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4:00 PM ET, May 18, 2015

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New York Times:
Up to 170 Face Murder-Related Charges in Biker Melee  —  WACO, Tex. — The police charged about 170 people on Monday in the shootout among rival motorcycle gangs at a busy shopping plaza in this Central Texas city on Sunday that left at least nine bikers dead and 18 others wounded.
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Grant Hermes / Heavy.com:
Cossacks Motorcycle Club: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know  —  Cossacks Motorcycle Club logo.  —  Members of the Cossacks Motorcycle Club were among five gangs involved in a violent brawl and shootout outside a Waco, Texas restaurant that left at least 9 dead and 18 wounded.
Dallas Morning News:
9 bikers killed in rival gang shootout outside Waco restaurant  —  WACO — A shootout among rival motorcycle gangs at a crowded Waco restaurant Sunday afternoon killed nine bikers and injured at least 18, police said.  —  No bystanders were injured in what police said was the culmination …
Julie Hirschfeld Davis / New York Times:
Obama Limits Military-Style Equipment for Police Forces  —  CAMDEN, N.J. — President Obama on Monday banned the federal provision of some types of military-style equipment to local police departments and sharply restricted the availability of others.  —  The ban is part of Mr. Obama's push …
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Aleksander Chan / Gawker:
Obama to Ban Military-Style Assault Weapons For Local Police Forces
Discussion: Hinterland Gazette
Sarah Kaplan / Washington Post:
Dean Potter, extreme climber, dies in Yosemite base jumping accident  —  Yet again, Dean Potter was hurtling through the air.  A dead tree stood on the ground below him, a strange tug at the space between his shoulders came from above.  —  Potter, already a famous rock climber, had been having this dream night after night.
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Grayson Schaffer / Outside Online:
Dean Potter Killed in BASE-Jumping Accident
Discussion: CNN, The Week and NBC News
Andrew Bisharat / Beyond the Edge:
Pioneering Climber Dean Potter Killed in Wingsuit BASE Jumping Accident
Discussion: 89.3 KPCC
New York Post:
Al Sharpton's daughter hiked up a mountain on ‘sprained’ ankle  —  The Rev. Al Sharpton's daughter unwittingly proved that her $5 million sprained-ankle suit against the city is a mountain of BS.  —  Dominique Sharpton posted pictures to Instagram showing she completed a difficult mountain climb in Bali …
Lloyd Grove / The Daily Beast:
ABC Colleague: George Stephanopoulos 'Really Isn't a Journalist'  —  If ABC's chief anchor thought two apologies over his undeclared Clinton Foundation donations would be enough to pacify his critics, he was wrong.  —  It has been a rough weekend for ABC News's embattled chief anchor, George Stephanopoulos, and an even worse Sunday.
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John Fund / National Review:
Stephanopoulos's Long, Long Record of Loyal Service to the Clintons
Discussion: Truth Revolt, Politico and Betsy's Page
Anne Gearan / Washington Post:
Hillary Rodham Clinton is running as the most liberal Democratic presidential front-runner in decades, with positions on issues from gay marriage to immigration that would, in past elections, have put her at her party's precarious left edge.  —  The moves are part of a strategic conclusion …
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Glenn Harlan Reynolds / USA Today:
Democrats sic identity politics on their own
Discussion: Raw Story
Tara Culp-Ressler / ThinkProgress:
Why This Lawmaker Opposes Abortion For Everyone Except His Own Wife And Mistress  —  A Tennessee Republican is making headlines for voting in favor of a national abortion ban, even after pressuring the women in his own life to have legal abortions.  —  Rep. Scott DesJarlais (R-TN) …
ABC News:
Exclusive Interview: Elian Gonzalez Wants to Come to the US … Elian Gonzalez would like to return to the United States, he tells ABC News in an exclusive interview.  —  “To the American people, first I say thank you for the love they give me,” Gonzalez said.  “I want the time to give my love to American people.”
