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6:25 PM ET, May 1, 2016

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Mark Murray / NBC News:
Donald Trump Leads Cruz by 15 Points in Crucial Indiana Race  —  ‘Stop Trump’ movement's hopes hinge on Indiana primary 3:44  —  Donald Trump holds a 15-point lead over Ted Cruz in the potentially decisive May 3 presidential primary race in Indiana, according to results from a new NBC News/Wall Street Journal/Marist poll.
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Janet Hook / Wall Street Journal:
Donald Trump Holds 15-Point Lead Ahead of Republican Rivals in Indiana Poll  —  Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton 4 points ahead of rival Bernie Sanders  —  Donald Trump holds a 15-point lead in the Republican presidential primary in Indiana, and a majority of GOP voters disapprove …
Jeremy W. Peters / New York Times:
Ted Cruz's Support Softens Among the Delegates He Courted  —  Even as Donald J. Trump trounced him from New Hampshire to Florida to Arizona, Senator Ted Cruz could reassure himself with one crucial advantage: He was beating Mr. Trump in the obscure, internecine delegate fights that could end …
Discussion: Real Clear Politics
Stephanie Wang / Indianapolis Star:
Poll: Ted Cruz leads Donald Trump in Indiana  —  A new poll gives U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz a significant lead in Indiana's Republican presidential primary, with support from 44.8 percent of voters polled.  —  The Mike Downs Center for Indiana Politics poll puts GOP front-runner Donald Trump …
John Santucci / ABC News:
Donald Trumps Says Rivals Are ‘Hanging on by Their Fingertips’
Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Trump flops in Arizona delegate fight
Discussion: RedState and The Week
Emily Heil / Washington Post:
Nerdy fight breaks out at WHCD afterparty between Fox News and Huffington Post reporters  —  For an event held at the soaring U.S. Institute of Peace building in Foggy Bottom, the swanky afterparty hosted by MSNBC following the White House Correspondents' Association Dinner sure saw some conflict.
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Ezra Klein / Vox:
The joke was that Obama wasn't joking  —  The White House Correspondents' Dinner has become a strange event.  It is, ostensibly, an evening when the president and the press can come together to share a few lighthearted laughs.  But it's evolved into a recital of brutal truths — albeit one neither side ever really admits happened.
Discussion: bradford-delong.com
Brian Flood / The Wrap:
Fox News' Jesse Watters, HuffPost Reporter Get Into Fight After White House Correspondents' Dinner (Photo)  —  “Punches were definitely thrown,” the Washington Post reports of altercation at party following White House Correspondents' Dinner on Saturday  —  Fox News host Jesse Watters …
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
Tim Graham / NewsBusters:
At WH Correspondents Dinner, Larry Wilmore Smears Fox News as Racist, Hails Obama as ‘My N*gga’  —  CNN's Brian Lowry reported Comedy Central “fake news” anchor Larry Wilmore drew “groans and grimaces” on Saturday night with a typical White House Correspondents Dinner routine that leaned heavily to the left.
Washington Post:
The complete transcript of Larry Wilmore's 2016 White House correspondents' dinner speech
Matt Wilstein / The Daily Beast:
Larry Wilmore Roasts the Press in White House Correspondents' Monologue
Josh Feldman / Mediaite:
Larry Wilmore Reflects on Obama's Legacy at WHCD: ‘You Did It, My N*gga’
Diana Pearl / People.com:
Kendall Jenner Met President Obama at WHCD: ‘He Was Like, Say Hi to Kim and Kanye’
Discussion: Complex and The Daily Caller
New York Times:
Malia Obama to Attend Harvard, but Not Until 2017  —  WASHINGTON — Malia Obama, the older daughter of President Obama, plans to attend Harvard University beginning in the fall of 2017, the White House announced on Sunday, waiting until her father leaves office to begin her college career.
Discussion: Vox, AOL, NPR, The Week and Mashable
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Alexander Mallin / ABC News:
Malia Obama to Attend Harvard University in Fall of 2017
Discussion: Washington Post and Politico
Sara Jerde / Talking Points Memo:
Malia Obama To Attend Harvard University After Taking Gap Year
Discussion: Refinery29
Story Hinckley / Christian Science Monitor:
As deadlines come and go, Puerto Rico's debt crisis grows  —  Puerto Rico's May 1 deadline on a $422-million debt payment has arrived, and US lawmakers are no closer to finding a solution for the island's financial woes.  —  Most of Sunday's payment is principal and interest due …
Discussion: Forbes and Washington Post
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Bloomberg:
Puerto Rico Will Default on Government Development Bank Debt
Discussion: Business Insider
Rebecca Savransky / The Hill:
Sanders: ‘The convention will be a contested contest’  —  Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders  —  on Sunday said there will be a “contested contest.”  —  In a news conference from Washington, D.C., on Sunday, the Vermont senator urged superdelegates from states where he has won …
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
John Wagner / Washington Post:
Bernie Sanders's fundraising drops off sharply in April … Democratic presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders said he raised $25.8 million in April, well shy of his eye-popping totals of recent months.  —  The figure comes as Sanders's chance of defeating Hillary Clinton for the Democratic nomination …
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Yamiche Alcindor / New York Times:
Bernie Sanders's Fund-Raising Plunges Amid Campaign Woes
Robert Stacy McCain / The Other McCain:
What #TrigglyPuff Means  —  The phenomenon of #TrigglyPuff — Cora Segal, the angry feminist who disrupted an event at the University of Massachusetts this week — deserves extended analysis, and I've got a 4,000-word draft in queue, awaiting the final touches.
Discussion: AMERICAN DIGEST
Tommy Christopher / Mediaite:
Watch Ted Cruz Argue With Disabled Man's Family About Health Care  —  Texas Senator and Republican presidential hopeful Ted Cruz has placed a lot of electoral eggs in the basket that is Indiana, and so it was that Cruz found himself gamely pressing the flesh with voters outside the Pie Pan restaurant in Evansville this weekend.
Discussion: Raw Story
Sara Jerde / Talking Points Memo:
Cruz On Bathroom Bill: Transgender Individuals Aren't ‘The Real Danger’  —  Republican presidential candidate Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) said in an interview aired Sunday that transgender individuals weren't “the real danger.”  —  “If you pass a law, as Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump and Barack Obama want …
Discussion: Mediaite
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Sara Jerde / Talking Points Memo:   Cruz Repeatedly Refuses To Say If He'll Support Trump As The GOP Nominee
Dean Balsamini / New York Post:
Pizza Rat's newest friend: McDonald's Rat  —  There's one constituency that has benefited from the de Blasio administration: rats.  —  New Yorkers have made 8,335 rodent complaints to the city's 311 hot line so far this year, up 18 percent from the same period in 2015, when there were 7,076 complaints …
 
 
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CIA director: ‘28 pages’ contain inaccurate information
Discussion: alan.com
Rebecca Savransky / The Hill:
Former Pentagon chief rips Trump's foreign policy
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Sanders supporters hound FCC with complaints about media bias
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