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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.
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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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 …
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Townhall.com, NBC News, Washington Free Beacon, Hot Air, Mediaite, Fox News Insider, The Daily Caller, The Week and Infowars
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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Steven Shepard / Politico:
Bernie's math: Improbable, not impossible
Los Angeles Times:
Poll As California primary nears, state Democrats are uniting behind Clinton and against a common enemy: Trump
Poll As California primary nears, state Democrats are uniting behind Clinton and against a common enemy: Trump
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Business Insider, The Daily Caller, KTLA and Hullabaloo
Annie Karni / Politico:
Sanders, Clinton forget their manners
Sanders, Clinton forget their manners
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Washington Post, Common Dreams, New York Magazine, Guardian and Raw Story
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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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 and New York Magazine
Sean Sullivan / Washington Post:
Why some Republicans are feeling shame
Why some Republicans are feeling shame
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Raw Story and National Review
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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Pamela Geller, The Gateway Pundit and Jihad Watch
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
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
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.
Agence France-Presse:
Kerry says Republican campaign ‘an embarrassment’ — Washington (AFP) - Secretary of State John Kerry warned that the Republican presidential campaign has descended into “an embarrassment” that raises awkward questions abroad about the reliability of the United States.
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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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KFOR-TV and New York's PIX11
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 …
Wajahat S. Khan / NBC News:
Why It Feels Like a ‘Crime’ to Be Christian in Pakistan — A splinter group of the Pakistani Taliban claimed responsibility for an Easter Sunday suicide attack on a park in Lahore and said Christians were “our prime target.” In August 2014, NBC News examined what life is like for Christians in the country.
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Shane Goldmacher / Politico:
Marco Rubio's secret (money) legacy — Marco Rubio's campaign is dead. His secret-money legacy lives on. — Nobody knows who funded the nonprofit group that spent more than $10 million on TV ads boosting Rubio, and untold more on mailers and research. And, unless those donors out themselves, nobody ever will.
Alex Zielinski / ThinkProgress:
Inside The Christian Right's Strategy To Keep Fake Abortion Clinics Open In California — Fake women's health clinics run by anti-abortion organizations currently outnumber licensed, professional abortion clinics 3 to 1 — and they're nearly impossible to regulate.
Caitlin Cruz / Talking Points Memo:
John Oliver Uncovers The Conspiracy Behind Cadbury Eggs (VIDEO) — John Oliver exposed the insidious conspiracy theory “that no one has the guts to explain” behind Cadbury Creme Eggs on Sunday night's episode of “Last Week Tonight” in his homage to YouTube conspiracy videos.
David Catron / American Spectator:
Obamacare at Six: A Legacy of Deception — Obamacare just turned six and the president is still attempting to convince a skeptical public that his “reform” law is working. On the anniversary of its passage, the White House issued a statement from Obama containing all manner …
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