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11:55 AM ET, May 7, 2016

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Robert Costa / Washington Post:
Mitt Romney met privately with William Kristol, who is leading the effort to draft an independent candidate  —  In spite of his insistence that he will not run, Mitt Romney is being courted this week by a leading conservative commentator to reconsider and jump into the volatile 2016 presidential race as an independent candidate.
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Jeb Bush / Facebook:
I congratulate Donald Trump on securing his place as the Republican Party's presumptive nominee.  There is no doubt that he successfully tapped into the deep sense of anger and frustration so many Americans around the country rightfully feel today.  —  The tremendous anger of the current U.S. electorate …
Bloomberg:
Masters in Politics Podcast: Adviser Says Trump Is ‘Very Much’ Like Bill Clinton  —  “When they talk to you they just own you.  They're staring right into your soul,” says Barry Bennett, a senior adviser to Trump.  —  haddadmedia  —  In an interview on Bloomberg's Masters in Politics podcast Friday …
Discussion: Mediaite
Los Angeles Times:
Obama to Republicans: Like it or not, you're stuck with Trump  —  President Obama speaks Friday in the White House briefing room.  —  If Republican leaders won't line up behind Donald Trump, President Obama is trying to lash them together himself.  —  Obama seized on the deepening fracture …
Jim Hoft / The Gateway Pundit:
Top House Republicans Speak Out Against Paul Ryan: “I Don't Understand What He's Thinking”  —  On Thursday Republican Speaker Paul Ryan told Jake Tapper on CNN he was “not ready” to endorse Donald Trump yet.  —  Today top Republicans in the House of Representatives spoke out against Paul Ryan.
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
No, a Conservative Third-Party Candidate Can't Steal the Electoral College  —  The <em>Morning Joe</em> panel does not understand how elections work.  —  Some conservative Republicans who hate Donald Trump want to run a third-party presidential candidate, such as Nebraska Republican senator Ben Sasse, who has lambasted Trump.
Jeremy Diamond / CNN:   Trump: Hillary Clinton a ‘nasty, mean enabler’
Washington Examiner:
Pelosi, Vicente Fox plot to defeat Trump, Mexican calls Trump voters lazy drunks
Rachael Bade / Politico:
Top allies break with Ryan over Trump
Discussion: Hot Air and RedState
Harper Neidig / The Hill:
Jeb Bush: I won't vote for Trump or Clinton
Tom LoBianco / CNN:
First on CNN: Cheney says he will support Trump
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Caleb Howe / RedState:
LYIN' DON: Trump Just Totally Made Up the Story that he Talked to Marco Rubio Recently  —  In case you missed it, on Thursday, Donald Trump told Bret Baier that he spoke with Marco Rubio and that Rubio was very supportive of him and even open to a VP spot.  Late Friday night …
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Brandon Morse / RedState:
Rubio Compares Trump to 3rd World Strongman
Sam Stein / The Huffington Post:
Why Hillary Clinton Is Uniquely Suited To Take On Donald Trump
Discussion: Daily Kos
Jesse Byrnes / The Hill:
Sanders leaves door open to Clinton VP spot … Democratic presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders  —  on Friday left the door open to being Hillary Clinton  —  's running mate if she were to offer him the position after the party's convention this summer.  —  “Right now, we are focused …
Joanna Walters / Guardian:
How to use a urinal like a lady: a trans woman's rebel tour of North Carolina  —  In defiance of North Carolina's ‘absurd’ new bathroom law, trans actress Shakina Nayfack is staging a piece of renegade performance art in men's toilets  —  Apparently it's really quite difficult to use a urinal - if you're a woman.
Anis Shivani / Salon:
Our awful elites gutted America.  Now they dare ring alarms about Trump, Sanders — and cast themselves as saviors  —  Both parties ignored workers, spewed hate, enriched themselves, hollowed out democracy.  Now the problem's populism?  —  This week, on the night of the Indiana primary …
Discussion: Mashable
Sara Ganim / CNN:
Sandusky victim: Joe Paterno told me to drop abuse accusation  — Paterno family lawyers: That claim is inconsistent with the facts and how late football coach lived his life  —  (CNN)After four years of feuding over the legacy of Joe Paterno, with a few vague details about what he may have known …
Ben Kamisar / The Hill:
Priebus: Trump can win swing states, put Michigan in play  —  Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus on Friday said Donald Trump  —  can expand the electoral map in November, winning important swing states and putting solid-blue states in play.
Washington Post:
Man arrested in Maryland killing spree allegedly menaced his wife, stepdaughters  —  When Gladys Tordil went to court in March to plead for protection against her husband, she portrayed him as a man who had menaced her and her two daughters for at least a decade.
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Catherine Rampell / Washington Post:
Ivy League economist ethnically profiled, interrogated for doing math on American Airlines flight
Discussion: The Week
Beth Harris / Associated Press:
NYQUIST TRIES TO FOLLOW AMERICAN PHAROAH AT KENTUCKY DERBY
David A. Kessler / New York Times:
The Opioid Epidemic We Failed to Foresee
Greg Bluestein / The Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Gingrich could be on short list for Trump running mate
Discussion: New York Magazine and The Atlantic
Max Boot / Commentary Magazine:
A President Who Learned Nothing
Discussion: Power Line
Todd Starnes / Fox News:
Parents sue feds for forcing school to let transgenders in girls locker room
Reuters:
Russia's ‘Obama’ ice cream deepens chilly relations with US
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Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:
Michael Bloomberg Doesn't Expect Mark Halperin And John Heilemann To Remain After The Election
David Brooks / New York Times:
Clinton's Imagination Problem
Jonathan Pearlman / Telegraph:
Australian blogger who claimed natural remedies cured her cancer admits: ‘None of it is true’
Discussion: Althouse
Thomas Gibbons-Neff / Washington Post:
U.S. forces now on the ground supporting combat operations in Yemen, Pentagon says
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Judge delays Trump University trial
Discussion: National Review
John Cassidy / New Yorker:
Donald Trump, Nate Silver, and the Value of Data Journalism
Discussion: TheStreet.com
 

 
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Dade Hayes / Deadline:
Disney and WBD announce a streaming bundle of Disney+, Hulu, and Max, with ad-supported and ad-free plans, beginning this summer in the US, with pricing to come

New York Times:
Sources: if Sony and Apollo acquire Paramount Global, they plan to sell off CBS, cable channels like MTV, and Paramount+, while keeping Paramount Pictures

Lisa Schlein / Voice of America:
The UN high commissioner for human rights condemns Russia's crackdown on journalists; at least 30 journalists are currently detained on various criminal charges
 
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