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5:20 PM ET, May 14, 2016

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Philip Rucker / Washington Post:
Inside the GOP effort to draft an independent candidate to derail Trump  —  A band of exasperated Republicans — including 2012 presidential nominee Mitt Romney, a handful of veteran consultants and members of the conservative intelligentsia — is actively plotting to draft …
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Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Ben Sasse under fire  —  Sen. Ben Sasse's outspoken rejection of Donald Trump is roiling Nebraska Republican politics, and the discord is threatening to boil over at the state's GOP convention Saturday.  —  A prominent Nebraska political operative — who is the nephew of senior GOP Sen. Deb Fischer …
New York Times:
Crossing the Line: How Donald Trump Behaved With Women in Private  —  Interviews reveal unwelcome advances, a shrewd reliance on ambitious women, and unsettling workplace conduct by Mr. Trump over decades.  —  Donald J. Trump had barely met Rowanne Brewer Lane when he asked her to change out of her clothes.
David Niose / Salon:
This is one weak nominee: Hillary Clinton's problem isn't Bernie Sanders.  It's Hillary Clinton  —  Clinton's camp thinks her résumé will be enough to carry her to the White House.  No one should be that sure  —  No matter what you think about Hillary Clinton …
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Ted Morgan / Salon:
This isn't how a democracy should work: How the media boosted Donald Trump and screwed Bernie Sanders  —  Voters want change.  Elites in D.C. and the media — both liberal and conservative — are actively obstructing it  —  As this wildly unpredictable primary season heads toward the finish line …
Greg Bluestein / The Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Poll: Clinton vs. Trump a tossup in Georgia
David Caplan / ABC News:
Clinton Campaign Releases Video Slamming Trump's Refusal to Release Tax Returns  —  The Hillary Clinton campaign released a video online Saturday morning, questioning Donald Trump's refusal to release his tax returns, until he allegedly finishes being audited.
Discussion: Daily Mail
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Alex Pfeiffer / The Daily Caller:
SHOCK POLL: Trump Leads Hillary Among Hispanic Voters [VIDEO]
Discussion: The Hill and RedState
Michael A. Cohen / BostonGlobe.com:
Trump offers a preview of his authoritarian presidency  —  Donald Trump says so many things that are offensive, incorrect, and dishonest that it is often impossible to keep up.  In just the past few days, he's flip-flopped on his tax position, his support for raising the minimum wage, and his so-called Muslim ban.
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Elliot Smilowitz / The Hill:   Reporter denies leaking ‘John Miller’ tapes, suggests Trump behind leaks
Daily Mail:
The woman killed by doctors because she was obsessed with cleaning: Just one of growing numbers of Dutch people given the right to euthanasia because of mental, not terminal, illness  —  She is a conventional mother who enjoys life with her two children and husband in a farming town 100 miles away …
Discussion: Althouse
Chris Megerian / Los Angeles Times:
Welcome to a Bernie Sanders Wiccan ritual  —  Leigha Lafleur, holding a candle, leads a Wiccan ritual to support Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders on Friday in Portland.  (Chris Megerian / Los Angeles Times)  —  Attending a rally for Bernie Sanders usually involves long lines …
Discussion: Mediaite
David Ferguson / Raw Story:
Kentucky woman says man beat her for looking too masculine — as people stood by and watched  —  DON'T MISS STORIES.  FOLLOW RAW STORY!  —  A Paintsville, Kentucky woman said that she was attacked and brutally beaten on Thursday for looking too masculine.
Reuters:
UK's Cameron struggles to make Britons believe his EU message: poll  —  Prime Minister David Cameron is struggling to convince voters he is telling the truth about why Britain should stay in the European Union and his main “Out” rival Boris Johnson is doing a better job, an opinion poll found.
Discussion: The Last Refuge
Bryce Covert / ThinkProgress:
Senior Trump Adviser Says Idea That Words Matter Is ‘Ridiculous’  —  Donald Trump spent his first two weeks as the presumptive Republican presidential nominee changing his stances on a number of policy issues, sometimes multiple times.  That got an interesting defense from one of his senior advisers on Friday.
