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9:50 PM ET, April 7, 2016

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Andrew Kaczynski / BuzzFeed:
Peter King: New Yorkers Voting For Cruz “Should Have Their Head Examined”  —  “Look, I hope he gets the cold shoulder and other things from every New Yorker.  Send him back where he belongs.”  —  w.soundcloud.com  —  Rep. Peter King of New York said in a radio interview on Thursday …
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Carl Campanile / New York Post:
Rudy Giuliani is voting for Donald Trump  —  Former Mayor Rudy Giuliani said he's voting for fellow New Yorker Donald Trump for president in the April 19 Republican primary.  —  “I support Trump.  I'm gonna vote for Trump,” Giuliani told The Post Thursday.
Maggie Haberman / New York Times:
Rudolph Giuliani to Vote for, but Not Endorse, Donald Trump  —  Rudolph W. Giuliani is not endorsing Donald J. Trump.  But he is voting for him.  —  In an interview, Mr. Giuliani, the former mayor of New York who has been uncharacteristically quiet in the last week about the Republican primary …
Kira Lerner / ThinkProgress:
Ted Cruz, Unwelcome In The Bronx, Gets A Taste Of ‘New York Values’
Breitbart:
Fallout: Donald Trump Will Fall 50-100 Delegates Short of 1,237 Needed to Clinch Nomination
Kyle Cheney / Politico:   Trump has more than math to worry about in Cleveland
Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
Not Good, Not Good At All  —  As you no doubt saw, last night Bernie Sanders launched a pretty blistering attack on Hillary Clinton, calling her unqualified to be president because of various past positions, relationships and votes.  The attack was premised on Sanders' claim that Clinton …
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David A. Graham / The Atlantic:
Why Bernie Sanders Says Clinton Isn't ‘Qualified’ to Be President  —  New Yorkers are a blunt and confrontational bunch, so it's only appropriate that as the presidential campaign heads to the Empire State—birthplace of Bernie Sanders and adopted home of Hillary Clinton—ahead of the April 19 primary …
Charles P. Pierce / Esquire:   Reading Between the Lines of Hillary and Bernie's Big Media Battle
The Hill:
Sanders defends calling Clinton unqualified for White House
Associated Press:
AP-GfK Poll: Americans overwhelmingly view Trump negatively  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — For Americans of nearly every race, gender, political persuasion and location, disdain for Donald Trump runs deep, saddling the Republican front-runner with unprecedented unpopularity as he tries to overcome recent campaign setbacks.
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Edward Morrissey / The Fiscal Times:
Trump's Wisconsin Debacle a Major Warning to the GOP  —  “Tonight is a turning point,” an exultant Ted Cruz declared in his victory speech on Tuesday night after a blowout win in the Wisconsin primary over Donald Trump.  “Tonight, Wisconsin has lit a candle guiding the way forward,” Cruz continued.
Jeff Poor / Breitbart:
Buchanan on Trump, Cruz Joining Forces: ‘That Ticket Would Set the Country on Fire’
Discussion: Hot Air and The Federalist
Shoshana Weissmann / Weekly Standard:
Bill Clinton: ‘Black Lives Matter’ Protesters Are Defending Murders And Drug Dealers  —  On Thursday, while Bill Clinton was giving a speech to a crowd of Hillary Clinton supporters, he was repeatedly interrupted by Black Lives Matter protesters.  —  He responded to them, saying …
Discussion: The American Mirror and Slate
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Alex Griswold / Mediaite:
Bill Clinton Battles Black Lives Matter Protesters in Philly: 'They're Afraid of the Truth!'  —  Former president Bill Clinton got in a heated argument with Black Lives Matter protesters as he was campaigning for his wife Hillary Clinton in Philadelphia, battling the protesters over his passage of criminal justice reform.
David Pegg / Guardian:
David Cameron admits he profited from father's Panama offshore trust fund  —  PM sold stake in Blairmore investment fund, which featured in Panama Papers, for £31,500 four months before entering No 10  —  David Cameron has finally admitted he benefited from a Panama-based offshore trust set up by his late father.
