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Obama on the future of terrorism after bin Laden raid
By Nicole Gaouette
Updated 8:56 PM ET, Mon May 2, 2016

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Story highlights
  • Coordination between military, law enforcement, intelligence has "hardened the homeland," Obama says
  • Osama bin Laden may be dead, but his ideology lives on, Obama says
  • Obama says future terror fight will require working with partner countries
Washington (CNN)On the fifth anniversary of Osama bin Laden's death, President Barack Obama sharply defended his targeted approached to fighting terror -- and said the next president would most likely follow his lead rather than his predecessor's.

http://www.cnn.com/2016/05/02/politics/obama-terror-doctrine-bin-laden-raid/index.html
 
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May 3, 11:51 AM EDT
Trump repeats unsubstantiated claim Cruz dad has Oswald ties
By JONATHAN LEMIRE and JILL COLVIN
Associated Press

Trump has a history of repeating unproven and unsubstantiated stories, many from the National Enquirer, which has endorsed his candidacy. After the tabloid printed a story without evidence that claimed Cruz was having an extramarital affair, Trump praised the publication for having a "very good" record of accuracy.

On the campaign trial, the celebrity businessman frequently trots out a discredited tale about Gen. John Pershing, whom Trump has repeatedly claimed helped to quell Muslim extremists in the Philippines by shooting them with bullets dipped in pigs' blood.

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/storie...ME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2016-05-03-11-51-55
 
#1,987 ·
Cruz unloads with epic takedown of 'pathological liar,' 'narcissist' Donald Trump
By David Wright, Tal Kopan and Julia Manchester, CNN
Updated 1:55 PM ET, Tue May 3, 2016

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  • "This man is a pathological liar," Cruz said
  • Trump connects Rafael Cruz to Lee Harvey Oswald
(CNN)Ted Cruz on Tuesday unloaded on Donald Trump, accusing him during a news conference of being a "pathological liar," "utterly amoral," "a narcissist at a level I don't think this country's ever seen" and "a serial philanderer."

http://www.cnn.com/2016/05/03/politics/donald-trump-rafael-cruz-indiana/
 
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What to watch in Indiana's primary
By Eric Bradner, CNN
Updated 9:42 AM ET, Tue May 3, 2016

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Indianapolis, Indiana (CNN)Donald Trump has defeated his Republican rivals in six straight contests. In Indiana, he could demoralize them.

Trump will try to win a primary Tuesday that Texas Sen. Ted Cruz has set up as do-or-die for his own campaign. Bernie Sanders, meanwhile, will attempt to reclaim the momentum that Hillary Clinton has firmly seized.

Here are five things to watch in Indiana's primary:

http://www.cnn.com/2016/05/03/politics/indiana-primary-what-to-watch/index.html
 
#1,989 ·
President Obama Says Donald Trump Is Not Equipped to Be President
By Jordyn Phelps
May 2, 2016, 7:44 PM ET

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"I think that he is not somebody who even within the Republican Party can be considered as equipped to deal with the problems of this office, but look, we live in a democracy," President Obama said in an interview Monday with WMUR, an ABC affiliate in New Hampshire.

"If in fact the Republicans nominate Mr. Trump, then it's going to be an interesting fall season," he said. "I'm confident that ultimately the Democrat in that circumstance will win."

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/president-obama-donald-trump-equipped-president/story?id=38828409
 
#1,990 ·
May 3, 10:33 PM EDT
Trump virtually clinches Republican presidential nomination
By JULIE PACE and SCOTT BAUER
Associated Press

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) -- In a stunning triumph for a political outsider, Donald Trump all but clinched the Republican presidential nomination Tuesday with a resounding victory in Indiana that knocked rival Ted Cruz out of the race and cleared Trump's path to a likely November face-off with Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton.

Trump still needs about 200 delegates to formally secure the nomination, but Cruz's decision to end his campaign removed his last major obstacle.

