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8:30 AM ET, May 19, 2016

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Jill Colvin / U.S. ELECTIONS:
Trump unveils list of his top Supreme Court picks  —  JERSEY CITY, N.J. (AP) — Donald Trump, the presumptive Republican nominee for president, has released a list of 11 potential Supreme Court justices he plans to vet to fill the seat of late Justice Antonin Scalia if he's elected to the White House.
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Donald J Trump for President:
DONALD J. TRUMP RELEASES LIST OF POTENTIAL UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT JUSTICES  —  (New York, NY) May 18, 2016 - Today Donald J. Trump released the much-anticipated list of people he would consider as potential replacements for Justice Scalia at the United States Supreme Court.
Mark Antonio Wright / National Review:
Trump's Judicial Appoints List Is Filled with Outstanding Conservatives
Jim Geraghty / National Review:
Don't Blink! Trump Delivers Actual Good News for Conservatives!
Jeremy Diamond / CNN:
Trump unveils his potential Supreme Court nominees
Discussion: Forbes and The American Spectator
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Sky News:
An EgyptAir flight from Paris to Cairo is thought to have crashed into the sea with 56 passengers and 10 crew on board - including one British national.  —  Flight MS804 departed the French capital at 11.09pm (CEST) before vanishing, according to what the airline described as “an informed source”.
Daily Mail:
March 19, 1972: Flight 763 Cairo to Aden
Discussion: ABC News, CNN and Heat Street
Kim Fox / Bloomberg:   Manisha Jha manishajha03
Claudia Koerner / BuzzFeed:
EgyptAir Flight Carrying 69 People Disappears From Radar
Fox News:
Trump refers to alleged Bill Clinton sexual indiscretions as ‘rape’  —  Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump used the word “rape” Wednesday evening to describe alleged sexual misconduct by former President Bill Clinton.  —  Trump made the comment during an interview with Fox News' Sean Hannity.
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Nick Gass / Politico:
Donald Trump accuses Bill Clinton of rape  —  The allegations raised against Donald Trump in a recent New York Times article are nothing compared to the Clintons' history, the presumptive Republican nominee said in an interview with Fox News' “Hannity” aired Wednesday night.
Aaron Klein / Breitbart:
EXCLUSIVE-Clinton Rape Accuser Juanita Broaddrick: NY Times Should Interview Bill's Alleged Female Victims  —  During an interview today, Bill Clinton's rape accuser Juanita Broaddrick suggested the New York Times spend the same amount of energy investigating claims of sexual assault …
Dana Blanton / Fox News:
Fox News Poll: Trump tops Clinton, both seen as deeply flawed candidates  —  Donald Trump tops Hillary Clinton in a hypothetical head-to-head matchup, according to a new Fox News Poll that also finds majorities of voters feel both frontrunners lack strong moral values and will say anything to get elected.
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Wall Street Journal:
Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump Face Hurdle Not Seen in Modern History  —  Elections are always a game of positives versus negatives.  If you're the candidate, you do your best to talk yourself up and your opponent down.  This year's presidential brawl will test the depths of those downs and …
Discussion: Political Wire
Tim Mak / The Daily Beast:
Dying GOP Senator Apologizes to Muslims for Donald Trump  —  Bob Bennett spent his last days letting Muslims know how sorry he was that an Islamophobe had become his party's all-but-certain nominee.  —  Former GOP senator Bob Bennett lay partially paralyzed in his bed on the fourth floor of the George Washington University Hospital.
New York Times:
Bernie Sanders, Eyeing Convention, Willing to Harm Hillary Clinton in the Homestretch  —  Defiant and determined to transform the Democratic Party, Senator Bernie Sanders is opening a two-month phase of his presidential campaign aimed at inflicting a heavy blow on Hillary Clinton in California …
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Tim Hains / RealClearPolitics:   Cenk Uygur: “CNN Never Showed You” What Really Happened At Nevada Dem Convention
John Podhoretz / New York Post:
Hillary is running a painfully stupid campaign
Discussion: Betsy's Page
Robert Kagan / Washington Post:
This is how fascism comes to America  —  Robert Kagan is a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and a contributing columnist for The Post.  —  The Republican Party's attempt to treat Donald Trump as a normal political candidate would be laughable were it not so perilous to the republic.
John Carreyrou / Wall Street Journal:
Theranos Voids Two Years of Edison Blood-Test Results  —  Company led by Elizabeth Holmes withdraws all Edison results from 2014 and 2015, issues tens of thousands of corrected blood-test reports  —  Theranos Inc. has told federal health regulators that the company voided two years of results …
Discussion: Gizmodo and The Verge
Drew Harwell / Washington Post:
Trump's business booms as he runs for president, financial disclosures show  —  Business has boomed in Donald Trump's financial empire during the time he has run for president, according to an analysis of his federal disclosure forms.  —  The documents, including a lengthy filing released Wednesday …
Discussion: Mother Jones
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Wall Street Journal:
Disclosure Form Details Donald Trump's Income Sources
Discussion: Forbes
Arturo Garcia / Raw Story:
D.C. security guard arrested for blocking trans woman from using womens' restroom  —  A security guard was arrested on Wednesday after harassing a trans woman trying to use the womens' restroom inside a Washington D.C. grocery store, WRC-TV reported.  —  The unidentified guard was charged …
Matt Taibbi / Rolling Stone:
R.I.P., GOP: How Trump Is Killing the Republican Party  —  Donald Trump crushed 16 GOP opponents in one of the most appalling, vicious campaigns in history.  His next victim?  The entire Republican Party  —  Indianapolis, Indiana, May 3rd, 2016, a little before 8:30 p.m. Texas …
Associated Press:
Ex-governor: More ugly women than attractive women in US  —  PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Former Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell says Donald Trump's past comments on women will likely come back to haunt him because Rendell says “there are probably more ugly women in America than attractive women.”
Discussion: Washington Post and WHNT-TV
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David Weigel / Washington Post:
Trump's appeal stretches to suburbs that had been trending blue
 
 
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RT:
Solar surveillance: Airship designed for stratospheric snooping enters development stage (VIDEO)
Discussion: Daily Mail
Marc Caputo / Politico:
Rubio hires Washington superlawyer to field job offers
Alexandra Petri / Washington Post:
If Sanders supporters complained about other things the way they complain about election results
Paul Farhi / Washington Post:
‘Not an appropriate way for a presidential candidate to behave’: Bezos fires back at Donald Trump
Discussion: The Hill
Charles Stein / Bloomberg:
Trump Invested in Outsourcing Companies He Denounced in Campaign
Discussion: The Week
John Hinderaker / Power LinePower Line:
The Tragedy of Democratic Socialism
Jerry Zremski / Politics Now:
Key ally Chris Collins tempers Trump's controversial campaign promises
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Courtney Kube / NBC News:
Chinese Intercept U.S. Military Spy Plane Over South China Sea
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Christopher Massie / BuzzFeed:
Steve King Calls For “Civil Disobedience” On Obama Restroom Guidance
Colin Wilhelm / Politico:
Ryan strikes Puerto Rico debt deal with Obama administration
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Tessa Stuart / Rolling Stone:
Pro-Bernie Trolls on Why They Harassed Nevada's Democratic Chair
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Ben Oldach / WHOTV:
School Mourns 13-Year-Old Killed Tragically in Hammock
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