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5:15 PM ET, May 18, 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.
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Discussion: Raw Story
Alex Griswold / Mediaite:
Trump's Proposed SCOTUS Nominee Sure Seems to Mock Him a Lot on Twitter  —  Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump released the names of eleven federal judges he would consider nominating to the Supreme Court to fill its open spot Wednesday.  Whether or not his campaign team vetted …
Discussion: LawNewz
Leon H. Wolf / RedState:
Trump's SCOTUS List is Meaningless because the Word of a Pathological Liar is Worthless
Discussion: Townhall.com and Washington Post
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.
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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 …
James Hohmann / Washington Post:
The Daily 202: Liberal allies turning on Bernie Sanders after Nevada donnybrook  —  THE BIG IDEA:  — Bernie Sanders won yesterday's Democratic primary in Oregon by 8 points, and Hillary Clinton has declared victory in Kentucky.  The AP says the Bluegrass State remains too close to call.
Sacramento Bee:
Bernie Sanders can't afford to stay silent any longer  —  Rise of extremist supporters causing a rift in the party  —  In Nevada, Trump-like anger boils over at state convention  —  Democratic candidate must step up, condemn supporters' actions  —  A lot of Democrats don't want to admit it …
Margaret Talev / Bloomberg:
Clinton, Democrats Confronting Dangerous Divisions Within Party
Joy-Ann Reid / The Daily Beast:
Come on, Bernie, Time to Level With Your Dreamers
Discussion: Courier-Journal, Raw Story and Slate
Michael Falcone / ABC News:
The Note: Regrets, He Had a Few
Discussion: Outside the Beltway
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.
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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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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 …
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.
Ben Oldach / WHOTV:
School Mourns 13-Year-Old Killed Tragically in Hammock  —  DES MOINES, Iowa — A Catholic school is falling on their faith after one of their classmates was tragically killed over the weekend.  —  Peri Sagun, 13, was on a hammock at her Des Moines home on Saturday.
Discussion: KTLA, FOX31 Denver, WNEP-TV, KXAN-TV and KFOR-TV
Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
How I Acted Like A Pundit And Screwed Up On Donald Trump  —  Since Donald Trump effectively wrapped up the Republican nomination this month, I've seen a lot of critical self-assessments from empirically minded journalists — FiveThirtyEight included, twice over — about what they got wrong on Trump.
Jon Ward / Yahoo:
The roots of Mitt Romney's anti-Trump fervor  —  Mitt Romney has ruled out an independent bid for president and is not actively recruiting any more potential candidates to do so at the moment, though he remains hopeful someone will emerge, allies told Yahoo News Tuesday.
Melanie Garunay / Blog Daily Listings RSS:
Taking Action to Expand Overtime Protections  —  Vice President Biden Speaks on Overtime Pay  —  Listen in on the Vice President's remarks in Columbus, Ohio at 2:30 pm ET  —  Ahead of his visit, the Vice President wrote about what the updated overtime rule means for workers: … Keep reading here.
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Hadas Gold / Politico:
Donald Trump's gold-plated convention  —  Donald Trump has shoved just about every tradition in modern presidential politics out the window, and now he's preparing to trash one more — the dog and pony show known as the Republican National Convention.  —  From speaking slots to prime …
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.
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.
Andrew Rafferty / NBC News:
Hillary Moves Within 100 Delegates of Nomination  —  Sanders: ‘We Are In Until the Last Ballot is Cast’ 2:08  —  Hillary Clinton is the apparent winner of the Kentucky Democratic primary Tuesday night and rival Sen. Bernie Sanders will win in Oregon, NBC News projects.
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Madalyn Mendoza / MySanAntonio.com:
School defends video of San Antonio students jumping rope with cat intestines, PETA upset  —  ‘This was not meant to be degrading or disrespectful,’ a school spokesperson said.  —  People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) has petitioned Winston Churchill High School after a video surfaced …
 
 
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John Hudson / Foreign Policy:
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Kristina Wong / The Hill:
House adopts amendment that slashes National Security Council
Human Rights Watch:
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Discussion: Guardian and Slantpoint
Ian Hanchett / Breitbart:
MSNBC's Brzezinski: Wasserman Schultz ‘Should Step Down,’ Dem Primary ‘Has Been Unfair’ To Sanders
Betsy McCaughey / New York Post:
The Clintons are hitting the big screen (kind of)
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Tim Mak / The Daily Beast:
She Sued Donald Trump, but Still Loves Him
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Discussion: The Daily Caller
Michael Grunwald / Politico:
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Discussion: Mother Jones
Stephen O'Neill / The Drum:
How my spoof anti-Trump billboard went viral around the world
Discussion: Business Insider and AOL
WSAZ-TV:
31 Kentucky counties report election fraud Tuesday
Discussion: Raw Story
Fox News:
Woman marches through Target blasting transgender bathroom policy