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9:05 AM ET, May 22, 2016

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Maureen Dowd / New York Times:
Weakend at Bernie's  —  WASHINGTON — HILLARY CLINTON is the Democratic nominee.  —  Really.  —  Just ask her.  —  She should have been able to finally savor shattering that “highest, hardest glass ceiling” — the one she gloried in putting 18 million cracks in last time around …
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New York Daily News:
KING: Here's why I'm leaving the Democratic Party after this presidential election and you should too  —  Many of you aren't religious, so please forgive me for recalling my roots as a preacher and starting us off with a simple verse of scripture.  —  “The love of money is the root of all kinds of evil.”
Discussion: BizPac Review, The Hill and Slantpoint
Yamiche Alcindor / New York Times:
Bernie Sanders's Feud With the Democratic Leadership Heats Up  —  Doubling down on his feud with the Democratic Party leadership, Senator Bernie Sanders said that if elected president, he will not reappoint Democratic National Committee chairwoman, Representative Debbie Wasserman Schultz of Florida.
Kristen East / Politico:
Sanders backs DNC chair's primary opponent
Discussion: Raw Story
Gary Langer / ABC News:
A Post-Primary Rally Boosts Trump, Albeit with Challenges Aplenty (POLL)  —  A new ABC News/Washington Post poll shows a close contest in presidential election preferences, with Republicans lining up behind Donald Trump as their party's presumptive nominee while the continued Democratic race …
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Dan Balz / Washington Post:
Poll: Election 2016 shapes up as a contest of negatives  —  The coming presidential race between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump begins in a virtual dead heat, a competition between two candidates viewed unfavorably by a majority of the current electorate and with voters motivated as much by whom …
Discussion: Prntly
Mike Stewart / Baltimore Sun:
Preakness 2016: Horses Pramedya and Homeboykris die at early Preakness Day races  —  Homeboykris, ridden by Horacio Karamanos, wins the first race of the day on a muddy track ahead of the 141st Preakness Stakes horse race at Pimlico Race Course, Saturday, May 21, 2016, in Baltimore.
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Erik Brady / USA Today:   Exaggerator wins the 141st Preakness Stakes
Emily Shapiro / ABC News:
Preakness Day: 2 Horses Die, Jockey Injured in First Few Races
Discussion: Mediaite
Dillon Mullan / Washington Post:
Two horses die in first four races of Preakness Saturday
Discussion: CNN
Sarah Wheaton / Politico:
NRA facing member backlash over Trump endorsement  —  LOUISVILLE, Ky. — With its last-minute decision to formally endorse Donald Trump, the National Rifle Association put itself out in front of the fight for Republican party unity.  —  Just a day later, it's already taking flak.
Discussion: The Hill, miamiherald, Infowars and RedState
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Sabrina Siddiqui / Guardian:
Trump and Clinton on guns: two visions of race, justice and policing in the US
Discussion: Raw Story and Bloomberg
Ben Kamisar / The Hill:
GOP Hispanic leaders open to reconciling with Trump  —  Prominent Hispanic conservatives say they could back Donald Trump  —  if the presumptive GOP nominee changes his tone and walks back some of his policy positions.  —  Republican Latino leaders have chaffed at Trump's call for a wall …
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Adrian Carrasquillo / BuzzFeed:
The Full Text Of Trump's First Address To A Major Hispanic Group Is Really Something
Jessie Hellmann / The Hill:
Trump reaches out to Hispanic Christians in video
Discussion: BizPac Review and Mediaite
Salon:
We beat Donald Trump by mocking Donald Trump: What Bill Maher and Barack Obama understand about whipping a bully  —  Trump's weakness is ridicule.  Even if Jon Stewart is sitting this one out, Democrats need to embrace serious satire  —  Donald Trump's absurd yet frighteningly real campaign …
Matthew Yglesias / Vox:
Bruenighazi: How a feisty Bernie blogger's firing explains Democratic politics in 2016  —  Late in the afternoon on Friday, a press statement appeared on the website of the think tank Demos that set significant segments of policy twitter and left-wing political twitter ablaze.
Washington Post:
Primed to fight the government  —  A fast-growing U.S. movement armed with guns and the Constitution sees a dire threat to liberty  —  B.J. Soper took aim with his AR-15 semiautomatic rifle and fired a dozen shots at a human silhouette target.  Soper's wife and their 16-year-old daughter practiced drawing pistols.
Jim Hoft / The Gateway Pundit:
The Trump Wall Will Save Hundreds of Lives and Protect Women From Gang-Rape  —  Donald Trump stirred up controversy this past year for claiming “rapists” and “killers” are migrating over the United States' southern border.  —  Trump was right.  —  Rapists are crossing over into the US southern border.
Justen Charters / Independent Journal …:
She Shot Heartbreaking Footage From NYC Dorm On 9/11.  Now Millions Are Seeing What She Saw.  —  When it comes to September 11th, 2001, most of the footage we have seen comes from the news and media.  —  However, one girl who had a window's view to Ground Zero, recorded video of the horrific events that unfolded that morning.
Jessie Hellmann / The Hill:
Biden at West Point: Diversity on battlefield an ‘incredible asset’  —  advocated for diversity in the armed forces Saturday, telling West Point graduates in a commencement address that more women and openly gay soldiers will strengthen the country's armed forces.
Katie Leslie / Trail Blazers Blog:
T. Boone Pickens postponing major fundraising event for Donald Trump, cites scheduling issues  —  WASHINGTON — Texas oil tycoon T. Boone Pickens is postponing a fundraiser for Donald Trump that had been scheduled to take place at Pickens' ranch next month.  —  In a statement provided …
 
