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Joshua David Stein / Guardian:
When the New York Observer endorsed Donald Trump, I had to resign — I was the restaurant critic. I could have carried on writing about crudités and borscht. But taking money from a shill for Trump implicated me in his hate — or the last three years, I've been the restaurant critic …
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Politico, Washington Free Beacon and Mediaite, more at Mediagazer »
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Philip Bump / Washington Post:
Donald Trump: I ‘helped a little bit’ with clearing rubble at Ground Zero … Donald Trump has gotten a lot of attention over the past 12 hours for referring to the Sept. 11 terror attacks as “7/11” during a speech in Buffalo. It's an awkward, amusing slip-up — but it's just a slip-up.
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Talking Points Memo and Mediaite
Nolan D. McCaskill / Politico:
Peter King: I hate Ted Cruz and I voted for John Kasich — Peter King hates Ted Cruz and thinks Donald Trump will win big in New York's Republican primary Tuesday, but he cast his ballot for John Kasich. — “I hate Ted Cruz, and I think I'll take cyanide if he ever got the nomination,” …
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ABC News and Washington Post
Theodore Schleifer / CNN:
Donald Trump mixes up ‘9/11’ with ‘7/11’
Donald Trump mixes up ‘9/11’ with ‘7/11’
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KTLA, Business Insider and Towleroad
Jose A. DelReal / Washington Post:
Clinton and Trump look to N.Y. primary to cement front-runner status
Clinton and Trump look to N.Y. primary to cement front-runner status
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CNN, Hot Air, Outside the Beltway and Prairie Weather
CBS News:
Donald Trump reorganizes campaign just before big state primaries — Two senior Trump sources confirmed an extensive reorganization of the Trump campaign to CBS News on Monday. — Paul Manafort, hired last week to be the convention manager, will now run the Trump campaign …
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JustOneMinute, RedState, The Atlantic, Washington Examiner, Mediaite, New York Magazine, The Resurgent and Politico
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Ben Schreckinger / Politico:
Trump orders new campaign hierarchy, spending plan — In a shakeup that's roiling Donald Trump's presidential campaign, the GOP front-runner told senior staffers at a Saturday meeting that he wants his recent hires Paul Manafort and Rick Wiley to take the reins in upcoming states …
Shane Goldmacher / Politico:
Donald Trump hires top GOP lawyer for delegate fight
Donald Trump hires top GOP lawyer for delegate fight
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Salon and electionlawblog.org
Andrew Kaczynski / BuzzFeed:
Trump Jr. On Delegate System: “I Feel Like We're Living In Communist China”
Trump Jr. On Delegate System: “I Feel Like We're Living In Communist China”
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Talking Points Memo
John Harwood / CNBC:
Biden to critics: We had 8 atom bombs land on our desk — Vice President Joe Biden says politicians need to stop questioning each other's motives and question their judgments and decisions instead. — ABOARD AMTRAK ACELA #2166 — Joe Biden, 73, has been an influential figure in American politics for more than four decades.
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RedState, Talking Points Memo, Politico, The Daily Caller and Washington Free Beacon
benjerry.com:
Why Ben and Jerry Just Got Arrested — Earlier today, our cofounders, Jerry Greenfield and Ben Cohen, along with hundreds of other activists, were arrested as part of Democracy Awakening's direct action on the steps of the U.S. Capitol Building. — JUST BEFORE THEY WERE ARRESTED
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Vox, CNN, Red Alert Politics, Mediaite, The Daily Caller, Mashable, Guardian, AOL, Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Eater and New York Times
Jim Geraghty / National Review:
Bernie's Tax Hypocrisy — Bernie Sanders released his 2014 tax return this weekend, revealing that he and his wife took $60,208 in deductions from their taxable income. These deductions are all perfectly legal and permitted under the U.S. tax code, but they present a morally inconvenient …
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Lawyers, Guns & Money and Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion
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Kevin Drum / Mother Jones:
No, Bernie's Taxes Don't Show That He's a Hypocrite — This argument was tiresome a decade ago, and it's still tiresome: … This isn't even close to hypocrisy. If you don't like the designated hitter rule in baseball, does that mean you should send your pitcher to the plate just to prove how sincere you are?
