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• Rope burn to neck of black girl, 12, ignites dispute

  19-05-2016 23:58 via salon.com
  DALLAS (AP) — A rope burn a 12-year-old black Waco girl received around her neck during an overnight school campout has left the girl’s mother asking if her daughter was victimized by racially motivated bullying by sixth-grade classmates.
  Sandy Rougely has retained a lawyer to press a personal injury claim against Live Oak Classical School, the private school where her daughter is enrolled. She tells The Dallas Morning News (http://bit.ly/1OCwVlr ) her daughter returned from the Apri
  
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• In the dark: Spieth shoots 64, a shot back at Byron Nelson

  19-05-2016 23:49 via salon.com
  
  IRVING, Texas (AP) — Jordan Spieth finished off a 6-under 64 just before dark Thursday and was within a stroke of the lead when the first round of the AT&T Byron Nelson was suspended.
  Sergio Garcia, Danny Lee and Johnson Wagner all shot 63. Lee and Wagner, like Spieth, were just able to complete the round that started 2 1/2 hours late after early morning rain.
  Dallas native Spieth, who just missed a long eagle chance on the par-5 16th that would have matched the lead, is playing only h
  
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• Ex-Texas deputy convicted in apparent road rage shooting

  19-05-2016 23:45 via salon.com
  HOUSTON (AP) — A former reserve deputy constable in Texas has been found guilty in the shooting of another motorist during an apparent road rage incident while he was off duty.
  Thirty-five-year-old Kenneth Caplan was convicted of aggravated assault Thursday. The punishment phase of the case is underway.
  Authorities say a woman was driving on Nov. 11, 2014, when a bullet grazed her head. Authorities say their investigation led to Caplan, who was a deputy in the Harris County Constable&rsquo
  
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• Mirrors blamed for fire at world’s largest solar plant

  19-05-2016 23:44 via salon.com
  PRIMM, Nev. (AP) — A small fire shut down a generating tower Thursday at the world’s largest solar power plant, leaving the sprawling facility on the California-Nevada border operating at only a third of its capacity, authorities said.
  Firefighters had to climb some 300 feet up a boiler tower at the Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System in California after fire was reported on an upper level around 9:30 a.m., fire officials said.
  The plant works by using mirrors to focus sunlight
  
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• Tsai Ing-wen inaugurated as Taiwan’s first woman president

  19-05-2016 23:42 via salon.com
  TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Taiwan has inaugurated its first female president.
  Tsai Ing-wen will confront major challenges in her new role, including navigating what seem certain to be increasingly fractious relations with Beijing and rejuvenating the island’s flagging economy.
  Tsai took the oath of office Friday at the Presidential Office Building in the capital Taipei before a national flag and portrait of Sun Yat-sen, the founder of the Republic of China that relocated to Taiwan in 1949
  
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• Kesha free to sing, for now: Dr. Luke allows Billboard Awards performance after show of spite

  19-05-2016 23:23 via salon.com
  
  Lukasz Gottwald, better known as Dr. Luke; Kesha (Credit: Reuters/Mario Anzuoni/AP/Charles Sykes)
  The bad blood between pop star Kesha and producer Dr. Luke, her onetime mentor, has been getting nastier and nastier for years now. After a movement by fans to cut her loose from a contract they called exploitative (#FreeKesha), charges of the producer insulting her weight and provoked an eating disorder, and a lawsuit alleging sexual harassment and assault, it seemed like things could not
  
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• Unreal: Oklahoma legislature passes bill that would outlaw abortion in state

  19-05-2016 23:21 via salon.com
  
  Oklahoma Governor Mary Fallin(Credit: AP)
  Oklahoma’s state legislature approved a bill Thursday that would make it a felony to perform abortions and strip the medical license of any doctor that performs the procedure. The bill now goes to the desk of Republican Gov. Mary Fallin, who will have five days to decide whether to sign the bill into law.
  Under the bill, performing an abortion would be punishable by between one and three years in prison. Additionally, the bill requir
  
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• Judge in Freddie Gray-officer trial grills prosecutors

