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5:55 PM ET, June 2, 2016

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Rep. Paul Ryan / GazetteXtra:
Paul Ryan: Donald Trump can help make reality of bold House policy agenda  —  When Donald Trump became the Republican Party's presumptive nominee for president one month ago, many Republicans like me faced a big question.  —  Six months earlier, in October, as I was taking the job as House speaker …
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Frank Schultz / GazetteXtra:
Paul Ryan says he will vote for Donald Trump  —  The speaker of the House of Representatives says he will vote for Donald Trump.  —  Rep. Paul Ryan made that statement in a column submitted Thursday for publication in The Gazette, his hometown newspaper.  —  The statement at least partially answers …
New York Times:
Hispanic Official to Leave R.N.C. in Sign of Disaffection With Donald Trump
Katie Reilly / TIME:
Read Hillary Clinton's Speech on Donald Trump and National Security  —  “Donald Trump's ideas aren't just different - they are dangerously incoherent”  —  Hillary Clinton tore into presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump during a speech on national security Thursday, casting him as …
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Amy Chozick / New York Times:
Hillary Clinton to Portray Donald Trump's Foreign Policy Positions as Dangerous
Matthew Yglesias / Vox:
CNN has finally figured out how to cover Donald Trump's constant lying
Nolan D. McCaskill / Politico:   Clinton warns electing Trump would be ‘historic mistake’
Lydia Saad / Gallup:
Trump Leads Clinton on Top-Ranking Economic Issues
Discussion: The Last Refuge and Political Wire
McClatchy Washington Bureau:
Donald Trump warns Barack Obama he'll ‘hit him’ like Bill Clinton  —  Presumptive Republican nominee rallies crowd in sweltering heat in Sacramento  —  Trump's remarks come after Obama waded into campaign  —  Trump says Obama 'doesn't have a clue'  —  Donald Trump, lashing back at Barack Obama …
Discussion: The Week, Shakesville and BNR
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Hunter Walker / Yahoo:
Bill Clinton delivers a sharp message to Donald Trump and his base  —  CRANFORD, N.J. — President Bill Clinton dismissed presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump's policies as “divisive” and ineffective at a Wednesday campaign event for his wife, Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton.
Los Angeles Times:
UCLA gunman had accused slain professor of stealing his computer code, sources say  —  Police respond to the UCLA campus after a shooting Wednesday.  (Al Seib / Los Angeles Times)  —  The gunman who shot and killed a UCLA professor Wednesday has been identified as Mainak Sarkar …
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Tracy Bloom / KTLA:
Woman on UCLA Murder-Suicide Suspect's ‘Kill List’ Found Shot to Death in Minnesota: LAPD Chief Beck  —  Android users, if the above player does not work, please click here.  —  The man suspected in an apparent murder-suicide on the UCLA campus had a “kill list,” and a second victim named …
Wkrn Web / WKRN-TV:
1 killed after U.S. Navy Blue Angels jet crashes in Smyrna  —  News 2 is on air with the latest on the Blue Angels jet crash in Smyrna.  Click here to watch on your mobile device.  —  SMYRNA, Tenn. - At least one person was killed after a U.S. Navy Blue Angels jet crashed Thursday afternoon …
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Tennessean.com:
Fire chief: 1 dead after Navy Blue Angel jet crash in Smyrna … This photo was taken moments after the crash of a Blue Angel jet outside the Smyrna Airport on Thursday afternoon.  Becca Cullison-Burgess / FOR THE TENNESSEAN  —  1 of 4  —  Last Slide  —  Next Slide
Discussion: The Stranger …, KFOR-TV and KTLA
Claire Landsbaum / New York Magazine:
Why Hillary Clinton Is Avoiding Press Conferences  —  She's playing to her strengths, as any politician would.  —  Pin It  —  Hillary Clinton hasn't held a press conference in 180 days.  That fact hasn't been lost on reporters who cover her, nor has it escaped the notice of her Republican opponent.
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Matthew Balan / NewsBusters:
Daily Mail Editor: ‘A Lot’ of the Reporters Covering Hillary Are ‘Fans,’ ‘In Awe’
Philip Klinkner / Vox:
The easiest way to guess if someone supports Trump?  Ask if Obama is a Muslim.  —  You can ask just one simple question to find out whether someone likes Donald Trump more than Hillary Clinton: Is Barack Obama a Muslim?  If they are white and the answer is yes, 89 percent of the time that person …
Discussion: Guardian and Salon
Michael Tarm / Associated Press:
APNewsBreak: Official says Prince died of opioid overdose  —  CHICAGO (AP) — Tests show that Prince died of an opioid overdose, a law-enforcement official told The Associated Press on Thursday.  —  The 57-year-old singer was found dead April 21 at his Minneapolis-area estate.
Josh Harkinson / Mother Jones:
Trump Delegate Says Current US Leaders May Need to Be “Killed”  —  Last December, Donald Trump's presidential campaign approved David Riden to be a delegate candidate on the Tennessee ballot, and when the state held its primary in March, voters selected Riden to go to the Republican National Convention.
