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6:05 PM ET, April 30, 2016

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Caleb Howe / RedState:
KKK Leader Hates Ted Cruz, Endorses Donald Trump: ‘What He Believes In, We Believe In.’ [VIDEO]  —  In Virginia, NBC affiliate WWBT ran an investigation into the local KKK after fliers were circulated in the area recruiting new members.  As part of their coverage, the station interviewed the …
Discussion: Mediaite and The Right Scoop
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Katherine Krueger / Talking Points Memo:
Virginia KKK Leader Endorses Trump: ‘What He Believes In, We Believe In’ (VIDEO)  —  In a sit-down interview with a Richmond news station, the Imperial Wizard of the Rebel Brigade Knights of the Ku Klux Klan said Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump is his candidate for President.
Discussion: The Moderate Voice
Eliana Johnson / National Review:
Behind Mike Pence's Agonizing Decision to Endorse Ted Cruz
Discussion: Wall Street Journal and RedState
Chris Thomas / WWBT-TV:
KKK leader disavows violent past, declares Trump ‘best’ for president
Discussion: RedState, ThinkProgress and Raw Story
Loveday Morris / Washington Post:
Protesters storm Iraqi parliament in Baghdad  —  BAGHDAD — Protesters stormed Iraq's parliament on Saturday, bursting into the capital's fortified Green Zone, where other key buildings, including the U.S. Embassy, are located.  —  Live footage on Iraqi television showed swarms of protesters …
Discussion: New York Magazine and Mother Jones
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Associated Press:
ANTI-GOVERNMENT PROTESTERS BREACH BAGHDAD'S GREEN ZONE
Discussion: Taylor Marsh
Sonia Saraiya / Salon:
“Donald Trump is a dangerous individual”: Larry Wilmore opens up to Salon about what's funny in Washington this year — and what isn't  —  Salon talks to “The Nightly Show” host about hosting the White House Correspondents' Dinner, Trump and the election  —  “You never know what your hold music is …
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Geoff Earle / Daily Mail:   EXCLUSIVE: Look out Lucifer! …
Ben Gittleson / ABC News:
Satanists Snub Comparison of Cruz to Lucifer
Discussion: Mediaite, Slate and Associated Press
Cassie Spodak / CNN:
Kasich: People are ‘probably’ born gay  —  San Francisco (CNN)John Kasich told an audience here Friday that some people are “probably” born gay after being pressed on the issue by an audience member who said he was gay.  —  San Francisco resident Kelly Bryan, 62, asked Kasich the question …
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Michael R. Bloomberg / Bloomberg View:
Here's Your Degree.  Now Go Defeat Demagogues.  —  The following is an adaptation of an address to the University of Michigan's class of 2016.  —  The most useful knowledge that you leave here with today has nothing to do with your major.  It's about how to study, cooperate, listen carefully …
Discussion: New York Magazine and Raw Story
Breitbart:
Exclusive — CLINTON CRASH: Hillary Has Received Hundreds of Thousands Fewer Votes in 2016 vs. 2008  —  Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has badly underperformed in 2016 compared with her first run for president in 2008, a new data analysis done exclusively by Breitbart News shows.
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Heidi M Przybyla / USA Today:
Clinton shifting staff to general election swing states
John Merline / Investor's Business Daily:
Trump Gains On Clinton, But Both Have Sky-High Negatives: IBD/TIPP Poll
Discussion: Prntly
George F. Will / Washington Post:
If Trump is nominated, the GOP must keep him out of the White House  —  Donald Trump's damage to the Republican Party, although already extensive, has barely begun.  Republican quislings will multiply, slinking into support of the most anti-conservative presidential aspirant in their party's history.
Long Beach Press-Telegram:
Judge says Long Beach police discriminate against gay men in lewd conduct cases  —  A Superior Court judge Friday made sweeping statements about the Long Beach Police Department's treatment of gay men in the community, saying in a ruling over a lewd conduct case that the department intentionally …
Discussion: 89.3 KPCC and Associated Press
Telegraph:
How the Labour Party embraced an ideology that has race hate at its heart  —  Jeremy Corbyn has refused to share a platform with David Cameron over the EU referendum, although they both advocate a Remain vote.  Mr Corbyn's stated reason for this refusal is that “We are not on the same side”.
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Tom Schaller / American Prospect:
I�M THE A—HOLE?  —  IM THE A—HOLE?  At the lobby at the Washington Hilton at the DNC winter meetings, I headed over to a conversation between political columnist Roger Simon and former DNC Chairman Don Fowler of South Carolina.  (Not to be confused with Donnie Fowler, his son, who ran for DNC chair in 2004.)
Discussion: Lawyers, Guns & Money
Ben Schreckinger / Politico:
GOP's Stop-Trump fever breaks  —  The Stop-Trump fever that gripped the Republican establishment for months has broken.  —  The walls are closing in around a shrinking band of hard-core opponents of the New York billionaire, who is tightening his grip on the Republican presidential nomination …
Discussion: RedState, AOL and FiveThirtyEight
Marcel Harmon / Salon:
Sam Brownback gutted Kansas: How America's worst governor and an ultra-conservative ideology wrecked an entire state  —  GOP zealots, enthralled by a fictitious fantasy of tax cuts and free-market nonsense, turned Kansas upside down  —  It's safe to say that if Kansas's Gov. Sam Brownback …
 
 
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New York Times:
Run on a Ticket With Donald Trump? No, Thanks, Many Republicans Say
Discussion: Mediaite
Jim Hoft / The Gateway Pundit:
African-American Leader: Trump's Message “Resonates” With Black Voters (VIDEO)
Matt Forney:
Indiana Campaign Dispatch Part 2: Ted and Carly Sittin' in a Tree...
Discussion: The Last Refuge
Liam Ford / Chicago Tribune:
Prosecutors: Chicago cop was shot when fleeing suspect tossed gun
Discussion: Guns.com
 Earlier Items: 
Lynn Vavreck / New York Times:
Insults and Ads: How Gender Hurts Trump but Doesn't Lift Clinton
John Sides / Washington Post:
The most underappreciated fact of the election: Americans feel good about the economy
Discussion: Politicus USA and Booman Tribune
Jim Hoft / The Gateway Pundit:
Wow. Glenn Beck Admits He Blew Half a Million Stumping for Ted Cruz (Video)
Discussion: Joe Hoft
Jose M. Osorio / Chicago Tribune:
Thousands flock to ‘miracle’ icon at south suburban church
Discussion: Friendly Atheist
Arturo Garcia / Raw Story:
Trump supporter attacks Muslim woman with ‘unknown liquid’ after cops fail to act: activists
Discussion: CAIR
The Hill:
Republicans who vow to never back Trump
 

 
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John Koblin / New York Times:
NBC names Craig Melvin as Hoda Kotb's successor on Today, teaming up with Savannah Guthrie, starting January 13; Melvin has been Today's news anchor since 2018

Katie Kilkenny / The Hollywood Reporter:
On Fox News, LA Times owner Patrick Soon-Shiong discussed his new approach to publish “views from both sides”, and said the paper had conflated news and opinion

Mia Sato / The Verge:
Facebook makes Views its primary metric for content, bringing it in line with Instagram; each time a piece of content appears on a screen, it counts as a View

 
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