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ITV:
Exclusive: David Cameron admits he did have a stake in his father's offshore trust
Discussion: NBC News, Guardian and The Atlantic
Neil MacFarquhar / New York Times:   Vladimir Putin Says Allegations in Panama Papers Are an American Plot
Josh Mitchell / Wall Street Journal:
More Than 40% of Student Borrowers Aren't Making Payments  —  New figure raises worries that millions of them may never repay more than $200 billion owed  —  More than 40% of Americans who borrowed from the government's main student-loan program aren't making payments or are behind …
Discussion: Vox and The Daily Caller
Chicago Tribune:
Dennis Hastert accused of sexual abuse by at least 4, sources say  —  Stephen Reinboldt's sister Jolene Burdge speaks out about her brother's alleged abuse by Dennis Hastert decades ago.  (John Kim/Chicago Tribune)  —  For months, federal authorities have hinted at the motive behind …
Tegna / KENS:
Rhodes Middle School student slammed by SAISD police officer  —  SAISD officer on leave after slamming student … SAN ANTONIO — A 6th-grade girl at Rhodes Middle School was grabbed and dropped by a San Antonio Independent School District Police Officer last week.
Discussion: Talking Points Memo and Mashable
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WOAI:
Student body-slammed by school police officer
Arwa Mahdawi / Guardian:
20,000 lesbians in the desert: welcome to the Dinah, a world without men  —  For five days in Palm Springs, Arwa Mahdawi entered an alternate reality where gay women celebrate each other with pool parties, dancing and debauchery  —  very year at the end of March, 20,000 lesbians from around …
Mark Davis / McClatchy Washington Bureau:
Ben & Jerry's co-founder tempts Secret Service by stamping messages on money  —  Ben & Jerry's co-founder says money is corrupting politics, so he stamps message on cash  —  H&R Block and others have faced questions about the legality of advertising on money
Tierney Sneed / Talking Points Memo:
Ex-Staffer: Wisconsin GOPers Cheered Voter ID Bill For What It ‘Could Do For Us’  —  A former top staffer for a Republican legislator in Wisconsin suggested this week that GOP legislators were motivated to pass the state's tough photo voter ID law because they believed it would help them at the ballot box …
Julian Hattem / The Hill:
Sessions: Don't bet on me being Trump's VP  —  's lone Senate supporter threw cold water on the notion that he might be chosen as the Republican presidential hopeful's running mate on Thursday.  —  (R-Ala.) told reporters outside the Senate chamber that he has no expectation …
Discussion: Political Wire
Paul Bedard / Washington Examiner:
Dems on FEC target conservatives, vote to punish maker of anti-Obama movie  —  The three Democrats on the Federal Election Commission, in their latest and boldest move to regulate conservative media, voted in unison to punish a movie maker critical of President Obama after he distributed …
Katie Connor / Cosmopolitan:
Scarlett Johansson on Efforts to Defund Planned Parenthood: “We're Moving Backward”  —  The May 2016 cover star talks Planned Parenthood, hitting rock bottom, and more.  —  On cutting the budget for Planned Parenthood: “There are countries at war, there's terrorism, global warming …
Speaker.gov:
Politics these days, amirite?  —  It's a common refrain, both in the news media and among Americans who are sick and tired of hearing politicians battle over insults rather than ideas.  Imagine, for a moment, if politics was about actually about uniting Americans, not dividing us.
John R. Schindler / The New York Observer:
Panama Papers Reveal Clinton's Kremlin Connection  —  John and Tony Podesta aren't fooling anyone  —  The revelations of the so-called Panama Papers that are roiling the world's political and financial elites this week include important facts about Team Clinton.
Guardian:
Tigers declared extinct in Cambodia  —  Conservationists say Indochine tigers are ‘functionally extinct’ as they launch action plan for reintroduction  —  Tigers are “functionally extinct” in Cambodia, conservationists conceded for the first time on Wednesday, as they launched a bold action plan …
Discussion: ThinkProgress and NPR
 
 
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Discussion: twitchy.com, The Federalist and Hot Air
David Larter / Navy Times:
4-star admiral wants to confront China. White House says not so fast
Raphael Ahren / The Times of Israel:
Michael Oren: Sanders should apologize for Gaza ‘blood libel’
Adam Boult / Telegraph:
Watch: Irma Bule bitten on stage by cobra
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