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9:40 AM ET, May 16, 2016

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Patrick Healy / New York Times:
Little Is Off Limits as Donald Trump Plans Attacks on Hillary Clinton  —  Donald J. Trump plans to throw Bill Clinton's infidelities in Hillary Clinton's face on live television during the presidential debates this fall, questioning whether she enabled his behavior and sought to discredit the women involved.
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Jessie Hellmann / The Hill:
Clinton: I'd put Bill ‘in charge of revitalizing the economy’  —  Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton  —  is beginning to hint at what role her husband, former President Bill Clinton  —  , could have in her administration if elected president.  —  At a campaign stop in Fort Mitchell …
New York Times:
Inside Donald Trump's Plans to Attack the Clintons  —  Donald J. Trump plans to attack the character, honesty and authenticity of Hillary and Bill Clinton in the months ahead, in hopes of increasing their unpopularity among voters and deflecting attention from his vulnerabilities.
Liz Kreutz / ABC News:
Bill Clinton Would Be ‘In Charge of Revitalizing the Economy,’ Hillary Clinton Says
Discussion: Associated Press and Politico
Anne Gearan / Washington Post:
Even supporters agree: Clinton has weaknesses as a candidate.  What can she do?  —  Hillary Clinton's declining personal image, ongoing battle to break free of the challenge from Sen. Bernie Sanders and struggle to adapt to an anti-establishment mood among voters this year have become caution signs …
Discussion: CNN, CBS New York and CNNMoney
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Maggie Severns / Politico:
Hillary Clinton's union problem  —  Teachers have yet to unite behind Clinton, the latest sign that she is struggling to lock down an important chunk of the Democratic base.  —  Teachers unions were among the earliest and most enthusiastic supporters of Hillary Clinton …
Discussion: ThinkProgress
Heidi M Przybyla / USA Today:
Clinton team looking for a VP who will be fighter, excite Sanders supporters  —  Hillary Clinton is considering a running mate who could make a direct appeal to supporters of Bernie Sanders, bridging a generational and political divide, according to four people close to the campaign.
Discussion: Political Wire and The Week
Jeralyn / TalkLeft:
Nevada Dems: Who Caused the Chaos?
Donald Trump / ITV:
Trump warns of poor relationship with Cameron over PM's refusal to withdraw ‘divisive, stupid and wrong’ comment  —  Donald Trump has issued a warning to David Cameron that the two may not have a good relationship if Mr Trump becomes the next US president.  —  The US Republican presidential hopeful …
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Michael Falcone / ABC News:
The Note: More Troubles for Trump  —  NOTABLES  —PRIEBUS — TRUMP HAS ‘REWRITTEN THE PLAYBOOK’: While presumptive GOP nominee Donald Trump faced more scrutiny this week for not releasing his tax returns, RNC Chairman Reince Priebus said Trump has “rewritten the playbook” …
Discussion: Politico
Dan Merica / CNN:
Pro-Clinton super PAC to start airing general election ads on Wednesday
Discussion: Political Wire
Luciana Lopez / Reuters:   Democrats use Trump as bogeyman to get people to vote
David Horowitz / Breitbart:
Bill Kristol: Republican Spoiler, Renegade Jew  —  While millions of Republican primary voters have chosen Donald Trump as the party's nominee, Bill Kristol and a small but well-heeled group of Washington insiders are preparing a third party effort to block Trump's path to the White House.
Discussion: The Daily Caller and Mother Jones
Kurt Schlichter / Townhall.com:
Clinton's Crimes and Comey's Choice  —  FBI Director James Comey knew he had to make a decision that would change his life, and maybe the history of his country, as he surveyed the piles of papers spread out in his office.  The Deputy Director in charge of the investigation of Hillary Clinton …
Denise Grady / New York Times:
Man Receives First Penis Transplant in the United States  —  A man whose penis was removed because of cancer has received the first penis transplant in the United States, at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston.  —  Thomas Manning, 64, a bank courier from Halifax, Mass., underwent the 15-hour transplant operation on May 8 and 9.
Discussion: Washington Post, STAT and The Week
Associated Press:
Rebuking Trump, Obama Tells Graduates Walls Won't Solve Ills  —  President Barack Obama on Sunday urged college graduates to shun those who want to confront a rapidly changing world by building walls around the United States or by embracing ignorance, as he delivered a sharp and barely concealed critique of Donald Trump.
