending bill …
Drew Johnson / The Daily Caller:
EXCLUSIVE: David Koch Pledges Millions To Gary Johnson's Presidential Bid  —  Billionaire businessman and philanthropist David Koch has pledged “tens of millions of dollars” to help bankroll the campaign of Libertarian presidential candidate Gary Johnson, according to a source within Johnson's campaign.
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Sarah Ferris / The Hill:
Okla. Senate approves bill barring doctors from performing abortions  —  Oklahoma lawmakers on Thursday approved a bill making it a felony for doctors to perform abortions, which opponents say is essentially a ban on the procedure.  —  The Republican bill, which has been called …
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Washington Post:
New poll finds 9 in 10 Native Americans aren't offended by Redskins name  —  Nine in 10 Native Americans say they are not offended by the Washington Redskins name, according to a new Washington Post poll that shows how few ordinary Indians have been persuaded by a national movement to change the football team's moniker.
McKay Coppins / BuzzFeed:
Donald Trump Wanted A White-Versus-Black Season Of “The Apprentice”  —  A decade before he launched his presidential bid, Donald Trump was a reality TV sensation in search of a new gimmick for the upcoming season of The Apprentice.  In the summer of 2005, he thought he had found it …
Discussion: Vox, Mediaite and Political Wire
Glenn Updated / Glenn Beck:
The Most Disturbing Thing About My Meeting With Mark Zuckerberg  —  Yesterday, I had an opportunity to meet with some of the senior staff at Facebook, including the CEO and COO.  I found the meeting deeply disturbing — but not for the reasons you might think.
U.S. Department of Justice:
Waldorf Man Indicted for Illegal Transport of Explosives, Illegal Possession of a Machine Gun and Child Pornography Offenses  —  Greenbelt, Maryland - A federal grand jury indicted Caleb Andrew Bailey, age 30, of Waldorf, Maryland late yesterday on various charges.
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Josh Harkinson / Mother Jones:
Trump Delegate Indicted on Federal Weapons and Child Porn Charges
Discussion: Joe.My.God. and LawNewz
Joel B. Pollak / Breitbart:
Exclusive: James O'Keefe Outs Himself in George Soros Investigation  —  Project Veritas founder and pioneering investigative reporter James O'Keefe has revealed exclusively to Breitbart News that he has been forced to abandon an ambitious undercover investigation into billionaire left-wing …
Discussion: alan.com
Matt Taibbi / Rolling Stone:
R.I.P., GOP: How Trump Is Killing the Republican Party  —  Donald Trump crushed 16 GOP opponents in one of the most appalling, vicious campaigns in history.  His next victim?  The entire Republican Party  —  Indianapolis, Indiana, May 3rd, 2016, a little before 8:30 p.m. Texas …
CBS News:
60 Minutes' Morley Safer dies at 84  —  Longtime CBS newsman Morley Safer of “60 Minutes” and Vietnam War reporting fame dies at 84  —  Morley Safer, the CBS newsman who changed war reporting forever when he showed GIs burning the huts of Vietnamese villagers and went on to become …
Ashe Schow / Washington Examiner:
New evidence shows Rolling Stone rape hoaxer created her ‘rapist’  —  We already knew that “Jackie,” the woman who told Rolling Stone she was gang-raped at the University of Virginia, likely fabricated the attack.  But new evidence shows that she created an email address for her fake attacker after the alleged attack occurred.
Discussion: The College Fix and Instapundit
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T. Rees Shapiro / Washington Post:
Lawyers in Rolling Stone lawsuit file new evidence that ‘Jackie’ created fake persona
Discussion: Hit & Run, Hot Air, AOL and Mediaite
Jonathan H. Adler / Washington Post:
Bloggers behaving badly: Krugman and DeLong edition  —  False accusations can travel throughout the blogosphere before the truth has even logged in.  When newspapers make mistakes or false accusations, they publish corrections.  That's not always the case with bloggers, however.
Discussion: JustOneMinute
Camille Paglia / Salon:
PC feminists misfire again, as fearful elite media can't touch Donald Trump  —  A boastful, millionaire New Yorker liked the company of beautiful women?  This is why NYT can't lay a glove on Trump  —  Zap!  If momentum were a surge of electromagnetic energy, Donald Trump against all odds has it now.
Bill Allison / Bloomberg:
Shadow Banks Clinton Flags as Risky Put Millions Into Her Run  —  Clinton targets shadow banking in Wall Street regulatory plan  —  Blackstone, Centerbridge Partners among Clinton donors  —  Hillary Clinton has vowed to be tougher on Wall Street than any other presidential candidate …
John Santucci / ABC News:
Trump Campaign Announces Expanded Role For Paul Manafort  —  Donald Trump will change the role for one of his campaign's top advisors, ABC News has learned.  —  Sources within the campaign said that Trump will name Paul Manafort to the new role of Campaign Chairman and Chief Strategist.
Nola Marketplace / WGNO:
Say what?  State lawmaker tries to add age, weight limits for strippers in Louisiana  —  BATON ROUGE, La. (WGNO) - A state representative proposed - then pulled - a measure in the state House Wednesday that would have required strippers in Louisiana to be no older than 28 and weigh no more than 160 pounds.
Daily Mail:
The trolls who take sneak photos of you through your TV and turn it into porn: How images can be lifted from screens and end up on revenge porn sites  —  Nikki Elliot first met Oliver Whiting when he interviewed her for a job at the Sovereign Harbour, a pub-restaurant overlooking the marina in the Sussex resort of Eastbourne.
 
 
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Rob Verger / Fox News:
How the Air Force's ‘space fence’ will keep American satellites safe
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Inside Edition:
Former Miss Universe Accuses Donald Trump of Fat Shaming: ‘He Called Me Miss Piggy’
Discussion: Politico, Mediaite and Business Insider
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Donald Trump Hasn't Killed the Tea Party. He Is the Tea Party.
Discussion: Mother Jones and Politico
Nick Gass / Politico:
Sen. Tom Cotton: U.S. has ‘under-incarceration problem’
Sara Jerde / Talking Points Memo:
Dennis Hastert Ordered To Report To Federal Prison On June 22
Discussion: Politico
Matt Drange / Forbes:
Facebook Makes It Easy For Users To Report Suspected Gun Sales
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Steve Goldstein / MarketWatch:
Golfer Phil Mickelson profited from Dean Foods insider trades, SEC says
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 Earlier Items: 
Larry O'Connor / Hot Air:
Exhibit A: Facebook characterizes Patricia Heaton's pro-life message as ‘anti-abortion’
Discussion: National Review and LifeNews.com
Nick Gass / Politico:
Poll: Transgender bathroom laws split Americans
Discussion: LGBTQ Nation
Jack Jenkins / ThinkProgress:
Pope Francis To Employers Who Don't Offer Health Care: You Are ‘True Leeches’
Discussion: ncronline.org
Jeff Stein / Vox:
Bernie Sanders's base isn't the working class. It's young people.
Discussion: Mother Jones
 

 
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