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12:45 PM ET, April 9, 2016

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Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Trump's getting trounced in Indiana  —  Indiana hasn't cast its ballots for president yet, but Donald Trump is already losing.  —  Republican Party insiders in the state will select 27 delegates to the national convention on Saturday, and Trump is assured to be nearly shut out of support …
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Chris Kahn / Reuters:
Exclusive: Blocking Trump could hurt Republicans in election - Reuters/Ipsos poll  —  A third of Republican voters who support Donald Trump could turn their backs on their party in November's presidential election if he is denied the nomination in a contested convention, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll.
Associated Press:
Ted Cruz Adds 21 Delegates With Colorado Sweep  —  Sen. Ted Cruz has locked up the support of 21 total Colorado delegates to the Republican National Convention, representing a majority of the delegates the state will send to Cleveland in July.  —  Slates loyal to Cruz won every assembly …
Discussion: ABC News and abc7news.com
Katherine Faulders / ABC News:   Inside Ted Cruz's Push to Grab All of Colorado's Delegates
Jeremy W. Peters / New York Times:
Ted Cruz Wins Majority of Delegates in Colorado
Discussion: Outside the Beltway
Chad Livengood / Detroit News:
Mich. GOP chief Romney McDaniel becomes Trump delegate
Discussion: Politico and Guardian
Steven Shepard / Politico:
Insiders: 90 percent predict contested GOP convention
Discussion: The Week
New York Times:
Hastert Molested at Least Four Boys, Prosecutors Say  —  CHICAGO — Federal prosecutors on Friday for the first time provided details of sexual abuse allegations against J. Dennis Hastert, the former speaker of the House, asserting that he molested at least four boys, as young as 14 …
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Jason Meisner / Chicago Tribune:
How the feds uncovered Dennis Hastert's sordid past  —  Former U.S. House Speaker Dennis Hastert through the years.  —  Approached by federal agents last year about dozens of large cash bank withdrawals, Dennis Hastert claimed he was being extorted by a former student who said Hastert …
Discussion: Fusion and Prairie Weather
Elliot Smilowitz / The Hill:
Trump: Sanders was right, Clinton is unqualified  —  has finally found something he agrees with Bernie Sanders  —  on.  —  Trump, the GOP presidential front-runner, tweeted Saturday morning that he agreed with Sanders calling Democratic presidential rival Hillary Clinton  —  “unqualified.”
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Amanda Becker / Reuters:
Clinton, Sanders face off in Wyoming as New York looms
Discussion: whorunsGov
David Wasserman / FiveThirtyEight:
Bernie Sanders Is Even Less Competitive Than He Appears
New York Times:
Mr. Trump Reopens the Wounds of a Hate Crime  —  Donald Trump is scheduled to speak at a Republican Party fund-raiser on Thursday in Patchogue, a village on the south shore of Long Island, about 60 miles from Manhattan.  —  This is a wretched development, a disgraceful provocation …
Daily Mail:
Erotic sex and the ‘pursuit of pleasure’ between couples is a ‘gift from God’, Pope says in 260-page Joy Of Love report - but he's not ready to budge on gay marriage  —  By , COREY CHARLTON FOR MAILONLINE and SIMON CALDWELL FOR THE DAILY MAIL  —  Pope Francis has encouraged married couples …
Paul Bond / Hollywood Reporter:
North Carolina Congressman: Bruce Springsteen Is a “Bully” for Canceling Concert  —  EMAIL ME  —  “We've got other artists coming soon — Def Leppard, Justin Bieber,” says Rep. Mark Walker.  —  A U.S. congressman who represents portions of Greensboro, N.C., is accusing Bruce Springsteen of being a …
Megan McArdle / Bloomberg View:
Subpoenaed Into Silence on Global Warming  —  The Competitive Enterprise Institute is getting subpoenaed by the attorney general of the U.S. Virgin Islands to cough up its communications regarding climate change.  The scope of the subpoena is quite broad, covering the period from 1997 to 2007 …
Gregory L. Diskant / Washington Post:
Obama can appoint Merrick Garland to the Supreme Court if the Senate does nothing  —  Gregory L. Diskant is a senior partner at the law firm of Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler and a member of the national governing board of Common Cause.  —  On Nov. 12, 1975, while I was serving as a clerk …
Discussion: Hot Air
Roger Stone / The Daily Caller:
GOP Establishment Money Funding Mark Levin, Glenn Beck, Erick Erickson To Attack Trump  —  The next time you hear Mark Levin on the radio, or watch Glenn Beck on TV, or read Erick Erickson, RedState.com on the Internet, you might just ask yourself who is paying for the message?
South Florida / Sun-Sentinel:
Gov. Scott releases ad attacking woman who attacked him at Starbucks  —  Sun Sentinel … Privacy Policy  —  A video has appeared on Gov. Rick Scott's YouTube Channel attacking Cara Jennings, the woman whose tirade against Scott at a Gainesville Starbucks was caught on video.
Discussion: The Hill, Towleroad, Gawker and The Slot
New York Post:
FBI probing Mayor de Blasio's fundraising activities  —  US Attorney Preet Bharara now has Mayor de Blasio in his cross hairs — investigating his campaign fund-raising activities as part of a widening probe into NYPD corruption, sources said yesterday.  —  The feds are looking …
Discussion: BizPac Review
Heidi Parker For / Daily Mail:
Cage fighter!  Nicolas Cage, 52, in brawl with Mötley Crüe lead singer Vince Neil, 55, outside a Vegas casino after rocker ‘pulls a woman to the ground by her hair for asking the movie star for his autograph’  — The lady was a fan of Nicolas' and was saying hello with the musician grabbed …
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Scott Bauer / Associated Press:
Court Strikes Down Scott Walker's Right-To-Work Law As Unconstitutional  —  MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A Wisconsin court has struck down the state's right-to-work law championed by Republican Gov. Scott Walker, calling it unconstitutional.  —  A Dane County Circuit Court judge issued the ruling Friday in a lawsuit filed by local unions.
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JSOnline:
Judge strikes down state's right-to-work law
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Obama relents in fight over Fast and Furious documents  —  Four years after asserting executive privilege to block Congress from obtaining documents relating to a controversial federal gun trafficking investigation, President Barack Obama relented Friday, turning over to lawmakers thousands …
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Katie Pavlich / Townhall.com:   BREAKING: President Obama Turns Over Thousands of Fast and Furious Documents
 