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John Kasich exiting the presidential race, leaving Trump as presumptive nominee
By David A. Fahrenthold, David Weigel and Philip Rucker
Politics
May 4 at 1:57 PM

PHOTOS

Ohio Gov. John Kasich (R) - who ran as a sunny, center-right "Prince of Light and Hope," but won only his home-state primary - will bow out of the Republican presidential race on Wednesday after a defeat in Indiana, his senior campaign advisers said.

The departure, which Kasich will announce at 5 p.m. in Columbus, fully clears the field for front-runner Donald Trump as the GOP nominee. Another rival, Sen. Ted Cruz (Tex.), ended his bid Tuesday night.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/john-kasich-exiting-the-presidential-race-leaving-trump-as-presumptive-nominee/2016/05/04/8137c520-1163-11e6-93ae-50921721165d_story.html?wpisrc=al_alert-COMBO-politics%2Bnation
 
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5 takeaways from the Indiana primary
By Eric Bradner, CNN
Updated 11:58 AM ET, Wed May 4, 2016

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Story highlights
  • Donald Trump won Indiana and Ted Cruz dropped out, making the billionaire the presumptive GOP nominee
  • Bernie Sanders defeated Hillary Clinton, but the delegate math is nearly impossible for him
  • The big question: Will Republicans rally around Trump?
Here are five takeaways from Indiana's history-making night:

http://www.cnn.com/2016/05/03/politics/primary-results-takeaways/index.html
 
#1,993 ·
News
Flint Water Crisis
May 4 2016, 7:52 pm ET
Obama in Michigan: 'Turn This Into An Opportunity to Rebuild Flint'
by Elizabeth Chuck and Perry Bacon Jr.

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President Barack Obama made a long-awaited visit to Flint, Michigan, Wednesday, seeking to bring unity to a crisis over lead-contaminated water that has left residents furious with local, state and federal leaders - and taking sips of filtered water to show it is safe to drink.

Inspired to visit by a letter from an 8-year-old Flint girl, Obama told an audience of about 1,000 that he came to listen to their concerns about a water-contamination crisis.

http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/fl...chigan-turn-opportunity-rebuild-flint-n568086
 
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#1,995 ·
May 5, 9:47 PM EDT
Trump strains to unite GOP behind him; Ryan says no, for now
By JONATHAN LEMIRE and JULIE BYKOWICZ
Associated Press

NEW YORK (AP) -- Donald Trump is struggling in his efforts to unify the Republican Party behind his presidential campaign, the difficulty immediately underscored Thursday by a startling exchange of negative comments with GOP House Speaker Paul Ryan who said he was not ready to support him.

Although Trump is now the party's presumptive nominee, Ryan said Thursday: "I'm just not ready to do that at this point. I'm not there right now." Still, he added: "I hope to. And I want to," in comments on CNN's "The Lead."

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#1,996 ·
May 5, 8:45 PM EDT
Obama commutes sentences for 58 federal prisoners
By ERIC TUCKER
Associated Press

WASHINGTON (AP) -- More than a decade ago, a judge bemoaned that the life sentence she was about to impose on Charles C. Brown was overly harsh. This week, relief finally came to Brown, along with 57 other offenders.

President Barack Obama on Thursday commuted their prison terms as part of a broader push to revamp the criminal justice system and ease punishments for nonviolent drug convicts.

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#1,997 ·
U.S. Economy Gains 160,000 Jobs In April; Unemployment Rate Holds Steady
May 6, 20168:46 AM ET
Merrit Kennedy

The U.S. economy added 160,000 jobs in April, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics in its monthly report. That's significantly fewer than analysts had projected.

The unemployment rate last month held steady at 5 percent, Friday's report says.

As NPR's Chris Arnold told our Newscast unit ahead of the release: "Analysts are predicting a gain of about 200,000 jobs for April. The economy's been averaging some 250,000 more jobs a month over the past 6 months."

