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11:30 AM ET, May 19, 2015

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Emily Smith / Page Six:
George Stephanopoulos' future — and $105M contract — in danger  —  ABC has plenty of reasons to be freaking out over the George Stephanopoulos scandal — $105 million, to be exact.  —  The “Good Morning America” and “This Week” anchor renewed his contract last year for $105 million, TV-industry sources told The Post Monday.
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Amy Chozick / New York Times:
Hillary Clinton May Not Need a Second Chance to Make a First Impression  —  Jeb Bush has his famous last name as a calling card, for better or worse.  But Scott Walker's name does not ring many bells outside Wisconsin.  —  Ted Cruz is not even well known in Texas.
Washington Post:
Hillary Clinton made $3.2 million from the tech sector.  Now she's hitting it up for campaign dollars.
Discussion: Business Insider
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Rand Paul: Bill Clinton put ‘generation’ of black men in prison
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
State Department plans to release Hillary Clinton's emails in January 2016  —  The State Department is proposing a deadline of January 2016 to complete its review and public release of 55,000 pages of emails former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton exchanged on a private server and turned over to her former agency last December.
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Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Judge orders ‘rolling’ release of Clinton's State Department emails  —  A federal judge has rejected the State Department's plan to release most of Hillary Clinton's emails as secretary of state in one large batch, insisting that the agency parcel out releases of the records over time.
Discussion: Daily Kos and Mediaite
Jason Leopold / VICE News:
State Department Says Clinton Emails Won't Be Released Until January 2016
The Hill:
Obama's ISIS strategy takes hit  —  President Obama's strategy in fighting the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) is facing fresh scrutiny after the militant group toppled government forces in the major Iraqi city of Ramadi.  —  The city's fall represented the biggest military gain for ISIS this year.
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John Hinderaker / Power Line:   Obama's Middle East Policy Is In a State of Collapse
New York Times:
ISIS Fighters Seized Advantage in Iraq Attack by Striking During Sandstorm
Discussion: Associated Press and The Week
Daily Mail:
Iraq braced for the Battle of Baghdad: Chilling images show ISIS victory parade after fanatics …
Discussion: Allen B. West, CNN, Infowars and Fox News
Richard Johnson / Page Six:
Staff quit Clinton Foundation over Chelsea  —  Chelsea Clinton is so unpleasant to colleagues, she's causing high turnover at the Bill, Hillary and Chelsea Clinton Foundation, sources say.  —  Several top staffers have left the foundation since Chelsea came onBoard as vice chairman in 2011.
New York Times:
Clinton Friend's Memos on Libya Draw Scrutiny to Politics and Business  —  When the Clintons last occupied the White House, Sidney Blumenthal cast himself in varied roles: speechwriter, in-house intellectual and press corps whisperer.  Republicans added another, accusing Mr. Blumenthal …
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New York Times:
Selected Libya-Related Messages From Hillary Clinton's Personal Email Account  —  The messages shown here are among roughly 900 pages of emails related to Libya that Hillary Rodham Clinton said she kept on the personal email account she used exclusively as secretary of state.
Judicial Watch:
Judicial Watch: Defense, State Department Documents Reveal Obama Administration Knew …
Daisuke Wakabayashi / Wall Street Journal:
Behind Apple's Move to Shelve TV Plans  —  Apple had dropped its TV plans, but investor Carl Icahn sees the firm entering the market next year  —  Investor Carl Icahn said he expects Apple Inc. to introduce an ultra-high-definition television in 2016.  But after nearly a decade of research …
Jamie Weinstein / The Daily Caller:
Stop It Liberals: Bush Didn't Lie About Iraq Having WMDs  —  Liberals, please stop it with the Iraq war lies.  —  There is plenty of criticism that can be leveled against George W. Bush's decision to invade Iraq in 2003, but he didn't deliberately mislead the country about Iraq possessing weapons of mass destruction (WMD).