  19-05-2016 22:13 via salon.com
  BALTIMORE (AP) — A judge’s intense line of questioning Thursday appeared to expose weaknesses in the state’s case against an officer on trial for assault in the arrest of Freddie Gray, but legal experts cautioned against drawing any conclusions.
  Baltimore Circuit Judge Barry Williams was bullish in interrogating prosecutors during closing arguments in the bench trial for Officer Edward Nero, repeatedly asking when the alleged assault occurred: Was it when Gray was first stopped
  
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• Grand jury: Lawyer backed use of wrong drug in execution try

  19-05-2016 22:09 via salon.com
  
  FILE - This Oct. 9, 2014, file photo shows the gurney in the the execution chamber at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAlester, Okla. An Oklahoma grand jury investigating the state’s execution procedures said Thursday, May 19, 2016 that a top lawyer for Gov. Mary Fallin encouraged the use of the wrong lethal injection drug in an execution that was later called off. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki, File) (Credit: AP)
  OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The top lawyer for Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin urged pri
  
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• “She’s saying she’s proud of her butt”: Sir Mix-a-Lot weighs in on Blake Lively “booty-gate”

  19-05-2016 22:04 via salon.com
  
  Blake Lively, Sir Mix-a-Lot (Credit: AP/Star Max/Rich Fury)
  Actress Blake Lively faced accusations of racism and cultural insensitivity after posting a photo of her behind on Instagram on Wednesday captioned with a lyric from “Baby Got Back,” Sir Mix-a-Lot’s 1992 ode to the derrière.
  “L.A. face with an Oakland booty,” reads the caption to Lively’s post of herself in a gold dress at the premiere of her new film Cafe Society. The post drew
  
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• The Latest: EgyptAir passenger was dual Australia-UK citizen

  19-05-2016 21:58 via salon.com
  CAIRO (AP) — The latest news on EgyptAir Flight 804 from Paris to Cairo, carrying 66 people, which Egyptian officials say crashed early Thursday into the Mediterranean Sea off the Greek island of Crete (all times local):
  2:47 a.m.
  Australia’s foreign affairs ministry says the Briton presumed dead after an EgyptAir flight crashed into the Mediterranean is a dual citizen of Australia.
  Minister of Foreign Affairs Julie Bishop in a news release Friday declined to give additional details,
  
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• Ted Cruz’s triumphant return to the Senate: Fighting to require the Library of Congress use the offensive term “illegal aliens”

  19-05-2016 21:58 via salon.com
  
  In this April 21, 2016, photo, Republican presidential candidate, Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas speaks during a rally at the Weinberg Center for the Arts in Frederick, Md. Cruz frequently tells campaign trail audiences that he ran up more than $100,000 in college loans _ and only paid them back a few years ago. He also makes personal appeals to today’s soon-to-be college graduates who are worried about mountains of debt and skimpy job prospects. But complicating that appeal to young voters is the
  
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• The Latest: Phil Mickelson to repay $1 million in SEC case

  19-05-2016 21:56 via salon.com
  NEW YORK (AP) — The Latest on an SEC insider trading case involving golfer Phil Mickelson (all times local):
  7:45 p.m.
  A Las Vegas gambler accused of orchestrating an insider trading scheme involving pro golfer Phil Mickelson posted a $1 million bond to be freed from federal custody in Nevada ahead of a June 1 court date in U.S. District Court in New York.
  A lawyer for William “Billy” Walters presented a $100,000 check in court to secure the bond, and a U.S. magistrate judge or
  
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• Helen Mirren among stars at French Riviera AIDS fundraiser

  19-05-2016 21:56 via salon.com
  CAP D’ANTIBES, France (AP) — Blending glamor and a good cause is harder than it looks.
  Helen Mirren said events like Thursday’s French Riviera fundraiser for AIDS are always a slightly uncomfortable mix.
  But Mirren said the amfAR Cinema Against AIDS event raises a lot of money for an important cause.
  Juliette Binoche, Karolina Kurkova and Adrien Brody were among those on the red carpet at the exclusive Hotel du Cap-Eden-Roc.
  The fundraiser was held just outside Cannes, where th
  
