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David Montgomery / Twin Cities:
Candid Marco Rubio blasts Trump and media, calls Cruz ‘only conservative left in the race’ — Former presidential candidate Marco Rubio told a group of Minnesota supporters Wednesday he is hoping one of the remaining candidates for president will stop Donald Trump from winning the Republican nomination.
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Zach Carter / The Huffington Post:
Donald Trump Got More Votes In Ohio Than Hillary Clinton — Democrats still have a turnout problem. — Tuesday was a very good day for Hillary Clinton. She swept primary challenger Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) in five states, effectively ending his chances of securing the Democratic presidential nomination.
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Gabriel Debenedetti / Politico:
Democrats sound alarm against Trump — PHOENIX — Leading liberals and progressive groups are turning their gaze away from the Democratic primary and toward efforts to unite the left against Donald Trump, framing him as a dangerous and unprecedented candidate who poses an existential threat to the progressive movement and the nation.
Amanda Marcotte / Salon:
Stop “helping” Hillary: Sorry, guys, but Clinton doesn't need to smile, whisper, or have John Kasich as her running mate
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RedState, Talking Points Memo, Washington Post and Daily Kos
Mike Sunnucks / Phoenix Business Journal:
New Arizona poll: Trump, Clinton lead but ample undecideds
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Tierney Sneed / Talking Points Memo:
How Obama Threw A Curveball With The Safest SCOTUS Pick Imaginable — President Obama's choice of Merrick Garland to succeed justice Scalia on the Supreme Court was not the nominee progressives were dreaming of a month ago, when Scalia's unexpected death opened up a once-in-a-generation opportunity to transform the Supreme Court.
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Brian Beutler / New Republic:
Why Would Obama Nominate an Old White Guy to the Supreme Court? — There are a few reasons. Political calculation isn't one of them. — President Barack Obama's decision to nominate Merrick Garland, a 63-year-old white moderate and perennial short-lister, to the Supreme Court …
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New York Times:
A Supreme Court With Merrick Garland Would Be the Most Liberal in Decades
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Harper Neidig / The Hill:
No hearing for Obama's Supreme Court nominee, McConnell says
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Paul Watson / Infowars:
How the GOP Elite Plan To Rob Donald Trump — Cleveland, ladies and gentlemen, won't be for the faint of heart — Shhhh. I've just come from a meeting of the Republican Establishment. You know, those guys who want to replace what the voters want with what they want. That Republican Establishment.
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Karen Tumulty / Washington Post:
Wild card for Trump: Who gets to be a convention delegate? — Why Trump isn't a sure bet to win the nomination … With the increasingly loud talk of a contested Republican convention, the obscure process of picking who actually gets to be a delegate is about to get underway in states across the country …
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Trip Gabriel / New York Times:
Republicans Enter a Shadow Campaign to Sew Up Delegates
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No More Mister Nice Blog and AOL
Joel Manby / Los Angeles Times:
Op-Ed SeaWorld CEO: We're ending our orca breeding program. Here's why. — A killer whale raises its head out of the water during the first show since an orca killed a trainer at the SeaWorld theme park in Orlando, Fla. on Feb. 27, 2010. — Americans' attitudes about orcas have changed dramatically.
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CNN:
John Kerry: ISIS responsible for genocide — (CNN)Secretary of State John Kerry said Thursday that the United States has determined that ISIS' action against the Yazidis and other minority groups in Iraq and Syria constitutes genocide. — “My purpose here today is to assert in my judgment …
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Eli Lake / BloombergView.com:
Cruz Assembles an Unlikely Team of Foreign-Policy Rivals — In a year when the Republican Party is breaking apart because of Donald Trump, the only man left with a chance to beat him is trying to build a big tent — by GOP standards — when it comes to foreign affairs.
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Danielle Kreutter / KKTV-TV:
Facebook Post Leads To Police Ticket — An important lesson to be careful about what you post on Facebook and other public sites. One local man ended up getting a ticket after a video he posted on Facebook was viewed by police. — Michael Dalton told 11 News he loves making Facebook videos in his free time.
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Margaret Sullivan / New York Times:
Updated, 10:54 a.m., to add new observations based on reader response. — Bernie Sanders supporters have been unhappy with The Times in recent months, but it looked as if they were beginning to have their moment in the sun on Monday morning. — An article by Jennifer Steinhauer …
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Apkyletexas / RedState:
Cruz - “I will bring debate to Trump at AIPAC” — “If You Won't Debate In Utah, We'll Bring The Debate To You” — The Ted Cruz campaign released a statement today, saying that Cruz will bring the debate to Trump at the AIPAC conference if Trump is too scared to debate Cruz in Utah.
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Rosalind S. Helderman / Washington Post:
Rabbis call for boycott of Trump's speech to pro-Israel group … A group of rabbis is planning to boycott Donald Trump's speech next week before a leading pro-Israel advocacy group, a sign of growing unease among many Jewish leaders about the populist campaign being waged by the Republican presidential front-runner.
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The Right Scoop
Bloomberg Business:
Ginsberg Warns of ‘Political Guerilla Warfare’ at Contested GOP Convention — The expert in delegate fights sees a long slog ahead for the Republican front-runner. — haddadmedia — With prospects for the first contested Republican convention in 40 years on the rise …
news.nike.com:
NIKE HYPERADAPT 1.0 MANIFESTS THE UNIMAGINABLE — “Innovation at Nike is not about dreaming of tomorrow. It's about accelerating toward it,” says Tinker Hatfield. “We're able to anticipate the needs of athletes because we know them better than anybody. Sometimes, we deliver a reality before others have even begun to imagine it.”
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Alex Pappas / The Daily Caller:
Trump Appears To Have Heavily Plagiarized Op-Ed From Carson — An op-ed penned this month by Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump and published online appears to be blatantly plagiarized from an article written days earlier under former rival Ben Carson's name, The Daily Caller has determined.
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Kristin Salaky / Talking Points Memo:
Carson: You Have To Admit Trump Calling Me A Child Molester ‘Did Work’
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Peggy Lee / WNEP-TV:
Nun Charged with Shoplifting Coffee, Soap … BRIAR CREEK — State police in Columbia County say they nabbed a very unlikely thief: a nun. — Troopers tracked the nun at her convent in Danville after she allegedly shoplifted from a store. — Workers at the Surplus Outlet near Berwick …
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Matt Bai / Yahoo Politics:
How Kasich became National Republican Grownup — Normally, it wouldn't be a very big deal for a popular two-term governor to win a presidential primary in his own state, especially if it's the first of 29 states (and a couple of territories) he's actually won.
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Jim Hoft / The Gateway Pundit:
Sean Hannity: If GOP Elites Steal Nomination from Trump or Cruz, “I'm Walking” (VIDEO) — Conservative Sean Hannity announced Wednesday that if Republican Party elites try to steal the nomination from Donald Trump or Ted Cruz at the convention. … The post Sean Hannity …
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