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12:20 PM ET, May 18, 2016

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Kathleen Parker / Washington Post:
Hillary Clinton's viral nightmare: A video of her ‘lying for 13 minutes’  —  You could say that it all depends on how you define “lie.”  Or, perhaps, that it's hell to have a public record.  —  Either way, Hillary Clinton's vast résumé of, shall we say, inconsistencies, is the dog that caught the car and won't let go.
Discussion: JustOneMinute and National Review
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Joy-Ann Reid / The Daily Beast:
Come on, Bernie, Time to Level With Your Dreamers  —  He must stop indulging his people's fantasies, tell them the truth about the math—and get them to stop with all the nasty about Clinton.  —  Soon and very soon, Bernie Sanders is going to have to help his most ardent fans confront the fact of his defeat.
Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
It Comes From the Very Top  —  For months I'd thought and written that Sanders campaign manager Jeff Weaver was the key driver of toxicity in the the Democratic primary race.  Weaver has been highly visible on television, far more than campaign manager's tend to be.
Margaret Talev / Bloomberg:
Clinton, Democrats Confronting Dangerous Divisions Within Party  —  Split decision in Kentucky, Oregon shows unity elusive  —  Eruption by Sanders supporters adds to rancor in campaign  —  Hillary Clinton's claim of a narrow victory in Kentucky and Bernie Sanders' win in Oregon illustrated …
Discussion: The Resurgent and neo-neocon
Niall Stanage / The Hill:
Amid Democratic infighting, polls are improving for Trump  —  appears to be making rapid progress in unifying Republican voters behind his presidential bid even as Democratic discord between backers of Hillary Clinton  —  reaches new highs.  —  An NBC News/SurveyMonkey poll released Tuesday …
Discussion: RedState
Anthony Brooks / WBUR:
WBUR Poll Finds It'd Be A Close Clinton-Trump Contest In New Hampshire  —  If the presidential election were held today between the apparent Republican nominee, Donald Trump, and the Democratic front-runner, Hillary Clinton, the outcome would be very close.  That's according to a new WBUR poll …
Discussion: Washington Times
Michael Falcone / ABC News:
The Note: Regrets, He Had a Few  —  NOTABLES  —TRUMP SAYS HE'S HAD REGRETS SINCE FIRST EXCHANGE WITH MEGYN KELLY: Nine months after the feud between Donald Trump and Megyn Kelly first erupted, the hatchet, it seems, has been buried.  The presumptive Republican nominee sat …
John Hinderaker / Power Line:
Hillary Might Have Just Made Her Worst Mistake Ever  —  At a campaign stop in Kentucky, Hillary Clinton told the crowd that if she were president, she would put her husband Bill “in charge of revitalizing the economy.”  The impulse is understandable.  The economy of the 1990s was good …
Daniel Strauss / Politico:
Sanders sticks it to the Democratic Party
Bernie Sanders:
Sanders Statement on Nevada
Hank Stuever / Washington Post:
Megyn Kelly's awkward primetime debut was a little too focused on Megyn Kelly  —  Greeting her viewers from what appeared to be the bridge of a spaceship made of nutrition-free marshmallow, Fox News Channel's Megyn Kelly made an awkward and unimpressive landing with her first hour-long interview special Tuesday night on the Fox network.
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Gabriel Sherman / New York Magazine:
Why Rupert Murdoch Decided to Back Donald Trump
CBS News:
Obama extends overtime pay to 4.2 million Americans  —  The Department of Labor on Wednesday will finalize a rule extending overtime protections to 4.2 million more Americans currently not eligible under federal law, boosting wages by $12 billion over the next 10 years, the White House said Tuesday evening.
Discussion: NPR, Hot Air, Instapundit and The Week
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Jonnelle Marte / Washington Post:
Millions more workers would be eligible for overtime pay under new federal rule
Melanie Garunay / Blog Daily Listings RSS:
Taking Action to Expand Overtime Protections
Discussion: National Review and Daily Kos
Marianne LeVine / Politico:
White House details sweeping measure to raise wages
Discussion: AR SQUARED and ABC News
Chase Peterson-Withorn / Forbes:
Trump Says He's Filed New Financial Disclosure, Still Touting Questionable $10 Billion Fortune  —  Donald Trump has announced that he filed a new personal financial disclosure with the Federal Election Commission, according a press release issued Thursday that says the form shows a …
Discussion: Hot Air, RedState, The Week and Guardian
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Rose Byrne / CBS News:
Ivanka Trump responds to “disturbing” accusations about her father  —  The New York Times' front-page exposé of Donald Trump's comments and alleged behavior toward women has brought new scrutiny in recent days, but one powerful woman is standing up for him.
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Nolan D. McCaskill / Politico:
Ivanka Trump on her father: 'He's not a groper'
Mtschnyder / CBS Dallas:
Shopper Upset Man Allowed To Use Women's Dressing Room In Ross  —  MESQUITE (CBSDFW.COM) - A Forney woman says a Ross department store in Mesquite let a man into the women's dressing room Monday.  —  “I was in the dressing room, when we heard a man's voice,” said Lisa Stickles, who says she quickly told a manager.
Robert Draper / New York Times:
Mr. Trump's Wild Ride  —  Down the homestretch with the impossible nominee.  —  'H  —  ave you seen the latest polls?  I'm beating Hillary.  Donald Trump was on the phone with a man he had never met, a Republican delegate in Pennsylvania.  It was May 2, one day before the Indiana primary election …
Fox News:
Woman marches through Target blasting transgender bathroom policy  —  A video of a woman parading around a Target store with a Bible protesting the retail company's transgender bathroom policy has gone viral.  —  Fox 8 Cleveland reported Tuesday the unidentified woman in the Youtube video …
David Weigel / Washington Post:
Trump's appeal stretches to suburbs that had been trending blue  —  DOYLESTOWN, Pa. — At the Bucks County Democrats' first meeting since the April 26 Pennsylvania primary, one worry dominated: Donald Trump had done better than expected in this blue-leaning exurban expanse north and east of Philadelphia.
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Keagan Harsha / FOX31 Denver:
Kindergartner suspended for bringing bubble gun to class  —  BRIGHTON, Colo. — A 5 year-old girl was suspended from kindergarten on Monday for bringing a gun to Southeast Elementary School.  —  It sounds alarming, but the weapon was a bubble gun, a popular plastic toy sold at stores across Colorado.
New York Daily News:
Knife-wielding man shot dead by NYPD cops after attacking woman in Hell's Kitchen  —  A belligerent man waving an eight-inch knife died Wednesday in a barrage of police bullets after a wild confrontation outside a Hell's Kitchen supermarket, police said.  —  The 46-year-old man pulled …
Brad R. Torgersen:
Panel: how to protect science fiction awards from Bad People™  —  MODERATOR: My friends, it is with deep regret that I must come before you — the Peoples Republic of Science Fiction — to announce that Bad People™ have come into our country, and they are seriously messing up our awards.
Discussion: Vox Popoli
 
 
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You can be fined for not calling people ‘ze’ or ‘hir,’ if that's the pronoun they demand that you use
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Nolan D. McCaskill / Politico:
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Paul Gowder:
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Reuters:
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