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2:00 PM ET, April 14, 2016

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Ashley Feinberg / Gawker:
After His Honeymoon, Ted Cruz Immediately Bought 100 Cans Of Soup  —  Thanks to CNN's town hall, America just got another glimpse into the waking hell that is Heidi Cruz's daily life.  Tonight's entry into the Heidi Cruz catalogue of the macabre: A newlywed Ted Cruz celebrates by buying 100 cans of Campbell's Chunky soup.
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Washington Post:
Republicans like Donald Trump and Ted Cruz.  The general public doesn't.  —  What is a super PAC? … State of the 2016 race  —  Strong headwinds of unpopularity continue to hobble leading Republicans Donald Trump and Ted Cruz with the public at-large, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll.
CBS News:
CBS News poll: Donald Trump holds onto national lead  —  By Anthony Salvanto, Fred Backus, Sarah Dutton andJennifer De Pinto  —  Where the Race Stands  —  Nationally, Donald Trump still has a double digit lead over his nearest competitor Ted Cruz, but his margin over Cruz has decreased.
Katie Zezima / Washington Post:
Inside Ted Cruz's novel strategy for winning from behind  —  What is a super PAC? … State of the 2016 race  —  IRVINE, Calif. — Eight days before Republican voters in the state of New York would award a massive trove of 95 delegates, Ted Cruz stood three time zones away in a hotel ballroom packed …
Gregory Holyk / ABC News:
Discussion: AOL and Outside the Beltway
Rich Lowry / Politico:   Trump Wuz Robbed
Nick Gass / Politico:
Sanders: ‘No room’ for language about ‘corporate Democratic whores’  —  Bernie Sanders on Thursday repudiated the remarks of a surrogate who used the phrase “corporate Democratic whores” on Wednesday night during the Vermont senator's rally in Washington Square Park, after Hillary Clinton's campaign demanded …
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Associated Press:
The Latest: Ryan: Can See Why Trump Comments Rattle Mideast
Discussion: Politico, ABC News and abc7news.com
Alex Seitz-Wald / NBC News:
Sanders Under Fire for Supporter's ‘Whores’ Remarks
Sam Frizell / TIME:
Bernie Sanders Says Democratic Primary Schedule ‘Distorts Reality’
Discussion: Washington Post and The Week
Marc Caputo / Politico:
Trump campaign manager will not be prosecuted, sources say  —  A Florida prosecutor has decided not to prosecute Donald Trump's campaign manager for battery after a March run-in with former Breitbart reporter Michelle Fields, sources with knowledge of the situation told POLITICO.
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Greta Van Susteren / Gretawire:
Free legal advice to Michelle Fields: don't bring a civil lawsuit
Brent Lang / Variety:
AMC Entertainment CEO Open to Allowing Texting in Some Theaters  —  Adam Aron has been head of AMC Entertainment for less than four months, but in that short time he's already orchestrated one of the most significant deals in the country's history.  In February, AMC announced that it has an agreement …
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Caitlin MacNeal / Talking Points Memo:
Trump Asks Pittsburgh Crowd 'How's Joe Paterno?' (VIDEO)
Eli Stokols / Politico:
Karl Rove-backed PAC warms to Trump  —  Karl Rove has publicly blasted Donald Trump as “a petty man consumed by resentment and bitterness” with little gravitas and almost no chance of beating Hillary Clinton.  —  But privately, the super PAC conceived by Rove is suggesting to its donors …
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J.K. Trotter / Gawker:
Clinton Donor Confirms Presence of Static Noise Machine at Secretive Colorado Fundraiser
Discussion: AOL and The Daily Caller
Noah Feldman / Bloomberg View:
Polygamy Is Constitutional.  Here's Why.  —  Now that a U.S. appeals court has declined to strike down Utah's bigamy laws, it's reasonable to ask: What does the Constitution, properly interpreted, have to say about the topic?  —  Legally speaking, the issue can be split in two.
Discussion: Washington Monthly
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Caitlin MacNeal / Talking Points Memo:
Megyn Kelly: I Had Chance ‘To Clear The Air’ With Donald Trump  —  Megyn Kelly on Wednesday night confirmed that she met with Donald Trump on Wednesday morning, and said that she was able to “clear the air” with the Republican presidential frontrunner after he has repeatedly slammed the Fox News anchor.
Discussion: Washington Monthly
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Harper Neidig / The Hill:   Megyn Kelly: Meeting with Trump allowed us to ‘clear the air’
Sacramento Bee:
UC Davis spent thousands to scrub pepper-spray references from Internet  —  UC Davis sought to eliminate negative search results for school and chancellor  —  Strategic communications budget soared during Katehi's tenure  —  Students occupying area outside Katehi's office call for her resignation
NPR:
The Real Story Behind HBO's ‘Confirmation’ From The NPR Reporter Who Broke The Story  —  Play the NPR Politics Podcast  —  HBO's new movie Confirmation chronicles the intense confirmation battle for Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas after Anita Hill, a former employee, claimed he sexually harassed her.
Discussion: ImmigrationProf Blog
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Monica Crowley / Washington Times:   The left's long war against Clarence Thomas
Meghann Myers / Navy Times:
This is why the Navy didn't shoot down Russian jets  —  Russian pilots rattled nerves aboard the destroyer Donald Cook, buzzing within yards of the ship in the Baltic Sea.  Provocative, sure.  But they weren't a credible threat.  —  So concludes a retired Navy commanding officer …
Sari Horwitz / Washington Post:
Democratic Party and Clinton campaign to sue Arizona over voting rights  —  What is a super PAC? … State of the 2016 race  —  The Democratic Party and Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign will sue the state of Arizona over voter access to the polls after the state's presidential primary …
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
Sabato's Crystal Ball:
House 2016: How a Democratic Wave Could Happen  —  More than a dozen rating changes, almost all favoring Democrats  —  Pennsylvania's Seventh Congressional District, which forms a misshapen U linking Greater Philadelphia in the east to the outskirts of Lancaster and Reading to its west and north …
Benjy Sarlin / MSNBC:
How an army of pro-Donald Trump trolls are taking over Reddit  —  Donald Trump is taking over Reddit.  —  Seemingly out of nowhere, the site dubbed “the front page of the Internet” has been flooded with pro-Trump material over the last two months.  —  Reddit, a forum that consists …
Discussion: Hit & Run
Ari Melber / NBC News:
Lapsed Rubio Delegates Are Up for Grabs on Convention's First Ballot  —  When he suspended his campaign, Marco Rubio said he wasn't running for president but urged local GOP officials to let him keep his delegates.  —  A month later, Rubio is still third in the Republican hunt …
Discussion: RedState, LawNewz and The Daily Caller
 
