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4:05 PM ET, June 1, 2016

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New York Times:
Former Trump University Workers Call the School a ‘Lie’ and a ‘Scheme’ in Testimony  —  In blunt testimony revealed on Tuesday, former managers of Trump University, the for-profit school started by Donald J. Trump, portray it as an unscrupulous business that relied on high-pressure sales tactics …
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Matt Ford / The Atlantic:
The Art of the Swindle  —  Predators, by and large, do not attack the strongest prey in the wild.  They instead target the vulnerable, the very young, and the very old—the prey that is least able to defend itself.  —  Trump University, the defunct real-estate education program created …
Discussion: Common Dreams and Guardian
Nick Gass / Politico:
Clinton camp leverages Rubio ‘con man’ hit on Trump  —  Hillary Clinton's campaign on Wednesday looked to take up the mantle of Mitt Romney and Marco Rubio, who once denounced Donald Trump as a “con man,” kicking off a series of tweets hitting the presumptive GOP nominee for his business practices …
New York Times:
Testimony From Ronald Schnackenberg, a Former Employee of Trump University
Los Angeles Times:
Two dead in shooting at UCLA, campus on lockdown  —  Joseph Serna , Richard Winton , Hailey Branson-Potts , James Queally and Kate Mather Contact Reporters  —  Two people were killed in a shooting at UCLA on Wednesday morning, prompting a massive response from local and federal law enforcement, the LAPD confirmed.
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UCLA:
Police investigating shooting on campus, 2 dead  —  Police have confirmed that two people are dead in a shooting at UCLA's Engineering IV building.  Police are now sweeping the building, looking for a shooter.  —  Police are investigating a shooting in Engineering IV.
Michael Wolff / Hollywood Reporter:
The Donald Trump Conversation: Politics' “Dark Heart” Is Having the Best Time Anyone's Ever Had  —  At home in Beverly Hills, the candidate talks Murdoch, what he's reading, how he'll redo electoral math and Ari Emanuel's offer to script his convention.  —  The long day is ending for Donald Trump …
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Mark Hensch / The Hill:   Trump apparently stumped by ‘Brexit’ question
Caitlin MacNeal / Talking Points Memo:
Donald Trump Appears Unfamiliar With Term ‘Brexit’
Douglas E. Schoen / Wall Street Journal:
Clinton Might Not Be the Nominee  —  A Sanders win in California would turbocharge the mounting Democratic unease about her viability.  —  There is now more than a theoretical chance that Hillary Clinton may not be the Democratic nominee for president.  —  How could that happen …
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Anne Gearan / Washington Post:
Clinton launching national security case against Trump in California speech  —  Retired Army Col. Peter Mansoor plans to vote for Hillary Clinton for president this year, but not because the longtime Republican and former top aide to then-Gen. David Petraeus has had a political conversion.
Discussion: Daily Kos, Bloomberg.com and The Week
Abby Phillip / Washington Post:
Leading liberals begin new push to unify Democrats around Clinton
Discussion: Politicus USA
Matthew Herper / Forbes:
From $4.5 Billion To Nothing: Forbes Revises Estimated Net Worth Of Theranos Founder Elizabeth Holmes  —  Last year, Elizabeth Holmes topped the FORBES list of America's Richest Self-Made Women with a net worth of $4.5 billion.  Today, FORBES is lowering our estimate of her net worth to nothing.
Kevin Litten / New Orleans Times-Picayune:
Louisiana begins enrolling 375,000 people into Medicaid  —  Gov. John Bel Edwards unveils “Healthy Louisiana,” the replacement for Bayou Health, during a news conference at CareSouth Center in Baton Rouge. … Department of Health and Hospitals will begin the massive task Wednesday (June 1) …
Discussion: Rewire and The Hayride
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Martin Longman / Washington Monthly:   Obamacare Breaks Through in Louisiana
CNN:
CNN Poll of Polls: Two points separate Clinton and Trump  —  Washington (CNN)With the final primaries of the 2016 nomination season approaching, a new CNN Poll of Polls finds the candidates most likely to lead their parties into the general election are locked in a tight contest.
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ESPN:
PGA Tour to move tournament from Trump Doral to Mexico City  —  DUBLIN, Ohio — The longtime PGA Tour event at Miami's Trump Doral resort is leaving South Florida and heading to Mexico City in 2017, with an official announcement scheduled for Wednesday afternoon at the Memorial Tournament.
Discussion: The Daily Caller
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miamiherald:
Golf tournament leaving Trump's Doral course for Mexico
Discussion: Politico, CBS Miami and Naked Politics
Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
Trump Has Solid Lead Over Clinton in Georgia  —  PPP's new Georgia poll finds that the prospect of Democrats flipping the state blue in the Presidential race may have diminished with the unification of Republican voters around Donald Trump in the last month.
