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New York Post:
Ted Cruz's campaign stop in the Bronx is a complete dud — There are more than 1.4 million people in the Bronx — but Ted Cruz couldn't even muster 100 at a campaign event in Parkchester with state Sen. Ruben Diaz Sr., a conservative Christian minister. — Cruz visited the Sabrosura Chinese …
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The Gateway Pundit and The Last Tradition
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Mark Hensch / The Hill:
Gingrich: ‘Trump has now normalized Cruz’ — has softened views of GOP presidential rival Ted Cruz — as an extreme, anti-establishment candidate. — “Cruz a year ago would have been seen as the outsider, extreme, unacceptable, anti-establishment [candidate],” he told host Maria Bartiromo …
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Politico and FOX News Radio
New York Daily News:
Ted Cruz visit to Bronx high school canceled after students threaten a walkout: ‘His views are against ours’ — Ted Cruz came to New York Wednesday talking about education, but he's the one who got schooled. — The lesson came from a group of Bronx high school students who told the Republican presidential candidate to stay away.
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Patterico's Pontifications
Nolan D. McCaskill / Politico:
Sen. Jim Risch isn't sure if he just endorsed Ted Cruz
Sen. Jim Risch isn't sure if he just endorsed Ted Cruz
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Political Wire and New York Magazine, more at Mediagazer »
Edward-Isaac Dovere / Politico:
Giuliani to meet with Ted Cruz
Giuliani to meet with Ted Cruz
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Political Wire and The Gateway Pundit
Nolan D. McCaskill / Politico:
Gingrich: Trump has made Ted Cruz look normal
Gingrich: Trump has made Ted Cruz look normal
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Washington Post
Jonathan Easley / The Hill:
Trump tops 50 percent in New York, Cruz in third place
Trump tops 50 percent in New York, Cruz in third place
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Politico and The Gateway Pundit
Allegra Kirkland / Talking Points Memo:
Cruz: When I Attacked ‘New York Values,’ I Meant The Liberal Ones
Betsy Woodruff / The Daily Beast:
Ted Cruz and Pastors Smite Donald Trump in Wisconsin
Ted Cruz and Pastors Smite Donald Trump in Wisconsin
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Washington Post, Red Alert Politics and Bloomberg
Michael Warren / Weekly Standard:
Cruz Pivots to General: ‘Hillary, Get Ready’
Cruz Pivots to General: ‘Hillary, Get Ready’
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Washington Post, The Huffington Post and FiveThirtyEight
Theodore Schleifer / CNN:
Bernie Sanders: Hillary Clinton is not ‘qualified’ to be president — Sanders: Clinton isn't qualified to be president — Clinton and Sanders are escalating their war of words leading up to the New York primary in less than two weeks — Watch CNN and NY1's Democratic debate …
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Progressives Today and Balloon Juice
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Jeffrey R. Immelt / Washington Post:
GE CEO: Bernie Sanders says we're ‘destroying the moral fabric’ of America. He's wrong. — Jeffrey R. Immelt is chairman and chief executive of GE. — We at GE were interested to read comments Monday by Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), who told the New York Daily News editorial board that GE …
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Hanna Trudo / Politico:
Sanders: Clinton's not qualified to be president — Hillary Clinton is not qualified to be president, Bernie Sanders told a crowd of supporters in Philadelphia on Wednesday night, in his sharpest attack yet on the struggling Democratic front-runner. — “Now the other day, I think …
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New York Magazine
David Mack / BuzzFeed:
Hillary Clinton Literally Laughed Out Loud When The Sanders Camp Said She Was Too Ambitious
Hillary Clinton Literally Laughed Out Loud When The Sanders Camp Said She Was Too Ambitious
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Guardian, ECHIDNE OF THE SNAKES and Balloon Juice
Jesse Byrnes / The Hill:
Sanders aide: Don't destroy Dem party to satisfy Clinton's ‘ambitions’
Sanders aide: Don't destroy Dem party to satisfy Clinton's ‘ambitions’
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Washington Post, Raw Story, Taylor Marsh, Common Dreams, myfox8.com, The Daily Caller and Politico
Amanda Marcotte / Salon:
Bernie's giant misfire on guns: His tone-deaf position on Sandy Hook lawsuit should open Democrats' eyes
Bernie's giant misfire on guns: His tone-deaf position on Sandy Hook lawsuit should open Democrats' eyes
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Paul Choate / myfox8.com:
North Carolina couple arrested after 4 children test positive for meth — NEBO, N.C. — Two people have been arrested after children living with them tested positive for methamphetamine. — Kimberly Dawn Lowery, 29, and Nathan Todd Vallini, 27, both of Nebo, are each charged with four counts …
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WSVN-TV:
Mom outraged after photo of son with staple gun to face goes viral — OPA-LOCKA, Fla. (WSVN) — A South Florida mother is demanding answers after she found a photo on social media showing a teenage student holding a staple gun to her 6-year-old son's cheek at school.
