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11:00 AM ET, April 17, 2016

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Jim Hoft / The Gateway Pundit:
Donald Trump Is Outperforming Ted Cruz, Bernie Sanders AND Hillary Clinton  —  Donald Trump is not only outperforming Ted Cruz in the election to date, he also outperforms Democrats Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders as well.  —  The election results to date (as of Sunday April 17th) show that Trump outshines all the candidates.
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Maureen Dowd / New York Times:   Hillary Is Not Sorry  —  WASHINGTON — IT'S hard not to feel sorry for Hillary Clinton.
Patrick Howley / Breitbart:
Trump Supporters Walk Out of Georgia Delegate Fight After Party Picks Cruz Supporter...'Uproar in the Hall'  —  Donald Trump supporters walked out of a delegate election in Georgia Saturday to protest a vote that robbed Trump of all of his slated delegates from a district that he won in the primary.
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Jim Galloway / Political Insider blog:
Donald Trump gets outmaneuvered by Ted Cruz forces in Georgia  —  On March 1, Donald Trump finished first in Georgia's Republican presidential primary with 39 percent of the vote.  —  On Saturday, at gatherings of Republican activists meeting by congressional district …
Discussion: Politico and ABC News
Denver Post:
Obama should visit Ground Zero — but without apologies  —  Last week, Secretary of State John Kerry did something that no predecessor had ventured to do.  He attended a memorial service in Hiroshima and toured the Hiroshima Peace Memorial museum, which commemorates the devastation wrought by the bomb Little Boy in 1945.
Jonathan Easley / The Hill:
Republican Party delegates feel sudden power as balance shifts  —  The balance of power in the Republican Party has suddenly shifted to delegates, many of whom are entering the national spotlight for the first time.  —  Delegates say their lives have been turned upside down by the possibility …
Discussion: Political Wire
Terry Macalister / Observer:
Clouds gather over solar power after golden years of success  —  iven that the government is determined to avoid playing a financial role in the planned new nuclear plant at Hinkley Point, it is perhaps surprising that it is involved in the UK's largest solar array.
Angelique Chrisafis / Guardian:
Thousands of troops on Paris streets but are they France's new Maginot line?  —  Many welcome them, but others fear it is a ‘political anti-anxiety measure’  —  n the cobbled alleyways of Montmartre, as a busker warbled La Vie en Rose and street artists painted watercolours of the view over Paris …
Alison Smale / New York Times:
German Comic Who Lampooned Erdogan to Extend Break From TV Show  —  BERLIN — The satirist whose crude lampoon of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey touched off a furor over free speech in Germany announced Saturday that he and his team would take a break from their satirical TV show until May 12.
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Frank Jordans / Associated Press:
MERKEL CRITICIZED, LAUDED FOR ALLOWING COMIC'S PROSECUTION
Discussion: Associated Press
Hannah Parry For / Daily Mail:
Not just a pretty face then?  Justin Trudeau stuns room full of reporters and scientists with perfect answer to complex quantum computing question  — Canadian Prime Minister was delivering his budget speech when he was put on spot with a joke question about quantum computing
Discussion: American Spectator
Matt Spetalnick / Reuters:
U.S. sends nine Yemeni prisoners from Guantanamo Bay to Saudi Arabia  —  The United States on Saturday transferred nine Yemeni men to Saudi Arabia from the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo, including an inmate who had been on a hunger strike since 2007, under a long-sought diplomatic deal between Washington …
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CNN:
Saudis warn of economic reprisals if Congress passes 9/11 bill
Jeremy Diamond / CNN:
Bernie Sanders smashes the Israel status quo  —  New York (CNN)Bernie Sanders is taking a sledgehammer to the political status quo on Israel.  —  Sanders refused to back down Thursday night from his claim that Israel in 2014 used “disproportionate” force to respond to Hamas rocket fire …
BBC:
Japan earthquake: Rescuers in ‘race against time’ as storm hits  —  Rescuers are in a “race against time” to find survivors of a powerful earthquake amid forecasts of heavy rain and cold overnight, Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has warned.  —  Mr Abe admitted rescue operations throughout …
Discussion: The Atlantic, Hot Air and Engadget
Dan Berman / CNN:
Ted Cruz sweeps Wyoming Republican Convention  —  Casper, Wyoming (CNN)It's a Ted Cruz sweep in Wyoming.  —  Cruz won 14 of 14 Republican National Convention delegates up for grabs at the Wyoming state convention here Saturday.  —  The crowd here was clearly in Cruz's corner …
McClatchy Washington Bureau:
Inside Panama Papers: Multiple Clinton connections  —  Some donors to Clinton foundation used the Panamanian law firm for offshores  —  Connections come from the more than 40 years Bill and Hillary Clinton have spent in public life  —  Clinton criticized those exposed in the Panama Papers, some looking to hide their wealth
Discussion: The Daily Caller
 
 
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DON'T MISS STORIES.  FOLLOW RAW STORY!  —  Bill Maher closed …
Suz Elvey / Daily Express:
Huge fireball at Manchester Airport as terror suspect is seized
Discussion: Pamela Geller and Jihad Watch
Los Angeles Times:
L.A.'s effort to equip officers with body cameras stalls
Discussion: Associated Press
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