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Associated Press:
Trump team tells GOP he has been ‘projecting an image’ — HOLLYWOOD, Fla. (AP) — Donald Trump's chief lieutenants told skeptical Republican leaders Thursday that the GOP front-runner has been “projecting an image” so far in the 2016 primary season and “the part that he's been playing is now evolving” …
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Bloomberg:
Trump to Hone Image, Raise Funds for Republican Candidates, Adviser Says — The front-runner dispatched Paul Manafort to the party's final meeting ahead of the Republican convention. — McCormickJohn — tdopp — Outsider candidate Donald Trump sent emissaries to soothe tensions …
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Philip Rucker / Washington Post:
Trump is playing ‘a part’ and can transform for victory, campaign chief tells GOP leaders — What is the GOP establishment? … State of the race 2016 — HOLLYWOOD, Fla. — The two new leaders of Donald Trump's presidential campaign sought Thursday to reassure nervous Republican Party leaders …
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Matea Gold / Washington Post:
As Trump moves to soften his image, Democrats seek to harden it
As Trump moves to soften his image, Democrats seek to harden it
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Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
RNC leaders reject bid to rewrite convention rules
RNC leaders reject bid to rewrite convention rules
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Andrew R. Lewis / FiveThirtyEight:
Trump Doesn't Have A Monopoly On Intolerant Supporters — Many of Donald Trump's supporters are intolerant — racist, sexist and xenophobic. Indeed, some high-profile work has highlighted Trump's populism and his appeal to less-educated authoritarians — a potent witch's brew challenging democratic norms.
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Shane Goldmacher / Politico:
Private polls reveal a Trump-Cruz Indiana dogfight — No state in the coming weeks of the Republican presidential contest is viewed by the campaigns as more consequential than Indiana — and none has been a bigger black hole for polling, where not a single public survey of the state's electorate has been released.
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Jim Hoft / The Gateway Pundit:
HANNITY: There Will Be No Contested Convention - Things Are Happening Behind the Scenes (VIDEO) — Sean Hannity went on Your World with Neil Cavuto today to discuss his dust up with Senator Ted Cruz. — During the interview Hannity dropped this bomb — There won't be a contested convention …
Rebecca Savransky / The Hill:
Cruz ad imagines Clinton war room cheering on Trump — A new ad for Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz — imagines a war room with Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton — to be the GOP nominee. — The ad highlights reasons why Clinton could beat Trump in a general election.
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Emily Schultheis / CBS News:
Ted Cruz, Donald Trump spar over North Carolina transgender bathroom law
Ted Cruz, Donald Trump spar over North Carolina transgender bathroom law
Tommy Christopher / Mediaite:
Donald Trump Straight-Up Tells Republican Voter Yes, I Will Deport Your Relatives
Donald Trump Straight-Up Tells Republican Voter Yes, I Will Deport Your Relatives
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TMZ.com:
Dead at 57 — The artist known as Prince has died ... TMZ has learned. He was 57. — Prince's body was discovered at his Paisley Park compound in Minnesota early Thursday morning. — Multiple sources connected to the singer confirmed he had passed. We've obtained the emergency dispatch call for a “male down, not breathing.”
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Peter Willis / mirror:
Inside Prince's bizarre life at Paisley Park: This is what happened when we visited the music icon — When the Daily Mirror's Peter Willis went to interview the music legend at his Paisley Park mansion in 2010 it was even weirder than he could have imagined
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Ben Collins / The Daily Beast:
Hillary PAC Spends $1 Million to ‘Correct’ Commenters on Reddit and Facebook — FEC loopholes mean Correct the Record can openly coordinate with Clinton's campaign. — Citing “lessons learned from online engagement with ‘Bernie Bros,’” a pro-Hillary Clinton Super PAC is pledging to spend $1 million to …
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James Pindell / BostonGlobe.com:
Five women Hillary Clinton could pick for VP
Five women Hillary Clinton could pick for VP
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Michelle Boorstein / Washington Post:
Raunchy Prince was actually a conservative Christian who reportedly opposed gay marriage — (Kristian Dowling/Getty Images for Lotusflow3r.com) — With the death Thursday of Prince Rogers Nelson, you may see a strange mix on your Facebook feed of sex and religion.
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Steven Hayward / Power Line:
Leftists Lose Their Lunch Over the Tubman 20 — After years of complaining that America's paper money featured only dead white guys, a lot of folks on the Left are in a snit that Harriet Tubman is going to replace Andrew Jackson on the face of the twenty-dollar bill.
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Perry Stein / Washington Post:
Kasich on D.C. voting rights: 'That's just more votes in the Democratic Party.' — When asked his position on D.C. voting rights, Republican presidential contender John Kasich didn't pretend to draw on any constitutional clause or existing law to explain his stance against it.
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Matthew Yglesias / Vox:
John Kasich says DC residents can't vote because they vote for Democrats
John Kasich says DC residents can't vote because they vote for Democrats
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Travis / Uber Global:
Growing and growing up — Today we announced a settlement in two important class-action lawsuits: O'Connor (California) and Yucesoy (Massachusetts). The key issue at stake in both cases is whether drivers using the Uber app should be classified as independent contractors or employees.
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Katherine Peralta / The Charlotte Observer:
NBA's Silver: LGBT law must change to keep 2017 All-Star Game in Charlotte — NBA Commissioner Adam Silver addressed NC's House Bill 2 Thursday at the APSE commissioner meetings — On ESPN's ‘Mike & Mike’ morning radio show Thursday, NBA Commissioner Adam Silver addressed 2017 All-Star Game controversy
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Rush Limbaugh:
Changing Trump Confounds Everyone — RUSH: Donald Trump confounding his supporters today and confounding many in the Drive-By Media. Donald Trump and his acceptance remarks after the New York primary referred to “Senator Cruz” a couple of times, did not refer to him as “Lyin' Ted.”
Steven Zeitchik / Los Angeles Times:
What's old is new: MTV plots a major return to music — An MTV logo from 1996. The channel plans to return to its music focus. — For much of the modern era, the word music in the MTV acronym has been an afterthought, a vestige of an earlier time and identity. — That's all about to change.
Chicago Tribune:
Video shows bystanders didn't help assault victim before he was run over — Warning: graphic content. On Feb. 7, 2016, Marques Gaines was punched and knocked unconscious into a crosswalk outside a 7-Eleven on the Near North Side, where he lay before a taxi ran over him.
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Alister Doyle / Reuters:
Child brides sometimes tolerated in Nordic asylum centers despite bans — Some child brides are living with older husbands in asylum centers in Scandinavia, triggering a furor about lapses in protection for girls in nations that ban child marriage. — Authorities have in some cases …
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Jonathan Martin / New York Times:
With Uncertainty at Top of Ticket, Republicans Back Off in Some States — HOLLYWOOD, Fla. — The Republican National Committee is scaling back its financial commitments to some of the most hotly contested states because of flagging fund-raising, the most concrete evidence yet of how the party's divisive …
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Koch-linked group scores legal victory over California AG — A federal judge in Los Angeles has again shut down California Attorney General Kamala Harris' drive to obtain the donor list for Americans for Prosperity, an influential political group funded by Charles and David Koch.