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11:20 AM ET, May 9, 2016

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CNN:
Poll: 6-in-10 oppose bills like the North Carolina transgender bathroom law  —  Washington (CNN)Americans broadly oppose laws that would require transgender people to use facilities that correspond with their gender at birth rather than their gender identity, according to a new CNN/ORC Poll …
Discussion: Reuters, Joe.My.God. and Towleroad
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Joshua Berlinger / CNN:
Showdown looms over North Carolina's bathroom bill  —  (CNN)It's deadline day for North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory.  —  The U.S. Justice Department sent his office a letter Wednesday claiming that the state's controversial bathroom law is in violation of the Civil Rights Act.
Discussion: mrctv.org/videos and Hot Air
Cortney O'Brien / Townhall.com:   Dozens of Parents Sue DOE Over Illinois Transgender Bathroom Law
Reuters:
Democrats gird for fight with Trump in U.S. Rust Belt states  —  CLEVELAND/NEW YORK - Bracing for a general election fight with Donald Trump, Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton and her allies are putting resources into industrial states such as Ohio and Pennsylvania to try …
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Fred Barnes / Weekly Standard:   He'll Do It His Way  —  Don't expect a New Trump.
Los Angeles Times:
Column What's Bernie Sanders' next move?
Discussion: Washington Monthly
Jonathan Cohn / The Huffington Post:
Hillary Clinton Is A Progressive Democrat, Despite What You May Have Heard
Discussion: New York Times
Glenn Thrush / Politico:
‘I think he could come apart’  —  Mark Salter, the most prominent and most defiant Republican to announce his support of Hillary Clinton over Donald Trump, thinks the 2016 campaign could literally — no joke — drive the billionaire developer insane.  —  Salter, one of McCain's top aides during …
Discussion: Raw Story
Los Angeles Times:
High school yearbook misidentifies Muslim student as ‘Isis Phillips’  —  A high school yearbook is supposed to be a keepsake, but for a Muslim student in Rancho Cucamonga it will be a painful reminder of being misidentified as “Isis Phillips” in a photo that showed her smiling and wearing a hijab.
Discussion: KTLA, Slantpoint and Fox News Insider
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Associated Press:   Muslim Student Says Yearbook ID'd Her As ‘Isis Phillips’
Jonathan Swan / The Hill:
GOP operatives on the prowl for secret Clinton transcripts  —  Republican operatives are scouring the country for transcripts, notes or secret recordings of Hillary Clinton  —  's paid speeches to Goldman Sachs in hopes of finding damaging material for the general election.
Discussion: Political Wire
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Jordan Fabian / The Hill:
Obama itches for Trump fight  —  President Obama can't wait to take on Donald Trump  —  Obama has been largely sidelined in the presidential contest, a last-year officeholder with high approval ratings who has repeatedly shown he likes to spar with political foes.
Discussion: Heat Street
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Chris Cillizza / Washington Post:
The GOP's electoral-map problem is not about Trump. It's about demographics.
George Packer / New Yorker:
Head of the Class  —  Last week, Donald Trump became the leader of the Republican Party.
Discussion: Prairie Weather
Nick Gass / Politico:
Trump: U.S. can never default because it prints money  —  Donald Trump assailed the media on Monday for what he said was a misrepresentation of his comments on debt, rejecting the notion that he would have the United States default on his debt.  —  “I said if we can buy back government debt as a discount.
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Ian Millhiser / ThinkProgress:   Trump's Dangerous National Debt Plan Is Also Unconstitutional
Bobby Jindal / Wall Street Journal:
I'm Voting Trump, Warts and All  —  I stand by all my criticisms of the New Yorker, but the stakes for the country are too great to elect Clinton.  —  Some of my fellow Republicans have declared they will never, under any circumstances, vote for Donald Trump.
Discussion: New York Times and Althouse
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Michael Walsh / New York Post:   Donald Trump is going to troll his way to victory
Ben Rhodes:
How We Advocated for the Iran Deal  —  In recent years, few things have been as exhaustively debated or written about than the Iran deal.  —  That debate reignited this week after a long article about me included a section about the Iran deal.  There are many issues raised in an article of this length …
Wall Street Journal:
Twitter Bars Intelligence Agencies From Using Analytics Service  —  Social media firm cuts access to Dataminr, a service used to identify unfolding terror attacks, political unrest  —  Twitter Inc. cut off U.S. intelligence agencies from access to a service that sifts through the entire output …
New York Daily News:
New York nail salons must pay $2M for cheating workers out of fair wages  —  Gov. Cuomo has ordered nail salons to hand over $2 million to hundreds of ripped off workers.  —  Cuomo created the Nail Salon Industry Enforcement Task Force a year ago to crack down on widespread abuses at nail shops …
Discussion: New York Magazine and Raw Story
Breitbart:
London's Iconic Red Buses To Declare ‘Glory To Allah’  —  Britain's largest Islamic charity says it wants to “break down barriers” and portray Islam positively by launching a new advertising campaign which will slap the phrase “glory to Allah” on the side of London buses.
Dara Lind / Vox:
Why liberals love to fantasize about moving to Canada (and how to do it for real)  —  Maybe, at first, you were joking.  Maybe you've caught yourself since then wondering if it would truly be such a bad idea.  —  After all, America may well elect Donald J. Trump president in November.
Discussion: alan.com
WSAZ-TV:
Man charged in attack on W.Va. State Senate candidate attack  —  LOGAN COUNTY, W.Va (WSAZ) — A man is behind bars tonight after allegedly beating a man running for the West Virginia Senate.  Jonathan Porter, 41, of Logan County is charged with felony destruction of property, malicious assault and attempt to commit a felony.
Jim Hoft / The Gateway Pundit:
Rapper Azealia Banks Endorses Trump - Says Hillary Talks to Black People “Like We're Pets”  —  Rapper Azealia Banks endorsed Donald Trump in a series of tweets on Sunday.  —  WOW!  —  Right, black folk having been voting democrat for the last 70 years and we don't have s**t to show for it. http://twitter.com/...
 
 
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E.J. Dionne Jr / Washington Post:
Make America empathetic again
Discussion: Daily Kos
Lisa Rein / Washington Post:
Yosemite National Park, brought to you by Starbucks?
Discussion: Raw Story
Sean Sullivan / Washington Post:
Trump, who once opposed minimum-wage hike, says he would ‘like to see an increase’
Discussion: Hot Air, Raw Story and Guardian
Associated Press:
HARD-TALKING MAYOR FAVORED TO BE NEXT PHILIPPINE PRESIDENT
Alex Zielinski / ThinkProgress:
The Latest Strategy To Prevent Women From Getting A Safe Abortion
Discussion: alan.com
 Earlier Items: 
Brian Faler / Politico:
Congress says no Puerto Rico bailout, but tax deal beat it to the punch
Discussion: Washington Post and The Hill
Kurt Schlichter / Townhall.com:
I Am Going To Vote For Trump Though It Makes Me Want To Projectile Vomit
Discussion: Hot Air
Ben Glaze / Mirror.co.uk:
‘Brexit’ could trigger World War Three, warns David Cameron
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
Breitbart:
Paul Nehlen Tours Border with Breitbart Texas' Brandon Darby: ‘Agents Need a Fighter’
Rebecca Savransky / The Hill:
Veterans call on Trump to show respect
William Yardley / Los Angeles Times:
Wildfire at Fort McMurray quickly overtakes Canada's environmental debate
Los Angeles Times:
Op-Ed The Republican Party is dead
 

 
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