AT&T-Time Warner Deal AT&T Inc's proposed $85 billion takeover of Time Warner Inc. generated skepticism among both Democrats and Republicans on Sunday, making it more likely that regulators will closely scrutinize the effort to create a new telecommunications and media giant, The Associated Press, The New York Times, MarketWatch, Deutsche Welle, Reuters, BuzzFeed and The Wall Street Journal reported. Sen. Bernie Sanders said on Twitter that the administration should "kill" the Time Warner takeover because it would mean higher prices and fewer choices for consumers.

This Week “Donald Trump is pointing at the moon which is a very frustrated working class part of the country, the same thing that Bernie Sanders pointed at in the Democratic primary,” Matthew Dowd said on ABC’s This Week. “That's not going away. That's been growing and building for 30 years.”

Meet the Press The roundtable during NBC’s Meet the Press discussed the role Sanders played in the primary. “I think the primary between Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton really showed that Hillary Clinton is where the head of the Democratic party is, but the people really are with Bernie Sanders, particularly on trade,” Eliana Johnson said. “I think Bernie Sanders kind of blew up the Democratic party, but it was patched over because of the urgency of defeating Donald Trump who was a much greater threat,” Thomas Friedman babbled.

Job Training Sanders has announced a $4.3 million federal grant to a St. Albans-based nonprofit to allow it to expand job training for low-income seniors, The Burlington Free Press reported. The money will help Vermont Associates for Training and Development expand job training efforts in Vermont, Maine and large parts of New York and Pennsylvania.

Column: Millennials “Sanders' movement, still alive despite his primary loss, has persuaded many young people that traditional politics can be used to further their goals,” Leonid Bershidsky wrote for Bloomberg. “The Sanders movement is one reason why the data flagged by Foa and Mouk shouldn't lead to apocalyptic predictions about the future of democracy.”

World

Syria As rebel-held sections of Aleppo crumbled under Russian bombing this month, the Obama administration was secretly weighing plans to rush more firepower to CIA-backed units in ­Syria, The Washington Post reported. The proposal, which involved weapons that might help those forces defend themselves against Russian aircraft and artillery, made its way onto the agenda of a recent meeting President Obama held with his national security team.

National

Down Ballot Candidates Clinton moved aggressively on Sunday to press her advantage in the presidential race, urging black voters in North Carolina to vote early and punish Republican officeholders for supporting Donald J. Trump, even as Mr. Trump’s party increasingly concedes he is unlikely to recover in the polls, The New York Times reported.

Vermont

Editorial: Sen. Leahy The Burlington Free Press editorial board recommends Patrick Leahy for U.S. senator. Leahy, the longtime incumbent Democrat, brings to Washington the experience and influence that comes with serving seven terms – 42 years – in the Senate on behalf of Vermont. His super-seniority gives this tiny state an outsized presence and influence in Congress.