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• Signatures submitted for pro-death penalty ballot measure

  19-05-2016 21:48 via salon.com
  
  FILE - In this Sept. 21, 2010 file photo, the view a condemned inmate would have from a table inside the death chamber is shown during a tour of the new lethal injection facility at San Quentin State Prison in San Quentin, Calif. Death penalty supporters are setting the stage for a November showdown over whether to speed up executions in California or do away with them entirely. They'll be holding some 10 news conferences up and down the state on Thursday, May 19, 2016. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg, F
  
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• Uruguay’s Mujica: Venezuela’s Maduro is ‘crazy as a goat’

  19-05-2016 21:36 via salon.com
  
  FILE - In this Dec. 16, 2015 file photo, Uruguay's former President Jose Mujica waves to the crowd during the opening of the National Youth Conference, in Brasilia, Brazil. Mujica says Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro is “crazy as a goat,” while speaking Wednesday, May 18, 2016, at a press conference where he was asked about an escalating row between Maduro and the head of the Organization of American States. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres, File) (Credit: AP)
  MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay (AP) &mdash
  
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• FBI adds LA and Chicago area suspects to 10 Most Wanted list

  19-05-2016 21:33 via salon.com
  
  CHICAGO (AP) — The FBI added two men to its 10 Most Wanted Fugitives list Thursday: A Chicago-area man suspected in a teenager’s 2009 killing and a Los Angeles man accused of killing his pregnant girlfriend last month.
  FBI Director James Comey announced in Chicago that two people had been removed from the list that’s been around since 1950, including a nearly 20-year-old case that was unlikely to generate new public tips.
  Authorities offered up to $100,000 for information leadi
  
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• Federal judge upholds Virginia voter photo ID law

  19-05-2016 21:28 via salon.com
  
  RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — A federal judge on Thursday upheld Virginia’s 2013 law requiring voters to show a valid photo ID at the polls.
  The Virginia Democratic Party sued state elections officials, saying the photo ID requirement unconstitutionally suppresses voting by blacks, Latinos and young people.
  U.S. District Judge Henry Hudson wrote that the Democratic Party did not prove that the law violates the Voting Rights Act or several constitutional amendments, The Richmond Times Dispatch
  
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• Hillary Clinton: Trump is “not qualified” to be President

  19-05-2016 21:26 via salon.com
  DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Hillary Clinton had some of her strongest words yet for presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump, saying Thursday that he is “not qualified” to be president of the United States.
  In an interview with CNN, the Democratic front-runner and likely nominee questioned Trump’s ability to handle complex foreign policy challenges, decrying what she described as his “irresponsible, reckless, dangerous comments.”
  Clinton cited recent comments f
  
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• It’s National “Send a Nude” Day! Twitter’s hashtag holiday eggs on one of our most frustrating dating habits

  19-05-2016 21:20 via salon.com
  
  (Credit: oneinchpunch via Shutterstock)
  I’ll be the first to confess I’m a sucker for a hashtag holiday. #NationalDogDay? As if I need another reason to post a photo of my cocker spaniel. #SiblingDay? My sister and I have some seriously cute baby pictures.
  Today, however, marks a slightly more complicated pseudo-holiday to celebrate. Happy #NationalSendANudeDay, y’all! According to Twitter, today marks the very first occasion in which we’re actively encouraged to strip do
  
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• European security group mulls police mission to Ukraine

  19-05-2016 21:20 via salon.com
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe is considering sending an armed police mission to help conduct elections in a separatist region of eastern Ukraine that is controlled by Russian-backed rebels.
  OSCE Secretary General Lamberto Zannier told The Associated Press in an interview Thursday that his group may send hundreds of policemen to “maintain law and order” during the vote, if there is agreement on all sides.
  International negotiations on
  
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• The Latest: 2 charged in slaying of 6 Chicago family members

  19-05-2016 21:16 via salon.com
  CHICAGO (AP) — The Latest on the arrests in the Chicago deaths of six family members (all times local):
  5:30 p.m.
  Authorities say one of two suspects in the slayings of six family members whose bodies were found in a Chicago house in February was related to the family and the motive was robbery.
  Police announced charges Thursday against 22-year-old Diego Uribe and his girlfriend, 19-year-old Jafeth Ramos. Uribe was a cousin of one of the family members.
  Both Uribe and Ramos are charged wit
  
