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6:50 PM ET, May 23, 2016

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Anne Gearan / Washington Post:
Sanders wins greater say in Democratic platform; names pro-Palestinian activist  —  Sen. Bernie Sanders has chosen a well-known advocate for Palestinian rights to help draft the Democratic Party platform this year, after party leaders gave the longshot but deeply popular candidate unusual …
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Bill Scher / Politico:
Bernie Loses His Halo  —  Is the left turning on its darling, Bernie Sanders?  On Friday, Netroots titan Markos Moulitsas, namesake of the liberal Daily Kos, dropped a rhetorical bomb on the Bern, blaming the candidate for doing too little to denounce death threats received by the Nevada Democratic Party …
Seung Min Kim / Politico:
Sanders pushes Dems to reject Puerto Rico debt deal
CNN:
Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe under federal investigation for campaign contributions  —  Washington (CNN)Virginia Democratic Gov. Terry McAuliffe is the subject of an ongoing investigation by the FBI and prosecutors from the Justice Department's public integrity unit, U.S. officials briefed on the probe say.
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Associated Press:
Virginia GOP Filing Lawsuit to Block Felons From Voting
Eliana Johnson / National Review:
In Trump's World, Newt Gingrich Is King — and Maybe VP  —  The two men are kindred spirits in more ways than one.  —  He has an uncanny ability to dominate the media and shape a narrative, and he harnessed the anger and anxiety of lower-middle-class whites to reshape the Republican party.
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Janet Hook / Wall Street Journal:
Newt Gingrich Rips Mitt Romney's ‘Pathetic’ Anti-Trump Effort  —  Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich Monday lambasted Mitt Romney for his failed drive to derail GOP front-runner Donald Trump, calling his actions “pathetic” and his effort “not particularly effective.”
Laura Meckler / Wall Street Journal:
Donald Trump Defends His National Security Positions as Hillary Clinton Attacks  —  Clinton is working to stoke fears that Trump fails the  —  Hillary Clinton is leveling a withering attack on Donald Trump's temperament and judgment when it comes to national security, calling him unqualified …
Sarah Westwood / Washington Examiner:
VA secretary: Disney doesn't measure wait times, so why should VA?  —  Veterans Affairs Secretary Robert McDonald on Monday compared the length of time veterans wait to receive health care at the VA to the length of time people wait for rides at Disneyland, and said his agency shouldn't use wait times …
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Benny Johnson / Independent Journal Review:
Disney Fires Back After VA Secretary Compares Wait Lines for Veterans to Theme Park Rides
Juan Williams / The Hill:
Electoral map looks grim for Trump  —  is getting good news in the polls.  —  Last week, a Fox News poll saw him take a 3-point lead over Hillary Clinton  —  in a national survey.  That's within the margin of error.  —  But step back and take the long view.  Clinton led by seven points in April.
Discussion: Politico
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Meghan Keneally / ABC News:
A Look At What's Behind Donald Trump's Climb in New National Poll
Discussion: Politico and Daily Wire
Fox News:
Drum roll: Clinton unveils ‘stronger together’ slogan
Discussion: Taylor Marsh, Scott Adams Blog and AOL
Ian Millhiser / ThinkProgress:
One Of The Most Aggressive Gerrymanders In The Country Just Lost In The Supreme Court  —  Nearly two years ago, a federal court struck down Virginia's congressional maps, finding that state lawmakers engaged in an unconstitutional racial gerrymander when they packed tens of thousands …
Discussion: Bloomberg, USA Today, New York Times and CNN
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Associated Press:
Supreme court dismisses GOP appeal over Virginia districts
Baltimore Sun:
Freddie Gray case: Baltimore Police Officer Edward Nero found not guilty of all charges … Baltimore Circuit Judge Barry Williams on Monday acquitted Officer Edward Nero of all counts for his role in the arrest and death of Freddie Gray.  —  The judgment, following a five-day bench trial, is the first in the closely-watched case.
New York Times:
How Far Is Europe Swinging to the Right?  —  *The 2016 Austrian presidential election and the 2015 French regional elections are included to add a more recent result for those countries.  —  The charts above show election results in 20 European countries, with right-wing populist and far-right parties highlighted in red.
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The Local:
Left-winger van der Bellen wins Austrian presidential election
Discussion: Hot Air
Travis M. Andrews / Washington Post:
Woman trying to prove ‘vegans can do anything’ among three dead on Everest.  Two more missing and thirty sick or frostbitten.  —  29,029.  —  That's how many feet in the air the peak of Mount Everest towers over Nepal, and the world, in its gleaming white brilliance.
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CNN:
Obama lifts U.S. arms ban on Vietnam  —  Hanoi, Vietnam (CNN)President Barack Obama announced Monday that the United States is fully lifting a decades-long ban on the sale of military equipment to Vietnam.  —  In a joint news conference in Hanoi with Vietnamese President Tran Dai Quang …
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Ben Schreckinger / Politico:
Trump acknowledges climate change — at his golf course  —  Donald Trump says he is “not a big believer in global warming.”  He has called it “a total hoax,” “bulls**t” and “pseudoscience.”  —  But he is also trying to build a sea wall designed to protect one of his golf courses from “global warming and its effects.”
Jesse Byrnes / The Hill:
Trump video raises sexual assault charges against Bill Clinton  —  released a new video on Monday that uses audio of women who have accused President Clinton of sexual assault to attack Hillary Clinton  —  The new black-and-white video plays audio of two women — Kathleen Willey and Juanita Broaddrick …
Discussion: Media Matters for America and TPNN
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Allegra Kirkland / Talking Points Memo:
New Trump Video Mixes Bill Clinton Rape Allegation, Hillary Clinton Laughing
Glenn Thrush / Politico:
Ryan: Trump could win, but I'm not ‘betting’ on it  —  Paul Ryan loves the word “unity,” but his definition of that term differs sharply from Donald Trump's vision of a smiling speaker at his side, mouth shut and domesticated — just like Chris Christie.  —  Ryan, who made peace with Trump earlier …
ProPublica:
Machine Bias  —  There's software used across the country to predict future criminals.  And it's biased against blacks.  —  ON A SPRING AFTERNOON IN 2014, Brisha Borden was running late to pick up her god-sister from school when she spotted an unlocked kid's blue Huffy bicycle and a silver Razor scooter.
Discussion: BGR, Rewire, Engadget, Gizmodo and The Verge
Jim Hoft / The Gateway Pundit:
BOOM!  Eric Trump Slams Hillary: She Has 730 People Working on her Campaign and She Hasn't Beat a Single Socialist  —  Donald Trump's son Eric Trump slammed Hillary Clinton today on her inability to close the deal in the Democratic Primary.  —  Eric noted that Donald knocked off 17 …
Carrie Dann / NBC News:
Obama Hits Highest Job Approval Since Second Inauguration  —  As the race to succeed President Barack Obama rages around him, the man who currently sits in the Oval Office has hit his highest approval rating since his second inauguration, a new NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll shows.
Discussion: Politicus USA and Political Wire
Emily E. Smith / Oregonian:
‘Something needs to be done’: Parents say they want justice for baby's bruises  —  A Sherwood couple say they came home from a date night a couple of months ago to find their 1-year-old son, Jacob, screaming and the babysitter asleep on the couch.  The next morning, they awoke to find him covered in bruises.
Dan Morse / Washington Post:
D.C. man accused of raping woman at knifepoint before 10 a.m. on Metro train  —  A 39-year-old woman was raped at knifepoint on a moving Metro train just before 10 a.m. last month in the Wheaton-Glenmont area of Montgomery County, prosecutors said in court Monday.  —  “This is a horrifically terrifying experience.
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Jordain Carney / The Hill:
Reid: ‘Hell no’ to VP pick from state with a Republican governor  —  must not pick a senator from a Republican-controlled state as her vice president, Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid  —  (D-Nev.) warned Monday.  —  “If we have a Republican governor in any of those states …
 
