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Nicholas Confessore / New York Times:
How the G.O.P. Elite Lost Its Voters to Donald Trump — The manufacturing executives had gathered in an Atlanta conference room last year to honor their senior United States senator, Johnny Isakson, for his tireless efforts on their behalf in Washington. But as the luncheon wound down …
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Jesse Byrnes / The Hill:
147 FBI agents involved in Clinton email probe — A new report says 147 FBI agents are involved in the investigation surrounding Hillary Clinton — 's private email server and handling of classified material. — The Washington Post reports that the large number of agents have been deployed …
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Robert O'Harrow Jr / Washington Post:
How Clinton's email scandal took root — Hillary Clinton's email problems began in her first days as secretary of state. She insisted on using her personal BlackBerry for all her email communications, but she wasn't allowed to take the device into her seventh-floor suite of offices, a secure space known as Mahogany Row.
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Los Angeles Times:
Clinton email probe enters new phase as FBI interviews loom — Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton speaks to supporters in Des Moines in late January. — Federal prosecutors investigating the possible mishandling of classified materials on Hillary Clinton's private email server …
Greg Bluestein / Political Insider blog:
BREAKING: Nathan Deal vetoes Georgia's ‘religious liberty’ bill — Gov. Nathan Deal on Monday vetoed the “religious liberty” bill that triggered a wave of criticism from gay rights groups and business leaders and presented him with one of the most consequential challenges he's faced since his election to Georgia's top office.
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Transcript: Deal HB 757 remarks — The following is a complete transcript of Gov. Nathan Deal's remarks regarding HB 757, delievered at a news conference on March 28, 2016. — The decision surrounding HB 757 has generated more intense feelings that most legislation, perhaps …
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Washington Post and The Atlantic
Asoleycerro / KTLA:
Gun Store Owner Refuses to Sell Weapon to Man Suspected of Planning Mass Shooting at Ohio University — A gun store owner is being credited with possibly stopping a mass shooting at Ohio University after he refused to sell a gun to a man who passed a background check, CNN reported on Sunday.
Burgess Everett / Politico:
Conservatives to pounce if GOP relents on Supreme Court — There are plenty of plausible reasons why Republicans might eventually fold in the standoff over the Supreme Court: Overwhelming public opinion, a Democratic pressure campaign, and vulnerable GOP senators trying to save their jobs, to name a few.
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Manu Raju / CNN:
Navigating Donald Trump and SCOTUS: One senator's plan
Navigating Donald Trump and SCOTUS: One senator's plan
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Orrin G. Hatch / New York Times:
Let Voters Decide the Court's Future
Let Voters Decide the Court's Future
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Katherine Lam / New York's PIX11:
Why is there a Donald Trump tombstone in Central Park? — UPPER WEST SIDE, Manhattan — People walking through Central Park spotted a mysterious tombstone for Donald Trump Sunday. — The tombstone had the phrase “Made America Hate Again!” engraved under Trump's name.
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Ben Yakas / Gothamist:
Photo: You Can Visit Donald Trump's Tombstone In Central Park
Photo: You Can Visit Donald Trump's Tombstone In Central Park
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New York Times:
Ted Cruz Names Friends, but Silence From G.O.P. Brass Deafens — Seated for an interview inside a stately Midtown Manhattan library, just south of Trump Tower, the Texas senator leaned forward in his chair, ticking off the unlikely coalition drifting his way.
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Sean Sullivan / Washington Post:
Why some Republicans are feeling shame
Why some Republicans are feeling shame
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Donald J. Trump / New Orleans Times-Picayune:
Head of Louisiana GOP says they ‘will be prepared’ if Trump sues
Head of Louisiana GOP says they ‘will be prepared’ if Trump sues
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Talking Points Memo, Politicus USA and New York Magazine
Juan Williams / The Hill:
Dems must pay price to keep Sanders sweet — (I-Vt.) want in exchange for endorsing Hillary Clinton — And what can Clinton and the Democratic Party give Sanders to get him to campaign aggressively for her in the fall, harnessing the voting power of the passionate, mostly young, white left-wing voters who favor him?
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Charlie Sykes / RTWI:
Yes, Talk Radio Is Different in Wisconsin — Donald Trump is about to find out that Wisconsin is different. And one of the reasons is conservative talk radio. — In recent years, Wisconsin has repeatedly found itself at the epicenter of political upheavals (Scott Walker, Act 10, recall elections, Paul Ryan).
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Daily Mail:
ISIS carries out Good Friday crucifixion of Indian Catholic priest in Yemen after he was kidnapped three weeks ago in attack on old people's home where four nuns were shot — The Indian Catholic priest kidnapped by ISIS-linked terrorists in Yemen earlier this month was crucified on Good Friday, it has been claimed.
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Jihad Watch, Pamela Geller, The Gateway Pundit and Shot in the Dark
S.A. Miller / Washington Times:
Paul Ryan faces primary challenge from wealthy businessman ‘betrayed’ by House speaker — A wealthy businessman with tea party ties confirmed Sunday that he is mounting a primary challenge to House Speaker Paul D. Ryan, saying that after donating to the Wisconsin Republican's past campaigns he feels …
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The Gateway Pundit
Svati Kirsten Narula / The Atlantic:
The 5 U.S. Counties Where Racial Diversity Is Highest—and Lowest … Data wizard Randy Olson, the guy behind that astounding graph illuminating the reality of paying for college with minimum-wage work, has created another beautiful visualization: a map of racial diversity across the United States' nearly 3,000 counties.
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Raw Story
Spencer Ackerman / Guardian:
CIA photographed detainees naked before sending them to be tortured — Classified pictures showing CIA captives bruised, blindfolded and bound raise new questions about US's willingness to use ‘sexual humiliation’ on suspects — The CIA took naked photographs of people it sent …
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George Brown / WREG-TV:
Man armed with rifle and gun arrested at Bellevue Baptist Church Easter service — MEMPHIS, Tenn. — A man is undergoing a mental evaluation after being taken into custody at Bellevue Baptist Church Easter morning. — Police said security saw a male in the church who was armed.
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BuzzFeed:
North Carolina Sued Over Anti-LGBT Law — “By singling out LGBT people for disfavored treatment and explicitly writing discrimination against transgender people into state law, H.B. 2 violates the most basic guarantees of equal treatment and the U.S. Constitution,” the lawsuit argues.
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Matt Apuzzo / New York Times:
Who Will Become a Terrorist? Research Yields Few Clues — WASHINGTON — The brothers who carried out suicide bombings in Brussels last week had long, violent criminal records and had been regarded internationally as potential terrorists. But in San Bernardino, Calif., last year …
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Power Line
Nick Gass / Politico:
Fidel Castro lectures Obama after Cuba trip — President Barack Obama did not meet with Fidel Castro during his historic visit to Cuba last week, but apparently that does not mean that Castro did not have any thoughts about el presidente norteamericano in his country.
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Sam Stein / The Huffington Post:
Anthony Weiner Was The ‘Perfectly Evolved’ Politician — Until He Screwed Up — Undiscovered sexts gnawed at him “kind of like PTSD” during his mayoral campaign, he told Candidate Confessional. — In the spring of 2013, as he embarked on a campaign for mayor of New York City …
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Patrick Knox / Dailystar.co.uk:
REVEALED: Huge rise in sex pests using drones to perv on Brit women — COPS have admitted drones are falling into the hands of creepy sex pests bent on filming candid videos of women without them ever knowing. — Shocking new statistics show drones being used illegally has gone up TEN times …