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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.

Discussion: Heat Street, TheBlaze.com, Complex, Hullabaloo, Politico, Mediaite and TVNewser

Dylan Matthews / Vox:

Obama's “Trudge up the Hill” joke wasn't really about Hillary. It was a Bernie Sanders dig — Out of President Obama's roughly thirty-minute set at the White House Correspondents' Dinner Saturday night, one joke stands out as unusually revealing of how the president thinks about politics.

Discussion: Scripting News

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.

Discussion: CNNMoney, The Gateway Pundit and Deadline

Ian Hanchett / Breitbart: Obama To Press: You Have ‘Responsibility’ ‘To Question,’ Thanks For Working ‘Side-By-Side’ With Me

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

Matt Wilstein / The Daily Beast:
Larry Wilmore Roasts the Press in White House Correspondents' Monologue

Discussion: New York Times and USA Today, more at Mediagazer »

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

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.

Discussion: Washington Post, Guardian, The Last Refuge, ABC News, Slantpoint, whorunsGov, New York Magazine and Hot Air

Ros Krasny / Bloomberg:

Bernie Sanders Vows Contested Convention, Makes Case for Superdelegate Flips — The Vermont senator continued to argue that he could still win the Democratic nomination. — aritbenie — Bernie Sanders on Sunday marked the one-year anniversary of his bid for the White House by vowing …

Jeremy W. Peters / New York Times:
Ted Cruz's Support Softens Among the Delegates He Courted

Discussion: Real Clear Politics

John Wagner / Washington Post: Bernie Sanders's fundraising drops off sharply in April

Stephanie Wang / Indianapolis Star:
Poll: Ted Cruz leads Donald Trump in Indiana

Discussion: Washington Monthly, Politico, Western Journalism, The Daily Caller, RedState, Vox, AOL and WISH-TV

Yamiche Alcindor / New York Times:
Bernie Sanders's Fund-Raising Plunges Amid Campaign Woes

Discussion: AOL and Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion

John Santucci / ABC News:
Donald Trumps Says Rivals Are ‘Hanging on by Their Fingertips’

Discussion: Associated Press and Talking Points Memo

Janet Hook / Wall Street Journal:
Donald Trump Holds 15-Point Lead Ahead of Republican Rivals in Indiana Poll

Discussion: Politico, Business Insider, The Gateway Pundit, Independent Journal …, AOL, Talking Points Memo, The Week and National Review

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

Byron York / Washington Examiner:
Heidi Cruz says ‘Ted is an immigrant’

Discussion: Washington Post, Breitbart, The Gateway Pundit, Independent Journal …, John Hawkins' Right Wing News, Fox News Insider and BizPac Review

Sara Jerde / Talking Points Memo:
Cruz On Bathroom Bill: Transgender Individuals Aren't ‘The Real Danger’

Discussion: Mediaite

Andrew Sullivan / New York Magazine:

America Has Never Been So Ripe for Tyranny … Illustration by — As this dystopian election campaign has unfolded, my mind keeps being tugged by a passage in Plato's Republic. It has unsettled — even surprised — me from the moment I first read it in graduate school.

Jordain Carney / The Hill:

Pennsylvania GOP senator on collision course with Trump — Republican Sen. Pat Toomey's reelection bid is on a collision course with the most dominant force in GOP politics. — The biggest challenge to Toomey's reelection might not be Democrats, but Donald Trump

Discussion: Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion and Booman Tribune

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

Bloomberg:
Puerto Rico Will Default on Government Development Bank Debt

Discussion: Business Insider

Gov. Doug Ducey / Arizona Republic:

Trump campaign irate over defeat in Arizona delegate vote — Last Video — Trump supporters threaten legal action over convention results — DeWit says Trump will challenge GOP results Gov. Doug Ducey urges party unification Treasurer Jeff DeWit: Send Trump to Washington Gov. Doug Ducey on presidential politics

Discussion: CNN, Washington Post, Independent Journal … and Fox News

John McCormick / Bloomberg:
As Cruz Dominates Delegate Contests, Trump Says Race is ‘Over’

Discussion: John Hawkins' Right Wing News, ABC News and TheBlaze.com

Christopher Ingraham / Washington Post:

Toddlers have shot at least 23 people this year — This past week, a Milwaukee toddler fatally shot his mother after finding a handgun in the back seat of the car they were riding in. The case drew a lot of national attention given the unusual circumstances: Little kids rarely kill people, intentionally or not.

Discussion: WRDW-TV

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

Fox News:

‘Fox News Sunday’ marks 20 years on air; Trump and Cruz talk 2016 race — This is a rush transcript from “Fox News Sunday,” May 1, 2016. This copy may not be in its final form and may be updated. — CHRIS WALLACE, FOX NEWS ANCHOR: I'm Chris Wallace. — How close is Donald Trump to wrapping up the Republican nomination?

Discussion: Hullabaloo, Politicus USA and RedState