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1:10 PM ET, April 27, 2016

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Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
It's Trump's Nomination To Lose*  —  Tuesday night went about as well as possible for Donald Trump.  —  Two weeks ago, after a rough stretch of states for Trump, we issued a series of delegate projections that included something called a “path-to-1,237” projection, a set of targets …
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John Podhoretz / New York Post:
Ted Cruz is crumbling before our very eyes  —  MORE FROM:  —  For the past few weeks, Republican campaign professionals and conservatives who are seeing the GOP nomination heading into Donald Trump's hands have been counseling anti-Trump voters not to panic and consoling themselves …
Jim Hoft / The Gateway Pundit:
IT'S OFFICIAL=> Ted Cruz Is Mathematically ELIMINATED from GOP Race - With Chart  —  As we predicted on April 2nd.... As of today, April 26, 2016, Ted Cruz is mathematically eliminated from winning the Republican nomination outright.  —  On April 2nd we predicted that Donald Trump …
Shane Goldmacher / Politico:   Trump starts spending to end Cruz in Indiana
Fox News:
Trump completes 5-state sweep; Clinton beats Sanders in most Super Tuesday III contests
Sahil Kapur / Bloomberg:   Trump Lays Claim to Nomination Backed by Smashing Victories
Chris Kahn / Reuters:
Exclusive: Half of Americans think presidential nominating system ‘rigged’ - poll  —  More than half of American voters believe that the system U.S. political parties use to pick their candidates for the White House is “rigged” and more than two-thirds want to see the process changed, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll.
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John Santucci / ABC News:
After 5 State Sweep, Trump Turns His Attention to Clinton
Discussion: Talking Points Memo and TPNN
Annie Karni / Politico:
Clinton's refusal to quit in 2008 haunts her in 2016
Discussion: Washington Post and Scared Monkeys
Jonathan Bernstein / Bloomberg View:
Trump Can't Beat Clinton. Who Says?
Discussion: Washington Post
The White House / Medium:
Asked and Answered: President Obama Responds to an Eight-Year-Old Girl from Flint  —  At eight years old, Mari Copeny—known around town as “Little Miss Flint”—wrote to President Obama last month from her home in Flint, Michigan to share how she is working to bring attention to the public health crisis in her community.
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Nick Gass / Politico:
Obama to visit Flint next week
Discussion: The Week
Detroit News:
Obama to visit Flint to spotlight water crisis
Discussion: Daily Kos
Daniel Bethencourt / Detroit Free Press:
Saying ‘vagina’ got me fired, Battle Creek middle school teacher says  —  Vagina.  It's a noun describing female anatomy that caused such outrage in the Michigan Legislature in 2012 that a legislator was blocked from speaking after using it.  —  Now, a substitute teacher says using it got …
Discussion: Althouse and Raw Story
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Alex Zielinski / ThinkProgress:   Teacher Says She Was Fired For Saying The Word ‘Vagina’
Nicky Zizaza / WWMT-TV:
W. Mich. substitute teacher fired for using anatomical word during lesson
Discussion: The Daily Caller and EAGnews.org
Julia Ioffe / GQ:
Melania Trump on Her Rise, Her Family Secrets, and Her True Political Views: “Nobody Will Ever Know”  —  How does a shy ex-model make her way from Slovenia to, just maybe, the White House?  To Melania Trump—and to the people who know her back home—her journey to marrying The Donald is like a fairy tale …
Associated Press:
Trump's big speech tests his foreign policy and style  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — Donald Trump's highly anticipated foreign policy speech Wednesday will test whether the Republican presidential front-runner, known for his raucous rallies and eyebrow-raising statements, can present a more presidential persona …
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
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Steve Holland / Reuters:
World to watch as Trump outlines his foreign policy  —  Donald Trump will set aside his bad-boy antics, and with the help of a teleprompter to keep him on message, outline on Wednesday his vision for foreign policy if elected U.S. president in November, campaign aides say.
Discussion: Balloon Juice and Guardian
James Hohmann / Washington Post:
The Daily 202: The Democratic Establishment strikes back in the Acela Primary  —  THE BIG IDEA: Democratic insiders in D.C. got everything they were rooting for along the I-95 corridor last night.  —  Hillary Clinton essentially clinched the nomination by dominating in four of the five states that voted Tuesday.
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Aaron Rupar / ThinkProgress:
Here Are All The Sexist Things Donald Trump Said About Hillary Clinton Wednesday Morning  —  At the very end of a news conference commemorating his absurdly dominant Tuesday night performance, Donald Trump accused Hillary Clinton of playing “the women's card” and said, “If [she] were a man …
Discussion: The Slot
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Allum Bokhari / Breitbart:
Sci-Fi's Hugo Awards Swept by Anti-SJW Authors — Again!  —  For the second year in a row, nominations for the prestigious Hugo Awards for science fiction & fantasy have been swept by the Sad Puppies & Rabid Puppies, two groups of authors and fans who oppose left-wing domination of the community.
Discussion: Vox Popoli
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David Barnett / Guardian:
Hugo awards shortlist dominated by rightwing campaign
Pat Peterson / WKRG-TV:
Foley Plane Crash Caught on Camera  —  FOLEY, AL-  —  Surveillance video from a Foley business captured incredible images of a plane crash near the city's airport.  —  The crash happened south of the airport off Hickory Street Tuesday afternoon.  A Cessna 421 Twin Engine clipped a few trees over business
Joe Scarborough / Washington Post:
Trump's sweep is another humiliating defeat for media and political elites  —  Donald Trump's sweeping victories Tuesday night move the Manhattan billionaire a step closer to winning the Republican nomination for president and to pulling off the most improbable political feat in modern American history.
Discussion: Outside the Beltway
Reuters:
U.S. military used ‘roof knock’ tactic in Iraq to try to warn civilians before bombing  —  The United States borrowed an Israeli military tactic known as “roof knocking” to try to warn civilians before it dropped a bomb targeting Islamic State fighters in Iraq this month …
Baltimore Sun:
DeRay Mckesson finishes 6th in Democratic primary for Baltimore mayor … Prominent Black Lives Matter activist DeRay Mckesson finished in sixth place Tuesday in the Democratic primary for Baltimore mayor.  —  With 95 percent of results tallied, Mckesson garnered 3,008 votes — or 2.5 percent of the total.
Frank Bruni / New York Times:
The Cult of Sore Losers  —  Bernie Sanders isn't losing.  Just ask many of his backers or listen to some of his own complaints.  He's being robbed, a victim of antiquated rules, voter suppression, shady arithmetic and a corrupt Democratic establishment.  The swindle includes …
 
 
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The Local:
Asylum seeker confesses in Vienna court to pool rape
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Philly.com:
Fattah concedes, Evans will be Democratic nominee in the 2nd
Robert Barnes / Washington Post:
Supreme Court suggests ex-Gov. McDonnell's corruption conviction may have been wrong
Discussion: Politico
Los Angeles Times:
Clash over anti-Trump motion boils over in Anaheim: ‘Keep your noses out of the national election’
Discussion: Talking Points Memo, KTLA and Raw Story
 Earlier Items: 
Matt Ford / The Atlantic:
The Racist Roots of Virginia's Felon Disenfranchisement
Byron York / Washington Examiner:
In state after state, strong GOP support for Trump's Muslim proposal
Elliot Smilowitz / The Hill:
Trump: Sanders should run as an independent
D. Brian Burghart / Gawker:
What I Learned About the Washington Post From Four Years Collecting Data on Police Violence
Discussion: The Daily Caller
New York Post:
Man survives 135-foot plunge off Brooklyn Bridge
Discussion: KFOR-TV