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WGN-TV and FOX6Now.com
Chuck Fieldman / Chicago Tribune:
Oak Brook teen catches rare shark on vacation — An 18-year-old Oak Brook resident caught an albino or leucistic swell shark in the Sea of Cortez near Cabo San Lucas. — As a senior on the Hinsdale Central bass fishing team, Scott McLaughlin is looking forward to the spring and his final season of competition.
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FOX31 Denver, Q13 FOX News and KTLA
Texas Parks & Wildlife Department:
Pair Facing State Jail Felony Charges Stemming from Graffiti on Iconic Enchanted Rock — SAN MARCOS, Texas - Law enforcement officials from the State Park Police, Texas Game Wardens and San Marcos Police Department Wednesday arrested two individuals in connection with defacing of the iconic Enchanted Rock.
Jeff Cox / CNBC:
Wall St is pretty certain who will be president — In the polling places and on the airwaves, there remains a high level of uncertainty about who will be the next U.S. president. Not so on Wall Street and the markets. — Recent indications from deep-pocketed institutional investors …
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Anita Kumar / McClatchy Washington Bureau:
Poll: 25 percent of Sanders voters would shun Clinton
Poll: 25 percent of Sanders voters would shun Clinton
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Sandra Phillips / FOX5 San Diego:
Young woman's body found stuffed in suitcase near hotel — SAN DIEGO - A suitcase left outside a hotel near a row of trash bins Wednesday in downtown San Diego contained the body of a “young” woman, according to investigators. — San Diego police closed 7th Avenue between Ash and A streets due to an investigation in the area.
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WTVR-TV, FOX2now.com, FOX6Now.com, FOX40 and KTLA
Betsy Woodruff / The Daily Beast:
Trump Blows Off Pro-Life Leaders — The formerly pro-choice Republican, already in deep trouble after talking about “punishment” for women, just ticked off a lot of conservative activists. — Donald Trump just blew off pro-life leaders exactly one week after he angered the movement by calling for “punishment” for abortion.
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Maajid Nawaz / The Daily Beast:
Another Dead Blasphemer—in Scotland — The stench of Islamic extremism has become all too common among the religious and community leaders of the U.K. — LONDON — Asad Shah was a much-loved Muslim shopkeeper in Scotland's first city of Glasgow. Embodying the slogan of his mosque …
Mark Pernice / BuzzFeed:
America is being watched from above. Government surveillance planes routinely circle over most major cities — but usually take the weekends off. — Each weekday, dozens — of U.S. government aircraft take to the skies and slowly circle over American cities.
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Daily Mail and The Verge
Bill Friskics-Warren / New York Times:
Merle Haggard, Country Music's Outlaw Hero, Dies at 79 — Merle Haggard, a contrarian populist whose songs about his scuffling early life and his time in prison made him the closest thing that country music had to a real-life outlaw hero, died on Wednesday, his 79th birthday.
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The Atlantic, Althouse and Balloon Juice
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Jimmy Carter / WSMV-TV:
Country music legend Merle Haggard dies at 79
Country music legend Merle Haggard dies at 79
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New York Times:
Pfizer Faces Limited Options After Its Dead Deal With Allergan — Two years ago, the pharmaceutical giant tried — and failed — to take over the British rival AstraZeneca in a bid to become the world's largest drug company and lower its tax bill in the process.
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Bloomberg, STAT and Washington Post
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Christine Sexton / Politico:
State tells critic of Children's Medical Services to pay rent — TALLAHASSEE — Physician, pay for thyself. — That's the edict that has been given to a well-known pediatrician who also happens to be a sharp critic of the administration of Gov. Rick Scott.
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