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NBC News:
Revealed: Donald Trump's Big Plan to Stop a Contested Republican Convention — Who are the delegates that could pick the GOP nominee? — On the campaign trail, Donald Trump has a clear answer to questions about a contested convention in Cleveland — it's not happening.
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Reid J. Epstein / Wall Street Journal:
Ted Cruz Gains in Louisiana After Loss There to Donald Trump — Despite coming up short in state's Republican presidential primary, Texan picks up more delegates and controls key convention roles — Donald Trump beat Sen. Ted Cruz earlier this month in Louisiana's Republican presidential primary …
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RedState, The Daily Caller, Fox News Insider, Guardian and The Gateway Pundit
Jose A. DelReal / Washington Post:
Donald Trump can't stop saying nasty things about women. It could cost him. … Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump leads the press around on a tour after a campaign press conference at the at the Old Post Office Pavilion, soon to be a Trump International Hotel, in Washington on Monday.
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CNN, Prairie Weather and Political Wire
J.R. Taylor / National Enquirer:
SHOCKING CLAIMS: Pervy Ted Cruz Caught Cheating — With 5 Secret Mistresses! — The romps that could destroy his presidential campaign! — Presidential candidate Ted Cruz is trying to survive an explosive “dirt file” on the finger-wagging conservative senator!
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Sundance / The Last Refuge:
The National Enquirer Runs Story of Multiple Ted Cruz Affairs... Oh dear, the National Enquirer has come out with a story claiming evidence of multiple sexual trysts by presidential candidate Senator Ted Cruz. — Worse yet for the Cruz camp, the framework within the article is structurally very concerning:
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Mike Cernovich Presents …, BizPac Review and Vox Popoli
Lachlan Markay / Washington Free Beacon:
Free Beacon Poll: Cruz Expands Lead Over Trump in Wisconsin — Ted Cruz holds a modest lead over Donald Trump in Wisconsin two weeks before that state's winner-take-all Republican primary, according to a new Washington Free Beacon poll. — The Basswood Research survey …
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Hot Air
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Jessie Opoien / madison.com:
Scott Walker predicts open GOP convention would nominate someone not currently running — If the Republican Party finds itself with an open convention in July, Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker believes the nominee may not be Donald Trump, Ted Cruz or John Kasich.
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Breitbart, New York Post, Hot Air, New York Times, The Last Refuge, Politico and The Daily Caller
Chris Cillizza / Washington Post:
Ted Cruz is the Republican establishment candidate. That's absolutely insane.
Ted Cruz is the Republican establishment candidate. That's absolutely insane.
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NBC News, Newsmax, Hot Air and The Fiscal Times
Jesse Byrnes / The Hill:
Trump revs up Heidi Cruz attacks
Trump revs up Heidi Cruz attacks
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Mediaite, TYT Network, The Gateway Pundit, The Federalist, USA Today, CBS New York, CBS Miami, The Atlantic, Mother Jones, Business Insider and Booman Tribune
CBS Miami:
Republican Curbelo Open To Voting For Clinton — MIAMI (CBSMiami) — In recent weeks Republican Congressman Carlos Curbelo has been telling some Democrats in his district he would vote for Hillary Clinton over Donald Trump if those were his two choices, according to those who have spoken to him.
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Talking Points Memo, Slantpoint, Political Wire and The Gateway Pundit
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WCSC-TV:
Report: Woman killed in ‘freak accident’ at Summerville drive-thru did not hit accelerator — An incident report from what authorities called a “freak accident” that killed a woman at a Summerville drive-thru Wednesday suggests she did not hit the accelerator prior to becoming pinned by her vehicle door.
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fox8.com, KTLA and FOX5 San Diego
David Brooks / New York Times:
The Post-Trump Era — This is a wonderful moment to be a conservative. For decades now the Republican Party has been groaning under the Reagan orthodoxy, which was right for the 1980s but has become increasingly obsolete. The Reagan worldview was based on the idea that a rising economic tide would lift all boats.
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Balloon Juice
Jen Steer / fox8.com:
Thousands sign petition to allow guns at RNC in Cleveland … CLEVELAND- Support is growing for an online petition to allow guns inside Quicken Loans Arena during the Republican National Convention. — More than 4,000 people have signed the Change.org petition since it was started two days ago.
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The Gateway Pundit, FOX6Now.com and Mashable
Caitlin Cruz / Talking Points Memo:
Sanders Campaign Files Paperwork To Sue DNC Just Before Deadline — The campaign of Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) officially served the Democratic National Committee on Thursday with a lawsuit over the decision to suspend the campaign's access to voter data after a staffer viewed confidential information back in December.
