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Hillary supporters take down Bernie FB pages in coordinated porn attack — Multiple Facebook pages supporting Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders — were abruptly removed from the social media network late last night following an apparent coordinated cyberattack.
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Heavy.com, AOL, New York Magazine, Mediaite, AMERICAblog NewsAMERICAblog …, Hot Air, The Last Refuge and Washington Free Beacon
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Bernie Sanders to Reassess Candidacy After Tuesday's Vote, but He'll Stay in Race — PHILADELPHIA — Senator Bernie Sanders and his campaign advisers plan to reassess where his candidacy stands after five states vote on Tuesday, though he is adamant that he will remain in the race until the Democratic convention this summer.
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Politico, Talking Points Memo, CNBC, Washington Free Beacon, Business Insider, MSNBC and Mediaite

Harry Reid Says Sanders Has No Path to the Nomination
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Talking Points Memo, Politico and Associated Press

Peak town hall: Man confronts Hillary Clinton on crime bill at two separate television events
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Washington Free Beacon and twitchy.com

Sanders fundraising email includes photo of the Clintons at Donald Trump's wedding
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Politico, The Hill and Washington Free Beacon


Clinton's Internet Supporters, Allegedly Using Pornography, Shut Down Bernie Sanders' Largest …
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The Daily Beast, Little Green Footballs, Heat Street, TPNN, Salon and ABC News

Hillary Clinton Trolls Shut Down Pro-Bernie Sanders Facebook Groups
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Salon and Shadowproof


Live Blog: Exit Poll Analysis From Tuesday's Primaries — Voters in five states — Pennsylvania, Maryland, Connecticut, Delaware and Rhode Island — head to the polls Tuesday to cast their votes in the Republican and Democratic presidential primary contests.
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Politicus USA
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First Exit Poll Info From Super Duper Tuesday Is In, And On The Delegate Process ... Uh Oh, GOP — Bad news in the exits. Remember there are a lot* delegates up for grabs today. And on that topic ... DELEGATES: — CNN reports that 68% of voters in Connecticut say that if nobody gets 1,237 …


Kasich campaign fails to get him included in Oregon's voters' pamphlet — John Kasich, one of only three still-standing GOP presidential candidates, isn't featured in Oregon's voters' pamphlet for the May primary election — an embarrassing blunder for any major campaign.
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Politico, Political Wire and Talking Points Memo
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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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Washington Post, Raw Story, Balloon Juice, Fox 59, WISH-TV, BizPac Review, Mediaite, Q13 FOX News and PinkNews

Ted Cruz Has Heated Exchange with Donald Trump Supporter
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Hullabaloo, TPNN, AOL and BizPac Review


NY judge decides Trump University case going to trial — A New York judge decided Tuesday that a fraud case against Donald Trump over his former school for real estate investors will go to trial - raising the possibility that the Republican presidential primary front-runner could testify during campaign season.
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Donald Trump Will Be Called to Testify in Trial About His ‘University’
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Associated Press and The Week

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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twitchy.com, Talking Points Memo, Mediaite, CNBC, Hot Air, Taylor Marsh, Raw Story, RedState, The Daily Caller, National Review, The Week, The Right Scoop, Althouse and Business Insider
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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.
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The Daily Caller, Hot Air, The Slot, Heat Street, Althouse, The Week, The Hill, LifeNews.com and Hollywood Reporter

Las Vegas Review-Journal columnist resigns — Las Vegas Review-Journal columnist John L. Smith resigned from the paper on Tuesday, after the paper prevented him from writing about casino owners Steve Wynn and Sheldon Adelson, whose family owns the Review-Journal.
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Talking Points Memo and New York Times, more at Mediagazer »
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Editor: Columnist can't write about Adelson at Adelson News
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Guardian, Mediaite and Talking Points Memo


Labour MP: Israelis Should Face “Transportation” Out of Middle East — A Labour MP has argued Israel should be “relocated” to America and praised the “transportation costs” of deporting Israeli Jews out of the Middle East. Naz Shah, who defeated George Galloway in Bradford West …
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Pamela Geller, Telegraph and Jewish Telegraphic Agency
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Florida Senate candidate says it's not safe to allow ‘anybody from the Middle East’ into U.S.
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ThinkProgress and Raw Story


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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Salon, Hit & Run, MSNBC, Balloon Juice, Vox, Slate, SFist, Washington Post, New York Magazine, Talking Points Memo, Lawyers, Guns & Money and bradford-delong.com
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Ex-Politico CEO Courts Silicon Valley With Bizarre ‘Third Party’ Op-Ed
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Washington Post and Political Wire


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 …
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Mediaite, Talking Points Memo, Guardian and Daily Kos
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Samantha Bee slams Fox News for defending “genocidal” Andrew Jackson over Harriet Tubman
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Towleroad

A majority of millennials now reject capitalism, poll shows — In an apparent rejection of the basic principles of the U.S. economy, a new poll shows that most young people do not support capitalism. — The Harvard University survey, which polled young adults between ages 18 and 29 …


Anger is a business — Many news outlets' business models now depend on stoking anger. This exacerbates the political system's polarization and dysfunction. — Anger seems to define the 2016 election. Donald Trump is riding Republican voters' rage to a possible nomination …


‘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.
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Washington Post, SFist and The Daily Caller


Today Is Clinton's Chance To End The ‘Groundhog Day’ Campaign — The Democratic campaign has taken on the feel of “Groundhog Day,” repeating the same storyline over and over with only minor variation. Hillary Clinton, in our view, has spent most of the year in the liminal space between “clear favorite” and “presumptive nominee.”
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Washington Free Beacon, Business Insider, Politicus USA, AOL, Washington Post and Political Insider blog


Man survives 135-foot plunge off Brooklyn Bridge — A 32-year-old man jumped off the Brooklyn Bridge Tuesday morning - but miraculously survived the 135-foot plunge, authorities said. — The unidentified emotionally disturbed man walked to the middle of the iconic span's pedestrian pathway …


State Department Hid Key Clinton Benghazi Email from Judicial Watch — Email Info Could Have Exposed Clinton Server in 2014 — (Washington, DC) - The Obama State Department last week admitted it withheld a key Benghazi email of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton from Judicial Watch since at least September 2014.
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The Daily Caller, John Hawkins' Right Wing News and Washington Free Beacon


SCIENTOLOGY LEADER DAVID MISCAVIGE THREATENS TO SUE FATHER OVER BOOK — [Ron Miscavige's book, with its US and UK covers, is due out a week from today] — London publisher Silvertail Books has received a letter from Scientology leader David Miscavige's attorneys threatening that it will be sued …