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10:30 PM ET, May 10, 2016

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Josh Harkinson / Mother Jones:
Trump Selects a White Nationalist Leader as a Delegate in California  —  On Monday evening, California's secretary of state published a list of delegates chosen by the Trump campaign for the upcoming Republican presidential primary in the state.  Trump's slate includes William Johnson …
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Michelle Moons / Breitbart:
Trump Surprises with Celebrities on California Delegates List  —  The Donald Trump campaign named 169 California delegates on Monday, including such high-profile names as billionaire Peter Thiel, conservative leader David Horowitz, and several legislators.  —  The somewhat reclusive Thiel …
Discussion: Right Wing Watch
Philip Bump / Washington Post:
Donald Trump's delegate ineptitude stumbles into white nationalism  —  Donald Trump's stumbling, tricky effort to claim the Republican Party nomination for the presidency achieved success seven days ago, putting to rest questions about the extent to which the candidate and his team …
Discussion: Mother Jones and Hot Air
Allegra Kirkland / Talking Points Memo:   Trump Camp: ‘Database Error’ Led To White Nationalist On CA Delegate Slate
Josh Harkinson / Mother Jones:
Trump Campaign Corresponded With Its White Nationalist Delegate Long After “Database Error”
Robert Costa / Washington Post:
Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski will oversee the vice-presidential search  —  Political adviser Beth Myers headed up the process for Mitt Romney.  Washington lawyer A.B. Culvahouse managed the selection for Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.).  Now, Corey Lewandowski will have that responsibility for Donald Trump.
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Gideon Resnick / The Daily Beast:
Ben Carson Is Off Trump's VP Vetting Team  —  After selecting a list of names for the team to vet, Ben Carson has stepped away from the vice presidential selection team.  —  Ben Carson is becoming the jack of all trades for Donald Trump's campaign.  —  After being tapped to join …
Discussion: CNN and Talking Points Memo
ABC News:
Discussion: Politico, Washington Post and The Hill
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Abby Phillip / Washington Post:
Sanders projected to win West Virginia primary
Discussion: Politico, ABC News and Liberal Values
Michael Nunez / Gizmodo:
Senate GOP Launches Inquiry Into Facebook's News Curation  —  The US Senate Commerce Committee—which has jurisdiction over media issues, consumer protection issues, and internet communication—has sent a letter to Mark Zuckerberg requesting answers to questions it has on its trending topics section.
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Tom Stocky / Facebook:
My team is responsible for Trending Topics, and I want to address …
Patrick Svitek / The Texas Tribune:
Heidi Cruz Likens Husband's Campaign to Efforts to End Slavery … Editor's note: This story has been updated throughout.  —  Drawing a parallel between the long-term efforts of her husband's supporters and the fight to end slavery, Heidi Cruz said Tuesday that it took “a lot longer than four years” …
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Kyle Mantyla / Right Wing Watch:
'They're Only Using Us For Their Own Power': Glenn Beck Unloads On The GOP
Discussion: Mediaite
Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
GOP Quickly Unifies Around Trump; Clinton Still Has Modest Lead  —  PPP's new national poll finds that Republicans have quickly unified around Donald Trump, making the Presidential race more competitive than it has previously been perceived to be.  —  Hillary Clinton leads Trump 42-38 …
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Nick Gass / Politico:
Dead heat: Trump, Clinton tied in 3 swing-state polls
Ben Kamisar / The Hill:
Cruz floats restarting campaign if he wins Nebraska primary  —  on Tuesday floated the possibility of restarting his presidential campaign if he wins Nebraska's GOP primary, as he avoided saying whether he supports Donald Trump  —  's bid for president.  —  Cruz, who ended his White House run …
Caitlin MacNeal / Talking Points Memo:
North Carolina GOP Reps To The Feds: Don't You Dare Defund The Tarheels!  —  In a Monday letter to the Department of Education, all 10 GOP members of North Carolina's congressional delegation sent a letter to U.S. Education Secretary John King demanding that he not cut off education funding …
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Mark Wilson / Co.Design:
Budweiser Renames Its Beer “America”  —  Until the November election, Budweiser is swapping out everything on its can—including its own name—to be as patriotic as possible.  —  With the backdrop of the Olympics and a comically botched election, this summer is bound to be what Ricardo Marques …
Steerpike / Coffee House:
Revealed: Emma Watson named in latest Panama Papers leak  —  Of late, Emma Watson has been taking a more active role in both UK and American politics.  The Harry Potter actress recently attended the White House correspondents' dinner, and just yesterday called on London's new mayor Sadiq Khan …