 
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Eli Stokols / Politico:
Political ‘Hunger Games’ roils Trump's inner circle
CBS News:
What role does Islamophobia play in terror attacks?
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Daily Mail:
'Every time I had sex with my wife, I imagined it was my mother I was kissing otherwise …
Scott Eric Kaufman / Salon:
Geraldo Rivera explodes at “antisemitic” …
Ivana Kottasova / CNNMoney:
Americans and Canadians might need visas for Europe
Discussion: ValueWalk
 Earlier Items: 
Michael Wines / New York Times:
The Voter Support Agency Accused of Suppressing Votes
Alice Ollstein / ThinkProgress:
Wisconsin's Voter ID Law Is Back In Court Following Election Day Woes
Discussion: electionlawblog.org and VoteRiders
Alan Yuhas / Guardian:
SpaceX rocket successfully lands on ocean drone platform for first time
Discussion: Mashable
Sabrina Siddiqui / Guardian:
Bill Clinton ‘almost’ apologizes for clash with Black Lives Matter protester
Discussion: Raw Story, Business Insider and AOL
Los Angeles Times:
Wheelman in epic L.A. car chase was trained to drive by the U.S. military
Discussion: Complex and KTLA
Matt Shuham / The National Memo:
Endorse This: Roger Stone Says It's Not A Threat To Give Out Delegates' Hotel Room Numbers
Discussion: Hullabaloo
Matt Giles / Popular Science:
A New Shrimp Simulacrum Hopes To Take Plates By Storm
 

 
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Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple is working on a smart doorbell system with advanced facial recognition that can wirelessly connect and unlock third-party smart locks

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
Donald Trump announces that Sriram Krishnan, until recently a general partner at a16z, will serve as senior policy advisor for AI at the White House OSTP

Financial Times:
Sources: Palantir and Anduril are in talks with OpenAI, SpaceX, and more to form a consortium to bid for US defense contracts and plan to announce it in January

 
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