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6:25 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
Discussion: Power Line
Leon H. Wolf / RedState:
Trump's SCOTUS List is Meaningless because the Word of a Pathological Liar is Worthless
Discussion: Right Wing Watch and The Resurgent
Jeremy Diamond / CNN:
Trump unveils his potential Supreme Court nominees
Discussion: Forbes and The American Spectator
Alex Griswold / Mediaite:
Trump's Proposed SCOTUS Nominee Sure Seems to Mock Him a Lot on Twitter
Discussion: LawNewz
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.
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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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”.
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Kim Fox / Bloomberg:
Manisha Jha manishajha03  —  Some shares are also falling on stock specific news such as Thomas Cook which is reacting to negative news from the company of lower than expected earnings.  Read more here.  —  USA Today had developed a timeline of recent air disasters.  —  Anurag Kotoky anuragkotoky
CNN:
EgyptAir Flight 804 disappears
Discussion: Fox17, HYPELINE and The Right Scoop
Claudia Koerner / BuzzFeed:
EgyptAir Flight Carrying 69 People Disappears From Radar
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.
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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.
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 …
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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CNN:
Mitt Romney ends recruiting efforts for an independent candidate  —  Washington (CNN)Mitt Romney won't launch a third-party presidential campaign of his own and has stopped trying to recruit somebody else to do it.  —  The 2012 Republican nominee had attempted to recruit a challenger to Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton.
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Tim Hains / RealClearPolitics:
Cenk Uygur: “CNN Never Showed You” What Really Happened At Nevada Dem Convention  —  The Young Turks host Cenk Uygur explains how CNN exposed its pro-Clinton bias this weekend.  —  “You're so biased you don't even see it,” he said about the hosts of the news network.
John Paul Tasker / CBC News:
Trudeau accused of ‘manhandling’ Conservative, elbowing NDP MP in House uproar  —  ‘There is not a parallel in contemporary Canadian history,’ NDP House leader says following Commons uproar  —  Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was accused of “manhandling” Opposition whip Gord Brown …
John Hinderaker / Power LinePower Line:
The Tragedy of Democratic Socialism  —  We have chronicled the catastrophic decline of Venezuela's economy under socialists Hugo Chavez and Nicolas Maduro.  The situation has gotten so bad that even the New York Times has taken note: “Dying Infants and No Medicine: Inside Venezuela's Failing Hospitals.”
 
 
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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
Jerry Zremski / Politics Now:
Key ally Chris Collins tempers Trump's controversial campaign promises
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
Courtney Kube / NBC News:
Chinese Intercept U.S. Military Spy Plane Over South China Sea
New York Times:
China Finds Its Global Ambitions Humbled in Its Own Backyard
Discussion: CNBC
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
Discussion: New York Magazine
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Pro-Bernie Trolls on Why They Harassed Nevada's Democratic Chair
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School Mourns 13-Year-Old Killed Tragically in Hammock
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Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
How I Acted Like A Pundit And Screwed Up On Donald Trump
 

 
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