A.M. Links: Top Democrats Urge Bernie to Drop Out, Hezbollah Commander Killed in Syria, GOP Leaders Starting to Rally Around Trump?

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  Democratic leaders want Bernie Sanders to drop out of the presidential race and they are turning up the pressure in the hopes of getting the Vermont socialist to quit and thereby clear the path for Hillary Clinton. But Sanders is refusing to budge. "Please do not moan to me about Hillary Clinton's problems," Sanders told MSNBC.

• "The Obama administration is planning to issue a sweeping directive telling every public school district in the country to allow transgender students to use the bathrooms that match their gender identity."

• Are Republican leaders starting to rally around Donald Trump?

• Mustafa Badreddine, Hezbollah's top military commander in Syria, has been killed.

• The world's oldest person, 116-year-old Susannah Mushatt Jones, has died.

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