Discussion: National Review
Eddie Scarry / Washington Examiner:
Media lay the groundwork for Hillary, the victim  —  While the 2016 campaign has been hard to predict, the media know how they want to play it: Hillary Clinton, the likely Democratic nominee, will be the dignified victim of relentless “attacks” from her wild and hostile Republican opponent, Donald Trump.
Discussion: RedState
Niraj Chokshi / Washington Post:
‘Take it off!  This is America!’:  Man who yanked hijab pleads guilty to religious obstruction  —  Near the end of his Southwest Airlines flight from Chicago to Albuquerque in December, Gill Parker Payne decided he had to take action.  —  Seated a few rows in front of him was a woman he had never met before.
Nicholas Fandos / New York Times:
Capitol Hill Newspapers, Once a Protected Class, Redefine Themselves  —  WASHINGTON — When Neetzan Zimmerman arrived at The Hill as its first director of audience development in January 2015, he found a publication largely unchanged since its heyday as a scrappy weekly for Washington's deal makers.
Emily Smith / Page Six:
Cannes hotel guests in a panic over false terror alert  —  MORE FROM:  —  Wealthy guests at the exclusive Hotel du Cap in Antibes during the Cannes Film Festival were terrified when men wearing what looked like suicide vests arrived by boat bearing a black, ISIS-like flag.
Jonathan Martin / New York Times:
Sheldon Adelson Is Poised to Give Donald Trump a Donation Boost  —  The casino magnate Sheldon G. Adelson told Donald J. Trump in a private meeting last week that he was willing to contribute more to help elect him than he has to any previous campaign, a sum that could exceed $100 million …
Sky News:
An elderly Buddhist monk has been hacked to death in a temple in Bangladesh, the latest in a spate of murders of religious minorities.  —  Police say there have been seven such murders in Bangladesh since the start of last month alone.  —  No group has yet said it carried out the murder …
Discussion: Jihad Watch
 
 
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Laylan Connelly / Orange County Register:
Red crab invasion: Beaches at Newport Beach, Laguna Beach covered by the tiny crustaceans
Awr Hawkins / Breitbart:
During a May 13 appearance on NBC's Today, Katie Couric previewed her upcoming gun control documentary …
Discussion: Hot Air
Travis Gettys / Raw Story:
Trumpism goes local: Montana Republicans are helping this white nationalist get into office
German Lopez / Vox:
Nationwide marijuana legalization could produce up to $28 billion in yearly tax revenue
Discussion: ACLU and Business Insider
Mark Hensch / The Hill:
Scarborough: ‘Entire Democratic Party’ is against Sanders
David Glasner / Uneasy Money:
Saving a Very Old Paper from Oblivion
Discussion: bradford-delong.com
Jonathan Gilbert / New York Times:
Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, Ex-Argentine President, Indicted on Financial Charge
David Ferguson / Raw Story:
Trump on ‘smart’ women: They're manipulative ‘killers’ who use their bodies to get ahead
Discussion: CNN, Heat Street and Washington Monthly
 Earlier Items: 
Mark Hemingway / Weekly Standard:
The Selling of the Iran Deal
Henry Bodkin / Telegraph:
Tiny origami robot can be injested to complete medical tasks without surgery
Laura Wagner / NPR:
Dung Beetles Navigate Poop-Pile Getaways Using Celestial ‘Snapshots’
Discussion: Gizmodo
Jim Hoft / The Gateway Pundit:
“Corrupt, Liar, Deceiver, Opportunist” - Focus Group OF WOMEN Rips Hillary Clinton (VIDEO)
Discussion: The American Mirror
Jerome Hudson / Breitbart:
Report: Wendy's to Roll Out Self-Serve Kiosks by End of 2016, as Wage Increases Squeeze Fast Food Companies
Neil Munro / Breitbart:
Donald Trump: Obama's Government Should Get Out of Kids' Bathrooms, Locker Rooms
Matthew Diebel / USA Today:
This woman is the only person left born in the 1800s
Discussion: neo-neocon and The Atlantic