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Macron Wins French Presidency by Emphatic Margin 
Emmanuel Macron, head of the political movement En Marche!, or Onwards!, and candidate for the 2017 presidential election, waves from his car as he leaves his home during the second round of the election, in Paris, France, May 7, 2017. (photo: Jean-Paul Pelissier/Reuters) 
Sudip Kar-Gupta, Reuters 
Kar-Gupta writes: "Emmanuel Macron was elected president of France on Sunday with a business-friendly vision of European integration, defeating Marine Le Pen, a far-right nationalist who threatened to take France out of the European Union, early projections showed." 
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Trumpcare Advocates Lie Their Way Through the Sunday Political Shows 
Zack Ford, ThinkProgress 
Ford writes: "Days after the House passed a newly-amended American Health Care Act, its biggest proponents took to the Sunday morning political shows to defend it - by blatantly lying about what the bill does." 
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White House Suggests Key Federal Funding Source for Historically Black Colleges May Not Be Constitutional 
Cleve R. Wootson Jr. and Susan Svrluga, The Washington Post 
Excerpt: "In February, President Trump invited leaders from historically black colleges and universities to the White House, a move they hoped signaled his support for the institutions and showed an effort to give them more clout in his administration. But critics had a more cynical description of the Oval Office meeting: a photo op." 
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The Gunman, The Rapist, The Woodsman and Young Jim Comey 
Michael Daly, The Daily Beast 
Daly writes: "Three nights before Halloween and nine days before Election Day in 1977, a gunman kicked in the door to 16-year-old James Comey's home in suburban New Jersey." 
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She Told the DEA Its Agent Was a Stalker. Then Things Got Really Bad. 
Daniel Wagner, BuzzFeed 
Wagner writes: "A US law enforcement agent based in Brazil shared sensitive information about international drug-trafficking investigations with his girlfriend - and then, after she ended their affair, pursued a campaign of stalking and harassment that continues to this day." 
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82 Freed Chibok Schoolgirls Flown to Nigerian Capital 
Ruth Maclean and Alice Ross, Guardian UK 
Excerpt: "Young women who were among 276 captured by Boko Haram militants to meet president in Abuja after prisoner exchange." 
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Worried World Urges Trump Not to Pull Out of Paris Climate Agreement 
Oliver Milman, Jonathan Watts and Tom Phillips, Guardian UK 
Excerpt: "Donald Trump's scorched-earth approach to environmental protections has shocked current and former government officials overseas who are waiting nervously to see whether the US will destabilize the Paris climate agreement by pulling out of the deal." 
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