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Aamer Madhani / USA Today:
Teen girl pepper-sprayed in fight outside Trump rally  —  Police say they're looking for two suspects: one for the sexual assault and one who pepper-sprayed the teenager.Video provided by Newsy Newslook  —  JANESVILLE, Wis. — As GOP frontrunner Donald Trump prepared to speak to supporters …
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Alice Ollstein / ThinkProgress:
Police: Donald Trump Supporters Grope, Pepper Spray 15-Year-Old Girl At Wisconsin Rally  —  Police in Janesville, Wisconsin are searching for two men who attended Donald Trump's raucous town hall Tuesday night in the small post-industrial town: one accused of sexually assaulting a 15-year-old girl …
The Daily Beast:
Cops: Teen Sexually Assaulted, Pepper Sprayed, Called ‘N**ger Lover’ at Trump Rally
Discussion: Death and Taxes
Katherine Krueger / Talking Points Memo:
Teenager Pepper-Sprayed In Face After Shouting Match At Trump Rally (VIDEOS)
Discussion: The Week and Oliver Willis
Christopher Massie / BuzzFeed:
Peter King: “I'd Be Embarrassed” To Talk About Lewandowski Incident If I Were Fields  —  “I haven't practiced law in a while, but I never heard of somebody being charged for touching someone on the arm, unless you're talking about some kind of a sexual thing.”  —  Darren Mccollester / Getty Images
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
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Karen Tumulty / Washington Post:
Who is Corey Lewandowski? His rise — and his relationship with Donald Trump.
The Right Scoop:
MORE AUDIO — Mark Levin DEFENDS Michelle Fields against Trump campaign manager
Discussion: Daily Wire and The Daily Caller
Ari Melber / NBC News:
Rubio Makes Unprecedented Bid to Keep Delegates for Contested Convention  —  Brokered Convention?  Here are the Rules 1:46  —  Despite suspending his campaign, Sen. Marco Rubio is attempting to keep every delegate he won while running for president.  —  The unusual move reflects preparations …
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Kyle Cheney / Politico:
GOP panelists eager to scrap rule that helps Trump  —  All four early appointees to the rules committee for this year's Republican National Convention told POLITICO they're prepared to weaken or scrap a rule that could limit the convention's alternatives to Donald Trump.
FOX 61:
Listen: Woman calls 911 to report incorrect pizza order from Hartford shop … HARTFORD — A Hartford woman called 9-1-1 to report a problem with her pizza order, and police have released the recording.  It happened a few weeks ago regarding an order from Empire Pizza on New Britain Ave in Hartford.
Discussion: WGN-TV
Brian Marschhauser / Yorktown Articles:
'I'd Like to Solve the Puzzle': Yorktown's Santoli Wins Big on ‘Wheel’ … YORKTOWN, N.Y. - Yorktown resident Robert Santoli didn't just win his recent appearance on “Wheel of Fortune”; he dominated, finishing with a near-perfect sweep of the puzzles, including solving the opening round toss-up with only one letter on the board.
KTUU-TV:
Anchorage school suspends 1st-graders for plotting to poison classmate  —  Three first-grade students at Winterberry Charter School in Anchorage have been suspended after plotting to poison and kill a classmate, the school principal says.  —  In a bizarre case, Anchorage police …
Discussion: fox8.com, NBC News and FOX31 Denver
Shawn Moran / bpunion.org:
National Border Patrol Council Endorses Donald Trump for President  —  The National Border Patrol Council is the official organization representing our nation's Border Patrol Agents.  We represent 16,500 agents who selflessly serve this country in an environment where our own political leaders try to keep us from doing our jobs.
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Brandon Darby / Breitbart:
National Border Patrol Council Endorses Trump for President
Tara Culp-Ressler / ThinkProgress:
The FDA Just Removed One Of Anti-Abortion Lawmakers' Favorite Talking Points  —  Thanks to a policy change from the Food and Drug Administration announced on Wednesday, it may get harder for anti-choice lawmakers to rely on unscientific information to restrict women's access to the abortion pill.