Brian H. Potts / Wall Street Journal:
The Hole in the Rooftop Solar-Panel Craze  —  Large-scale plants make sense, but panels for houses simply transfer wealth from average electric customers.  —  Most people buy rooftop solar panels because they think it will save them money or make them green, or both.
Discussion: Washington Post
Taegan Goddard / The Week:
The GOP's worst nightmare and a pundit's dream: A brokered convention in 2016  —  There are so many Republicans running for president, or thinking about running for president, that the Republican National Committee is having a hard time keeping track of them all.
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Ben Domenech / The Federalist:
Fix The GOP Presidential Debates With This One Simple Trick
Discussion: Real Clear Politics and Hot Air
Mario Trujillo / The Hill:
‘Innocence of Muslims’ should have stayed on YouTube, court rules  —  The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals on Monday ruled YouTube should not have been forced to remove a controversial film mocking the Prophet Muhammad due to copyright concerns.  —  A majority of the 11-judge panel reversed …
Discussion: Politico
Angelica Alvarez / abc11.com:
Kilt controversy nearly keeps Johnston County teen from attending his prom  —  A Johnston County teen was shut out from the big dance all because he was wearing a kilt.  —  “I want to be proud of where I'm from,” said 16-year-old David Leix.  —  So for Leix's prom he wore his late grandfather's kilt …
Discussion: Fox 59 and FOX31 Denver
Jonathan Topaz / Politico:
Bobby Jindal forming exploratory committee for White House run  —  Bobby Jindal announced Monday that he's forming a presidential exploratory committee for a potential run for the 2016 Republican nomination.  —  The Louisiana governor, a fierce social conservative who has been active …
Rebecca Kaplan / CBS News:
Lindsey Graham: “I'm running” because the world is falling apart  —  Shares -  —  Sen. Lindsey Graham says he won't announce his plans for the 2016 election until June 1, but there's very little ambiguity about what those plans will be.  —  “I'm running because I think the world is falling apart.
Discussion: Washington Post and The Week
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Katie Glueck / Politico:
Sen. Lindsey Graham on White House bid: 'I'm running'
Discussion: Daily Kos and Hit & Run
ABC News:
The Note: Trouble In Mason City, Feat.  Hillary Clinton and Rick Santorum … NOTABLES  —YOU REALLY OUGHT TO GIVE IOWA A TRY: Broadway this is not.  But if Rick Santorum has anything to do with it, there's going to be trouble today in Mason City, Iowa — the town famous for inspiring “The Music Man.”
Discussion: PoliticusUSA and Hot Air
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The Hill:
Washington's new odd couple: McConnell and Obama
Discussion: ABC News
Mark Lobel / BBC:
Arrested for reporting on Qatar's World Cup labourers  —  We were invited to Qatar by the prime minister's office to see new flagship accommodation for low-paid migrant workers in early May - but while gathering additional material for our report, we ended up being thrown into prison for doing our jobs.
Daniel Halper / Weekly Standard:
Kerry: Internet ‘Needs Rules to Be Able to Flourish and Work Properly’  —  In a speech today in South Korea, Secretary of State John Kerry said that the Internet “needs rules to be able to flourish and work properly.”  This, according to Kerry, is necessary even for “a technology founded on freedom.”
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
 
 
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Suzanne Vega / JP Updates:
Police Commissioner Bratton Requests 450 More Officers To Fight Terrorism
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Holly Ramer / Associated Press:
NH GOP Congressman's Political Career Hangs in Balance After FEC Violation
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Katie Pavlich / Townhall.com:
UN Ambassador Compares Struggles of Afghan Women to a College Student Who Lied About Rape
Discussion: Power Line and The Gateway Pundit
Rep. Louie Gohmert / The Highland County Press:
Changes needed in Jade Helm military exercises
Discussion: Infowars and Liberaland
Tyler Durden / Zero Hedge:
Shape Of Greek Endgame Emerges: IMF Discussed “Cyprus-Like” Plan After Tsipras Warned Of Looming Default
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