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Wall Street Journal:
Map Shrinks for Donald Trump's Foes — Ted Cruz and John Kasich pin their fading hopes on Indiana's Republican presidential primary next week — ROCKVILLE, Md.—Donald Trump is poised to sweep five states' Republican primaries on the Eastern Seaboard on Tuesday, but his rivals …
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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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The Last Tradition
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, Politico and Bloomberg
New York Times:
Ted Cruz-John Kasich Alliance Against Donald Trump Quickly Weakens — The temporary alliance between Senator Ted Cruz and Gov. John Kasich of Ohio, formed to deny Donald J. Trump the Republican presidential nomination, was already in danger of fraying to the point of irrelevance on Monday …
Jonathan Swan / The Hill:
Trump on Kasich: ‘Never seen a human being eat in such a disgusting fashion’ — ridiculed John Kasich's “disgusting” eating during a rally in Rhode Island on Monday. — “Did you see him? He has a news conference, all the time when he's eating. I have never seen a human being eat …
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ABC News, Politico, The Atlantic, The Week, Power Line and Washington Times
Ben Kamisar / The Hill:
Cruz, Kasich join forces to stop Trump
Cruz, Kasich join forces to stop Trump
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CNN, WCMH-TV, Rush Limbaugh, RedState, Washington Post, The Daily Caller and The Gateway Pundit
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
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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Associated Press:
Federal judge upholds North Carolina photo ID mandate — RALEIGH, N.C. — Lawsuits challenging changes to North Carolina's election law failed to show it hampered the ability of minority voters to exercise political power, a federal judge ruled Monday in dismissing the cases.
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Hot Air, RedState, The Week and Associated Press
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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Balloon Juice and bradford-delong.com
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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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, The Right Scoop and Breitbart
Office of Media Relations:
Americans Overwhelmingly Engaged in 2016 Election but Tone of Race Is Affecting Voters, New GW Battleground Poll Shows — Obama's Approval Rating Turns Positive for First Time in Three Years — MEDIA CONTACTS: — Jason Shevrin: jshevrin@gwu.edu, 202-994-5631 — John Brandt: johnbrandt@gwu.edu, 202-994-3199
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Washington Times, Liberal Values, Power Line, Hot Air, The Gateway Pundit, The Week and No More Mister Nice Blog
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Rebecca Savransky / The Hill:
Clinton leads Trump by just 3 points in new poll
Clinton leads Trump by just 3 points in new poll
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Office of Media Relations
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 …
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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Raw Story, The Week, Althouse, Business Insider, Vox, No More Mister Nice Blog and Betsy's Page
Patrick Howley / Breitbart:
EXCLUSIVE: Colorado County GOP Chair: Errors with Ted Cruz's Delegate Win, Might Need Do-Over — The chairwoman of the Boulder County GOP has admitted that grave errors affected the Colorado Republican caucus, in which Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) won a clean sweep of 34 delegates without opening up the process to voting by everyday citizens.
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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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Betsy's Page and Instapundit
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.
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Gabriel Debenedetti / Politico:
Sanders: It's Clinton's job to ask my backers to support her
Daily Mail:
Jay-Z's not the only one who needs to be nervous about Beyonce, the born-again-black woman with a political mission — I never like it when entertainers go all political. — The cynic in me believes it's rarely done for genuine reasons but for strictly commercial ones.
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Mashable, Raw Story, Mediaite and New York Magazine
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Melissa Harris-Perry / ELLE:
A Call and Response with Melissa Harris-Perry: The Pain and the Power of ‘Lemonade’
Caitlin Yilek / The Hill:
Lena Dunham promises to move to Canada if Trump wins — Lena Dunham is the latest celebrity to say she'll hightail it out of the country if Donald Trump — is elected president. — “I know a lot of people have been threatening to do this, but I really will,” Dunham told Andy Cohen at the Matrix Awards on Monday.
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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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Politico
Philip Bump / Washington Post:
You need to chill out, Tim Robbins … The last we heard from actor and Bernie Sanders mega-supporter Tim Robbins, he was disparaging Hillary Clinton's big wins in the South by pointing out that those states would vote for the Republican in November. (We pointed out that Sanders won a lot of red states …
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Business Insider and Little Green Footballs
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Caitlin Yilek / The Hill:
Actor Tim Robbins blames Sanders losses on ‘voter fraud’
Actor Tim Robbins blames Sanders losses on ‘voter fraud’
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The Daily Caller, Joe.My.God. and Mediaite
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 …
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
Rick Noack / Washington Post:
This city embedded traffic lights in the sidewalks so that smartphone users don't have to look up — Few nations in the world take red traffic lights more seriously than Germany. — Foreign visitors frequently wonder why crowds of Germans wait for traffic lights to turn green when there are no cars in sight.
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Sputnik International, Daily Mail and Mashable
Sophia A. McClennen / Salon:
Maybe Donald Trump has really lost his mind: What if the GOP frontrunner isn't crazy, but simply not well? — We've become familiar with his ramblings, and at ease mocking them. But they might be the sign of someone unwell — The Donald Trump gaffe track keeps playing.
WLKY-TV:
Husband charged with killing wife in St. Regis Park — Man says he didn't know gun was loaded when he pointed it at his wife, pulled trigger — A woman was shot and killed Sunday and her husband is behind bars at Metro Corrections. — Police said 22-year-old Damien Lacambra was arrested overnight and faces a murder charge.
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Raw Story and Courier-Journal