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11:50 PM ET, May 3, 2016

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Shane Goldmacher / Politico:
Ted Cruz drops out of presidential race  —  Ted Cruz dropped out of the presidential race on Tuesday night, ending one of the best-organized campaigns of 2016 after a series of stinging defeats left Donald Trump as the only candidate capable of clinching the nomination outright.
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Nolan D. McCaskill / Politico:
Trump accuses Cruz's father of helping JFK's assassin  —  Donald Trump on Tuesday alleged that Ted Cruz's father was with John F. Kennedy's assassin shortly before he murdered the president, parroting a National Enquirer story claiming that Rafael Cruz was pictured with Lee Harvey Oswald handing …
Sean Sullivan / Washington Post:
Ted Cruz drops out of the Republican presidential race  —  Live updates … INDIANAPOLIS — Ted Cruz, the insurgent Texan whose presidential campaign was fueled by disdain for Washington, dropped out of the 2016 race Tuesday night, removing the last major hurdle in Donald Trump's quest to become the Republican nominee for president.
Maeve Reston / CNN:
Ted Cruz drops presidential bid  —  (CNN)Ted Cruz bowed out of the Republican presidential race Tuesday following a crushing loss to Donald Trump in Indiana, clearing the path for the real estate mogul to clinch the GOP nomination.  —  It was a remarkable turn of events in a presidential primary race …
Associated Press:
Trump dashes Cruz's hopes in Indiana; Sanders-Clinton close  —  INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Donald Trump took a major step toward sewing up the Republican presidential nomination Tuesday with a victory in Indiana's primary election, dashing the hopes of rival Ted Cruz and other GOP forces who fear …
The Hill:
Cruz: Trump is an ‘utterly amoral’ bully, narcissist, pathological liar … with his most personal and toughest criticism since the GOP presidential campaign began, calling him a “pathological liar” on Tuesday who doesn't understand the difference between the truth and lies.
Hannah Levintova / Mother Jones:
Ted Cruz Ends Presidential Campaign After Trump Sweep in Indiana  —  After a projected Donald Trump sweep in Indiana was announced by the major TV networks on Tuesday night, reports began to surface that Ted Cruz would be ending his campaign. … Cruz confirmed as much in a speech on Tuesday night …
Greta Van Susteren / Gretawire:
I don't know about “Lyin' Ted” but I do know about “Doesn't Tell The Whole Story Ted”
Discussion: Mediaite, TVNewser and Politico
New York Times:
Donald Trump All but Clinches Nomination With Indiana Win; Cruz Quits
CBS News:
Live updates: Republican primary in Indiana
Mark Plotkin / The Hill:
Cruz's slip of the tongue will doom him in Indiana
Josh Barro / Business Insider:
The crisis in the Republican Party is even worse than it looks  —  Donald Trump is going to be the Republican nominee for president, and this alarms ideological conservatives for several reasons:  —  1. They think he will lose badly to Hillary Clinton, perhaps so badly that Republicans lose control of both houses of Congress.
Discussion: Vox
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Matthew Yglesias / Vox:
Donald Trump is really going to be the nominee.  This is actually happening.  —  Donald Trump is going to be the Republican nominee.  —  The only way he won't is if something unthinkable happens.  He could be struck by lightning.  He could pull off his Trump mask and reveal that he's actually …
Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
Former Reagan campaign manager joins pro-Trump super PAC  —  Ed Rollins, one of the longest-serving Republican presidential campaign strategists, is joining a pro-Donald Trump super PAC.  —  In an interview, Rollins — who managed Ronald Reagan's 1984 campaign and played leading roles for Jack Kemp …
Discussion: CNN
Tierney Sneed / Talking Points Memo:
McCain's Former Top Aide Will Support Clinton Over Trump
Discussion: New York Daily News and The Week
Matthew Nussbaum / Politico:
GOP establishment moves from ‘Never Trump’ to just ‘Trump’
Discussion: Washington Post
Carlo Allegri / National Review:
Trump: Something New under the Political Sun
Matthew Nussbaum / Politico:
Sanders: Clinton ‘wrong’ to think it's over  —  Sen. Bernie Sanders, fresh off a surprise victory in the Indiana primary, is confident that he is only helping the Democratic Party by remaining in the race against Hillary Clinton.  —  “The Clinton campaign thinks this is over.
Discussion: ABC News
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Meghan Keneally / ABC News:
Bernie Sanders Projected Winner of Indiana Democratic Primary
Discussion: Politico and Guardian
Heidi M Przybyla / USA Today:
Sanders wins Indiana, but Clinton looks to November
Discussion: Cincinnati.com and Guardian
Nick Gass / Politico:
Sanders surprises Clinton in Indiana
Discussion: Hit & Run
Associated Press:
Exit Poll: GOP Men Fuel Trump's Victory in Indiana Primary
Discussion: ABC News and Politico
Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
Trump, Sanders lead in West Virginia
Discussion: The Last Refuge
Rebecca Ballhaus / Wall Street Journal:
Hillary Clinton's Growing Problem With Independents
Discussion: Shadowproof
Michael A. Cohen / BostonGlobe.com:
Bernie Sanders declares war on reality
Discussion: ABC News, USA Today, MSNBC and Sky Dancing
Thomas L. Friedman / New York Times:
Trump and the Lord's Work  —  Like many others, I watched the video that President Obama showed at the White House Correspondents' Dinner on Saturday of him inviting former House Speaker John Boehner over to solicit his advice on what Obama should do post-presidency.
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Bret Stephens / Wall Street Journal:
The GOP Gets What It Deserves  —  ‘America First’ is the inevitable outcome of the Republican descent into populism.  —  A joke in Milan Kundera's novel “The Book of Laughter and Forgetting” goes like this: “In Wenceslaus Square, in Prague, a guy is throwing up.
Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
The Mythology Of Trump's ‘Working Class’ Support  —  It's been extremely common for news accounts to portray Donald Trump's candidacy as a “working-class” rebellion against Republican elites.  There are elements of truth in this perspective: Republican voters, especially Trump supporters, are unhappy about the direction of the economy.
Discussion: CBS Philly and Washington Post
CBS 5 AZ KPHO:
Mesa, AZ student arrested for indecent exposure in yearbook picture  —  A student at Red Mountain High School in Mesa is facing dozens of criminal charges for indecent exposure after a prank got published in the yearbook, according to the Mesa Police Department.
Discussion: Vox, Complex, LawNewz, NBC News and Mashable
Tom Steele / Crime Blog:
Selfie provoked argument that led to fatal Arlington shooting, suspect's wife says  —  Updated May 3: Revised throughout to include new details.  —  By JULIETA CHIQUILLO and TOM STEELE  —  Staff Writers  —  The wife of the suspect in an Arlington slaying says a revealing selfie set off …
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Katie Mettler / Washington Post:
‘He thought he could help’: Concealed carry gun-wielder intervenes in domestic dispute and is shot dead
Discussion: Guns.com and Fox News Insider
Juliet Eilperin / Washington Post:
In N.Y., White House poised to create first monument to gay rights struggle  —  Live updates … President Obama is poised to declare the first-ever national monument recognizing the struggle for gay rights, singling out a sliver of green space and part of the surrounding Greenwich Village neighborhood …
 
 
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