 
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Taylor Kuykendall / SNL:
Murray Energy CEO says he has met with Trump and he is ‘the horse to ride’
Discussion: Slantpoint and The Daily Caller
Katy O'Donnell / Politico:
Koskinen will skip IRS impeachment hearing
Discussion: The Daily Signal
Jesse Byrnes / The Hill:
Planned Parenthood clinic evacuated, seven hospitalized
Nathan Heller / New Yorker:
The Big Uneasy  —  What's roiling the liberal-arts campus?
John Amato / Latest from Crooks and Liars:
CNN's Jeffrey Lord Proclaims Building Trump's ‘Wall’ Is A ‘Humanitarian Measure’
Dave Jamieson / The Huffington Post:
Liberal Advocacy Group Comes Out Against Obama's Big Overtime Rule
Discussion: Lawyers, Guns & Money
Mystwlker / RedState:
The False Choice of Trump vs Hillary
 Earlier Items: 
Washington Examiner:
The defeat of #NeverTrump  —  It's now or never for #NeverTrump.
Guy Collins / Bloomberg:
Mouton '45 Leads $21.9 Million Koch Wine Auction at Sotheby's
Discussion: Eater
Benjamin Mullin / Poynter:
The New York Times of the future is beginning to take shape
Ed Yong / The Atlantic:
Release the Kraken  —  Every winter in Spencer Gulf …
Discussion: Washington Post
James Hohmann / Washington Post:
The Daily 202: Refusal to release tax returns emerging as a big liability for Trump
Patrick Maines / The Hill:
The civil war within conservative media
Discussion: Daily Wire and The Resurgent
Frank Newport / Gallup:
Republicans Paying More Attention to Election Than Democrats
 

 
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