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Ted Cruz / Facebook:
I want to be crystal clear: these attacks are garbage. For Donald J. Trump to enlist his friends at the National Enquirer and his political henchmen to do his bidding shows you that there is no low Donald won't go. — These smears are completely false, they're offensive to Heidi and me …
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Alex Griswold / Mediaite:
Trump Supporter Derails CNN Segment by Accusing Fellow Guest of Having an Affair With Ted Cruz — A CNN debate between a Donald Trump supporter and former Ted Cruz communications director Amanda Carpenter went off the rails Friday when the Trump supporter suddenly accused Carpenter of having an illicit affair with her former boss.
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Guardian, RedState, Mother Jones, New York Magazine and Associated Press
Jesse Byrnes / The Hill:
Trump aide fulfills threat to ‘spill the beans’ on Heidi Cruz — on Friday fulfilled the businessman's threat to “spill the beans” on Republican presidential rival Ted Cruz — 's wife, Heidi. — Trump spokeswoman Katrina Pierson rattled off a list of attacks three days after Trump first made the threat.
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RedState, Raw Story, Mediaite and TYT Network
The Daily Beast:
Ted Cruz ‘Affair’ Rumors Peddled by Marco Rubio's Allies — The senator accused Donald Trump of planting a National Enquirer sex scandal story. If that's true, Trump wasn't the only Cruz opponent trying to traffic in smears. — If you enjoy daydreaming about Ted Cruz's sex life, then today is your lucky day.
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The Right Scoop, Raw Story, Hot Air, AOL, Little Green Footballs, Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion, The Daily Caller, Instapundit and Slantpoint
Donald J. Trump / Facebook:
I have no idea whether or not the cover story about Ted Cruz in this week's issue of the National Enquirer is true or not, but I had absolutely nothing to do with it, did not know about it, and have not, as yet, read it. — Likewise, I have nothing to do with the National Enquirer …
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Politico, Gawker, Talking Points Memo, Raw Story, Political Wire, The Gateway Pundit, CBS Los Angeles and Guardian
David Weigel / Washington Post:
Cruz: National Enquirer story is ‘garbage’ from ‘Donald Trump and his henchmen’ — Trump loves to say these ‘facts.’ Here's where he's wrong. … State of the 2016 race — OSHKOSH, Wis. - Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tex.) blamed “Donald Trump and his henchmen” for planting a National Enquirer story that accused him of extramarital affairs.
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Vox, Mother Jones, WND, The San Diego Union …, Political Wire and NBC News
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:
Brendan O'Connor / Gawker:
National Enquirer: Ted Cruz Has Had at Least 5 Extramarital Affairs — According to the new issue of the National Enquirer, Republican political operatives are investigating rumors that Texas senator Ted Cruz has had extramarital affairs with at least five different women.
Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Carson claims credit for helping Trump act more ‘presidential’
Carson claims credit for helping Trump act more ‘presidential’
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BuzzFeed, Yahoo Politics, The Atlantic, RedState and CNN
Mollie Hemingway / The Federalist:
3 Problems With Media Coverage Of Attacks On Heidi Cruz
3 Problems With Media Coverage Of Attacks On Heidi Cruz
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CBS Dallas, Mediaite, RedState and Washington Post
Andrew Rafferty / NBC News:
Ted Cruz Calls Tabloid Report on Alleged Affairs ‘Garbage’
Ted Cruz Calls Tabloid Report on Alleged Affairs ‘Garbage’
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Hullabaloo, AOL, New York's PIX11 and Patterico's Pontifications
Kaily Cunningham / fox8.com:
Horrific: SUV runs over several people during dispute in Cleveland … WARNING: Some viewers may find parts of this video disturbing — CLEVELAND - A Fox 8 viewer captured horrific video of a dispute on Cleveland's east side early Friday morning. — The video shows an argument …
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
WALB-TV:
VIDEO: Teacher knocks down special needs student, resigns — By WALB News Team — Surveillance footage appears to show a teacher knocking down a student in the hallway at school. — The special education teacher, identified as Amelia Stripling, has since resigned.