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Gardiner Harris / New York Times:
Obama Swipes at Trump, but Doesn't Name Him, in Speech at Rutgers
Juan Williams / The Hill:
Trump, false promises and the economy  —  “It's the economy, stupid!”  That was Democratic strategist James Carville's famous bottom line on the 1992 presidential election.  —  Fast forward to 2016 and once again it looks like “It's the economy, stupid.”  —  , the likely Democratic nominee …
Sarah K. Burris / Raw Story:
Baptism turns violent when Hawaii man is shot in the back at Seventh-day Adventist church  —  DON'T MISS STORIES.  FOLLOW RAW STORY!  —  A Honolulu church was the scene of a violent Baptism Sunday, when a man was shot in the back at the Samoa-Tokelau Seventh-day Adventist Church.
National Review:
Exclusive: In Koch World ‘Realignment,’ Less National Politics  —  On a frigid Tuesday in February, a team of top political operatives from the Freedom Partners Chamber of Commerce, the umbrella group that controls political activities for the sprawling donor network led by billionaire industrialists Charles …
South Florida / Sun-Sentinel:
Shark bite in Boca Raton: Woman taken to hospital with nurse shark attached to her arm  —  A nurse shark bit a woman on the beach Sunday afternoon in Boca Raton.  —  Sun Sentinel … Privacy Policy  —  A 23-year-old woman bitten by a small nurse shark was taken to the hospital Sunday afternoon …
Paul Caron / TaxProf Blog:
Why Are There So Few Conservative/Libertarian Law Profs, Even Though They Are More Productive Scholars Than Liberal Law Profs?  —  James Cleith Phillips (Ph.D. Candidate, UC-Berkeley), Why are There So Few Conservatives and Libertarians in Legal Academia?  An Empirical Exploration of Three Hypotheses, 39 Harv.
Discussion: New York Times and Althouse
Angela Chen / Gizmodo:
A Major Law Firm Will Soon Be Using A Robotic Lawyer  —  An “artificial-intelligence attorney” created using technology from IBM's Watson has snagged its first customer, but that doesn't mean it'll be appearing in the courtroom anytime soon.  —  Law firm Baker & Hostetler said this week that it will use the …
Discussion: Hit & Run
Telegraph:
Letters: Britain's competitiveness is undermined by a failing EU  —  SIR - Britain is the fifth biggest economy in the world and, on current projections, will overtake Germany to become Europe's powerhouse.  Britain is America's largest inward investor, and our openness and dynamism mean …
Discussion: Vox Popoli
 
 
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Jeremy W. Peters / New York Times:
Social Conservatives, However Reluctant, Are Warming to the Idea of Trump
New York Times:
Solar Project Pairs Muslims and Jews to Aid West Bank Farmers
Sam Knight / New Yorker:
Enter Left  —  The astonishing political emergence of Jeremy Corbyn …
Dan Lamothe / Washington Post:
Disagreements slow Pentagon's plan to allow transgender service members
Elisabeth Rosenthal / New York Times:
Sorry, We Don't Take Obamacare
Discussion: Viking Pundit
Dave Helling / Kansas City Star:
Trade policy issues are blurring old lines, turning politics in 2016 inside out
Edward-Isaac Dovere / Politico:
Castro moves to stop VP fire from the left
Discussion: Political Wire
Ellen Huet / Bloomberg:
Tech Startups Come Up With Some Creative Definitions for ‘Profitable’
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Christopher Williams / Telegraph:
Google faces record-breaking fine for web search monopoly abuse
Discussion: Gizmodo, VentureBeat and The Verge
Nate Eaton / East Idaho News:
Yellowstone tourists put bison calf in car because they're worried it's cold
Kevin Poulsen / Wired:
The Ukrainian Hacker Who Became the FBI's Best Weapon—And Worst Nightmare
The Hill:
Puerto Rico debt becomes constitutional fight on the right
Ian Lovett / New York Times:
Squatters See a New Frontier in the Empty Homes of Las Vegas
Discussion: FiveThirtyEight and Eschaton
Wall Street Journal:
Donald Trump Wouldn't Have Had the Ready Cash to Self-Finance Entire Campaign — Analysis
Discussion: The Week and Balloon Juice