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John McCormick / Bloomberg Business:
Republicans in Bloomberg Poll Not Sold on Plan to Stop Trump — Trump gets crushed by Clinton in hypothetical match-up — Kasich is only Republican left in field who beats Clinton — The most committed Republican voters aren't rallying behind efforts to deny Donald Trump the party's nomination …
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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Why Trump is winning: His supporters think America is screwing over whites
Why Trump is winning: His supporters think America is screwing over whites
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John Bresnahan / Politico:
Reid: ‘Never, ever, ever underestimate Trump’
Reid: ‘Never, ever, ever underestimate Trump’
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ABC News and The Daily Caller
Alice Ollstein / ThinkProgress:
Paul Ryan Apologizes For Calling The Poor ‘Takers’
Paul Ryan Apologizes For Calling The Poor ‘Takers’
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Washington Post and Shakesville
Conor Dinan / Talking Points Memo:
New Poll: Cruz Within Three Points Of Trump Nationally
New Poll: Cruz Within Three Points Of Trump Nationally
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CNN:
Jeb Bush backs Ted Cruz for president
Jeb Bush backs Ted Cruz for president
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Speaker.gov:
FULL TEXT: Speaker Ryan on the State of American Politics
FULL TEXT: Speaker Ryan on the State of American Politics
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Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
Jeb Bush endorses Ted Cruz
Jeb Bush endorses Ted Cruz
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Caitlin Cruz / Talking Points Memo:
Whites ‘Losing Out’ To Minorities, Majority Of Trump Backers Say
Whites ‘Losing Out’ To Minorities, Majority Of Trump Backers Say
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Mediaite and Washington Post
Tierney Sneed / Talking Points Memo:
SCOTUS Bros Clearly Don't Understand How Women Get Contraceptives — The Supreme Court hearing Wednesday on Obamacare's contraceptive mandate presented the fourth challenge to the health care legislation since it was passed 2010, and thus the fourth opportunity for the justices to grapple …
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Lyle Denniston / SCOTUSblog:
Argument analysis: On new health care case, a single word may tell it all — Analysis — The Obama administration had four Supreme Court Justices quite plainly on its side Wednesday in the latest fight over the new health care law, but that may be all that it had because there was no way to stop …
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Peter Sullivan / The Hill:
Supreme Court appears split in ObamaCare contraceptive fight
Supreme Court appears split in ObamaCare contraceptive fight
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Politico, NPR, Politicus USA and Los Angeles Times
Adam Liptak / New York Times:
Justices Seem Split in Case on Birth Control Mandate
Justices Seem Split in Case on Birth Control Mandate
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Vox, The Atlantic, BuzzFeed, Guardian, NPR and Associated Press
Mike Larkin For / Daily Mail:
The late grow! TV legend David Letterman shows off new retirement look as he goes for a walk in St Barts — His face is known to everyone in America due to his 33-year run as host of The Late Show. — But TV legend David Letterman was virtually unrecognisable as he showed off …
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Nicole Bitette / New York Daily News:
David Letterman debuts bald and bearded retirement look in St. Barts — Is that really David Letterman or one of his mystery guests? — The “Late Show” host — whose celebrated career on late-night television lasted for more than 33 years — was nearly unrecognizable this week during a trip to St. Barts.
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Slantpoint
Associated Press:
IS TRAINS 400 FIGHTERS TO ATTACK EUROPE IN WAVE OF BLOODSHED — PARIS (AP) — The Islamic State group has trained at least 400 fighters to target Europe in deadly waves of attacks, deploying interlocking terror cells like the ones that struck Brussels and Paris with orders to choose the time …
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Jordan Fabian / The Hill:
Obama goes after Cruz for urging patrols of Muslim neighborhoods … President Obama on Wednesday delivered a sharply personal rebuke of GOP presidential candidate Ted Cruz — for his call to institute surveillance on Muslim communities in response to the Brussels terrorist attacks.
