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4:10 PM ET, May 22, 2016

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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 …
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Paul Bedard / Washington Examiner:
Begrudging WaPo poll: Trump 46%, Clinton 44%  —  It's not the headline, and it takes 219 words to get there, but a new Washington Post poll on the presidential race reveals that Republican Donald Trump leads Democrat Hillary Clinton among registered voters 46 percent to 44 percent.
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 …
Mark Murray / NBC News:
Clinton's Lead Over Trump Shrinks to 3 Points: New NBC News/WSJ Poll  —  Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton Clash over Gun Control 2:10  —  Hillary Clinton's advantage over Donald Trump has narrowed to just three points — resulting in a dead-heat general-election contest with more than five months …
Matthew Nussbaum / Politico:
Sanders: Voters see Clinton as ‘the lesser of two evils’  —  American voters should not be forced to pick between “the lesser of two evils” this November, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders says.  —  Asked in an interview airing Sunday on ABC's “This Week” if that's how he'd describe a possible match …
Jessie Hellmann / The Hill:   Sanders: Clinton can beat Trump in November
New York Daily News:
KING: Here's why I'm leaving the Democratic Party after this presidential election and you should too
Meg Gatto / WVUE-TV:
Five-year-old shoots, kills self while playing with gun  —  A five-year-old in Laplace gets her hands on a gun, and accidentally shoots and kills herself.  The accident happened Saturday at 9:45 a.m. at the girl's home on Country Club Drive.  —  Many residents on Country Club Drive …
Discussion: Raw Story
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Jennifer Crockett / WDSU-TV:
St. John sheriff: 5-year-old kills self with father's gun  —  Haley Moore died at the hospital Saturday  —  Five-year-old Haley Moore was spending the weekend at her dad's house with her older sister and brother.  The family was supposed to go see a movie Saturday.
Sara Jerde / Talking Points Memo:
Trump: I Don't Want Guns In Classrooms, But Some Teachers Should Have Guns  —  GOP presumptive nominee Donald Trump said Sunday that he doesn't want guns to be in classrooms, but that “some teachers” should have guns.  —  Trump was asked to respond on Fox & Friends to criticism …
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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
Sabrina Siddiqui / Guardian:
Trump and Clinton on guns: two visions of race, justice and policing in the US
Discussion: Mediaite, Raw Story and Prntly
Henry Bodkin / Telegraph:
Elijah Wood: ‘Hollywood in the grip of child abuse scandal similar to Jimmy Savile’  —  Hollywood is in the grip a child sexual abuse scandal similar to that of Jimmy Savile in Britain, Lord of the Rings star Elijah Wood has claimed.  —  The 35-year-old former child actor said paedophiles …
Discussion: Vox Popoli
David Cay Johnston / Politico:
Just What Were Donald Trump's Ties to the Mob?  —  In his signature book, The Art of the Deal, Donald Trump boasted that when he wanted to build a casino in Atlantic City, he persuaded the state attorney general to limit the investigation of his background to six months.
Alle McMahon / ABC:
Mars appears at its biggest, brightest as planet moves into opposition  —  Mars is at its biggest and brightest in over a decade, as it comes into a particularly close opposition.  —  Mars comes into opposition — the point when Mars and the Sun are on directly opposite sides of the Earth — once every two years.
Discussion: Slantpoint
Jonathan Easley / The Hill:
Trump camp quietly courts Muslims  —  's top foreign policy adviser has quietly opened backchannels within Muslim and Middle Eastern communities in the U.S. in an attempt to win over a small but increasingly important voting bloc.  —  Walid Phares, a top national security adviser for Trump …
Discussion: Hot Air
Jessie Hellmann / The Hill:
Libertarian VP candidate doubles down on comparison of Trump, Nazis … William Weld, a Libertarian Party vice presidential candidate, is doubling down on his comparison of Donald Trump  —  's plan to deport millions of illegal immigrants to Nazi Germany.  —  “I'm absolutely certain that …
Erik Brady / USA Today:
Exaggerator wins the 141st Preakness Stakes  —  BALTIMORE — Exaggerator won the Preakness Stakes on a sloppy track Saturday, ending a Triple Crown bid by Kentucky Derby winner Nyquist, who lost for the first time in nine career starts.  —  Cherry Wine finished second, with Nyquist third.
Discussion: Scared Monkeys and ABC News
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Mike Stewart / Baltimore Sun:
Preakness 2016: Horses Pramedya and Homeboykris die at early Preakness Day races
 
 
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Mark Stevenson / Associated Press:
POLICE, SOLDIERS SWARM MEXICO'S ACAPULCO, KILLINGS CONTINUE
Jim Brunner / The Seattle Times:
Washington state GOP convention backs Cruz over Trump
Discussion: RedState
Eugene Scott / CNN:
Mark Cuban: I'd listen if Clinton wanted to talk about VP — but she needs ‘to go more to center’
Discussion: Booman Tribune and Washington Post
Jonathan Franklin / Guardian:
Zookeepers shoot man with tranquiliser while trying to save him from lions
Discussion: Slantpoint and Althouse
Matthew Boyle / Breitbart:
Exclusive — Donald J. Trump: Hillary Clinton's Plans for More Illegal Immigration Into America …
Mark Plotkin / The Hill:
Mark Kirk is your most vulnerable senator of 2016
Ben Kamisar / The Hill:
GOP Hispanic leaders open to reconciling with Trump
Jessie Hellmann / The Hill:
Biden at West Point: Diversity on battlefield an ‘incredible asset’
 Earlier Items: 
Jim Hoft / The Gateway Pundit:
The Trump Wall Will Save Hundreds of Lives and Protect Women From Gang-Rape
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Primed to fight the government
Salon:
We beat Donald Trump by mocking Donald Trump: What Bill Maher and Barack Obama understand about whipping a bully
Katie Leslie / Trail Blazers Blog:
T. Boone Pickens postponing major fundraising event for Donald Trump, cites scheduling issues
Mike Carlson / National Review:
Sorry, I Still Won't Ever Vote for Trump
Discussion: RedState