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Jim Hoft / The Gateway Pundit:
Rudy Giuliani: Trump Is the Nominee... Cruz-Kasich Backroom Deal is Devastating (Video) — Rudy Giuliani joined Sean Hannity tonight to discuss the Republican primary race. — Rudy says it's over and Trump is the nominee. … The post Rudy Giuliani: Trump Is the Nominee …
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Zack Ford / ThinkProgress:
Ted Cruz Doesn't Want Any Transgender People In Any Bathroom Anywhere — Ted Cruz's tour de transphobia, launched last week to capitalize on Donald Trump's criticism of North Carolina's anti-transgender law, has embraced a new extreme position. Speaking to reporters this weekend in Indiana …
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Margaret Carlson / Bloomberg View:
How to Be Presidential, Trump-Style — If in the early hours of a Saturday morning, there's a traffic jam in your neighborhood, it won't be because it's the opening day of the county fair. These days, it's more likely to be Donald Trump. — In Waterbury, Connecticut, this weekend …
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No More Mister Nice Blog, Bloomberg and Politico
Jose A. DelReal / Washington Post:
Five states expected to help Trump and Clinton widen their leads
Five states expected to help Trump and Clinton widen their leads
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Outside the Beltway, Guardian and Media Matters for America
Jessica Hopper / ABC News:
Ted Cruz Has Heated Exchange with Donald Trump Supporter
Ted Cruz Has Heated Exchange with Donald Trump Supporter
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AOL and BizPac Review
Ben Kamisar / The Hill:
Cruz, Kasich join forces to stop Trump
Cruz, Kasich join forces to stop Trump
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WIAT-TV, Rush Limbaugh, RedState, The Daily Caller, The Gateway Pundit and The Bob and Chez Show
Eli Stokols / Politico:
Trump rejects new adviser's push to make him ‘presidential’ — Donald Trump is bristling at efforts to implement a more conventional presidential campaign strategy, and has expressed misgivings about the political guru behind them, Paul Manafort, for overstepping his bounds, multiple sources close to the campaign tell POLITICO.
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Nick Gass / Politico:
Trump: Americans will thank me when Lena Dunham flees to Canada — Not only would Donald Trump not mind if certain celebrities flee the United States upon his election, the Republican front-runner said Tuesday that their opposition to his candidacy only increases his will to win.
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Caitlin Yilek / The Hill:
Lena Dunham promises to move to Canada if Trump wins
Lena Dunham promises to move to Canada if Trump wins
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Heat Street, Business Insider, Fox News Insider, The Daily Caller and LifeNews.com
Ashley Lee / Hollywood Reporter:
Lena Dunham, Nancy Dubuc, Janice Min Honored at Matrix Awards
Lena Dunham, Nancy Dubuc, Janice Min Honored at Matrix Awards
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The Slot and The Daily Caller
Jim VandeHei / Wall Street Journal:
Bring on a Third-Party Candidate — Establishment America deserves disruption, but not of the Sanders or Trump type. Here's how to do it. — I have spent the past two decades in the Washington, D.C., bubble—the heart of Establishment America—covering politics and building a company, Politico, focused solely on politics.
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Hadley Malcolm / USA Today:
More than 500,000 boycott Target over transgender bathroom policy — A conservative Christian activist group has gained more than half a million signatures and counting from people pledging to boycott Target over its transgender bathroom policy. — The petition started by the American Family Association …
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Andy Humbles / USA Today:
Pastor blasts Target for bathroom policy … MOUNT JULIET, Tenn. — A minister here has posted a video on his Facebook page challenging Target's new bathroom policy that allows customers to choose a restroom that corresponds to their gender identity. — It has had more than 12 million views since being shared Friday night.
Caleb Howe / RedState:
VIDEO: Target Welcomes Man To Use Women's Room, Promises To Handle Women's Complaints
VIDEO: Target Welcomes Man To Use Women's Room, Promises To Handle Women's Complaints
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Mediaite, Louder With Crowder and The Right Scoop
NBC News:
Poll: Trump Reaches 50 Percent Support Nationally for the First Time — Trump: New Cruz-Kasich Alliance to Stop Him is ‘Pathetic’ and ‘Weak’ 2:47 — Donald Trump has reached 50 percent support from Republicans and Republican-leaners nationally for the first time since the beginning of the NBC News|
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Kyle Balluck / The Hill:
Trump breaks 50 percent mark in national poll
Trump breaks 50 percent mark in national poll
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New York Times:
Federal Judge Upholds North Carolina Voter Rules — RALEIGH, N.C. — A federal judge on Monday upheld sweeping Republican-backed changes to election rules, including a voter identification provision, that civil rights groups say unfairly targeted African-Americans and other minorities.
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Alex Roarty / Roll Call:
The Emotional Life of Sanders Supporters — Movement will go on, they say — with or without Democratic Party — Van Hollen, McGinty Surge Ahead In Kansas, Pompeo Won't Challenge Sen. Moran Major Mystery Donor Reveals Why He Backed Donna Edwards — BALTIMORE - Bailey Myers …
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Emma Roller / New York Times:
Pennsylvania, Where Everyone Is ‘Furious’
Dan Tynan / Guardian:
Revenge porn: the industry profiting from online abuse — Sites charge $100 a year to access private photos and videos of non-porn stars in the nude, usually posted by spurned ex-lovers - but it doesn't end there — ix years ago, Rebekah Wells Googled her name to see what turned up.
Zack Guzman / CNBC:
Meet the company offering a chance at immortality for $200,000 — More and more people are signing up to be frozen for a chance at life after death. So the question is, would you? — This woman is freezing her brain so she can see the future — More and more people are signing …
Shoshana Weissmann / Weekly Standard:
Don't Suggest to Hillary She Could Ever Be Behind in Votes — During MSNBC's town hall with Hillary Clinton, Rachel Maddow made the mistake of suggesting Clinton could ever in the future be behind Bernie Sanders in the delegate count. — “That was June 7, 2008 when you got out of the race and endorsed President Obama.
Melissa Harris-Perry / ELLE:
A Call and Response with Melissa Harris-Perry: The Pain and the Power of ‘Lemonade’ — What happens when we take the hopes, dreams, pain, and joy of black girls and women and put them in the center? — What would happen if we took the hopes, dreams, pain, joy, loss, bodies, voices …
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Jim Hoft / The Gateway Pundit:
RUSH LIMBAUGH: If Cruz Plan Succeeds and He Wins on Second Ballot, It's the “End of the Republican Party” — Rush Limbaugh told his radio audience today that if Ted Cruz succeeds in his plan to win the nomination on the second ballot it will be the “end of the Republican party.”
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Rush Limbaugh, Freedom's Lighthouse and BizPac Review
Richard Pollock / The Daily Caller:
EXCLUSIVE: Kerry, Heinz Family Have Millions Invested In Offshore Tax Havens — Secretary of State John Kerry and his wife Teresa Heinz have invested millions of U.S. dollars through family trusts in at least 11 offshore tax havens, according to The Daily Caller News Foundation's Investigative Group.
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Tim Murphy / Mother Jones:
The only campaign that would have even been legal eight years ago belongs to a 74-year-old socialist. … The Uncampaign has upended the system across the board, turning even the most basic of candidacies into something unrecognizable. … “All the rules of the playbook are thrown out the window …