Discussion: Common Dreams
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Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Trump takes back pledge to support GOP nominee  —  Donald Trump has rescinded his pledge to support the Republican nominee for president.  —  Asked during a CNN town hall whether he stood by the earlier pledge — which he signed in September after meeting with party chairman Reince Priebus — Trump said: “No, I don't.”
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Terri Langford / The Texas Tribune:
No Record of Rick Perry Voting in Texas Republican Primary
Discussion: The Week and Trail Blazers Blog
Conor Lynch / Salon:
Hillary Clinton's “tone“-gate disaster: Why her campaign's condescending Bernie dismissal should concern Democrats everywhere  —  If the Clinton campaign can't deal with Bernie's “tone,” how are they supposed to handle someone like Donald Trump?  —  Bernie Sanders, Hillary Clinton (Credit …
Discussion: Talking Points Memo, Breitbart and CNN
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Associated Press:
The Latest: Clinton Aims to Shut out Sanders in Wis., NY
Discussion: Politico and ABC News
Jonathan Allen / Reuters:
Second judge says Clinton email setup may have been in ‘bad faith’  —  A second federal judge has taken the rare step of allowing a group suing for records from Hillary Clinton's time as U.S. secretary of state to seek sworn testimony from officials, saying there was “evidence of government wrong-doing and bad faith.”
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Nolan D. McCaskill / Politico:
Trump: I'd pick justices who would look at Clinton's email scandal
Discussion: Hot Air and Hullabaloo
Edward-Isaac Dovere / Politico:
White House maps out next phase of Court fight  —  With small cracks emerging in the Republican Supreme Court blockade — and private indications from some GOP senators that they'd likely back Merrick Garland if he ever did come up for a vote — the White House is preparing to press …
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Caitlin MacNeal / Talking Points Memo:
Coulter Thinks Trump's Hit On Heidi Cruz Went Too Far: He's ‘Mental’  —  Ann Coulter has been one of Donald Trump's biggest fans, but the conservative commentator said in an interview excerpt published on Monday that she cannot defend Trump's retweet of an unflattering photo of Sen. Ted Cruz's (R-TX) wife, Heidi Cruz.
Discussion: National Review, Hot Air and RedState
Christopher Massie / BuzzFeed:
Kasich: GOP Vow In 2014 To Repeal Obamacare Was A “Stupid Promise”  —  John Kasich on Tuesday called Republican vows to repeal Obamacare during the 2014 midterm elections a “big joke” and a “stupid promise” because the party did not control the White House.  —  Kasich's decision …
Betsy Woodruff / The Daily Beast:
Glenn Beck's Lie Could Blow Up Ted Cruz  —  Glenn Beck has been one of Ted Cruz's most high profile surrogates—but Beck's support could become a little less desirable when he heads to court this summer for allegedly defaming a victim of the Boston Marathon bombing.
Discussion: AOL
New York Times:
Corporations Grow Nervous About Participating in Republican Convention  —  Some of the country's best-known corporations are nervously grappling with what role they should play at the Republican National Convention, given the likely nomination of Donald J. Trump, whose divisive candidacy …
Discussion: Political Wire
Ian Schwartz / RealClearPolitics:
Gingrich vs. Megyn Kelly: Is Lewandowski Now A Criminal?  People Are Shoved In Spin Rooms  —  NEWT GINGRICH: Notice the language you just used.  Suddenly it goes from a misdemeanor to a criminal violation.  —  MEGYN KELLY, FOX NEWS: It is a criminal violation.  —  GINGRICH: So now we have — is Lewandowski a criminal?
Kirsten Powers / USA Today:
The Republican blame game  —  The GOP will never win back Trump voters unless it faces up to its own failures.  —  Who is to blame for the unraveling of the Republican Party?  —  If you listen to establishment gurus, you'd be led to believe that the Republican primary voter revolt was birthed …
Discussion: RedState and The Moderate Voice
 
 
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