Discussion: The Atlantic
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Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Errors and Lies  —  Surprise!  It turns out that there's something …
Nick Gass / Politico:
Gloria Steinem to lead women's march in North Korea  —  Gloria Steinem is among 30 women activists marching from Beijing through the demilitarized zone dividing North and South Korea in a call for peace next Sunday.  The event marks the International Women's Day for Peace and Disarmament.
Discussion: The Week
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Sui-Lee Wee / Reuters:
Women activists leave for North Korea and DMZ peace march
Discussion: The Week
Sarah Knapton / Telegraph:
Boys who smoke cannabis ‘are four inches shorter’  —  New study finds that youngsters who regularly smoked marijuana are far shorter than their non-smoking peers  —  Boys who smoke cannabis before puberty could be stunting their growth by more than four inches, a new study suggests.
Sandra Pedicini / Orlando Sentinel:
Disney World gets stronger with selfie stick warning  —  People just don't seem to get it.  Theme parks don't want you using selfie sticks on their rides.  —  So on Friday, Walt Disney World went a step further to make that point.  It posted a “No Selfie Sticks” sign at the Magic Kingdom's Big Thunder Mountain Railroad.
Discussion: fox4kc.com
Not A Blog:
The Show, the Books  —  I am getting a flood of emails and off-topic comments on this blog about tonight's episode of GAME OF THRONES.  It's not unanticipated.  —  The comments... regardless of tone... have been deleted.  I have been saying since season one that this is not the place to debate or discuss the TV series.
Ellen Nakashima / Washington Post:
Tech giants don't want Obama to give police access to encrypted phone data  —  Tech behemoths including Apple and Google and leading cryptologists are urging President Obama to reject any government proposal that alters the security of smartphones and other communications devices so that law enforcement can view decrypted data.
Discussion: The Verge, Engadget and Guardian
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Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
The Republican field is a clown car  —  “If you can't take a joke,” Lindsey Graham has said, “don't run for president.”  —  Graham, a senator from South Carolina and one of umpteen Republicans running for president, can take a joke — which is why he appreciates the absurdity that is the GOP field.
Discussion: Daily Kos
Ben Kamisar / The Hill:
In Iowa, Hillary vows to fight ‘drug epidemic’  —  Hillary Clinton on Monday pledged to take on the “drug epidemic” as she made another visit to the early voting state of Iowa  —  Clinton said she had not expected to focus on drug abuse or mental health in her White House run …
Nick Gass / Politico:
Alan Grayson on his wife: ‘Gold diggers gotta dig’  —  The legal battle between Rep. Alan Grayson (D-Fla.) and his estranged wife Lolita has reportedly hit a snag.  —  The couple agreed to the annulment of their 25-year marriage last month, according to the Orlando Sentinel …
Discussion: Post On Politics
 
 
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Jay Rosen / Pressthink:
Campaign reporters: you are granted no “role in the process.” It is your powers against theirs.
Ben Hubbard / New York Times:
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Howard Kurtz / Fox News:
George Stephanopoulos, Brian Williams and the media's sinking reputation
Justin McCarthy / Gallup:
Americans' Satisfaction With Direction of U.S. Wanes
Discussion: Infowars and Washington Times
Kenneth A. Oye / Nature:
Drugs: Regulate ‘home-brew’ opiates
Discussion: Raw Story, New York Times and Engadget
 Earlier Items: 
Brandon McGinley / The Federalist:
Kermit Gosnell's Bureaucratic Enabler Just Got Promoted
Discussion: RedState
Jose A. DelReal / Washington Post:
Bobby Jindal launches presidential exploratory committee
Discussion: Gawker and Press
Andrew Kaczynski / BuzzFeed:
Harvard Professor: Rick Santorum Is Misusing My Book To Say “All Black Men Are Sexual Predators”
Discussion: Liberaland and Weekly Standard
 

 
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