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Sam Reisman / Mediaite:
President Obama Brings Ted Cruz' Father Into Muslim Surveillance Debate
President Obama Brings Ted Cruz' Father Into Muslim Surveillance Debate
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Washington Post, Salon, ThinkProgress and New York Magazine
Associated Press:
Emory University president says students are scared and ‘in pain’ after someone wrote ‘Trump 2016’ in chalk on campus — The president of Emory University has spoken to demonstrators who said they were frightened after someone wrote ‘Trump 2016’ in chalk around campus.
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Ted Johnson / Variety:
Disney, Marvel to Boycott Georgia if Religious Liberty Bill Is Passed — The Walt Disney Co. and Marvel Studios indicated opposition to a Georgia religious liberty bill pending before Gov. Nathan Deal, saying that they will take their business elsewhere “should any legislation allowing …
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Gregg Kilday / Hollywood Reporter:
Disney Threatens to Boycott Georgia If Governor Signs Anti-Gay Bill
Disney Threatens to Boycott Georgia If Governor Signs Anti-Gay Bill
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Amy Maxmen / Science:
Why watching comb jellies poop has stunned evolutionary biologists — No buts about it, the butthole is one of the finest innovations in the past 540 million years of animal evolution. The first animals that arose seem to have literally had potty mouths: Their modern-day descendants …
David Weigel / Washington Post:
AIPAC's apology for Trump speech is unprecedented … This morning, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu experienced something that American politicians have become all too familiar with — being overshadowed by Donald Trump. — The prime minister's video-linked speech …
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Raw Story, Haaretz and Liberty Blitzkrieg
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Allegra Kirkland / Talking Points Memo:
Romney Mocks Trump's ‘Foreign’ Wives: There 'Are Jobs Americans Won't Do'
Romney Mocks Trump's ‘Foreign’ Wives: There 'Are Jobs Americans Won't Do'
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BBC, The Slot, ThinkProgress, The Week and The Hill
Hailey Holloway / WATE-TV:
Family: Gatlinburg man, wife still missing after Brussels attacks; given misinformation — GATLINBURG (WATE) - The family of a Gatlinburg man who went missing after Tuesday's terror attacks in Brussels said they were mistakenly informed that the missing couple had been found.
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Daily Mail:
'I don't know what to do. If I give myself up I'll end up in a cell': Suicide bomber left note in a bin before blowing himself up in airport - as police reveal ‘the man in white’ is STILL on run — Najim Laachraoui - ‘Man in White’ - fled airport after he left a giant suitcase bomb - and is ‘still at large’
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New York Times:
Brothers Among 3 Brussels Suicide Attackers; Another Assailant Is Sought
Brothers Among 3 Brussels Suicide Attackers; Another Assailant Is Sought
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Paul Farhi / Washington Post:
NPR starts ‘Trump Training’ to deal with threats — Donald Trump's campaign events have apparently become such a minefield for reporters that one major news organization has taken the extraordinary step of offering its correspondents a version of training for dealing with real minefields.
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Talking Points Memo, Mediaite and FishbowlDC
Richard Lardner / Associated Press:
Officials say Guantanamo transfers have killed Americans — WASHINGTON (AP) — Americans have been killed by prisoners released from the detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, a senior Obama administration official told lawmakers Wednesday, triggering sharp criticism from Republicans opposed to shuttering the facility.
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Sandra Phillips / FOX5 San Diego:
Cross-border drug tunnel linked restaurant to home — CALEXICO, Calif. - For the first time in a decade, federal agents uncovered a completed drug tunnel in Calexico, a border city about 100 miles east of San Diego. — The opening of a drug tunnel was found in a fairly new home in Calexico …
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Isaac Chotiner / Slate:
Newt Gingrich Is Bullish on Donald Trump — A spirited debate with the former speaker on the merits of the mogul. — Newt Gingrich, the former speaker of the House and onetime presidential candidate, has always been considered a man of ideas. After leading his party to power …
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Gillian Mohney / ABC News:
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