Francis Wilkinson / Bloomberg:
Clinton Has a Weakness.  That's Trump's Only Hope.  —  There are two ways that Donald Trump can become president.  Either he must become significantly more popular among general-election voters.  Or his likely opponent, Hillary Clinton, must become significantly more unpopular.
Discussion: Washington Post and AOL
Media Matters for America:
NRA's Ted Nugent Promotes Fake Video Of Hillary Clinton Being Shot  —  National Rifle Association board member Ted Nugent, who will deliver a speech at the NRA's annual meeting this month, shared a fake video that depicts Hillary Clinton being graphically murdered by Bernie Sanders with a handgun during a presidential debate.
Discussion: Mediaite
Ben Rhodes / Medium:
The First Sitting U.S. President to Visit Hiroshima  —  President Obama will visit Hiroshima, Japan after the conclusion of the G-7 Summit later this month.  —  There has been intense interest on both sides of the Pacific in the possibility of a presidential visit to Hiroshima …
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The White House:
Statement by the Press Secretary on the President's Travel to Vietnam and Japan
Discussion: The Diplomat
Matt Zapotosky / Washington Post:
Clinton aide Cheryl Mills leaves FBI interview briefly after being asked about emails  —  Near the beginning of a recent interview, an FBI investigator broached a topic with longtime Hillary Clinton aide Cheryl Mills that her lawyer and the Justice Department had agreed would be off limits …
Rush Limbaugh:
This Ad Won't Hurt Trump  —  RUSH: There's couple sound bites here.  One of them is an ad.  A Hillary super PAC has released an ad attacking Trump on women using Trump's own words.  Now, obviously we only have the audio here.  It's a minute long.  I want to run this by you …
Cathy Young / The Daily Beast:
Ann Coulter's Anti-Semitism Runs Deeper Than You Know  —  The Trump cheerleader shares his habit of promoting ethnic nationalists and their ugly ideas.  —  The white nationalists of the so-called alternative right, an extremist movement that rejects mainstream conservatism as too gutless …
Discussion: Vox Popoli
Jon Austin / Daily Express:
NASA HISTORIC ANNOUNCEMENT: More than 1,200 new planets that could hold life found  —  THE chance of alien life being found one day has been boosted after NASA scientists revealed they have found 1,284 NEW planets that could house alien life.  —  NASA  —  A NASA CGI of Kepler 452b, an Earth-like planet discovered last July
Discussion: Infowars
Andrew Kaczynski / BuzzFeed:
Trump In 2006: Clinton Should Be Forgiven For Iraq Vote “Based On Lies Given To Her”  —  “She's very smart and has a major chance to be our next president,” Trump said.  —  Jeff J Mitchell / Getty Images  —  Donald Trump is already going after Hillary Clinton for her vote to authorize …
Discussion: Hot Air and The Right Scoop
Susan Svrluga / Washington Post:
The Citadel will not allow an exception to the uniform to let a Muslim student wear her hijab  —  The Citadel will not allow a Muslim student to wear a hijab, an exception she had requested to the required uniform in order to keep her head covered, in keeping with her faith.
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Elianayjohnson / National Review:
GOP Megadonor Paul Singer Rips Trump at NYC Dinner  —  One of the Republican party's most influential donors signaled that he will support neither Donald Trump nor Hillary Clinton in the November election.  Paul Singer, the New York City hedge-fund manager who endorsed Marco Rubio …
Discussion: BuzzFeed and Political Wire
 
 
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AJ Willingham / CNN:
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New York Times:
Hillary Clinton Takes a Step to the Left on Health Care
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Jordain Carney / The Hill:
Cruz: I won't make third-party run
Gromer Jeffers Jr / Trail Blazers Blog:
Controversial mailer claims Texas GOP chairman promotes ‘disgusting homosexual agenda’
Discussion: Towleroad
Christopher Massie / BuzzFeed:
Huckabee: Trump Hasn't Thought Through Every Issue And Won't Have To As President
Emma Roller / New York Times:
The Women Who Like Donald Trump
Discussion: Politico
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Alex Griswold / Mediaite:
State Department Appears to Edit Briefing Video to Remove Admission of Falsehood
Dennis Prager / Townhall.com:
The Scariest Reason Trump Won
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Tim Nudd / Ad Age:
Apple apologizes for the “Crush” iPad Pro ad and scraps plans to run it on TV; Apple's VP of marketing communications Tor Myhren says “we missed the mark”

Anna Tong / Reuters:
Sources: OpenAI plans to announce its AI-powered search product on May 13

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple's first server chips for its upcoming AI features will be the M2 Ultra; simpler AI tasks will be processed directly on iPhones, iPads, and Macs

 
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