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• Charges dropped against 2 reporters covering Ferguson unrest

  19-05-2016 21:13 via salon.com
  
  ST. LOUIS (AP) — Prosecutors have dropped charges of trespassing and interference with police officers against two reporters arrested while covering the 2014 protests in Ferguson, Missouri.
  St. Louis County spokesman Cordell Whitlock tells The Associated Press the charges were dismissed Thursday against The Washington Post’s Wesley Lowery and The Huffington Post’s Ryan Reilly.
  The reason for the dismissals wasn’t immediately clear. Calls to the St. Louis County counselor&
  
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• FBI informant testifies in terror trial of 3 Minnesota men

  19-05-2016 21:12 via salon.com
  MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A man who planned to join fighting in Syria before he became an informant for the FBI has been testifying in the trial of three Minnesota men accused of plotting to join the Islamic State group. Some key details about Abdirahman Bashir:
  WHO IS THE INFORMANT?
  Bashir, 20, was born in San Diego to parents who came to the U.S. from Somalia in 1992. The family moved to Minnesota in 2012 so his parents could find more job opportunities. He described himself as a Sunni Muslim w
  
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• AP Source: Orlando Magic hire Frank Vogel as next coach

  19-05-2016 21:12 via salon.com
  ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — A person with knowledge of the negotiations says the Orlando Magic have agreed to a deal with Frank Vogel to be the team’s next head coach.
  The person says the Vogel and Magic officials met during the day Thursday and reached a deal, which will not be final until Friday afternoon. The person spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because the Magic have not announced the hire.
  Vogel replaces Scott Skies, who resigned a week ago. He comes to Orland
  
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• US Rep. Mark Takai will not seek re-election due to cancer

  19-05-2016 21:07 via salon.com
  HONOLULU (AP) — U.S. Rep. Mark Takai has announced he will not seek a second term in Congress due to health problems.
  Takai was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer last year. He said in a statement Thursday that he had planned to fight the cancer while running for re-election but recently learned the disease had spread.
  Takai says that for the sake of his family, he needs to focus on getting better instead of getting re-elected.
  Takai, 48, plans to finish serving the rest of his term. He was
  
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• EPA suggests tighter limits for industrial chemical in water

  19-05-2016 21:07 via salon.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal regulators announced tighter guidelines Thursday for human exposure to an industrial chemical used for decades in such consumer products as non-stick pans, stain-resistant carpets and microwave popcorn bags.
  The cancer-causing chemical perfluorooctanoic acid, known as PFOA, has been found in the tap water of dozens of factory towns near industrial sites where it was manufactured. DuPont, 3M and other U.S. chemical companies voluntarily phased out the use of PFOA i
  
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• Penguins find higher gear against Lightning in East finals

  19-05-2016 21:04 via salon.com
  
  TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Few NHL teams have the quickness, speed, skill and depth to overwhelm the Tampa Bay Lightning, which the Pittsburgh Penguins have done through three games of the Eastern Conference finals.
  Sidney Crosby, Evgeni Malkin and a talented supporting cast that includes the sizzling line of Phil Kessel, Carl Hagelin and Nick Bonino have outplayed the speedy Lightning for significant stretches of each game to gain a 2-1 lead in the best-of-seven matchup.
  Game 4 is Friday night at
  
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• Iggy Pop to Cannes Film Festival: Say no to drugs

  19-05-2016 21:02 via salon.com
  
  Singer singer Iggy Pop poses for photographers during a photo call for the film Gimme Danger at the 69th international film festival, Cannes, southern France, Thursday, May 19, 2016. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus) (Credit: AP)
  CANNES, France (AP) — Iggy Pop says his drug of choice nowadays is a glass of wine.
  “Everybody should just drop that (expletive),” the notoriously rowdy rocker told a Cannes Film Festival crowd on Thursday.
  Iggy Pop was on hand to promote “Gimme Danger,&
  
