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7:55 AM ET, April 5, 2016

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Robby Mook:
To Hillary Clinton supporters: The facts on where the race stands  —  Thanks to nearly 9 million voters across the country and the support of people like you, Hillary Clinton has built a nearly insurmountable lead among both delegates and actual voters.  Contrary to the claims of the Sanders campaign …
Discussion: CNN, Mediaite, Washington Post and Politico
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Brian Stelter / CNN:
Clinton, Sanders to meet for Brooklyn debate  —  (CNN)Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton have agreed to meet for a Democratic debate on CNN and NY1 on April 14, five days before a crucial primary election in New York state.  —  The debate will take place in Brooklyn and will be moderated …
Bloomberg.com:
Bernie Sanders: I Don't Want to Get Hillary Clinton More Nervous Than She Already Is
Connor Lynch / Salon:
Hillary is sick of the left: Why Bernie's persistence is a powerful reminder of Clinton's troubling centrism
New York Times:
Republicans and Voter Suppression  —  It's become an accepted truth of modern politics that Republican electoral prospects go up as the number of voters goes down.  Conservatives have known this for a long time, which helps explain their intensifying efforts to make it harder to vote …
Discussion: Rewire and ThinkProgress
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Rick Hasen / electionlawblog.org:
Breaking/Analysis: Big Victory for Voting Rights as #SCOTUS Rejects Plaintiffs' Claim in Evenwel …
Matt Ford / The Atlantic:
One Person, One Vote, Eight Justices
Adam Liptak / New York Times:
Supreme Court Rejects Challenge on ‘One Person One Vote’
Nolan D. McCaskill / Politico:
Trump: Acting more presidential would be ‘boring as hell’  —  Donald Trump could be a more presidential candidate as the leader in the Republican primary.  But that Trump “would be boring as hell,” he said Monday.  —  “I can be presidential, but if I was presidential I would only have …
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Nate Cohn / New York Times:
Donald Trump's Struggle in Wisconsin Is About Demographics, Not Momentum
Discussion: New York Magazine
Rich Noyes / NewsBusters:
TV News in March: Donald Trump Gets Five Times More Airtime than Ted Cruz
Discussion: RedState
David Weigel / Washington Post:
Kasich labels Cruz a ‘smear artist’ over Wisconsin spot
Lindsey Ellefson / Mediaite:
Trump: Having to Get 1,237 Delegates For the Nomination Is ‘Very Unfair’
Discussion: New York Post and Washington Post
Kelsey Sutton / Politico:   Fox News town hall with Ted Cruz airs on MSNBC before Fox
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 …
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Edward-Isaac Dovere / Politico:
Sanders reshapes Obama's 2016 plans  —  Bernie Sanders is keeping Barack Obama locked in limbo.  —  Despite his steadily rising popularity, the president's expected role in 2016 as the Democratic Party unifier is on hold for another three-and-a-half months, if Sanders keeps his campaign going through the July convention.
Discussion: The Hill
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Vicki Needham / The Hill:
Economic models predict GOP White House, even with Trump
Oliver Darcy / TheBlaze.com:
Exclusive: Police Investigate Death Threats Made Against Michelle Fields — Listen to the Chilling Audio  —  Ex-Breitbart reporter Michelle Fields contacted authorities Friday after an individual made multiple death threats against her.  —  In audio obtained by TheBlaze …
Bob Woodward / Washington Post:
Trump would seek to block money transfers to force Mexico to fund border wall  —  Will Paul Ryan be the Republican nominee? … State of the 2016 race … Donald Trump says he will force Mexico to pay for a border wall as president by threatening to cut off the flow of billions of dollars …
Julian Hattem / The Hill:
7 lingering questions in the Clinton email investigation  —  The FBI appears to be entering the home stretch of its investigation into Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton  —  's private email server.  —  Yet even as arrangements are reportedly being made to interview Clinton and her top aides, much remains unclear.
Nico Hines / The Daily Beast:
Panama Papers Leaker: ‘I Want to Make These Crimes Public’  —  An anonymous source began to expose the finances of the world's most feared and powerful men like Vladimir Putin with a single question: ‘Interested in data?’  —  LONDON — When an encrypted message first flashed …
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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 …
Discussion: WJTV, WLNS-TV, WCDC-TV and WIAT-TV
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.
The Week:
Republicans are plotting economic disaster for 2016  —  Our free email newsletters … Since George W. Bush's presidency, Republican economic ideas have become drastically more conservative.  Instead of massive tax cuts for the rich coupled with a general tolerance of the rest of government …
Discussion: Daily Kos
The Daily Beast:
Intel Analysts: We Were Forced Out for Telling the Truth About Obama's ISIS War  —  The growing scandal over cooked ISIS intelligence just got much worse.  Now, analysts are saying they're being forced out for not toeing the Obama administration's line on the war.
Kevin Burke:
The TSA Randomizer iPad App Cost $1.4 Million  —  You may have seen the TSA Randomizer on your last flight.  A TSA agent holds an iPad.  The agent taps the iPad, a large arrow points right or left, and you follow it into a given lane.  —  How much does the TSA pay for an app that a beginner could build in a day?
James Taranto / Wall Street Journal:
Chalk and Awe  —  The new Free Speech Movement.  —  If you find Donald Trump's presidential campaign a source of pure despair, allow us to offer some mitigation.  The campaign is having at least one salutary effect, as reported by the New York Times:
Associated Press:
DATA OF NEARLY 50 MILLION TURKS ALLEGEDLY LEAKED ONLINE  —  ISTANBUL (AP) — Hackers have posted a database online that seems to contain the personal information of nearly 50 million Turkish citizens in what is one of the largest public leaks of its kind.  —  The Associated Press on Monday …
 
 
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Brooks Barnes / New York Times:
Thomas Staggs, Disney's Heir Apparent, Is Stepping Down
Ali Meyer / Washington Free Beacon:
Trump's Deportation Plan Would Cost at Least $400 Billion
Discussion: Vox Popoli
Richard Sandomir / New York Times:
After Petition, Greg Louganis Gets His Wheaties Box
Associated Press:
Huge Rolling Stones exhibition offers satisfaction for fans
Discussion: euronews
Jerusalem Post:
Amid ballistics test, Iran officer says missiles designed to reach Israel
Chris Spargo For / Daily Mail:
‘Our eyes connected and I thought “Wow”’: Hillary Clinton's top aide Huma Abedin gushes …
Discussion: NewsBusters
Katherine Peralta / The Charlotte Observer:
NC LGBT law prompts Lionsgate to pull production of new Hulu show from Charlotte
Discussion: Daily Kos
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Alice Ollstein / ThinkProgress:
BREAKING: Donald Trump's Las Vegas Hotel Is Officially Unionized
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John Sides / Washington Post:
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