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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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Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Shadow campaign to deny Trump his delegates begins — When South Dakota's Republican activists convened in Pierre to pick their delegates to the Republican national convention, they got an unexpected visitor. — Merle Madrid, senior aide to Ohio Gov. John Kasich, had flown in from Columbus …
Justin Sink / Bloomberg Business:
Democrats Evenly Split Over Clinton, Sanders in Bloomberg Poll — Sanders trusted on defending middle class, reining in Wall St. — Clinton stronger on foreign policy, security experience — More than halfway through a nomination race that she entered as the clear favorite …
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Washington Times
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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Fox News, FOX News Radio, Fox News Insider and Mediaite
Dana Blanton / Fox News:
Fox News Poll: Cruz, Kasich ahead of Clinton in 2016 hypothetical matchups
Fox News Poll: Cruz, Kasich ahead of Clinton in 2016 hypothetical matchups
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Investor's Business Daily and The Right Scoop
Syracuse Post-Standard:
Bush, Rubio get off NY presidential primary ballot, but Carson doesn't
Bush, Rubio get off NY presidential primary ballot, but Carson doesn't
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Politico, NY State of Politics and New York Daily News
Donald J. Trump / Salon:
These guys are utterly terrifying: The GOP primary marches on, but yesterday proved that both …
These guys are utterly terrifying: The GOP primary marches on, but yesterday proved that both …
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US News and Hullabaloo
David Weigel / Washington Post:
‘Stop Trump’ forces see an opportunity in Scott Walker's Wisconsin … PEWAUKEE, Wis. — Tonight, when Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tex.) kicks off his campaign for Wisconsin's April 5 presidential primary, he will head to conservative Waukesha County and talk with a conservative radio host. There's a reason for that.
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David Weigel / Washington Post:
Scott Walker hints at Ted Cruz endorsement next week, for ‘maximum impact’
Scott Walker hints at Ted Cruz endorsement next week, for ‘maximum impact’
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Yahoo Politics, The Last Tradition and RedState
Eli Stokols / Politico:
GOP elites line up behind Ted Cruz
GOP elites line up behind Ted Cruz
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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
Argument analysis: On new health care case, a single word may tell it all
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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
David Letterman debuts bald and bearded retirement look in St. Barts
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Slantpoint
Tim Mak / The Daily Beast:
Revealed: Newt Gingrich's Secret Campaign for Donald Trump — The former House speaker has not endorsed in 2016. But behind the scenes he has been lobbying GOP insiders hard to Make America Great Again. — In public, Newt Gingrich won't say he's endorsing Donald Trump.
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Moe Lane
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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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Eli Lake / Bloomberg Gadfly:
The Trump-Cruz Police State Exists. It's Called France. — Imagine if Ted Cruz or Donald Trump proposed a policy to monitor thousands of Muslim citizens even if they had no specific ties to terrorist groups. Then, for good measure, they called for a new law to allow the police to search …
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Jordan Fabian / The Hill:
Obama goes after Cruz for urging patrols of Muslim neighborhoods
Obama goes after Cruz for urging patrols of Muslim neighborhoods
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Hot Air, Instapundit, Politico, CNN, Front Page Magazine, Washington Post, Salon and Washington Free Beacon
Allegra Kirkland / Talking Points Memo:
Trump: Muslims Are ‘Protecting Each Other’ And Not Reporting The ‘Bad Ones’
Trump: Muslims Are ‘Protecting Each Other’ And Not Reporting The ‘Bad Ones’
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Reuters, AOL, Associated Press and Mediaite
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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Spiegel Online:
Brussels Is the Ultimate Soft Target
Brussels Is the Ultimate Soft Target
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Gerry Broome / BuzzFeed:
North Carolina House Passes Bill To Allow Anti-LGBT Discrimination — House Bill 2 would override local LGBT nondiscrimination ordinances in the state and ban transgender people from certain restrooms. — It was designed to negate a law in Charlotte to protects LGBT people from discrimination …
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Dave Philipps / New York Times:
North Carolina to Limit Bathroom Use by Birth Gender
North Carolina to Limit Bathroom Use by Birth Gender
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Travis Andersen / BostonGlobe.com:
Moulton compares Trump's rise to election of Hitler in 1930s — Congressman Seth Moulton on Wednesday compared the rise of Republican presidential frontrunner Donald J. Trump to the election of Adolf Hitler and said constituents should warn “that crazy uncle” against voting for the businessman if he wins the GOP nomination.
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CBS Boston and Politico
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 …
Camille Paglia / Salon:
This is why Trump's winning, and why I won't vote for Hillary — GOP needs to wake up and realize Trump is its fault. But the Trump/Clinton death match is a national nightmare — This week's horrific terrorist attacks on the Brussels airport and metro raised the pressure in the already tight U.S. presidential campaign.
Ross Douthat / New York Times:
Trumpism After Trump — There is now no possibility that the Republican Party will survive its rendezvous with Donald Trump unbroken. — If Trump is the party's nominee, the best-case scenario — the best case! — for G.O.P. unity probably involves a host of Republican officials withholding …
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Balloon Juice
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 …
Caitlin MacNeal / Talking Points Memo:
GOP Sen.: ‘Not Fair’ Of GOPers To Block Any SCOTUS Nominee — Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) on Wednesday said that she doesn't believe it is fair of Republican senators to block any Supreme Court nominee from President Obama. — “I think it's simply not fair and not right to say that no matter …
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news.mpbn.net and The Week
Ari Berman / The Nation:
There Were 5-Hour Lines to Vote in Arizona Because the Supreme Court Gutted the Voting Rights Act — Reducing the number of polling places in Phoenix had catastrophic consequences in the March 22 primary. — By , — Aracely Calderon, a naturalized citizen from Guatemala …
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