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• “Off the reservation”: 4 times Hillary Clinton’s racism showed

  19-05-2016 20:56 via salon.com
  
  Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton speaks at St. Stephen Baptist Church during a campaign stop in Louisville, Ky., Sunday, May 15, 2016. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik) (Credit: AP)
  Hillary Clinton recently used the term “off the reservation” in reference to Donald Trump during an interview with CNN’s Jake Tapper.The term — which references Native Americans who were restricted to reservations created by the U.S. government — set off a storm of crit
  
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• Metro-North Railroad in New York to resume normal service

  19-05-2016 20:50 via salon.com
  NEW YORK (AP) — Metro-North Railroad said it was resuming normal service Friday after completing temporary repairs to a section of an elevated track in New York City that was damaged in a fire.
  The railroad said Thursday that crews had “safely completed the installation of six temporary steel columns to brace a column damaged in Tuesday’s fire.”
  Passengers should be prepared for minor delays resulting from track speed restrictions, which the railroad said it hopes to clea
  
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• Laverne Cox: My criticism of North Carolina’s anti-trans HB2 was cut from Megyn Kelly special

  19-05-2016 20:35 via salon.com
  
  (Credit: Fox)
  Megyn Kelly is fighting back against widespread criticism of her first Fox one-hour special featuring her marquee make-up with Donald Trump by essentially shrugging off the reviews as the work of haters, but now other interviews from the special have come under scrutiny from someone who can hardly be described as a hater.
  “Orange is the New Black” star Laverne Cox claimed that perhaps the most newsworthy portion of her sit-down with Kelly never actually made it on-air.
  
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• Trump’s pro-life pandering: He’s clueless on the issue — but he’d still find a way to destroy reproductive rights

  19-05-2016 20:26 via salon.com
  
  Donald Trump (Credit: Reuters/Chris Keane)
  Back in March, Donald Trump embarrassed himself and the Republican party when he was asked by Chris Matthews if women who have abortions should be punished and Trump, with a blasé attitude, agreed that the only logical way to enforce a ban on abortion is for there to be “some form of punishment.”
  The furor that erupted spun out of control in no small part because of the anti-choice movement itself, which has long understood that one n
  
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• “She’s got one of the great women abusers of all time sitting in her house, waiting for her to come home”: 11 times Donald Trump [recently] slammed Bill Clinton

  19-05-2016 20:13 via salon.com
  
  You would think Bill Clinton was running for president with the way that Donald Trump has targeted him — and Trump’s attacks on Bill Clinton just reached a new level.In an interview with Fox News’ Sean Hannity, Trump made reference to rape allegations against Bill Clinton, made by Juanita Broaddrick in 1999. It is the furthest Trump has gone in his attacks on the couple, but Trump is just getting started.He declared Bill Clinton fair game for attacks when Hillary “br
  
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• “Disrespectful and disgusting”: Sexist politicians remind women that their looks still define them

  19-05-2016 20:02 via salon.com
  Ed Rendell (Credit: AP/Matt Rourke)
  It’s a wonder male politicians can get anything done, what with their constant obligation to monitor the hotness of all the women in the world. How do they even have time to try to police our bodies when they’re so busy assessing them? So thank you for all your hard work as Female Body Inspectors, former Democratic Pennsylvania governor Ed Rendell and Louisiana State Rep. Kenny Havard!
  At one end of the spectrum, there’s Clinton surrogate Ren
  
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• Trey Gowdy’s tough week: The farcical Benghazi committee keeps bumbling along

  19-05-2016 19:05 via salon.com
  
  (Credit: Reuters/Jonathan Ernst)
  It’s been a rough week for Trey Gowdy and his crew of Benghazi truth hounds. He and the other Republicans on the House Benghazi committee have been spending their time digging into conspiratorial allegations that military resources were withheld or left idle in response to the 2012 terrorist attack. But, on Monday, Gowdy’s Democratic colleagues released selected transcripts showing the former chief counsel for the committee Republicans, retired Lt. Ge
  
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• EgyptAir Flight 804: What we know so far

