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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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Evan Osnos / New Yorker:
Trump's Convention Strategy: “The Fix Is In” — More than three months before any ballots have been cast at the Republican convention, Roger Stone, Donald Trump's on-again, off-again consigliere, has delivered the campaign equivalent of a severed horse head to delegates who might consider denying Trump the nomination.
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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.
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Dan Balz / Washington Post:
Trump team vows to win delegate majority as rivals prepare for open convention … NEW YORK — Leaders of Donald Trump's new campaign team said they have revised targets that would make the real estate mogul the presumptive Republican presidential nominee by mid-May and that would win …
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Jessie Hellmann / The Hill:
Sanders extends win streak with Wyoming victory — Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders — is projected to win the Wyoming caucuses, giving him eight wins in the last nine contests. — The state awards just 14 delegates on a proportional basis, but the win is another jolt …
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New York Times:
Bernie Sanders Wins Wyoming Democratic Caucuses — Continuing a string of victories across the West, Senator Bernie Sanders won the Wyoming Democratic caucuses Saturday, chipping away at Hillary Clinton's delegate lead before a major primary in New York next week.
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Eric Bradner / CNN:
Wyoming Democratic caucuses: Bernie Sanders looks for another win
Wyoming Democratic caucuses: Bernie Sanders looks for another win
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Common Dreams
Elliot Smilowitz / The Hill:
Trump: Sanders was right, Clinton is unqualified
Trump: Sanders was right, Clinton is unqualified
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Clarence Page / Chicago Tribune:
Clintons wrestle with a black generation gap
Clintons wrestle with a black generation gap
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Amanda Becker / Reuters:
Sanders wins Wyoming's Democratic nominating contest
Sanders wins Wyoming's Democratic nominating contest
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Philip Bump / Washington Post:
Donald Trump brags about a million mysterious postcards that were addressed to a parking lot … This guy Donald Trump just sort of tweets things sometimes. As you are probably aware, those things are not necessarily always true. It just matters that they cast Trump in a good light.
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Denis Slattery / New York Daily News:
Donald Trump visits Sept. 11 Memorial and Museum for first time despite invoking the tragedy often during debates — and he's never donated to any 9/11 charities — Lifelong New Yorker Donald Trump visited the National Sept. 11 Memorial and Museum in Lower Manhattan Saturday for the first time.
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Robert Tracinski / The Federalist:
Everything Awful About Donald Trump's Campaign In One Tweet
Everything Awful About Donald Trump's Campaign In One Tweet
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Marlow Stern / The Daily Beast:
Bill Maher Defends Trump Campaign Manager Corey Lewandowski, Rips Michelle Fields — The host of HBO's ‘Real Time with Bill Maher’ supported Lewandowski, and claimed that “nothing happened” in his alleged simple assault of ex-Breitbart reporter Fields. — At a rally in Jupiter, Florida …
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Eli Stokols / Politico:
Political ‘Hunger Games’ roils Trump's inner circle
J.K. Trotter / Gawker:
Report: Hillary Clinton Used Static Noise Machine to Prevent Reporters from Hearing Fundraising Speech — On Thursday, Hillary Clinton delivered a fundraising speech at the private residence of Colorado's governor, John Hickenlooper, in Denver's Park Hill neighborhood.
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Slantpoint and The Daily Caller
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 …
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Jamie Grierson / Guardian:
David Cameron: blame me for mishandling Panama Papers news — Prime minister tells Tory forum he should have handled offshore fund revelations better as protesters call for resignation — David Cameron has said he must take the blame for the way Downing Street handled revelations …
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Steven Swinford / Telegraph:
David Cameron dramatic tax mea culpa: ‘I should have done better’
David Cameron dramatic tax mea culpa: ‘I should have done better’
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Guardian
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 …
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