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Trump erupts as Cruz sweeps Colorado without votes — ‘Biggest story in politics. This will not be allowed!’ — Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump erupted on “Fox & Friends” Monday morning after a weekend that saw Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas sweep all of Colorado's 34 delegates without …
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Byron York / Washington Examiner:
Is GOP headed for its own Bush v. Gore? — It's now likely Republicans are headed toward a contested convention in July. But they might be headed toward more than that — the party could be on its way to an internal version of the 2000 election, the race in which the candidate who lost …
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Washington Monthly
Harry Enten / FiveThirtyEight:
Trump Is The Weakest GOP Front-Runner In The Modern Era — Despite getting drubbed in Wisconsin this week, Donald Trump has won more votes than any other Republican candidate this year. So, he's doing OK, right? Well, for all the talk that unbound delegates and quirky convention rules …
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The Moderate Voice, The Right Scoop and Hullabaloo
Ari Melber / NBC News:
Despite Complaints, Delegate System Has Given Trump a 22 Percent Bonus — Trump Takes on Political Establishment, Delegate Count, Ted Cruz 6:10 — Donald Trump blasted the GOP's delegate rules Sunday, saying a “corrupt” system is denying him delegates in states he won.
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NBC News, RedState, The Federalist, Taylor Marsh and Hot Air
Glenn Thrush / Politico:
‘Hillary would beat him from jail’ — Like an army decimated on the battlefield, the vanquished Republican operatives allied with Jeb Bush have shed their uniforms, collected as much ammo as they could carry and taken to the hills to wage bitter guerrilla war against Donald Trump.
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Mediaite, The Daily Caller and Independent Journal …
Mollie Hemingway / The Federalist:
Colorado Proves Donald Trump Can't Handle The Rigors Of A Campaign — By the end of a statewide assembly on Saturday, Sen. Ted Cruz swept up all of Colorado's 34 delegates to the Republican National Convention. Donald Trump received none. Trump and his supporters aren't taking it well.
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The Hill, Hot Air, FiveThirtyEight, Mediaite, Independent Journal …, The Gateway Pundit, The Right Scoop and NBC News
Andrew Kaczynski / BuzzFeed:
Sen. Cory Gardner: Trump Has “Diminishing Future,” Will Keep Losing Delegates
Fox News:
Trump slams GOP nominating process as top aide accuses Cruz of ‘gestapo tactics’ to win delegates
Trump slams GOP nominating process as top aide accuses Cruz of ‘gestapo tactics’ to win delegates
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LawNewz and whorunsGov
John Frank / Denver Post:
Donald Trump says Colorado residents “had their vote taken away from them by the phony politicians” …
Donald Trump says Colorado residents “had their vote taken away from them by the phony politicians” …
John Whitesides / Reuters:
Trump blasts ‘rigged’ rules on picking Republican delegates
Trump blasts ‘rigged’ rules on picking Republican delegates
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Wall Street Journal and Guardian
Sarah K. Burris / Raw Story:
Hillary Clinton and Bill de Blasio set off cringing with painful joke about ‘colored people time’ — DON'T MISS STORIES. FOLLOW RAW STORY! — New York City's annual Inner Circle Dinner brought New York politicians together for an evening of food and fun but also for stiff politicians performing awkward skits.
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New York Times, Fusion and New York Magazine
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Mark Murray / NBC News:
NBC Poll: Trump, Clinton Hold Sizable Leads in New York — Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton have opened up double-digit leads in New York ahead of the state's April 19 primary, according to a new NBC News/Wall Street Journal/Marist poll. — “The road to the convention goes through New York …
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Talking Points Memo, Washington Post, Political Wire and Vox
David Weigel / Washington Post:
Sanders calls for national fracking ban, with eye on Clinton
Sanders calls for national fracking ban, with eye on Clinton
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Common Dreams and EcoWatch
John Cassidy / New Yorker:
Can Bernie Sanders Upset Hillary Clinton in New York?
Can Bernie Sanders Upset Hillary Clinton in New York?
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Politico, Washington Post, Gothamist, Washington Free Beacon, Outside the Beltway, The Slot, The Week and Fox News
jama.jamanetwork.com:
The Association Between Income and Life Expectancy in the United States, 2001-2014 — FREE ONLINE FIRST — Raj Chetty, PhD1; Michael Stepner, BA2; Sarah Abraham, BA2; Shelby Lin, MPhil3; Benjamin Scuderi, BA4; Nicholas Turner, PhD5; Augustin Bergeron, MA4; David Cutler, PhD4 — JAMA.
