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Kerry Picket / The Daily Caller:
Cruz Scolds Boy After Child Tells Him ‘You Suck’ At Indiana Rally [VIDEO] — La Porte, IN-Texas Sen. Ted Cruz said a kid growing up in his household would have been spanked if they acted out the way a boy did towards him Sunday during a rally. The pre-teen boy was escorted out by local law enforcement …
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The New Civil Rights Movement, Washington Times and Fox News
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Marc Caputo / Politico:
Why Rubio hasn't endorsed Cruz — Marco Rubio won't be endorsing Ted Cruz during the Republican presidential primary, but he's likely to back the Texas senator at a contested convention — if it gets that far. — The de facto plan, Rubio's backers say, is designed to help Cruz.
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Political Wire
Nick Gass / Politico:
Cruz to young heckler: You'd get spanked in my house — A youthful protester who interrupted his rally late Sunday evening should get a spanking, Ted Cruz suggested to his audience in La Porte, Indiana. Such a punishment, he added, would have gone a long way in changing the behavior of Donald Trump.
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Talking Points Memo and The Week
Mike Pence / Indianapolis Star:
Why I will vote for Ted Cruz — On Tuesday, the eyes of the nation will focus on Indiana as Hoosiers head to the polls to play a critical role in the selection of candidates vying to serve as the next president of the United States. It has been a true joy to watch the people of our state play host …
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Talking Points Memo, Politico and Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion
Ros Krasny / Bloomberg:
Bernie Sanders Vows Contested Convention, Makes Case for Superdelegate Flips
Bernie Sanders Vows Contested Convention, Makes Case for Superdelegate Flips
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The Hill and liberalamerica.org
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.
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Washington Post, Lawyers, Guns & Money, No More Mister Nice Blog and Althouse
BBC:
Craig Wright revealed as Bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto — Australian entrepreneur Craig Wright has publicly identified himself as Bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto. — His admission ends years of speculation about who came up with the original ideas underlying the digital cash system.
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Gavin Andresen, The Week and Computerworld
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Economist:
Craig Steven Wright claims to be Satoshi Nakamoto. Is he? — Evaluating his claim will involve a multi-step paternity test — IMAGINE that the paternity of a particularly brilliant child is in doubt, and someone steps forward to claim he is the father. In the real world a DNA test would sort the matter out quickly.
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The Atlantic, Washington Post, Daily Mail, New York Times and Mashable
Wright-Master / Dr. Craig Wright Blog:
Jean-Paul Sartre, Signing and Significance — “If I sign myself Jean-Paul Sartre it is not the same thing as if I sign myself Jean-Paul Sartre, Nobel Prizewinner” — I remember reading that quote many years ago, and I have carried it with me uncomfortably ever since.
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NPR and Al Jazeera English
Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
Ohioans Want Kasich To Drop Out — PPP's newest Ohio poll finds voters in the state are getting sick of John Kasich's Presidential campaign. Only 38% think he should stay in the race, compared to 49% who think it's time for him to drop out. Those numbers have shifted substantially …
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Political Wire and The Gateway Pundit
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Seung Min Kim / Politico:
Senate on pace for lightest work schedule in 60 years
Senate on pace for lightest work schedule in 60 years
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Political Wire
Jordain Carney / The Hill:
Pennsylvania GOP senator on collision course with Trump
Pennsylvania GOP senator on collision course with Trump
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Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion and Booman Tribune
Jeremy Diamond / CNN:
Trump: 'We can't continue to allow China to rape our country' — (CNN)Donald Trump on Sunday compared the U.S.'s trade deficit with China, which he regularly laments and vows to tackle as president, to rape. — “We can't continue to allow China to rape our country, and that's what they're doing …
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Talking Points Memo, Forbes, The Week and AOL
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Nick Gass / Politico:
Trump: 'We can't continue to allow China to rape our country'
Trump: 'We can't continue to allow China to rape our country'
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New York Magazine and Talking Points Memo
John Wagner / Washington Post:
Sanders makes a public plea for Democratic superdelegates to switch allegiances … White House hopeful Bernie Sanders, who has fought the Democratic establishment throughout his campaign, made an extraordinary appeal Sunday for party insiders to help deliver the nomination to him …
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The Week
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Rebecca Savransky / The Hill:
Sanders: ‘The convention will be a contested contest’
Sanders: ‘The convention will be a contested contest’
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ABC News, Scared Monkeys, New York Magazine, Talking Points Memo and NBC News
Jim Rutenberg / New York Times:
Letting Stephen Colbert Be Stephen Colbert (Whoever That Is) — Last Wednesday, the CBS chairman Leslie Moonves ducked into that night's taping of Stephen Colbert's “Late Show,” and then joined Mr. Colbert in his office above the Ed Sullivan Theater. — There Mr. Moonves …
Molly Worthen / New York Times:
Stop Saying ‘I Feel Like’ — IN American politics, few forces are more powerful than a voter's vague intuition. “I support Donald Trump because I feel like he is a doer,” a senior at the University of South Carolina told Cosmopolitan. “Personally, I feel like Bernie Sanders is too idealistic …
Detroit News:
DPS closes 94 schools due to teacher sickout — Detroit Public Schools closed 94 of its 97 schools on Monday, citing the Detroit teachers union's call for a districtwide sickout amid concerns about the weakening finances of Michigan's largest school district.
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The Atlantic, Da Tech Guy Blog and Washington Post
Lauren Collins / New Yorker:
The Model American — In July of 2002, two years before Donald Trump became engaged to the Slovenian model Melania Knauss, he visited her native country for three hours. The couple had been in London. At around 8 P.M. on a Monday night, they landed at Ljubljana's Brnik airport in Trump's Boeing 727.
Mark Hensch / The Hill:
Trump: The GOP's a ‘rigged party’ — on Monday said that the Republican Party is trying to stack the deck against him becoming the GOP presidential nominee. — “The bosses are trying to run it,” he told host Chris Cuomo on CNN's “New Day.” “It's a rigged party. The bosses want to pick whoever they want to pick.
CNN:
U.S. cruise sets sail for Cuba; first voyage in decades draws protests — Miami (CNN)The first U.S. cruise ship bound for Cuba in decades set sail Sunday as salsa music played and protesters picketed nearby. — Standing beside a Cuban flag and an American flag, the cruise manager touted the journey as “the beginning of a new era.”
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Tom Wilson / New York Post:
Historic church up in flames after Easter service — A massive 4-alarm fire engulfed a Serbian Orthodox church in Manhattan on Sunday—hours after their Easter service, authorities said. — The blaze broke out in Serbian Orthodox Cathedral of St. Sava at 20 W 25th St at around 6:49 p.m., according to FDNY officials.