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9:40 AM ET, May 28, 2016

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Chris Geidner / BuzzFeed:
Tech Company: We Will Put Up $10 Million For Bernie-Trump Debate  —  WASHINGTON — A technology investment company has offered to put up the $10 million for charity that Donald Trump said on Thursday would be needed to hold a debate with Bernie Sanders.  —  [Update at 4:38 p.m. …
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Hadas Gold / Politico:
Donald Trump backs out of debate with Bernie Sanders  —  Donald Trump will not participate in a debate with Sen. Bernie Sanders, the presumptive GOP presidential nominee said Friday.  —  In a statement, Trump slammed Sanders, Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton and the Democratic nominating process …
Zeke J Miller / TIME:   Donald Trump Says No, He Won't Debate Bernie Sanders
Meghan Keneally / ABC News:
‘Mr. Trump, What Are You Afraid Of?’ Sanders Responds After Donald Backs From Debate
Dahlia Lithwick / Slate:
Fellow Liberals, Let's Stop Doing These Things
Reid J. Epstein / Wall Street Journal:
Trump Attacks Federal Judge in Trump U Case  —  The presumptive GOP nominee devotes 12 minutes of a 58-minute address to the suit  —  SAN DIEGO-In one of his most personal attacks against an apolitical figure since becoming the presumptive Republican presidential nominee …
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The San Diego Union-Tribune stories:
Trump takes stage at San Diego rally
New York Times:
Donald Trump's Campaign Stumbles as It Tries to Go Big  —  BISMARCK, N.D. — A constant stream of changes and scuffles are roiling Donald J. Trump's campaign team, including the abrupt dismissal this week of his national political director.  —  A sense of paranoia is growing among …
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Wall Street Journal:
Donald Trump Raised $6 Million in First Joint Fundraiser With RNC
Discussion: The Hill
Howard Kurtz / Fox News:
Nominee or not, why is Trump still smacking Republicans around?
Julian Hattem / The Hill:
Feds fight to prevent Clinton deposition in email case  —  The Obama administration is trying to prevent former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton  —  from being deposed in an ongoing open records case connected to her use of a private email server.  —  Late Thursday evening …
Discussion: BizPac Review and Hot Air
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Larry O'Connor / Hot Air:
Welp... Hillary doesn't know how to use a computer  —  We're told that Hillary Clinton is the smartest, most qualified and most capable person to ever run for President.  Ever. … Let's face it, we're lucky that she's even lowering herself to the demeaning process of having to earn votes in the presidential election.
Shane Goldmacher / Politico:
Libertarian ‘dream ticket’ in peril as Weld bombs in Orlando  —  ORLANDO, Fla. — It was supposed to be a stroke of genius: Gary Johnson, the 2012 Libertarian nominee for president and the party's leading contender in 2016, announced that William Weld, the two-term former Republican governor of Massachusetts …
CNNMoney:
Donald Trump under oath: Trump University's promises crumble  —  The ads for his university were classic Donald Trump — Trump stares into the camera and proclaims:  —  “We're going to have professors and adjunct professors that are absolutely terrific people, terrific brains, successful.
Discussion: CANNONFIRE
Andrew Freedman / Mashable:
Trump on climate: He's even worse than we thought  —  No one expected Donald Trump to give a single energy speech and suddenly pivot to the left on global warming, after a record of expressing skepticism that global warming exists on several prior occasions.
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Kevin Dugan / New York Post:
Billionaire admits he secretly funded Gawker's downfall  —  Two Silicon Valley billionaires with a history of bad blood are squaring off over Gawker.  —  Pierre Omidyar, an eBay co-founder, is leading the charge to support Gawker in its appeal of a $140 million judgment awarded to Hulk Hogan …
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Jonathan Swan / The Hill:
Carson: Trump starting to believe in ‘greater power’  —  is starting to believe in “a greater power” and is praying more often.  —  Trump's former presidential rival, a key surrogate and possible vice presidential pick, told The Hill on Friday that he believes Trump is becoming more spiritual.
Discussion: RedState and The Right Scoop
Jodi Guglielmi / People.com:
Amber Heard Accuses Johnny Depp of Domestic Violence with Graphic Photo of Bruise: ‘This Was Not an Isolated Event,’ Says Source  —  Amber Heard has filed a domestic violence restraining order against Johnny Depp, as a source tells PEOPLE “this was not an isolated event.”
Tom Holland / New York Times:
When the Barbarous Brits First Quit Europe  —  London — CLOSE by Westminster Bridge and the Houses of Parliament, there stands the statue of a woman brandishing a spear.  Erected in 1902, it portrays Boudicca, the warrior queen who, in the words of the inscription on the statue's plinth …
Discussion: Forbes
bioRxiv:
Report of Partial findings from the National Toxicology Program Carcinogenesis Studies of Cell Phone Radiofrequency Radiation in Hsd: Sprague Dawley® SD rats (Whole Body Exposure)  —  Abstract  —  The US National Toxicology Program (NTP) has carried out extensive rodent toxicology …
Tom Phillips / Guardian:
World's scariest school run?  Chinese children tackle 800-metre cliff  —  Children as young as six from Atuler village in Sichuan province have to scale a huge rockface using rickety ladders  —  Authorities in south-west China have vowed to come to the aid of an isolated mountain village …
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Ashley May / USA Today:
15 Chinese children make deadly climb to school
Discussion: Slantpoint
 
 
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Reihan Salam / Slate:
The Dark Future of Whitewashing
Discussion: The Atlantic
The Intercept:
Hillary Clinton Won't Say How Much Goldman Sachs CEO Invested With Her Son-in-Law
Mac Aoidh / The Hayride:
VIDEO: Democrat State Rep Barbara Norton Attacks Declaration Of Independence On House Floor
Curtis Houck / NewsBusters:
Brian Williams: U.S. Is ‘The Only Nation to Have Used’ Nuclear Weapons ‘In Anger’
Curtis Houck / NewsBusters:
English, Spanish Networks Refuse to Cover Katie Couric Gun Control Editing Scandal
Discussion: Townhall.com
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Jim Dalrymple II / BuzzFeed:
Trump's California Drought Plan: “We're Going To Start Opening Up The Water”
Discussion: Slantpoint and alan.com
Allegra Kirkland / Talking Points Memo:
McConnell On Trump: Our System Will Prevent ‘Big Mistakes’ (VIDEO)
Christopher Massie / BuzzFeed:
Bernie Sanders Gets In Snippy Exchange With California Radio Hosts
Discussion: Mediaite and The Daily Caller
David S. Bernstein / Politico:
How Hillary Loses  —  It's a terrifying moment for Democrats …
Kevin Grasha / Cincinnati.com:
At 96, Dr. Heimlich finally uses his life-saving technique
 

 
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Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple has renewed discussions with OpenAI about using its technology to power some features in iOS 18; talks with Google on using Gemini remain ongoing

Ryan Vlastelica / Bloomberg:
Alphabet closes above a $2T market cap for the first time, reaching a valuation of $2.15T after rising 10% on April 26, its biggest one-day jump since July 2015

Dustin Volz / Wall Street Journal:
Sam Altman, Satya Nadella, Sundar Pichai, Jensen Huang, and others join a board for advising the DHS on deploying AI safely within US critical infrastructure
 
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