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New York Times:
The Rich Live Longer Everywhere. For the Poor, Geography Matters. — Life expectancy of 40-year-olds with household incomes below $28,000, — For poor Americans, the place they call home can be a matter of life or death. — The poor in some cities — big ones like New York and Los Angeles …
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The Week, Mother Jones, Shakesville, The Big Picture, Forbes, Daily Kos, Marginal REVOLUTION and Arkansas Blog, Arkansas Times
CBS News:
Meet the “Trump Bros” — Jack Rowe, an 18-year-old high school student from St. Paul, Minnesota, sat in the front row of a Donald Trump rally in Eau Claire, Wisconsin last weekend, sandwiched between two friends. — He had caucused for Trump in Minnesota for the very first time a few weeks earlier.
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New York Magazine, The Daily Caller, Raw Story and Daily Kos
Dustin B Levy / York Daily Record:
Gettysburg man selling Hillary Clinton's car — Mike Lawn worked for seven presidents and met nine. That number could be up to 10 by November if Hillary Clinton wins the White House. He just happens to be selling her car, which sits in his driveway adorned with an Arkansas license plate and a 1990 …
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Mashable, Washington Free Beacon and The Daily Caller
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Kate Andersen Brower / Vanity Fair:
The Permanent White House Staff Is, Understandably, on Edge About the 2016 Presidential Race
The Permanent White House Staff Is, Understandably, on Edge About the 2016 Presidential Race
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The Daily Caller and CNNMoney
Katherine Krueger / Talking Points Memo:
Oops: Trump's Kids Ivanka And Eric Never Registered To Vote For Their Dad — While plenty of New Yorkers say they'll cast their votes for native son Donald Trump in next week's Republican primary contest, two of Trump's own kids won't be among them. — Trump confirmed in a Monday call …
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Gawker, ThinkProgress, AMERICAblog NewsAMERICAblog …, The Daily Caller and The Week
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JONATHAN TURLEY:
TENTH CIRCUIT REVERSES SISTER WIVES DECISION — This afternoon, the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit issued its decision in Brown v. Buhman, No. 14-4117, reversing the decision striking down the cohabitation provision of the Utah polygamy law. The opinion of the panel is attached below.
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fox13now.com and Politico
Gregory Korte / USA Today:
‘Scarier than we initially thought:’ CDC sounds warning on Zika virus — WASHINGTON — Public health officials said Monday they've learned a lot more about Zika since the Obama administration made a $1.9 billion request to Congress to combat the mosquito-borne virus, and are increasingly concerned …
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Florida Politics and The Week
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Paul Ryan's Magical-Realist Presidential Campaign — The Republican president of your dreams. — Paul Ryan's shadow campaign for the presidency is well under way, and the visible portion peeking above the surface — message videos and gravitas-conferring overseas trips …
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Lawyers, Guns & Money and New York Times
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Associated Press:
Texas Attorney General Charged With Federal Securities Fraud — Federal securities regulators charged Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton Monday with four civil counts of fraud, piling on more legal troubles for the Republican already under criminal indictment for allegations that he deceived friends …
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Occupy Democrats and LawNewz
Hillary Clinton / New York Daily News:
TRANSCRIPT: Hillary Clinton meets with the Daily News Editorial Board, April 9, 2016 — The Daily Editorial Board interviewed Hillary Clinton, Democratic candidate for President, on April 9 in the offices of the newspaper in downtown Manhattan. — Daily News: Welcome.
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Washington Monthly, Washington Post and TheStreet.com
Joe Otterson / The Wrap:
Porn Site Bans North Carolina Users Over Anti-LGBT Law — XHamster users in the Tar Heel state will just have to find porn somewhere else on the Internet — XHamster just delivered a serious money shot on the North Carolina legislature. — Users from the Tar Hell State began complaining …
Des Moines Register:
Grassley: Sky won't fall with one less justice … Six. Seven. Nine. Ten. Seven. Nine. — These numbers reveal the absurdity of the argument that somehow the federal judiciary is debilitated without a ninth Supreme Court justice for a brief period of time.
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Talking Points Memo
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Snoopy the Destroyer — Has Snoopy just doomed us to another severe financial crisis? Unfortunately, that's a real possibility, thanks to a bad judicial ruling that threatens a key part of financial reform. — Some background: When catastrophe struck the troubled U.S. financial system in September 2008 …
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Marginal REVOLUTION
Adam Behsudi / Politico:
Administration makes a TPP pharma sales pitch — With help from Victoria Guida and Doug Palmer — ADMINISTRATION MAKES A TPP PHARMA SALES PITCH: The Obama administration is continuing its work of trying to convince Capitol Hill of the benefits of the Trans-Pacific Partnership …
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Slantpoint
Jarrett Bell / USA Today:
Sean Payton rails against guns after Will Smith's death — Listen to Sean Payton. Carefully. He's mad. Sad. Frustrated. Passionate. — “If this opinion in Louisiana is super unpopular,” Payton told USA TODAY Sports in a 33-minute phone conversation on Monday, his first interview since Will Smith's death, “so be it.”
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abc7news.com, NBCSports.com and NBC News