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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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Jose A. DelReal / Washington Post:
Donald Trump can't stop saying nasty things about women. It could cost him.
Donald Trump can't stop saying nasty things about women. It could cost him.
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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, Vox Popoli and Independent Journal Review
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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Independent Journal … and Hot Air
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Jessie Opoien / madison.com:
Scott Walker predicts open GOP convention would nominate someone not currently running
Scott Walker predicts open GOP convention would nominate someone not currently running
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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
Samtata / New York's PIX11:
Photo of girls holding hands during nap time melts hearts — CLARKSDALE, Miss. — A photo taken of two little girls during nap time at their school is melting hearts across the Internet. — This sweet picture was taken while the girls were taking a snooze on a mat at the Presbyterian Day School in Clarksdale, Mississippi.
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Mitch Smith / New York Times:
Indiana Governor Signs Abortion Bill With Added Restrictions — CHICAGO — Indiana's governor signed a bill on Thursday that adds broad limits to women's access to abortions, banning those motivated solely by the mother's objection to the fetus's race, gender or disability, and placing new restrictions on doctors.
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New York Times:
A Top ISIS Leader Killed in Airstrike, Pentagon Says — WASHINGTON — The United States this week killed a top Islamic State commander in Syria as part of a spate of military actions targeting the terrorist group's leadership and explosives caches, Defense Secretary Ashton B. Carter said on Friday.
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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
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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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Mediaite, The Gateway Pundit, WNEP-TV, KTLA and Mashable
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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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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CNN:
Brussels attacks: New arrests as police scramble to prevent more terror — Brussels, Belgium (CNN)Can Europe stop the next one? — That's the looming question now, three days after terrorist attacks in Brussels left 31 people dead and 300 more wounded. Authorities are working now to prevent …
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Matthew Lee / WCMH-TV:
Two Americans confirmed dead in Brussels bombings
Two Americans confirmed dead in Brussels bombings
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Townhall.com, NBC News, Independent Journal Review, WIAT-TV and Associated Press
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
Nick Gass / Politico:
Conservatives hammer GOP senator over Supreme Court dissent — Days after Sen. Jerry Moran (R-Kansas) called on the Senate to take up Merrick Garland's nomination to the Supreme Court, conservative groups are urging him, in no uncertain terms, to reconsider.
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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 past two months, according to the latest Gallup survey data released Friday. — Compared to January …
Jamie Weinstein / The Daily Caller:
Hillary On Area 51 Secrets: ‘I Think We Ought To Share It With The Public’ [VIDEO] — Hillary Clinton says barring any national security risk, she would like to open up the government files on Area 51 to the public if she is elected president. — “I would like us to go into those files …
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Clayton Cramer
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.
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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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 …