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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 …
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.
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 …
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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.
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.
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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
MERKEL CRITICIZED, LAUDED FOR ALLOWING COMIC'S PROSECUTION
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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
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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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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 …
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Jason Horowitz / New York Times:
Criticizing Israel, Bernie Sanders Highlights Split Among Jewish Democrats
Criticizing Israel, Bernie Sanders Highlights Split Among Jewish Democrats
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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 …
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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 …
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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
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