CNN:
Brussels stories: Grief for the lost, hope for the missing — (CNN)Two siblings flying to New York. A Peruvian chef. A Belgian law student. — These are some of the dead and missing in Tuesday's terror attacks in Brussels. — At least 31 people were killed and 300 wounded …
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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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Fox News Insider, The Gateway Pundit, WNEP-TV, The Daily Caller, KTLA and Mashable
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Doug Livingston / Akron Beacon Journal:
More than 5,000 support petition to allow guns at Republican National Convention in Cleveland
More than 5,000 support petition to allow guns at Republican National Convention in Cleveland
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Raw Story, Occupy Democrats and Mediaite
Bailey Bumgardner / WSPA-TV:
Woman accused of having sex with dog in Cherokee Co. — A Cherokee Co. woman has been arrested after deputies received videos of her performing sexual acts with a Dachshund. — Deputies charged 23-year-old Hannah Marie Haynes of Chesnee with buggery. — Investigators say Haynes took …
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WCMH-TV
S. Noble / independentsentinel.com:
Obama Has His Say on Communism, Socialism and Capitalism-They're All the Same — Barack Obama told an audience of Argentinian youth that the differences between socialism and capitalism make interesting conversation but just pick whatever works. The ideological-left US president suddenly doesn't have an affinity for ideology.
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thenewamerican.com, Infowars, The Gateway Pundit, Fausta's Blog and The Daily Caller
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Mad World News:
Liberal Teacher Takes In Muslim Refugee, His Colleague Finds What's Left Of Him — A leftist professor decided to put into practice his own liberal “open doors” policy, feeding and housing a poor Muslim refugee in his own home. However, when his colleague showed up to find out why he wasn't at work …
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John Hawkins' Right Wing News and Infowars
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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Fox News, Boing Boing, The Atlantic, The Week and New York Magazine
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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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NBC News, Wall Street Journal, Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion, Washington Post, AOL, Talking Points Memo and Politico
Harper Neidig / The Hill:
Sanders campaign blasts Clinton over Clooney dinner — 's campaign lashed out at Hillary Clinton — on Friday for a lavish fundraising dinner her campaign has planned with actor George Clooney. — Clooney and his wife, Amal, are poised to host a pair of dinners with donors next month in California.
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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No More Mister Nice Blog and Balloon Juice
WRAL-TV:
Five arrested in downtown Raleigh protest — RALEIGH, N.C. — Five people were arrested after protesters blocked North Blount Street in front of the governor's mansion in downtown Raleigh Thursday evening in response to Gov. Pat McCrory signing the state discrimination bill into law Wednesday night.
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Washington Blade, Towleroad and Washington Post
Peter Nicholas / Wall Street Journal:
West Virginia's Joe Manchin Shaken by Hillary Clinton's ‘Horrific’ Coal Comment — Joe Manchin was livid. — The Democratic senator from West Virginia had seen Hillary Clinton tell a televised town hall audience that if she became president, “we're going to put a lot of coal miners …
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Politico, MSNBC, Philly.com and Press Gazette Media
Tom Morgan / Telegraph:
Muslim shopkeeper murdered in suspected ‘religiously prejudiced’ attack after posting on Facebook of love for Christians — Detectives arrest 32-year-old Muslim man after Pakistani-born Asad Shah, 40, repeatedly stabbed in savage attack — A popular shopkeeper was stabbed to death by another Muslim in a …
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Power Line and The Right Scoop
Justin Wolfers / New York Times:
Growing Up in a Bad Neighborhood Does More Harm Than We Thought — The neighborhood in which you grow up is a major determinant of your economic success as an adult. That's been known for a while, but new research suggests that the effects may be much larger than social scientists previously understood.
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Mother Jones
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, Pamela Geller, RedState and Vox Popoli
Ralph Nader / Washington Post:
Why Bernie Sanders was right to run as a Democrat — The two-party system suffocates independent challengers. I would know. — During a recent town hall in Columbus, Ohio, Sen. Bernie Sanders said the unthinkable. At least, you would have thought he did, judging by the response of several Democratic operatives.
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electionlawblog.org, Salon and Slate
Caitlin MacNeal / Talking Points Memo:
N.C.'s Sweeping Anti-Gay Law Goes Way Beyond Targeting LGBTs — North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory (R) late Wednesday night signed rushed legislation that, as is widely known, eliminates local governments' ability to pass anti-discrimination measures to protect gay and transgender individuals.