Andrew Kaczynski / BuzzFeed:
Mitch McConnell: Trump's Insults Need To Stop, Add No Value  —  “It is something about him that I don't care for.”  —  Chip Somodevilla / Getty Images  —  w.soundcloud.com  —  Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said in a radio interview on Thursday that he is bothered by Donald Trump's use of personal insults.
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
Erica Werner / Associated Press:
Reid on Sanders: ‘Sometimes you just have to give up’  —  LAS VEGAS (AP) — Bernie Sanders needs to recognize that “sometimes you just have to give up,” Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid said Wednesday.  —  Reid said his fellow senator should not carry his presidential campaign through …
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Nick Gass / Politico:
Trump: I'll reopen Trump University after I win  —  Donald Trump on Thursday vowed to reopen Trump University, the beleaguered real estate seminar business that is the target of multiple lawsuits and has become a new favorite attack line for Hillary Clinton.
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Dan Rather / Facebook:
I felt a shudder down my spine yesterday watching Donald Trump's fusilade against the press.  This is not a moment to be trifled with.  It wasn't his first tirade and it won't be his last.  —  I was reminded of my college journalism professor, the late Hugh Cunningham …
Seanna Adcox / Associated Press:
Haley talks of Trump, Confederate flag ahead of anniversary  —  COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley said Thursday she wishes Donald Trump communicated differently because bad things result from divisive rhetoric, as evidenced by last June's massacre in Charleston.
David McCabe / The Hill:
Trump's aversion to data puts RNC on the hot seat  —  's apparent uninterest in using data and analytics in his campaign is putting pressure on the Republican National Committee (RNC), which could be forced to fill the gaps in the general election.  —  The RNC says it is ready for the challenge …
Discussion: Hot Air
Geoffrey R. Stone / The Huffington Post:
The Senate Republicans, Merrick Garland and the Lessons of History  —  Edward H. Levi Distinguished Service Professor of Law, University of Chicago  —  On February 13, the very day of Justice Antonin Scalia's untimely death, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell stunningly announced that the Senate …
Michael Barbaro / New York Times:
Donald Trump's Secret Weapon: Letters of Love, Flattery and Revenge  —  In one letter, Donald J. Trump ranted about the crisis of unsightly hot dog vendors on his beloved Fifth Avenue.  “Having ketchup and mustard splattered all over the sidewalk,” he wrote, “is disgraceful.”
Camille Paglia / Salon:
Zombie time at campaign Hillary: Camille Paglia on Trump's real strength and Clinton's fatal sleepwalking  —  The media covers for Hillary on her email scandal while Trump gallops through the non-stop artillery barrage  —  It's zombie time at campaign Hillary.  Behold the dead men walking!
David Wasserman / FiveThirtyEight:
‘Missing’ White Voters Might Help Trump, But Less So Where He Needs It  —  A common refrain is that demographics will ultimately doom Donald Trump's candidacy.  His most reliable supporters have been whites without college degrees — a group that made up 65 percent of voters in 1980 but is on pace to make up just 33 percent in 2016.
Discussion: The Atlantic and Guardian
Michael A. Fletcher / The Undefeated:
A Question of Racism  —  What's behind the vitriol in the opposition to Obama? … “You lie!”  —  The words cut through the air as President Obama, not eight months into his first term, laid out his signature health care proposal in a prime-time speech to a joint session of Congress.
Discussion: Politico and Raw Story
 
 
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Megan McArdle / Bloomberg:
Global-Warming Alarmists, You're Doing It Wrong
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Ryan Tracy / Wall Street Journal:
Fed Governors Signal Bigger Bank Capital Requirements Looming
Miranda Blue / Right Wing Watch:
Sandy Rios: Hillary Clinton Wants To Legalize Pedophilia
Charles Franklin / Washington Post:
The polls are not broken. Say it again: The polls are not broken.
Leon H. Wolf / RedState:
Trump Tries to Pretend He Never Said Japan Should get Nukes (VIDEO)
Bill Laitner / Detroit Free Press:
Grosse Pointe teens' racist video stirs anger, action
Discussion: Raw Story and The Root
Mark Hosenball / Reuters:
Some officials worry about briefing Trump, fearing spilled secrets
Discussion: The Week
 Earlier Items: 
Nathaniel Herz / Alaska Dispatch News:
Former Anchorage mayor files for primary run against Sen. Lisa Murkowski
Discussion: KTUU-TV, Washington Post and Daily Kos
Katie Pavlich / Townhall.com:
State Department: Yep, We Deleted That Video Proving We Lied About The Iran Deal
Don Walton / Lincoln Journal Star:
Ebke bolts GOP after Ricketts speech
Discussion: Hit & Run
abc7chicago.com:
Police: Mother, sons beat black teen while yelling slurs
Discussion: Raw Story and The Root
James Kirchick / Tablet MagazineTablet Magazine:
The Sad Story of Milo Yiannopoulos: the Trump Troll With Daddy Issues
Reuters:
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