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-...-jobs-in-april-unemployment-rate-holds-steady
 
#1,998 ·
May 6, 4:51 PM EDT
Obama on Trump: This is not a reality show
By KATHLEEN HENNESSEY
Associated Press

"What I'm concerned about is the degree to which reporting and information starts emphasizing the spectacle and the circus," Obama said, simultaneously acknowledging the GOP nominee is a spectacle and placing partial blame on the media for creating him.

"That's not something we can afford. And the American people, they've got good judgment; they've got good instincts, as long as they get good information."

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Trump's new right-hand man has history of controversial clients and deals
Paul Manafort's track record may create new headaches for a campaign that has criticized for weak foreign policy credentials and controversial stances
Peter Stone
Wednesday 27 April 2016 14.21 EDT

For almost four decades, Donald Trump's newly installed senior campaign adviser, Paul Manafort, has managed to juggle two different worlds: well known during US election season as a shrewd and tough political operative, he also boasts a hefty résumé as a consultant to or lobbyist for controversial foreign leaders and oligarchs with unsavory reputations.

The controversial clients Manafort has represented have paid him and his firms millions of dollars and form a who's who of authoritarian leaders and scandal-plagued businessmen in Ukraine, Russia, the Philippines and more. On some occasions, Manafort has become involved in business deals that have sparked litigation and allegations of impropriety.

http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/apr/27/paul-manafort-donald-trump-campaign-past-clients
 
#2,000 ·
May 6, 6:27 PM EDT
More big-name Republicans abandon Trump; he just shrugs
By ERICA WERNER and STEVE PEOPLES
Associated Press

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Big-name GOP leaders piled on Friday against Donald Trump in an extraordinary show of Republican-vs.-Republican discontent over his winning the party's presidential nomination. Trump just shrugged it off, declaring they didn't really matter when compared to all the voters who turned out to vote for him in this year's primary elections.

Trump grudgingly agreed to meet next week with Paul Ryan, the Republican House speaker whose statement a day earlier - he said he was not ready to embrace Trump's nomination - set off the intraparty fireworks. Trump said he had "no idea" if they would patch things up and it wasn't all that important anyway.

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#2,001 ·
May 07, 2016
Weekly Address: Happy Mother's Day From President Obama

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WASHINGTON, DC - In this week's address, President Obama recognized all mothers in celebration of this upcoming Mother's Day, including First Lady Michelle Obama. The President emphasized that we should give all parents the support they need by providing paid maternity and paternity leave, sick leave, accommodations for workers who are pregnant, good health care, affordable child care, flexibility at work, equal pay, and a decent minimum wage. Underscoring the importance of these issues, the President called on Congress to give meaning to Mother's Day by taking action on these items.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/weekly-address
 
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The GOP's 24-hour meltdown
Trump's promise to unify the Republican Party is in tatters, as an all-out civil war grips the
By Nolan D. McCaskill
05/06/16 07:07 PM EDT

Friday brought another day of incredible division and revolt with Jeb Bush and Lindsey Graham falling in line not behind Trump, but behind House Speaker Paul Ryan, who said a day earlier that he cannot yet support the brash real estate mogul as his party's standard-bearer.

Trump, instead of trying to make peace, lashed out.

Then he laced into both of his former rivals during his rally in Omaha, Nebraska, where he is continuing to campaign ahead of Tuesday's primary, despite having vanquished the rest of the GOP field.

Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2016/05/the-gops-24-hour-meltdown-222921#ixzz480QOF4E7
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CBS/AP May 6, 2016, 10:14 PM

Trial date set in Trump University lawsuit
SAN DIEGO -- Donald Trump will go to trial in a class-action lawsuit against him and his now-defunct Trump University after the presidential election but before the inauguration, setting the stage for a president-elect to take the witness stand if he wins the White House.

U.S. District Judge Gonzalo Curiel on Friday scheduled trial for Nov. 28 in the suit that alleges people who paid up to $35,000 for real estate seminars got defrauded. The likely Republican nominee planned to attend most, if not all, of the trial and would testify, Trump attorney Daniel Petrocelli said.

The lawsuit is one of three that accuse Trump University of fleecing students with unfulfilled promises to teach secrets of success in real estate.

