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David M. Drucker / Washington Examiner:
Cruz snaring Trump's Arizona delegates — Sen. Ted Cruz is out-hustling Donald Trump and looks set to ensure many Arizona delegates will defect to him in a convention floor fight. — The Texas senator, who ever since Iowa has played a stealthy ground game in contrast to Trump's chaotic populism …
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New York Times, RedState, The Daily Caller, The Resurgent, The Gateway Pundit, Washington Post, Vox Popoli and The Right Scoop
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Lindsey Ellefson / Mediaite:
Trump: Having to Get 1,237 Delegates For the Nomination Is ‘Very Unfair’
Trump: Having to Get 1,237 Delegates For the Nomination Is ‘Very Unfair’
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New York Post, Slate, BostonGlobe.com and Washington Post
Candace Smith / ABC News:
Meet the Pro-Donald Trump Women Who Defy His Negative Polling
Meet the Pro-Donald Trump Women Who Defy His Negative Polling
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Politico and abc7chicago.com
David Weigel / Washington Post:
Kasich labels Cruz a ‘smear artist’ over Wisconsin spot
Kasich labels Cruz a ‘smear artist’ over Wisconsin spot
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Talking Points Memo, U.S. News, ABC News and CNN
Nate Cohn / New York Times:
Donald Trump's Struggle in Wisconsin Is About Demographics, Not Momentum
Nolan D. McCaskill / Politico:
Trump: Acting more presidential would be ‘boring as hell’
Trump: Acting more presidential would be ‘boring as hell’
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Washington Post and Political Wire
Kelsey Sutton / Politico:
Fox News town hall with Ted Cruz airs on MSNBC before Fox
Michael Walsh / Yahoo Politics:
Ted Cruz to Megyn Kelly: Donald Trump has a ‘problem with strong women’
Ted Cruz to Megyn Kelly: Donald Trump has a ‘problem with strong women’
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ABC News
Reid J. Epstein / Wall Street Journal:
Donald Trump's Path to Clinching GOP Nomination Narrows
Donald Trump's Path to Clinching GOP Nomination Narrows
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Guardian
Mike Allen / Politico:
Top Republicans talking up Paul Ryan as nominee — On the eve of the Wisconsin primaries, top Republicans are becoming increasingly vocal about their long-held belief that Speaker Paul Ryan will wind up as the nominee, perhaps on the fourth ballot at a chaotic Cleveland convention.
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ThinkProgress, CNN, Washington Post, Mediaite, Guardian, Hot Air, Daily Kos, AOL, The Hayride, New York Times, Business Insider, No More Mister Nice Blog and Robert Reich
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Ryan Grim / The Huffington Post:
Charles Koch Is Privately Committed To Getting Paul Ryan Nominated In Cleveland: Source — A major investor in the Republican Party sees a chance to snatch back the nomination. — Washington bureau chief for The Huffington Post — Charles Koch is confident House Speaker Paul Ryan …
Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
The GOP's (other) convention nightmare — Republicans, already girding for their most tumultuous convention in decades, now have another fight brewing: a divisive battle over gay marriage on the party's official national platform. — It's an issue that drives intense passion …
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The Atlantic, Outside the Beltway, Rush Limbaugh, PinkNews, Joe.My.God., Daily Kos and Washington Post
Simon Maloy / Salon:
The “Draft Paul Ryan” fantasy: A soothing fiction to make donor-class Republicans feel better — GOP insiders are fooling themselves into believing Paul Ryan is a viable alternative to Donald Trump and Ted Cruz — The enthusiasm bubbling around Ted Cruz's campaign to derail Donald Trump's surge …
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Balloon Juice
Hugh Hewitt / The Hugh Hewitt ShowThe Hugh Hewitt Show:
House Speaker Paul Ryan Opens The New Hugh Hewitt Show
House Speaker Paul Ryan Opens The New Hugh Hewitt Show
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New York Magazine and The Daily Caller
Tierney Sneed / Talking Points Memo:
Unanimous Supreme Court Preserves Principle Of One Person, One Vote — The Supreme Court unanimously ruled against challengers seeking to change the long-held interpretation of the principle of one person, one vote. Siding with a lower court, the 8-member high court held that total population …
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Washington Monthly, John Hawkins' Right Wing News, Mother Jones and ACS Blog
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Rick Hasen / electionlawblog.org:
Breaking/Analysis: Big Victory for Voting Rights as #SCOTUS Rejects Plaintiffs' Claim in Evenwel One Person, One Vote Case — A unanimous Supreme Court in Evenwel v. Abbott (with two Justices (Thomas and Alito) concurring in the judgment) has rejected the argument that states must draw district lines …
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Robert Barnes / Washington Post:
Supreme Court rejects conservative challenge to ‘one person, one vote’
Supreme Court rejects conservative challenge to ‘one person, one vote’
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The Hill, The Texas Tribune, Yahoo Politics, Politico and Prairie Weather
Adam Liptak / New York Times:
Supreme Court Rejects Challenge on ‘One Person One Vote’
Supreme Court Rejects Challenge on ‘One Person One Vote’
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The Atlantic, ncsl.org and SCOTUSblog
Lyle Denniston / SCOTUSblog:
Opinion analysis: Leaving a constitutional ideal still undefined
Opinion analysis: Leaving a constitutional ideal still undefined
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Mother Jones, Outside the Beltway and ImmigrationProf Blog
Reuters:
World figures deny wrongdoing as ‘Panama Papers’ turn spotlight on tax evasion — Governments across the world began investigating possible financial wrongdoing by the rich and powerful on Monday following a leak of documents from a Panamanian law firm which allegedly showed how clients avoided tax or laundered money.