  19-05-2016 18:43 via salon.com
  
  (Credit: Reuters/Christian Hartmann)
  An EgyptAir flight from Paris to Cairo carrying 66 people vanished from radar over the Mediterranean Sea early Thursday morning. Here’s what we know so far about EgyptAir Flight 804:
  The Airbus A320 left Charles de Gaulle Airport in Paris late Wednesday evening en route to Cairo. Greek air traffic controllers spoke with plane’s pilot at 2:26 a.m. Thursday morning and reported nothing out of the ordinary.
  At 2:27 a.m., just after ent
  
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• Watch the moving “60 Minutes” tribute to Morley Safer, dead at 84

  19-05-2016 18:41 via salon.com
  
  Morley Safer (Credit: Reuters/Stephen Chernin)
  Legendary “60 Minutes” correspondent Morley Safer has died at age 84 — only week after ending his 46 season career on the CBS broadcast, the Associated Press reported on Thursday.
  No further details on his death were immediately available.
  On its broadcast Sunday, “60 Minutes” aired “Morley Safer: A Reporter’s Life,” to honor Safer’s distinguished career. From “60 Minutes”:
  
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• Dear men of the Internet: Your low opinions of “Sex and the City” are not needed, wanted, or valuable

  19-05-2016 18:27 via salon.com
  
  "Sex and the City"
  By now, a lot of people have become sensitive to the need for female journalists and critics. The United States may soon elect its first woman president. Equal pay for men and women is gradually becoming a consensus.
  But when it comes to the ability to appreciate shows aimed at another gender men are performing awfully poorly. That’s the conclusion of a well-argued data-dive story on TheFiveThirtyEight: Women seem to like shows aimed at men pretty well, but men are dissi
  
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• The “Eh, Sure, Why Not” caucus: Why are some Senate Democrats already talking about working with President Trump?

  19-05-2016 18:01 via salon.com
  
  Sen. john Tester (Credit: AP)
  One of the only hilarious bright spots of this execrable election has been watching Republicans come to grips with the fact that their party has nominated as its presidential candidate a googly-eyed racist yam by the name of Donald Trump. From his former opponents in the primary to legislators in tough races this fall to the GOP’s propaganda channel to the head of the Republican National Committee, much of the party has fallen in line, apparently having decide
  
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• Sanders campaign blasts DNC chair and ex-Clinton co-chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz for helping Hillary

  19-05-2016 17:46 via salon.com
  
  Bernie Sanders, Debbie Wasserman Schultz (Credit: AP/Jeff Roberson/Lynne Sladky/Photo montage by Salon)
  The Bernie Sanders campaign has singled out the head of the Democratic Party for attempting to undermine the Vermont senator’s bid for president.
  Democratic Party leaders exploited the chaos at the Nevada convention this week, which Sanders and his backers say was thoroughly undemocratic, in order to attack his campaign.
  Democratic National Committee Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz,
  
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• “Oh God, not the Jews again”: Ann Coulter tells us how she really feels in an interview on BBC Radio 4

  19-05-2016 17:38 via salon.com
  
  Ann Coulter (Credit: MSNBC)
  In an interview with BBC Radio 4’s James Naughtie on Wednesday, conservative firebrand Ann Coulter not only called the 64-year-old “babycakes,” which perplexed him, she also complained about the fact that the immigration discussion occasionally turns to the Jewish question.
  Naughtie grilled Coulter on remarks made by both her and Donald Trump, including controversial statements about banning Muslim immigration into the United States.“Americans
  
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• WATCH: Louis C.K. easily defeats two journalists on “Jeopardy!”

  19-05-2016 17:16 via salon.com
  
  Louis C.K.’s resume includes a Peabody Award, two Grammys, and six Emmys. And as of Wednesday night, the comedian has a new title he can add to his long list of honors: “Jeopardy!” champion.
  Competing for charity as part of the show’s “Power Players” week, Louis C.K. cruised to victory over two journalists in typically awkward style. After a shaky start that saw the “Louie” star briefly fall into the red, CNN’s Kate B
  
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• Brentwood School’s n-word problem: “Is this what $40k worth of private education gets you?”

