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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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New York Daily News:
Teen girl groped, pepper sprayed in face during protest outside Donald Trump event in Wisconsin — A vibrant orange spray of oleoresin capsicum blasted the girl in the face after she shoved a man who was packed among dozens of pro-Trump supporters shouting “All Lives Matters” outside the Janesville event Tuesday.
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Donald Trump Rally/Free Speech Event Press Release — Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump held a rally at the Holiday Inn Express and Janesville Convention Center on Tuesday March 29, 2016 at 4:00 p.m. At the same time protesters gathered outside the Holiday Inn Express for a freedom of speech event.
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Alice Ollstein / ThinkProgress:
Police: Donald Trump Supporters Grope, Pepper Spray 15-Year-Old Girl At Wisconsin Rally
Police: Donald Trump Supporters Grope, Pepper Spray 15-Year-Old Girl At Wisconsin Rally
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Katherine Krueger / Talking Points Memo:
Teenager Pepper-Sprayed In Face After Shouting Match At Trump Rally (VIDEOS)
Teenager Pepper-Sprayed In Face After Shouting Match At Trump Rally (VIDEOS)
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Hunter Walker / Yahoo Politics:
Campaign manager's battery charge shows why Donald Trump doesn't need a normal PR strategy — Donald Trump's latest explanation for the criminal charges filed against his campaign manager on Tuesday is, literally, explosive. — In a CNN town hall with the Republican presidential candidates …
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Ryan Struyk / ABC News:
Donald Trump Threatens Legal Action Over Charge Against Campaign Manager
Donald Trump Threatens Legal Action Over Charge Against Campaign Manager
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Jim Hoft / The Gateway Pundit:
Greta Van Susteren: In My Wildest Dreams I Don't See How a Jury Convicts Lewandowski (VIDEO)
Greta Van Susteren: In My Wildest Dreams I Don't See How a Jury Convicts Lewandowski (VIDEO)
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Annie Karni / Politico:
Clinton takes aim at Trump in N.Y. ad
Clinton takes aim at Trump in N.Y. ad
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Ruby Cramer / BuzzFeed:
Clinton Releases First Ad Targeting Donald Trump
Clinton Releases First Ad Targeting Donald Trump
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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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Caitlin MacNeal / Talking Points Memo:
Coulter Thinks Trump's Hit On Heidi Cruz Went Too Far: He's ‘Mental’
Coulter Thinks Trump's Hit On Heidi Cruz Went Too Far: He's ‘Mental’
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Gregory Krieg / CNN:
All three GOP candidates backed away from their pledge to support GOP nominee
All three GOP candidates backed away from their pledge to support GOP nominee
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Jose A. DelReal / Washington Post:
All three Republican presidential candidates back away from pledge to support eventual nominee
All three Republican presidential candidates back away from pledge to support eventual nominee
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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.
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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 …
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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.
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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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Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Republicans seethe at talk of giving up White House
Republicans seethe at talk of giving up White House
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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 …
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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.
Josh Lederman / Associated Press:
Obama Commutes Prison Sentences For 61 Drug Offenders — WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama commuted the prison sentences of 61 drug offenders on Wednesday including more than a third serving life sentences, working to give new energy to calls for overhauling the U.S. criminal justice system.
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Jack Shafer / Politico:
Spare Me Your Hypocritical Journalism Lecture, Mr. President
Spare Me Your Hypocritical Journalism Lecture, Mr. President
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Ari Melber / NBC News:
Rubio Makes Unprecedented Bid to Keep Delegates for Contested Convention — Trump Won't Promise to Support GOP Nominee 0:34 — 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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Katie Bo Williams / The Hill:
Israeli firm helped FBI hack iPhone — The Israeli mobile forensics firm Cellebrite helped the FBI hack into the iPhone of San Bernardino shooter Syed Rizwan Farook, NBC reports, citing industry sources. — The firm has been rumored to be behind the FBI's newfound ability to access the device …
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Adam Edelman / New York Daily News:
If Bernie Sanders wins the New York Democratic primary, some superdelegates vow to back Hillary Clinton anyway — Maybe the system really is rigged. — At least a half-dozen Democratic superdelegates in New York State who have already decided to support Hillary Clinton said Tuesday …
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Jennifer Epstein / Bloomberg Business:
Clinton ‘Perfectly Willing’ to Debate Sanders in New York, Aide Says
Clinton ‘Perfectly Willing’ to Debate Sanders in New York, Aide Says
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Kyle Cheney / Politico:
GOP panelists eager to scrap rule that helps Trump — All four early appointees of the rules committee for this year's Republican convention told POLITICO they're prepared to weaken or scrap a rule that could limit the convention's alternatives to Donald Trump.
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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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KRON4.com:
Dad dies after rescuing kids from pool electrocution — BURLINGAME (KRON) — A Burlingame man is dead and his daughter is fighting for her life after an electrical shock in the family swimming pool. — It happened in Palm Springs on Easter Sunday. — The man's 9-year-old daughter is still in intensive care.
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Emily Kirschenheuter / KRON4.com:
Viral video prompts investigation at SFSU — SAN FRANCISCO (KRON) — Campus police at San Francisco State University have launched an investigation into a viral video that shows a female student confronting a male student on campus about his dreadlocks. — Campus officials confirmed …
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