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Guardian and Fusion, more at Mediagazer »
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David Pegg / Guardian:
The Panama Papers: how the world's rich and famous hide their money offshore
The Panama Papers: how the world's rich and famous hide their money offshore
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Bloomberg View, Foreign Policy, McClatchy Washington Bureau, The Atlantic, Toronto Star, Mashable, Iceland Review, New York Times, NPR, Fusion, Business Insider, AOL, Outside the Beltway, Mother Jones, Washington Post, The Panama Papers, Daily Kos, CANNONFIRE, Hot Air, Washington Monthly, Engadget, ABC, Shakesville, Slate, Vox, Informed Comment, Mediaite and alan.com, more at Mediagazer »
Bloomberg.com:
Bernie Sanders: I Don't Want to Get Hillary Clinton More Nervous Than She Already Is — At a campaign event in Wisconsin, Bernie Sanders said he thinks he'll win the state's primary if there is a high voter turnout. While not wanting to “get Hillary Clinton more nervous than she already is …
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Ronald J. Sievert / USA Today:
Hillary's ‘classified’ smokescreen hides real crime: Column — Law makes clear DOJ should prosecute Clinton for mishandling ‘national defense information,’ classified or not. — Since the beginning of the Clinton email scandal, the nation has been subjected to a political and criminal defense generated smokescreen.
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Investor's Business Daily
WATE-TV:
Pigeon Forge Police Chief: 5 dead in helicopter crash — PIGEON FORGE (WATE) - The Pigeon Forge Chief of Police Jack H. Baldwin confirms to WATE 6 On Your Side that five people were killed in a sightseeing helicopter that crashed. — “Apparently this helicopter came out some time around 3:30 p.m …
David Siders / Sacramento Bee:
Jerry Brown signs $15 minimum wage in California — California and New York become first states to commit to $15 minimum wage — Bill expected to avert costly November ballot measure fight — Labor unions celebrate, while Republicans and business groups groan
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CBS New York, Rewire, Hit & Run, Shakesville and The Agonist
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Tkurzweil / KTLA:
Governor Jerry Brown Set to Sign $15 Minimum Wage Law
Governor Jerry Brown Set to Sign $15 Minimum Wage Law
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The Daily Caller and KFOR-TV
Gabriel Sherman / New York Magazine:
Inside the most unorthodox campaign in political history. — On the afternoon of March 15, as voters across five states streamed to the polls, Donald Trump's campaign advisers gathered by the pool at Mar-a-Lago, the billionaire's private club in Palm Beach.
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Robert Costa / Washington Post:
Internal memo reveals Trump campaign's mounting fury with its critics — Woodward on his ‘very unusual’ Trump interview What's at stake in the Wisconsin primary … In a private document that was circulated over the weekend and obtained by The Washington Post, Trump campaign senior adviser …
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Yahoo Politics, The Daily Caller, Moe Lane, Business Insider, Politico and New York Magazine
Robert Tracinski / The Federalist:
Yes, The Alt-Right Are Just a Bunch of Racists — Hey, lefties, we finally found your racists for you. — For as long as I can remember, people like me—by which I mean advocates of capitalism and free markets and freedom of speech—have been accused by the left of being secret racists …
Lisa Graves / PR Watch:
Breaking—New materials provided to the Center for Media and Democracy/PRWatch reveal that a top GOP polling firm instructed state Chamber of Commerce lobbyists how to try to defeat popular measures like increasing the minimum wage, despite polling data from business leaders that shows overwhelming support …
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Mother Jones, Washington Post, The Daily Caller and ThinkProgress
NBC Bay Area:
California Highway Patrol Officer Rescues Wayward Chihuahua After Chasing It Across Bay Bridge — Highway patrol officers noticed the small dog on the bridge's north side catwalk heading toward San Francisco — California Highway Patrol officers gave chase to an unlikely suspect early Sunday — a Chihuahua.
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WGN-TV, FOX31 Denver, WCMH-TV, KTLA and FOX5 San Diego
Vicki Needham / The Hill:
Economic models predict GOP White House, even with Trump — Republicans are expected to win the White House under two economic models that have accurately forecast presidential elections for decades. — A third model run by Moody's Analytics predicts Democrats will win the White House …
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Hot Air and The Gateway Pundit