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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
Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Carson claims credit for helping Trump act more ‘presidential’ — Ben Carson says he's rubbing off on Donald Trump and has convinced him — at least in flashes — to act more presidential. — “I've had talks about being presidential, about toning it down a bit, appealing to a broader group of people …
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RedState
Brendan O'Connor / Gawker:
National Enquirer: Ted Cruz Has Had at Least 5 Extramarital Affairs
National Enquirer: Ted Cruz Has Had at Least 5 Extramarital Affairs
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Booman Tribune and Raw Story
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 and Prairie Weather
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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WTKR-TV, FOX31 Denver and Althouse
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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Washington Post, Talking Points Memo, AOL, alan.com, NBC News and Politico
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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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The Daily Caller, RedState, styrk.com, Hot Air, Guardian, The Gateway Pundit and Fox News Insider
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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Breitbart, New York Post, New York Times, Hot Air, Politico, The Last Refuge and The Daily Caller
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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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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Mother Jones, ThinkProgress, Slate, 89.3 KPCC, Indianapolis Star, TheStarPress.com and Daily Kos
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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
Erik Opsal / The Huffington Post:
Arizona's Long Voting Lines Showed How Democracy is Broken. Here's How to Fix it — Deputy Communications Director, Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law — While Americans waited for election results on Tuesday, some voters in Arizona waited five hours or more just to cast a ballot — long after the polls closed.
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Washington Monthly, Common Dreams, Washington Post and Arizona Republic
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Fernanda Santos / New York Times:
Angry Arizona Voters Demand: Why Such Long Lines at Polling Sites?
Angry Arizona Voters Demand: Why Such Long Lines at Polling Sites?
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Arkansas Blog, Arkansas Times, CityLab and electionlawblog.org
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
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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Washington Post, Center for Security Policy, WLS-AM 890, Hot Air, The Week, Pamela Geller, New York Magazine, NBC News, FOX6Now.com, Mashable and KFOR-TV
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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
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, Naked Politics, Slantpoint and The Gateway Pundit
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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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USA Today, RedState, Pamela Geller and Vox Popoli
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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Talking Points Memo, CNN, The Bob and Chez Show, Mediaite and Bloomberg Business
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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
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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JustOneMinute and Clayton Cramer
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 …
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 …