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Hillary Clinton's Allies Launch Plan to Undercut Donald Trump Now — Democrat's presidential campaign also readies a strategy of engaging Republican on issues without trading insults — Pro-Democratic groups are launching an orchestrated bid to weaken GOP presidential front-runner Donald Trump ahead …
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Vox, New York Magazine and Political Wire
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As Hillary Clinton Sweeps States, One Group Resists: White Men — White men narrowly backed Hillary Clinton in her 2008 race for president, but they are resisting her candidacy this time around in major battleground states, rattling some Democrats about her general-election strategy.
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Althouse, The Week, Political Wire, Allen B. West, NY1 News, Associated Press and addictinginfo.org

Clinton Owes Her Commanding Lead to African-American Women
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Washington Monthly


By Hamilton's rules on Supreme picks, the Senate's right and Obama's wrong — Somewhere Alexander Hamilton is smiling. For the battle that's beginning over President Obama's nomination of Judge Merrick Garland to the Supreme Court vindicates the famous Founder's assurances on judicial appointments.
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The Court — When Judge John G. Roberts Jr. ran into hostile questioning at his 2005 Supreme Court confirmation hearings, he invoked a fellow judge on the federal appeals court in Washington: Merrick B. Garland, now President Obama's Supreme Court nominee. — The questions came from Senator Charles E. Grassley, Republican of Iowa.
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Politico


Obama: Refusal To Consider Nominee Damages Public's Faith In The Judiciary
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LifeNews.com and Politico

Why Democrats usually pick moderate-liberal justices and Republicans usually pick conservative ones.
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The Huffington Post, The Hill, Fox News, Constitution Daily and SCOTUSblog

Transcript And Video: President Obama's Interview With NPR's Nina Totenberg
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New York Times

Grassley: If I can meet with a ‘dictator,’ I can meet with Garland
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Talking Points Memo, Daily Kos, The Daily Caller and WKBN-TV

Merrick Garland Heads To Capitol Hill For What Could Be A Futile Exercise
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Talking Points Memo and Politico

Threatening letter sent to Donald Trump's son, Eric — NEW YORK — The Secret Service, FBI and New York Police Department are investigating what sources tell CBS News is a threatening piece of mail sent to Donald Trump's son, Eric Trump. — The mail, sent to Eric Trump at his posh Manhattan residence …

Insiders: Kasich could win a contested convention — In the event of a contested Republican convention this summer, John Kasich is the candidate most acceptable to GOP delegates. — That's according to members of The POLITICO Caucus - a panel of political insiders in seven battleground states …
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Scared Monkeys, Towleroad and Political Wire
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RNC Rules: Insiders Speak Out on Contested Convention — Brokered Convention? Here are the Rules 1:46 — If no presidential candidate wins a majority of delegates and Republicans face a contested convention this summer, a small group of party insiders will have huge sway over who wins …
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NBC News

Spokesman: RNC would support Trump ‘100 percent’
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Political Wire

Rubio nears Cruz endorsement — Marco Rubio is close to endorsing Ted Cruz, but the two proud senators — and recent fierce rivals — have some details to work out first. — Cruz has to ask for the Rubio's endorsement, and both sides need to decide that it will make a difference …
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Out of Race, Marco Rubio Returns to the Senate
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Outside the Beltway, Political Wire, Washington Post and The Gateway Pundit

Conservatives call for ‘unity ticket’ to stop Trump
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John Hawkins' Right Wing News, Breitbart, No More Mister Nice Blog and The Resurgent

Ryan huddles with GOP donors — PALM BEACH, Fla. House Speaker Paul Ryan met Thursday night at a pricey French restaurant here with some of the party's biggest donors to assess a political landscape dominated by one vexing question: what to do about Donald Trump.
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Washington Post, New York Times, Talking Points Memo and The Gateway Pundit
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Another Dem like Obama? Our best days are behind us: Ryan
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Anti-Trump forces contemplate the end — With Donald Trump marching toward a nomination that few believed he could win, Republicans once bent on defeating him are now reassessing their efforts to stop him. — Trump's dazed and demoralized adversaries find themselves at a defining moment …
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ABC News, Washington Post and Booman Tribune


People Are Freaking Out Over This Girl's Sad Picture Of Her Grandpa — Papaw made dinner for six grandkids, but only one showed up. :'( — This is Kelsey Harmon, a college softball player from Oklahoma. — On Wednesday night, Harmon tweeted a photo of herself having dinner with her grandfather.


Waitress Stiffed: ‘Tips are only for normal-looking people’ … DES MOINES, Iowa — A popular waitress at a popular restaurant closed out one of her table's Tuesday night when she found a note from her patron. — “At first, I felt really upset, I felt attacked, I almost felt …
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D.M. waitress stiffed: ‘Tips are only for normal looking people’


‘Earth Hour’ Blackout Cancelled Because Of Migrant Rape — The annual virtue-signalling festival known as ‘Earth Hour’ won't be celebrated in one Swedish town this year, thanks to a sex-crime epidemic sweeping the municipality. — The small Swedish town of Östersund — population 44,300 …

Stabbing Surge Stumps NYC Police, Sows Fear Among Residents — Slashings increase while total shootings and homicides fall — NYPD tracking motives for knife assaults for the first time — New York City has seen a 20 percent increase in stabbings this year compared with last …


Obama-Backed Solar Plant Could Be Shut Down For Not Producing Enough Energy — California regulators may force a massive solar thermal power plant in the Mojave Desert to shut down after years of under-producing electricity — not to mention the plant was blinding pilots flying over the area and incinerating birds.
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Wall Street Journal and Power Line


Convicted felon sings Adele-inspired ‘sorry’ to judge at sentencing — A convicted felon seemed to feel particularly soulful at his sentencing last week for unlawful imprisonment and carrying a concealed weapon. — Brian Earl Taylor, 21, surprised a courtroom of onlookers when he sang …
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Fox 59, LawNewz, AOL, The Daily Caller, CBS Pittsburgh, New York's PIX11 and CBS Los Angeles

Obama to pick first female four-star commander — President Barack Obama plans to nominate Air Force Gen. Lori Robinson to be the head of U.S. Northern Command — which would make her the first female combatant commander, Defense Secretary Ash Carter announced Friday. — Robinson is now the head of Pacific Air Forces.
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The Week


Construction Worker on 2nd Day of Job Dies in ‘Not Work-Related’ Fall From 53rd Floor in DTLA — A construction worker on his second day on the job died Thursday after falling from the 53rd floor of the Wilshire Grand Center tower and landing on a passing car in downtown L.A. in an incident …
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Los Angeles Times, The Week, fox8.com, Q13 FOX News, AOL, New York's PIX11 and KFOR-TV