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Jon Schuppe / NBC News:
Muhammad Ali, ‘The Greatest of All Time’, Dead at 74  —  Heavyweight champion Muhammad Ali stands over fallen challenger Sonny Liston, shouting and gesturing shortly after dropping Liston with a short hard right to the jaw on May 25, 1965, in Lewiston, Maine.  The bout lasted only one minute into the first round.
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Robert Lipsyte / New York Times:
Muhammad Ali, Titan of Boxing and the 20th Century, Dies at 74  —  Muhammad Ali, the three-time world heavyweight boxing champion who helped define his turbulent times as the most charismatic and controversial sports figure of the 20th century, died on Friday.  He was 74.
David Remnick / New Yorker:
The Outsized Life of Muhammad Ali  —  What a loss to suffer, even if for years you knew it was coming.  Muhammad Ali, who died Friday, in Phoenix, at the age of seventy-four, was the most fantastical American figure of his era, a self-invented character of such physical wit, political defiance …
Discussion: CANNONFIRE
The White House:
Statement from President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama on the Passing of Muhammad Ali  —  Muhammad Ali was The Greatest.  Period.  If you just asked him, he'd tell you.  He'd tell you he was the double greatest; that he'd “handcuffed lightning, thrown thunder into jail.”
Discussion: New York Times, USA Today and The Week
Ali Breland / Politico:
Obamas, Clintons and Trump pay tribute to Muhammad Ali
The New / New York Times:
Muhammad Ali's Words Stung Like a Bee, Too
Discussion: Guardian, USA Today and Newser
Michael Falcone / ABC News:
What Muhammad Ali Once Said About Donald Trump's Muslim Ban Proposal
Dave Zirin / The Nation:
‘I JUST WANTED TO BE FREE’: THE RADICAL REVERBERATIONS OF MUHAMMAD ALI
Discussion: ThinkProgress and Yahoo Sports
CBS News:
​Muhammad Ali, boxing legend and cultural icon, dies
Discussion: CBS New York and fox8.com
Jonathan Eig / Wall Street Journal:   Muhammad Ali, the Greatest, Dies at 74
Steve Almasy / CNN:
Muhammad Ali dies at 74
Discussion: fox13now.com, Daily Kos and alan.com
Associated Press:
Beyond California, Sanders Signaling Post-Primary Future  —  The end of the primaries looming, Bernie Sanders' political revolution — and how far he's willing to take his presidential campaign — may hinge on the outcome of the California primary.  —  Hillary Clinton is poised to clinch …
Discussion: Washington Post and Politico
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Paul Waldman / Washington Post:
The media have reached a turning point in covering Donald Trump.  He may not survive it.  —  The news media have come in for a lot of criticism in the way they've reported this election, which makes it exactly like every other election.  But something may have changed just in the last few days.
Discussion: neo-neocon, Daily Kos and Texas Monthly
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Alberto R. Gonzales / Washington Post:
Alberto R. Gonzales: Trump has a right to ask if Judge Gonzalo Curiel is fair  —  If judges aren't seen as impartial, the public will lose faith in the rule of law.  —  Donald Trump suggested this week that U.S. District Court Judge Gonzalo Curiel can't give him a fair hearing.
Andreas Fuhrmann / redding.com:
Cheadle: I'm Trump's ‘African-American’  —  Presidential Candidate Donald Trump talks to Gregory Cheadle of Redding, right, after his speech at the Redding Municipal Airport.  Trump called out Cheadle as “my African-American over here” during his speech.  —  Andreas Fuhrmann/Record Searchlight …
New York Times:
The Benghazi Committee's Dead End  —  After running a congressional oversight committee like a Republican opposition research shop for more than two years, Representative Trey Gowdy appears to be gearing up for the finale.  Democrats on the Select Committee on Benghazi expect that a final report …
Katie J.M. Baker / BuzzFeed:
Here Is The Powerful Letter The Stanford Victim Read Aloud To Her Attacker … TRENDING  —  One night in January 2015,  —  two Stanford University graduate students biking across campus spotted a freshman thrusting his body on top of an unconscious, half-naked woman behind a dumpster.
Discussion: Newser
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Eric Posner / New York Times:
And if Elected: What President Trump Could or Couldn't Do  —  DONALD TRUMP clearly holds grudges.  He has hurled insults at governors, senators, a judge who recently ruled against him and Miss Universe 2014.  He has also attacked the press, arguing that as president he will “open up” …
Discussion: Prairie Weather
Mark Hensch / The Hill:
Reid looking into replacing Warren if she's Clinton's VP: report  —  (D-Nev.) is reviewing ways to keep Sen. Elizabeth Warren  —  's (D-Mass.) seat blue if she becomes vice president, according to The Boston Globe.  —  Warren is heavily rumored to be in the mix to be Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton
Discussion: USA Today and The Gateway Pundit
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Carmine Sabia / BizPac Review:
Hillary made another major screwup on emails that could cost intelligence officials lives  —  Want more hot BPR News stories?  Sign up for our morning blast HERE  —  This could be the smoking gun that proves Hillary Clinton violated the Espionage Act with her private email server.
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Patrick Howley / Breitbart:
Hillary Clinton posted and shared the names of concealed U.S. intelligence officials on her unprotected email system.
Discussion: Pirate's Cove
Ariane Lange / BuzzFeed:
“Idiocracy” Writer Says Donald Trump Made The Movie A Reality Faster Than He Ever Imagined  —  Idiocracy screenwriter Etan Cohen talks to BuzzFeed News about his 2006 movie “coming true” with the 2016 election and the anti-Trump ads he's working on with Camacho himself, Terry Crews.
Matthew Yglesias / Vox:
That time Donald Trump said there were no Muslim American sports heroes  —  Muhammed Ali played many roles over the course of a life that sadly ended yesterday.  High on the list are that he was an iconic boxing champion and probably the first American Muslim to be really widely known.
Discussion: The Right Scoop and Politicus USA
Jon Henley / Observer:
Sweden leads the race to become cashless society  —  Swedes are blazing a trail in Europe, with banks, buses, street vendors and even churches expecting plastic or virtual payment  —  In 1661, Stockholms Banco, the precursor to the Swedish central bank, issued Europe's first banknotes …
 
 
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Phillip Stucky / The Daily Caller:
Republican Governor Vetoes Gun Rights, Religious Liberty Bills, Suddenly Polls Like A Democrat
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Fox News:
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Daily Mail:
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