 
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Matthew Yglesias / Vox:
Time magazine's new cover trolls economically literate people with absurd scare tactics
Discussion: Mother Jones
CBS News:
Who's behind the new LGBT bathroom laws?
Discussion: Raw Story and Towleroad
Los Angeles Times:
Charles Manson follower Leslie Van Houten seeks parole for 1969 slaying
Discussion: NBC News
Ben Caspit / Al-Monitor:
Is Israel forming an alliance with Egypt and Saudi Arabia?
Michael McConnell / Hoover Institution:
Obama's Unconstitutional Immigration Order
Discussion: Power Line
 Earlier Items: 
Ronald Brownstein / The Atlantic:
The Misplaced Criticism of Clinton's Crime Bill
Tony Romm / Politico:
Apple hires NFL, Biden veteran for key policy role
Discussion: The Hill and Business Insider
Catherine Ho / Washington Post:
Many GOP lobbyists will go to Cleveland but the thrill is gone
Discussion: CNN and Florida Politics
Margaret Talev / Bloomberg:
Plan for Woman on $10 Bill in Question as Hamilton Fans Lobby
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Ravi Somaiya / New York Times:
A Hoax Plot, Cloaked in a Ukrainian Interview
Michael Barone / Washington Examiner:
Donald Trump's insincere process arguments
Noah Rothman / Commentary Magazine:
Fear the Cleveland Convention
 

 
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