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Andrew Kaczynski / BuzzFeed:
Mark Cuban Questions Whether Trump Is Actually A Billionaire  —  “I'm not so sure Donald knows what he's not good at.”  —  Ezra Shaw / Getty Images  —  w.soundcloud.com  —  Billionaire entrepreneur Mark Cuban on Wednesday questioned whether Donald Trump is actually a billionaire …
Discussion: The Hill
Thomas B. Edsall / New York Times:
The Anti-P.C. Vote  —  We know that resentment is driving much of Donald Trump's success — resentment of elites, of the political class, of illegal immigrants, of protesters, of the media — and perhaps most particularly of changes in the demographic makeup of the country that Trump and his followers find unwelcome.
Katy O'Donnell / Politico:
How the GOP effort to oust IRS chief could backfire  —  For over a year, House conservatives have been clamoring to remove IRS Commissioner John Koskinen.  But now that the impeachment process is moving forward, they face a delicate decision: Are they willing to toss 200-plus years of precedent to bring him down?
Discussion: RedState, Daily Kos and Politicus USA
Stacey Burling / Philly.com:
Study: More Americans are having gay sex  —  A growing number of Americans are having gay sex, or at least admitting to it.  And that's OK with more and more of us.  —  “People over time are reporting more same-sex sexual experiences than ever before,” said Brooke Wells …
Kara O'Neill / Mirror.co.uk:
Secret apocalypse bunker ‘buried beneath Denver airport as US government prepares for end of days’  —  Some believe that the airport is hiding a series of tunnels and secret bases that will be used in the event of the end of the world  —  Conspiracy theorists claim a secret bunker …
ESPN:
Kenneth Starr stepping down as Baylor chancellor  —  Kenneth Starr is resigning as chancellor at Baylor in the wake of a huge shakeup at the university, but he will continue to teach in the law school, the former school president told ESPN's Joe Schad on Wednesday.
Robert Costa / Washington Post:
Conservative Tennessee attorney David French is urged to enter presidential race as independent  —  Tennessee attorney David French, who in recent years has become a prominent right-wing writer, is being urged by some conservative leaders to make a late entry into the 2016 presidential race …
CNN:
Source: Obama ‘ready to explode’ onto 2016 campaign trail  —  (CNN)President Barack Obama heads to Elkhart, Indiana, on Wednesday to tout the economic progress made since his first visit there in 2009, but he is also expected to wade into the 2016 election — and he's “ready to go” on the campaign trail, a source says.
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit and Daily Kos
Anya / People.com:
House Speaker Paul Ryan Reveals the ‘Hardest Question’ He Gets (and It's Not About Donald Trump)  —  Wisconsin congressman Paul Ryan says he wasn't trying to make parenting history last fall when he accepted the job of House Speaker on one condition: weekends off at home with his wife and their three kids.
Discussion: Politico
Mercatus Site Feed:
SUMMARY AND KEY FINDINGS  —  The financial health of each state can be analyzed through the states' own audited financial reports.  By looking at states' basic financial statistics on revenues, expenditures, cash, assets, lia­bilities, and debt, states may be ranked according to how easily …
Michael E. Miller / Washington Post:
‘Her blood was drained’: Graphic novelist charged with killing girlfriend in Hollywood  —  Blake Leibel was fascinated by evil.  —  His graphic novel centered on the search for the bad seed lurking in the brains of serial killers.  He wrote a screenplay about a madman on a murder spree.
Discussion: Los Angeles Times, Newser, LAist and Jezebel
Michelle Cottle / The Atlantic:
The Lament of the Anti-Trump Republican Women  —  What could possibly be more ulcer-inducing than being a member of the endlessly repudiated and humiliated Republican establishment this election cycle?  Easy: being a female member of said establishment.  —  It's unsettling enough …
 
 
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CBS News:
Tax hikes on the wealthy: Good or bad for growth?
Discussion: Daily Kos
Richard N. Velotta / Las Vegas Review-Journal:
Las Vegas Sands Corp., Steven Jacobs reach confidential settlement in wrongful termination case
Alan Murray / Fortune:
A majority of Fortune 500 CEOs would favor Hillary Clinton over Donald Trump in a presidential …
Discussion: Common Dreams
Noah Kulwin / Recode:
Jeff Bezos thinks we need to build industrial zones in space in order to save Earth
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Joe Pappalardo / Popular Mechanics:
The XCOR Lynx Spaceplane Might Be Down for the Count
Steven Musil / CNET:
Jeff Bezos slams Peter Thiel's funding lawsuit against Gawker
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Craig Bannister / mrctv.org/videos:
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Jesse Byrnes / The Hill:
MSNBC interrupts Libertarian candidate to talk to Clinton
Media Matters for America:
Rush Limbaugh Baffled By Evolution
Discussion: Raw Story and Friendly Atheist
Thomas Erdbrink / New York Times:
Suspected Tattoo on Iranian Actress Creates a Commotion
Discussion: Newser