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Rosie Gray / BuzzFeed:
Michelle Fields, Ben Shapiro Resign From Breitbart — Breitbart reporter Michelle Fields and editor-at-large Ben Shapiro are resigning from the company over the site's handling of Donald Trump's campaign manager's alleged assault on Fields, BuzzFeed News has learned.
Hallie Jackson / NBC News:
Mitt Romney to Campaign with John Kasich in Ohio — Mitt Romney will campaign with John Kasich Monday at two stops in Ohio, NBC News has learned from a source familiar with the plans. — Romney is not expected to endorse the Ohio governor during the campaign swing, the source said …
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Beth Reinhard / Wall Street Journal:
Florida Republicans Waver Over Trump
Florida Republicans Waver Over Trump
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Naked Politics
Rebecca Savransky / The Hill:
Trump cancels Florida rally to hold event in Ohio
Trump cancels Florida rally to hold event in Ohio
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Politico and Political Wire
Josh Lederman / Associated Press:
RNC launches campaign to oppose Obama's Supreme Court pick — WASHINGTON (AP) — The Republican Party is launching a campaign to try to derail President Barack Obama's nominee to the Supreme Court, teaming up with a conservative opposition research group to target vulnerable Democrats and impugn whomever Obama picks.
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The Week
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Josh Gerstein / Politico:
White House preps Supreme Court battle plan — As soon as President Barack Obama announces a Supreme Court nominee from his short list — which is now set — the White House and its allies will unleash a coordinated media and political blitz aimed at weakening GOP resistance to confirming the president's pick.
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New York Times
Jennifer Epstein / Bloomberg Business:
Clinton Won't Meet Embattled Mayor Emanuel in Chicago Visit — Bernie Sanders has made Clinton's ties to the mayor an issue ahead of the Illinois primary. — jeneps — Bernie Sanders has tried to make the presidential primary vote in and around Chicago into a referendum on Mayor Rahm Emanuel …
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Rachael Bade / Politico:
Second State employee refuses GOP questions on Clinton server — A State Department staffer who oversaw security and technology issues for Hillary Clinton is refusing to answer Senate investigators' questions about the former secretary of state's use of a private email server …
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The Daily Caller
Marlon Bando / Heavy.com:
Thomas Dimassimo: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know — Email Follow — A protester has been arrested after he tried to rush the stage while Donald Trump was speaking during a rally Saturday morning in Dayton, Ohio, authorities say. — Thomas Dimassimo was charged with disorderly conduct …
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CANNONFIRE, BizPac Review and Talking Points Memo
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Washington Post:
Police officer shot and killed outside Prince George's police headquarters; 2 suspects in custody — A Prince George's County police officer was killed Sunday in a fierce shootout with an armed man outside a district station in Landover, in what the police chief said was an unprovoked attack.
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USA Today, Associated Press, The Week, New York Times and New York Magazine
Aaron Short / New York Post:
Ex-senators plotting political comebacks after years in clink — Former state Sens. Hiram Monserrate (left) and Efrain Gonzalez Jr. Photo: Gregory P. Mango; Steven Hirsch — Even after spending years in the clink, these Albany felons are raring to return to the scene of the crime.
Ross Douthat / New York Times:
The Party Still Decides — POLITICAL parties are mentioned nowhere in the Constitution, and the party nominating process offers few of the protections associated with the ideal of “one man one vote.” Voters in early states have far more influence than voters in later ones.
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John Hawkins' Right Wing News and Power Line
Juan Williams / The Hill:
Iraq war shapes 2016 landscape — in a general election debate against Hillary Clinton — . He is going to attack her over her vote authorizing the war in Iraq. — picked up that hammer in 2008 and Bernie Sanders — is hammering away right now. — For an already fractured Republican party …
Politico:
Trump dumps Illinois campaign director — CHICAGO — Donald Trump's Illinois campaign director has been sidelined after the national campaign grew furious over what sources described as a lack of organization in the state in the run-up to Tuesday's primary.
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Political Wire and Associated Press
Mark Leibovich / New York Times:
The End of Marco-mentum — The last time I saw Marco Rubio in person, he seemed to be on the verge of inheriting the charred Republican earth. It was Feb. 22, the day before the Nevada caucuses. We were aboard Rubio's campaign plane, flying from Reno, Nev., to Las Vegas.
Daily Mail:
German voters' crushing verdict on open-door migration: Angela Merkel is punished in crucial state elections as far-Right party wins big vote with call to stop flow of refugees — By , SARA MALM FOR MAILONLINE and ALLAN HALL IN BERLIN FOR THE DAILY MAIL — German voters turned to the far right …
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The Last Tradition, The Last Refuge and Vox Popoli
Jim Hoft / The Gateway Pundit:
VIDEO UNEARTHED=> Pastor Calls for Execution of Gays - Then Introduces Ted Cruz at Conference — In November Senator Ted Cruz appeared at the National Religious Liberties Conference in Iowa, where he courted the support of the conference's organizer, Colorado-based pastor and radio host Kevin Swanson.
Daily Mail:
‘One child knelt and prayed, the other was shot dead’: Eyewitness tells how Al Qaeda terrorists singled out their victims as they gun down 16 at Ivory Coast beach resort popular with Westerners — Gunmen were allegedly targeting a U.S. delegation led by Assistant Secretary of Commerce Marcus Jadotte
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Instapundit and Weasel Zippers
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