New York Times:
Debunking Republican Health Care Myths — “Disaster.” “Incredible economic burden.” “The biggest job-killer in this country.” — Central to the presidential campaigns of Donald Trump and Ted Cruz has been the claim that the Affordable Care Act has been a complete failure …
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Daily Kos, Media Matters for America and Washington Monthly
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Tom Murphy / Associated Press:
UNITEDHEALTH TO TRIM ACA EXCHANGES TO ‘HANDFUL’ OF STATES
UNITEDHEALTH TO TRIM ACA EXCHANGES TO ‘HANDFUL’ OF STATES
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Hot Air and Washington Free Beacon
Cynthia Cox / kff.org:
Analysis of UnitedHealth Group's Premiums and Participation in ACA Marketplaces
Analysis of UnitedHealth Group's Premiums and Participation in ACA Marketplaces
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USA Today, The Daily Caller, The CT Mirror, Washington Post, Hot Air, NPR and Morning Consult
New York Post:
Nervous Hillary downplays potential of New York landslide — Less than 24 hours before the polls open in New York, Hillary Clinton's campaign tried to downgrade expectations of a huge victory by predicting a less-than-overwhelming margin in Tuesday's presidential primary.
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The Nation, Political Insider blog, NY State of Politics, New York Times and Washington Post
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Jesse Byrnes / The Hill:
Sanders: Clinton will have to court my supporters
Sanders: Clinton will have to court my supporters
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Washington Monthly
Spencer Kornhaber / The Atlantic:
Better Call Saul and the Edge of Boredom — “We want to make a show that stands on its own,” Better Call Saul's co-creator Peter Gould has said about his and Vince Gilligan's Breaking Bad spinoff. Two seasons in, Saul has achieved many things, but this particular goal isn't one of them.
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Scripting News and Slate
Alex Griswold / Mediaite:
Scarborough Compares Trump to Johnny Manziel: 'He's Kind of a Turd' — MSNBC Morning Joe host Joe Scarborough defended the pundits who predict victories for Donald Trump Tuesday morning, comparing Trump to former Cleveland Browns quarterback Johnny Manziel, who was reviled for his off-the-field antics.
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Raw Story and The Daily Caller
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Steven Shepard / Politico:
How New York will be won — Two New Yorks are voting on Tuesday. — In the Democratic presidential primary, about half the vote will come from New York City's five boroughs — a percentage that increases to nearly three-quarters of the vote when the entire New York media market is included.
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New York Times
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Harry Enten / FiveThirtyEight:
A New Yorker's Guide To The GOP Primary — District By District
A New Yorker's Guide To The GOP Primary — District By District
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Vox, The Resurgent and The Atlantic
Dustin Volz / Reuters:
Apple refused China request for source code in last two years: lawyer — Apple has been asked by Chinese authorities within the last two years to hand over its source code but refused to do so, the company's top lawyer told U.S. lawmakers at a hearing on Tuesday.
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Infowars
New York Post:
54,000 Brooklyn voters ‘vanish’ ahead of primary day — More On: — In a pre-primary bombshell, the city's Board of Elections was pummeled with questions Monday about how 54,000 Democratic voters vanished from the rolls in Brooklyn. — The voter rolls on April 1 showed the borough …
Reuters:
WATCH: Migrants Riot, Hurl Stones At Police And Tear Down Greek Border Fence — (Reuters) - Dozens of migrants stranded on Greece's northern border with Macedonia hurled stones at police, a Reuters witness said, after one man living in the sprawling tent city near the town of Idomeni was injured by a police van.
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Jihad Watch
Mark Penn / The Hill:
Democracy in the crosshairs — In recent debates, both Hillary Clinton — boasted about the millions of votes they have received in the presidential primaries, with each touting the 8 million or 9 million votes they have won so far. So, out of a country of about 321 million people …
Neal Gabler / The Atlantic:
The Secret Shame of Middle-Class Americans — Since 2013, the Federal Reserve Board has conducted a survey to “monitor the financial and economic status of American consumers.” Most of the data in the latest survey, frankly, are less than earth-shattering: 49 percent of part-time workers …
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Talking Points Memo and The American Conservative