 
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 More Items: 
Mark Plotkin / The Hill:
Mark Kirk is your most vulnerable senator of 2016
Mike Miller / Independent Journal Review:
‘Never Trump Guy’ Locks Horns With Fox News' Eric Bolling-Let's Just Say It Doesn't End Well
Discussion: RedState and Mediaite
New York Times:
EgyptAir Was Aware of Threats to Security, Including One Scribbled on Plane
Discussion: BizPac Review and AOL
Mike Carlson / National Review:
Sorry, I Still Won't Ever Vote for Trump
Discussion: RedState
Naomi Jagoda / The Hill:
Trump filings from late '70s showed he paid no income taxes: report
Barbara Starr / CNN:
Top U.S. commander completes day-long secret visit to Syria
Xuan Thai / NBC News:
Behind Donald Trump's Nonexistent Florida Strategy in the General Election
 Earlier Items: 
Ari Melber / NBC News:
New Trump Filing Undercuts Claims on Self-Funding
Discussion: RedState
Scott Eric Kaufman / Salon:
Fox News CEO Roger Ailes reportedly “snickering” with glee over failure of Megyn Kelly's Trump special
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
Allum Bokhari / Breitbart:
CNN pundit S.E Cupp has had enough of Trump fans calling her a “cuckservative.”
Discussion: CNN and Infowars
New York Times:
Key G.O.P. Donors Still Deeply Resist Donald Trump's Candidacy
Discussion: AOL, whorunsGov and The Hill
Mercury News:
San Francisco: Man seriously injured in mob attack
Kevin Drum / Mother Jones:
How to Deal with Cretinous Twitter Mobs: A Bleg
Discussion: Unfogged
Sfaroke / WSVN-TV:
Mob of women attack Victoria's Secret employee in Miami Lakes
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
David Harsanyi / Washington Post:
We must weed out ignorant Americans from the electorate
 

 
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Alex Sherman / CNBC:
Sources: Paramount Global's board is preparing to fire CEO Bob Bakish as soon as Monday, after he lost the trust of controlling shareholder Shari Redstone

Jessica Toonkel / Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Paramount is planning for what happens if no big deal happens, mulling cutting $2B in costs, selling BET and TV stations, starting a streaming JV, more

Elise Morton / Associated Press:
Russia arrests two journalists, Konstantin Gabov and Sergey Karelin, on “extremism” charges for allegedly working for a group founded by the late Alexei Navalny

 
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