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12:40 PM ET, April 26, 2016

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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 …
Discussion: The Last Tradition
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Margaret Carlson / Bloomberg View:
How to Be Presidential, Trump-Style
Jesse Byrnes / The Hill:
Kasich: Media ‘too hung up on process’ over Cruz alliance
Discussion: Washington Post
New York Times:
Ted Cruz-John Kasich Alliance Against Donald Trump Quickly Weakens
Real Clear Politics:
Cracks in Cruz-Kasich Alliance
Discussion: New York Magazine
Jessica Hopper / ABC News:
Ted Cruz Has Heated Exchange with Donald Trump Supporter
Discussion: AOL and BizPac Review
Tal Kopan / CNN:
Trump: Cruz-Kasich alliance ‘pathetic’
Wall Street Journal:   Map Shrinks for Donald Trump's Foes
Associated Press:
Trump, Clinton aim for sweeps of Northeastern primaries
Discussion: WCTX-TV
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.
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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Caitlin MacNeal / Talking Points Memo:
NC GOP AG Candidate Tells HB2 Fans: ‘Keep Our State Straight!’ (VIDEO)
Discussion: Citizen Times
Nick Gass / Politico:
Trump: Americans will thank me when Lena Dunham flees to Canada  —  Not only would Donald Trump not mind if certain celebrities were to flee the United States if he is elected president, the Republican front-runner said Tuesday that their opposition to his candidacy only increases his will to win.
Discussion: The Week
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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.
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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 …
Discussion: Towleroad and Mediaite
Emma Roller / New York Times:
Pennsylvania, Where Everyone Is ‘Furious’  —  Reading, Pa. — KEITH MANDICH had been to this theater before, to see John Mellencamp.  —  Now Mr. Mandich, a retired steelworker, was back in downtown Reading, Pa., to see another guy he thought of as a hero for working-class America: Senator Bernie Sanders.
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Alex Roarty / Roll Call:   The Emotional Life of Sanders Supporters
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.
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|
Discussion: The Daily Caller
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Kyle Balluck / The Hill:
Trump breaks 50 percent mark in national poll
Discussion: Talking Points Memo and The Week
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.
Michael Daly / The Daily Beast:
The Guy Who Screwed America's Economy Hearts Hillary Clinton  —  The man behind Goldman Sachs's infamous bets on the housing collapse now buys foreclosed homes and rents them out—but not to anyone convicted of a financial crime.  He's also a big Clinton donor.  —  Wall Street is buying Main Street one foreclosed home at a time.
Discussion: Salon and The Week
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 …
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.
CNN:
‘Wild animals’: Racist texts sent by San Francisco police officer, documents show  —  The following story contains offensive language and may not be suitable for all audiences.  —  (CNN)"I hate that beaner," one text reads, “but I think the nig is worse.”  —  “Indian ppl are disgusting,” proclaims another.
Dr. Ben Carson / Independent Journal Review Opinion:
Harriet Tubman Has A Legacy Worth Upholding  —  Retired Pediatric Neurosurgeon Dr. Ben Carson was a 2016 Republican candidate for President of the United States.  —  ShareTweetEmail  —  Independent Journal Opinion is an opinion platform and any opinions or information put forth by contributors …
Discussion: Talking Points Memo and Mediaite
Sarah Ferris / The Hill:
AmeriCorps workers helped young women get abortions  —  Six members of the national service program AmeriCorps recently escorted young pregnant women to abortion clinics in a “direct violation” of federal funding rules, a government watchdog will report Tuesday.
Discussion: LifeNews.com
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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Margot Sanger-Katz / New York Times:
When Was America Greatest?  —  Donald Trump's campaign slogan is …
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Lisa Hagen / The Hill:
Clinton: If elected, women would make up half my Cabinet
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Marc A. Thiessen / Washington Post:
Obamacare disaster will be Obama's enduring domestic legacy
Discussion: Forbes
The Local:
French soldier sliced by ‘Arabic-speaking man’
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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.
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Erik Pedersen / Deadline:
‘Weiner’ Trailer: You Can't Make This Stuff Up, But You Can Document It
Patrick Howley / Breitbart:
EXCLUSIVE: Colorado County GOP Chair: Errors with Ted Cruz's Delegate Win, Might Need Do-Over
Sophia A. McClennen / Salon:
Maybe Donald Trump has really lost his mind: What if the GOP frontrunner isn't crazy, but simply not well?
Melissa Harris-Perry / ELLE:
A Call and Response with Melissa Harris-Perry: The Pain and the Power of ‘Lemonade’
Discussion: Taylor Marsh
Roger Harrabin / BBC:
Rise in CO2 has ‘greened Planet Earth’
Discussion: Power Line, Daily Mail, AOL and Carbon Brief