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7:10 PM ET, May 5, 2016

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Donald J. Trump / Facebook:
Happy Cinco de Mayo!  The best taco bowls are made in Trump Tower Grill.  I love Hispanics!
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Philip Rucker / Washington Post:
Mitt Romney will skip Trump's nominating convention in Cleveland … Mitt Romney, the 2012 Republican presidential nominee, plans to skip this summer's Republican National Convention in Cleveland where Donald Trump will be officially nominated — an unusual move that underscores the deep unease …
Jennifer Steinhauer / New York Times:
Paul Ryan Says He Cannot Support Donald Trump for Now  —  WASHINGTON — Speaker Paul D. Ryan, the nation's highest-ranking elected Republican, said Thursday that he was “not ready” to endorse Donald J. Trump, the presumptive Republican nominee.  —  Mr. Ryan, who is also chairman …
Eric Bradner / CNN:
Paul Ryan: 'I'm just not ready' to back Donald Trump  —  (CNN)House Speaker Paul Ryan said Thursday he cannot yet support presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump's presidential campaign.  —  “I'm just not ready to do that at this point.  I'm not there right now,” the Wisconsin Republican told CNN's …
Danielle Allen / Washington Post:
Hillary Clinton is walking into Donald Trump's trap  —  The writer is a political theorist at Harvard University and a contributing columnist for The Post.  —  Donald Trump has set a big, fat trap for Hillary Clinton, and so far she has stepped right into it.  He turned his attacks against women against her.
Discussion: Liberal Values, Althouse and The Slot
Dan Riehl / Breitbart:
Paul Nehlen: Paul Ryan ‘Sold His Vote! I Absolutely Believe That’
Discussion: The Last Refuge
Andrew Kaczynski / BuzzFeed:
Woman Who Built Trump Tower Says She's Backing Clinton Over Trump
Discussion: Shakesville
Nolan D. McCaskill / Politico:
Paul Ryan says he's not ready to support Trump
Discussion: Hit & Run and The Week
Burgess Everett / Politico:   Reid spoiling for a fight with Trump
Wall Street Journal:
The Trump Reality  —  He may be the highest variable nominee in American history.
Discussion: Guardian
Ronald Brownstein / The Atlantic:
The Republican Party's Woman Problem
Discussion: New York Magazine
Ben Kamisar / The Hill:   Dole alone in not shunning GOP convention
Fredreka Schouten / USA Today:
Ted Cruz's $10 million donor backs Donald Trump
Discussion: Trail Blazers Blog, CNN and AOL
Joe Klein / TIME:
Why the Clintons Don't Fear the Coming Armageddon With Donald Trump  —  Hillary Clinton's ultimate trump card will not be her gender but her relative humanity  —  On the night that Donald Trump effectively won the Republican nomination for President, Hillary Clinton observed radio silence.
Discussion: Washington Monthly
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Streiff / RedState:
BREAKING.  Donald Trump Renounces His Own Tax Plan  —  We've said over and over... and to no avail... that Donald Trump believes in absolutely nothing more than Donald Trump.  During the course of this campaign, Donald Trump has proposed any number of half-baked, nonsensical ideas and now he's in the process of reneging on them.
Discussion: MSNBC and TheStreet.com
David Roberts / Vox:
Why the media will lift Trump up and tear Clinton down
Harry Enten / FiveThirtyEight:
Americans' Distaste For Both Trump And Clinton Is Record-Breaking
Discussion: The Week
Nick Gass / Politico:
Scarborough: I won't vote for Trump if he doesn't change
Bryce Covert / ThinkProgress:
Donald Trump Walks Back His Only Detailed Economic Proposal
Discussion: Wall Street Journal and alan.com
Ben Sasse / Facebook:
AN OPEN LETTER TO MAJORITY AMERICA  —  TO: Those who think both leading presidential candidates are dishonest and have little chance of leading America forward:  —  (...or, stated more simply)  —  TO: The majority of America:  —  Note: If you are one of those rare souls …
CNN:
First on CNN: FBI interviews Clinton aides including Huma Abedin as part of email probe  —  (CNN)Some of Hillary Clinton's closest aides, including her longtime adviser Huma Abedin, have provided interviews to federal investigators, as the FBI probe into the security of her private email …
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Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Report: Hillary Clinton aides interviewed by FBI in email probe
Discussion: ABC News
Tarini Parti / BuzzFeed:
New Trump Finance Chair Has Given Twice As Much To Democrats As To The GOP  —  Donald Trump has hired a Wall Street tycoon who has donated more than twice as much to Democrats as to Republicans to be his campaign's finance chair, according to a review of Federal Election Commission filings.
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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
This brutal new ad shows the shredding machine that awaits Trump  —  THE MORNING PLUM:  —  Predictably enough, the hand-wringing has already begun among some Democrats over the prospect of Donald Trump waging “unpredictable” attacks on Hillary Clinton and the possibility that the Clinton camp will be …
fda.gov:
FDA takes significant steps to protect Americans from dangers of tobacco through new regulation  —  Rule extending oversight to all tobacco products, including e-cigarettes, allows agency to address public health concerns such as youth access to tobacco products … For Immediate Release
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Edward Morrissey / The Fiscal Times:
Trump's Hard Truth for the GOP: Conservatism Doesn't Matter  —  And there shall be a great wailing and gnashing of teeth .... again.  Once again, movement conservatives have gone into a Republican presidential primary season arguing that the time had come to nominate a true follower of the faith.
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E.J. Dionne Jr / Washington Post:
Please don't mainstream Trump
Discussion: Hullabaloo and Vox
Barack Obama:
A Nation of Second Chances  —  Earlier this spring, I met with a group of individuals whose sentences were commuted either by President Bush, President Clinton, or myself.  They were all at different stages of a new chapter in their lives, but each of their stories was extraordinary.
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Jordan Fabian / The Hill:
Obama commutes sentences of 58 prisoners
Discussion: ThinkProgress
FOX Carolina 21:
Tow truck owner said he refused service to woman because she supports Bernie Sanders  —  A local tow truck driver said he refused to tow a woman's car after he saw Bernie Sanders stickers on the vehicle.  —  Kenneth Shupe said he was called to pick up a woman stranded on I-26 in Asheville on Monday.
Colin Campbell / Raleigh News & Observer:
NC won't meet Obama administration's Monday deadline on House Bill 2, House speaker says  —  Department of Justice says HB2 violates the U.S. Civil Rights Act and Title IX  —  Tim Moore: ‘We will take no action by Monday’  —  House Speaker Tim Moore said Thursday that legislators won't meet …
The Cook Political Report:
New Electoral Scorecard Ratings in 13 States  —  This has been an exceedingly unpredictable year.  Although we remain convinced that Hillary Clinton is very vulnerable and would probably lose to most other Republicans, Donald Trump's historic unpopularity with wide swaths of the electorate …
David Samuels / New York Times:
The Aspiring Novelist Who Became Obama's Foreign-Policy Guru  —  How Ben Rhodes rewrote the rules of diplomacy for the digital age.  —  Picture him as a young man, standing on the waterfront in North Williamsburg, at a polling site, on Sept. 11, 2001, which was Election Day in New York City.
Discussion: EconLog
 
 
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Zachary Mider / Bloomberg:
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New York Times:
One Week in April, Four Toddlers Shot and Killed Themselves
Discussion: Mother Jones
Catherine Thorbecke / ABC News:
Oldest US World War II Vet Passes Away at 110
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Dave Itzkoff / New York Times:
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Julian Hattem / The Hill:
GOP experts choose exile over Trump
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KFC, With New Nail Polish, Redefines Chicken Fingers
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