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/campaign-2016-donald-trump-trial-date-set-in-trump-university-lawsuit/
 
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Barack Obama's last campaign
By Stephen Collinson, CNN
Updated 10:45 AM ET, Sat May 7, 2016

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Story highlights
  • CNN/ORC poll published Friday found Obama's approval rating at 51%
  • Obama's popularity could help Hillary Clinton on the campaign trail
The late-term boost in popularity is good news for a President whose achievements have often come at a heavy political price in a deeply partisan age. But it could be even better news for Hillary Clinton, who is preparing for a fierce general election clash with Donald Trump and may need to deploy a popular Obama to the campaign trail to drive up Democratic enthusiasm.

"There is no question that the President will be rolling up his sleeves and be out there quite a bit on the campaign trail in the summer and the fall," said White House Communications Director Jen Psaki. "He has already done quite a bit of fundraising. I think people can expect that he will get some holes in his shoes from the amount of campaigning he will do."

http://www.cnn.com/2016/05/07/politics/obama-hillary-clinton-last-campaign/index.html
 
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Obama makes Mother's Day plea to address 'diaper gap'
05/08/16 01:02 PM
By Christina Coleburn

President Barack Obama commemorated Mother's Day with a Medium post explaining his plan to help families that have difficulty affording diapers.

"Last December, a young mother from Illinois wrote to me with a plea for help," Obama wrote. "Even after dropping out of school and taking a part-time job to provide for her family, she still struggled to make ends meet, in part because of the cost of diapers for her newborn baby."

The president then discussed his plans to address the "diaper gap." Nearly 1 in 3 American families struggle to afford enough diapers, according to the White House.

http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/obama-makes-mothers-day-plea-address-diaper-gap
 
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Why Hillary Clinton Is Uniquely Suited To Take On Donald Trump
The king of branding is going to have a hard time changing voters' perceptions of Clinton.
05/06/2016 11:53 am ET | Updated 2 days ago
Sam Stein Senior Politics Editor, The Huffington Post

Presidential campaigns are not literal battlefields. And voters are not Army intelligence analysts. But as the 2016 general election comes into focus, the same behavioral patterns observed in this study will play a significant role in determining the next president.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry...016f378957726?ir=Politics&section=us_politics
 
#2,008 ·
Politics
'There's nobody left': Evangelicals feel abandoned by GOP after Trump's ascent
By Katie Zezima
May 8 at 11:23 PM

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Fuller and other conservatives whose voting decisions are guided by their Christian faith find themselves dismayed and adrift now that Trump has wrested control of the Republican Party. It is a sentiment that reaches from the small, aluminum-sided church with a large white cross on its front that Fuller and his wife built on the Nebraska plains to the highest levels of American religious life. Even progressive Christians - evangelicals and Catholics, among others - who don't necessarily vote Republican are alarmed that Trump is attracting many voters who call themselves religious. A coalition of nearly 60 Christian leaders - many progressive and some conservative - published an open letter last week asking voters of faith to reject Trump and his "vulgar racial and religious demagoguery," warning that the nation faces a "moral threat" from the candidate.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/poli...33991e-130f-11e6-8967-7ac733c56f12_story.html
 
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Op-Ed Columnist
The Making of an Ignoramus
Paul Krugman MAY 9, 2016

Truly, Donald Trump knows nothing. He is more ignorant about policy than you can possibly imagine, even when you take into account the fact that he is more ignorant than you can possibly imagine. But his ignorance isn't as unique as it may seem: In many ways, he's just doing a clumsy job of channeling nonsense widely popular in his party, and to some extent in the chattering classes more generally.

Last week the presumptive Republican presidential nominee - hard to believe, but there it is - finally revealed his plan to make America great again. Basically, it involves running the country like a failing casino: he could, he asserted, "make a deal" with creditors that would reduce the debt burden if his outlandish promises of economic growth don't work out.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/09/opinion/the-making-of-an-ignoramus.html?ref=politics&_r=1
 
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