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Ben Kamisar / The Hill:
Sanders campaign keeps lawsuit against the DNC alive
Sanders campaign keeps lawsuit against the DNC alive
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New York Magazine
Daily Mail:
BREAKING NEWS: Anti-terror police shoot suspect holding rucksack at tram station in fresh Brussels swoop as two explosions are heard — Armed police shot a terror suspect at a Brussels tram station as they launched fresh raids in the Belgian capital in the wake of the suicide attacks on Tuesday.
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Pamela Geller and Vox Popoli
Associated Press:
At least 2 Americans killed in Brussels attacks, US official says — At least two American citizens have been confirmed killed in this week's attacks in Brussels, a U.S. official said Friday, as Secretary of State John Kerry is visiting the city to express his condolences to the Belgian people.
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Townhall.com, NBC News, Independent Journal Review, WIAT-TV, The Week and Associated Press
Rachel Weiner / Washington Post:
Why Emily's List is spending big to defeat a progressive Democrat — Rep. Chris Van Hollen seems an unlikely target for a Democratic super PAC's biggest-ever primary campaign. A rising star in the party, the Senate candidate is a longtime protege of House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi …
Daily Mail:
Brother and sister from New York confirmed dead in Brussels attack — The brother and sister from New York were at Brussels Airport to catch a flight back to the U.S. on Tuesday when the first bomb went off — Their mother in America was speaking to them on the phone when the first explosion was heard and the line went dead
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BizPac Review and FOX News Radio
Nick Gass / Politico:
Gallup: Republican confidence in election process plummets — Republicans' confidence that the election process is working as it should has dropped precipitously over the last two months, according to the latest Gallup survey data released Friday. — Compared to January …
Los Angeles Times:
Long delay in identifying the flight attendant who fled LAX raises security concerns — A JetBlue flight attendant accused of attempting to bring nearly 70 pounds of cocaine through a security checkpoint at LAX has been arrested in New York, authorities said.
A.B. Stoddard / The Hill:
How The Donald can win — When it comes to the question of whether Donald Trump — can win a general election this November, both parties need to accept it: Yes, he can. — Trump's path — made up of new and mostly white voters without college degrees — is a narrow one …
Julian Hattem / The Hill:
Lost emails from Clinton server discovered — Conservative legal watchdogs have discovered new emails from Hillary Clinton — 's private email server dating back to the first days of her tenure as secretary of State. — The previously undisclosed February 2009 emails between Clinton …
Steven Shepard / Politico:
Insiders to Trump: No majority, no nomination — A majority of Republican insiders say Donald Trump should not get the GOP presidential nomination if he falls short of winning a majority of delegates - even if Trump amasses more than any of his opponents. — That's according to The POLITICO Caucus …
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Political Wire
Jane C. Timm / NBC News:
Criticism of Trump Draws Online Harassment, Threats — Liz Mair's mother didn't want her to go outside yesterday: She was convinced that Mair, a Republican political consultant who is running an anti-Donald Trump super PAC, would be hurt. — Mair is in Trump's crosshairs — albeit obliquely …
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The Lid and National Review
Mtschnyder / CBS Dallas:
Local Animal Lover Spends $1,000 On Ranch Dressing To Help Shelter — DALLAS (CBS11) - A plastic bottle of salad dressing. A typical brand you can buy in any grocery store, yet Josh Tipton spent $1,000 for his bottle. — “I've had a lot of people come want to look at it.
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WCMH-TV and New York's PIX11
New York Times:
Soft and Cuddly? John Kasich's Old Colleagues Don't Recognize Him — As he tries to halt the momentum of Donald J. Trump, Gov. John R. Kasich of Ohio tells people they are made special by the Lord. He urges them to invite lonely widows out to dinner. He freely dispenses hugs.
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The Slot
Fernanda Santos / New York Times:
Angry Arizona Voters Demand: Why Such Long Lines at Polling Sites? — PHOENIX — Cynthia Perez, a lawyer, stopped by a polling site on her way to work here on Tuesday, thinking she could vote early and get on with her day. She changed her mind when she found a line so long she could not see the end of it.
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Arkansas Blog, Arkansas Times, CityLab and electionlawblog.org
Chicago Tribune:
Chicago area sees greatest population loss of any major U.S. city, region in 2015 — Anna van Slee and her family are leaving the Uptown neighborhood for Thousand Oaks, Calif., on March 24, 2016. (Antonio Perez / Chicago Tribune) — After years of financial woes, Lindsey Yates and her husband …
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WGN-TV
WQAD-TV:
Davenport man protesting law that requires him to pay for another man's child … DAVENPORT, Iowa- A Quad City man is protesting a child support law that requires him to pay for another man's child. — Joe Vandusen thought it was a joke when he received a certified letter from the Iowa Department …
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FOX5 San Diego
CNN:
Intel officials: North Korea ‘probably’ has miniaturized nuke — Washington (CNN)Some U.S. intelligence analysts now believe that North Korea “probably” possesses a miniaturized nuclear warhead, several U.S. officials told CNN. — The assessment has yet to become a formal consensus view of the U.S. government.
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