  19-05-2016 17:14 via salon.com
  
  (Credit: Fox 11)
  Here’s what a private school education in an exclusive neighborhood apparently won’t buy your kids — the understanding that not everything in the culture is for them.
  The $37,725 a year Brentwood School in Los Angeles has made headlines this week after a video from a group calling itself Brentwood Students Against Racism was posted on Monday. It begins with the school’s motto: “Welcome to Brentwood. Start curious. Stay curious. Go anywhere,&rdq
  
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• “I kept it 1,000″: Larry Wilmore keeps it real with Chris Hayes about his Washington speech, the media and Obama’s legacy

  19-05-2016 17:10 via salon.com
  
  Larry Wilmore and Chris Hayes had a delightful and insightful conversation on the Wednesday edition of MSNBC’s “All In,” including hilarious bits about the Comedy Central host’s controversial White House Correspondents’ Dinner address, the humor on “The Nightly Show,” and President Barack Obama’s legacy.
  The thesis of Wilmore’s “Nightly Show,” the host told Hayes, “is keeping it 100, which means we are going to keep it one h
  
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• Forget about unity, Bernie isn’t letting go: Sanders is willing to harm Clinton down the stretch, report says

  19-05-2016 17:04 via salon.com
  
  Bernie Sanders (Credit: AP/Julie Jacobson)
  On Wednesday, I wrote about the cascade of concerns from various Democrats about the tone and direction of Bernie Sanders campaign. Many in the establishment are worried that Sanders is needlessly stoking resentment and doing lasting damage to Hillary Clinton. It’s not clear that challenging a candidate in the primaries is a bad thing, but the angst is rising among Democrats nonetheless.
  Now that the race is essentially over, Sanders has a choice
  
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• Fox Business News’ Stuart Varney applauds Donald Trump for immediately taking political advantage of EgyptAir Flight 804 crash

  19-05-2016 16:52 via salon.com
  
  Stuart Varney (Credit: Fox & Friends)
  Fox Business News’ Stuart Varney appeared on Fox & Friends Thursday ostensibly to discuss the crash of EgyptAir Flight 804, but he was clearly more interested in talking about other things — including its impact on the Egyptian economy and its potential to sway undecided voters to Donald Trump.
  Varney said that the crash could “encourage the refugee crisis,” which would be “good politically for Donald Trump.”He not
  
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• Israel’s new defense minister Avigdor Lieberman is a far-right extremist who called for beheading disloyal Palestinian citizens

  19-05-2016 16:45 via salon.com
  
  Israel's then-Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman in his Jerusalem office on December 2, 2014(Credit: Reuters/Ronen Zvulun)
  One of the most extreme members of the Israeli government will soon serve as defense minister.
  Israel’s hard-line right-wing Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met on May 18 with far-right politician Avigdor Lieberman. Netanyahu offered him the positions of minister of defense and minister of immigrant absorption, and Lieberman accepted the defense minister offer, the I
  
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• New GOP talking point to “defend” Trump: He’s just BS-ing to bamboozle the yahoos of our base

  19-05-2016 16:36 via salon.com
  
  Donald Trump (Credit: AP/Rich Schultz)
  Republicans know they have to line up behind Donald Trump, but one reason there’s likely some hesitation is that it’s genuinely difficult for them to do so without signing off on some of the more over-the-top things he says. It seems Republicans are starting to form their main talking point: Trump’s just a liar who will say anything to our yahoo voting base to get elected.
  Of course, they put it in politic terms, but that’s
  
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• Megyn Kelly slams “Daily Show” critique of her fawning Trump interview: “So grateful I have men like Trevor Noah to advise on how to deal with gender attacks”

  19-05-2016 16:29 via salon.com
  
  (Credit: Comedy Central)
  Megyn Kelly endured months of vicious attacks from Republicans’ presumptive presidential nominee, Donald Trump, and his most rabid online supporters without lashing out or directly returning fire once. But after her much publicized reconciliation with the former reality TV star this week was met with widespread criticism, the Fox News host proved she can be as quick to express her temper on Twitter as her former nemesis.
  “So grateful I have men like Trevor No
  
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