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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, Althouse 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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RedState, National Review, Hot Air and Associated Press
Politico:
Florida poll: Republican ‘brand damage’ bolsters Clinton — Whether it's Donald Trump or Ted Cruz, the Republican presidential nominee looks like a sure loser to Hillary Clinton in Florida because of the Republicans' lack of popularity with crucial voting blocs in the state …
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Political Wire
Hunter Walker / Yahoo:
Heidi Cruz responds to people who call her husband the Zodiac Killer — CARMEL, Ind. — Heidi Cruz knows her husband, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tx.) is not the Zodiac Killer, no matter what people online say. — Heidi spent Monday morning traveling across Indiana in support of her husband's presidential campaign.
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Talking Points Memo and Trail Blazers Blog
Sarah K. Burris / Raw Story:
Watch Carly Fiorina do a face-plant off a stage while Ted Cruz ignores her
Watch Carly Fiorina do a face-plant off a stage while Ted Cruz ignores her
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RedState, Mediaite, The Week, Western Journalism and The Last Refuge
Nick Gass / Politico:
Cruz to young heckler: You'd get spanked in my house
Cruz to young heckler: You'd get spanked in my house
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Talking Points Memo, Mother Jones, The Week and Shakesville
David Wasserman / FiveThirtyEight:
Indiana May Be #NeverTrump's Last Stand
Indiana May Be #NeverTrump's Last Stand
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Marist Poll, Outside the Beltway and Washington Post
Andrew Kaczynski / BuzzFeed:
GOP Congressman: “I Truly Don't Know” If I'll Support Trump Or Clinton In November — “So, I think like a lot of Americans, we are gonna have to begin to spend the summer studying the candidates and decide who's best for the future of the country.” — BRIAN BLANCO / Reuters — w.soundcloud.com
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Talking Points Memo and The Week
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Patricia Mazzei / miamiherald:
Will Donald Trump drive Miami Cuban Americans from GOP? New poll says yes — Likely Cuban-American voters dislike Trump — They also are increasingly accepting of President Obama's Cuba policy — That combination could cost the GOP its longtime Cuban-American support
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RedState, Hullabaloo, CBS Miami and No More Mister Nice Blog
Shane Goldmacher / Politico:
New Hampshire GOP cancels vote on blocking Trump allies from convention posts
New Hampshire GOP cancels vote on blocking Trump allies from convention posts
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RedState and UnionLeader.com
David Edwards / Raw Story:
Trump surrogate admits on live TV: 'He's going to have to prove that he's not Adolf Hitler'
Trump surrogate admits on live TV: 'He's going to have to prove that he's not Adolf Hitler'
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Mediaite and liberalamerica.org
Jeremy Diamond / CNN:
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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Politico, Forbes, AOL, Talking Points Memo, The Week and Shakesville
Tom LoBianco / CNN:
Trump ‘fine’ with Obama's WH Correspondents' Dinner smackdown
Trump ‘fine’ with Obama's WH Correspondents' Dinner smackdown
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Washington Post, Politico, Western Journalism and The Week
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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France 24, The Week, Computerworld and Towleroad
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Wright-Master / Dr. Craig Wright Blog:
Jean-Paul Sartre, Signing and Significance
Jean-Paul Sartre, Signing and Significance
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NPR and Al Jazeera English
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 Monthly, Heat Street, No More Mister Nice Blog, Lawyers, Guns & Money, Althouse and Washington Post
Seung Min Kim / Politico:
Senate takes 2016 sabbatical — Senate Republicans have left town for another recess with their yearlong claim that the Senate is “back to work” an increasingly tough sell to voters. — Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has worked painstakingly to craft an identity that's distinct …
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Politicus USA, Talking Points Memo, Washington Post and Daily Kos
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Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
Ohioans Want Kasich To Drop Out
Ohioans Want Kasich To Drop Out
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Washington Times, Daily Kos, Cincinnati.com and The Gateway Pundit
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Bernie's Bad End — This is really depressing: Sanders claiming that there will be a contested convention, and suggesting that the nomination fight was rigged. Can someone tell Bernie that he's in the process of blowing his own chance for a positive legacy?
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Daily Kos, Politico, New York Magazine and Towleroad
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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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Politico, liberalamerica.org and The Hill
Jad Mouawad / New York Times:
Catching a Flight? Budget Hours, Not Minutes, for Security — If you sense that airport security lines are getting longer — much longer — you're definitely not alone. — A combination of fewer Transportation Security Administration screeners, tighter budgets, new checkpoint procedures …
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Shot in the Dark
Timothy Cama / The Hill:
Colorado court overturns fracking bans — Colorado's highest court overturned two cities' bans on hydraulic fracturing Monday, ruling that state law preempts them. — The state's Supreme Court cited the main state law regulating oil and natural gas drilling and found that lawmakers clearly intended …
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Washington Monthly
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.
Wall Street Journal:
Hulu Is Developing a Cable-Style Online TV Service — New subscription service would stream feeds of popular broadcast and cable TV channels — Hulu is developing a subscription service that would stream feeds of popular broadcast and cable TV channels, people familiar with the plans said …
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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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Da Tech Guy Blog, Detroit Free Press, ThinkProgress, The Atlantic and Washington Post
Gina Kolata / New York Times:
After ‘The Biggest Loser,’ Their Bodies Fought to Regain Weight — Contestants lost hundreds of pounds during Season 8, but a study of them helps explain why they could not keep all of that weight off. — Danny Cahill stood, slightly dazed, in a blizzard of confetti as the audience screamed and his family ran on stage.
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The Week, The Lunch Tray and AOL
Nick Wingfield / New York Times:
An iPad Misplaced at the Airport Takes Its Own Vacation — Last month, Shelby Bonnie's iPad vanished from his carry-on bag somewhere at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport after a red-eye flight from San Francisco. He figured he would never see it again.
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Daily Mail and Mashable
Joe Romm / ThinkProgress:
Why Bill Gates' Math Error About Climate Change Matters — Bill Gates keeps saying confused and confusing things about climate policy and clean energy. — Gates has positioned himself as a major player and spokesman in this arena with his “Breakthrough Energy Coalition,” …
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The Daily Caller
Isaac Arnsdorf / Politico:
Clinton fundraising leaves little for state parties — In the days before Hillary Clinton launched an unprecedented big-money fundraising vehicle with state parties last summer, she vowed “to rebuild our party from the ground up,” proclaiming “when our state parties are strong, we win.
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Business Insider, U.S. Uncut and NPR