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Karl de Vries / CNN:
Palin will work to defeat Ryan in primary for Trump stance — Watch CNN: Sarah Palin joins Jake Tapper on “State of the Union” at 9 a.m. and noon ET today. — Washington (CNN)Sarah Palin will work to defeat House Speaker Paul Ryan by backing his primary opponent in Wisconsin, the former Alaska governor told CNN's Jake Tapper.
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Alexander Burns / New York Times:
Donald Trump Won't Rule Out Effort to Remove Paul Ryan as Convention Chairman — Donald J. Trump said he would not rule out an effort to remove Representative Paul D. Ryan as chairman of the Republican National Convention if he did not endorse Mr. Trump's candidacy.
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Dan Riehl / Breitbart:
Paul Ryan Challenger Paul Nehlen: ‘He Has Betrayed Us All’
Paul Ryan Challenger Paul Nehlen: ‘He Has Betrayed Us All’
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Guardian
Maureen Dowd / New York Times:
Donald Trump or Paul Ryan: Who's King of the Hill?
Donald Trump or Paul Ryan: Who's King of the Hill?
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Politico
Eli Stokols / Politico:
Donald Trump breaks the GOP
Donald Trump breaks the GOP
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William Yardley / Los Angeles Times:
Wildfire at Fort McMurray quickly overtakes Canada's environmental debate — A wildfire was growing just outside Fort McMurray, but Matt Hepditch went to work in the oil sands the way he always does. — Some people had evacuated, though reports the night before suggested the fire …
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Chris Cillizza / Washington Post:
The GOP's electoral-map problem is not about Trump. It's about demographics. — Republicans have a major electoral map problem in November. Major. — Donald Trump's victory last week in Indiana's primary not only effectively sealed the GOP nomination for the real estate billionaire …
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Corinne Heller / E! Online:
Ozzy Osbourne and Sharon Osbourne Split After More Than 33 Years of Marriage — It's over for Ozzy Osbourne and Sharon Osbourne. — The 67-year-old heavy metal rocker and the 63-year-old co-host of The Talk have broken up after more than 33 years of marriage, E! News has learned.
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Los Angeles Times:
Op-Ed The Republican Party is dead — I have been a Republican as long as I can remember. Joining the Grand Old Party seemed like a natural choice for someone like me who fled the Soviet Union as a boy and came to Los Angeles with his mother and grandmother in 1976.
Rebecca Savransky / The Hill:
Johnson sees third-party candidacy as ‘opportunity’ — Former New Mexico Gov. Gary Johnson said in an interview on Sunday he sees a third-party candidacy as an opportunity, instead of as a threat. — “Well, I think it is a real opportunity. I do think that [Hillary] Clinton and [Donald] …
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Adrienne Salazar / ABC News:
Gary Johnson Says 2016 Race ‘Real Opportunity’ for Libertarian Party
Gary Johnson Says 2016 Race ‘Real Opportunity’ for Libertarian Party
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Rebecca Savransky / The Hill:
NC governor: Feds gave us ‘unrealistic’ bathroom law deadline — North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory (R) said the federal government gave the state an “unrealistic” deadline to respond to a letter informing him that the state's bathroom law violates the Civil Rights Act.
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Lindsay Dunsmuir / Reuters:
Trump says taxes for the wealthy should go up — Donald Trump said on Sunday that taxes for the wealthy should go up but that his tax plans would likely be renegotiated with Congress should he win the U.S. presidency. — “For the wealthy I think frankly it is going to go up and …
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Jake Tapper / CNN:
Cruz campaign: We could have stopped Trump if Rubio became running mate — Washington (CNN)Republican officials who oppose Donald Trump as their party nominee have spent the last few days — ever since the withdrawal from the race of Sen. Ted Cruz and Ohio Gov. John Kasich …
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Rick Wilson / New York Daily News:
On Donald Trump, never means never: Why many conservatives who oppose Trump cannot and will not buckle — The hordes taunting the Never Trump brigades of the Republican Party to understand they've lost and need to get out of the way of presumptive presidential nominee Donald Trump ought to learn a lesson from a revered American ally.
Rebecca Savransky / The Hill:
Veterans call on Trump to show respect — More than 50 veterans released a statement Sunday calling on presumptive GOP nominee Donald Trump — to show respect for the country's veterans and donate the millions of dollars he allegedly raised during a fundraiser several months ago.
Paul Sperry / New York Post:
Obama's last act is to force suburbs to be less white and less wealthy — More On: — Hillary's rumored running mate, Housing Secretary Julian Castro, is cooking up a scheme to reallocate funding for Section 8 housing to punish suburbs for being too white and too wealthy.
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Breitbart:
Saudi Prince Begs America to Reject Trump — From the Daily Mail: … You can read the rest of the story here. — Read More Stories About: — 2016 Presidential Race, Donald Trump, Turki al-Faisal — Comment count on this article reflects comments made on Breitbart.com and Facebook.
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Clemence Michallon For / Daily Mail:
Saudi prince begs American voters not to vote for Trump and says he ‘cannot believe’ …
Saudi prince begs American voters not to vote for Trump and says he ‘cannot believe’ …
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Frank Bruni / New York Times:
Sex and the Singular Pol — WHEN the histories of this warped campaign are constructed, when a lasting inventory of its every last ignominy is done, Donald Trump's guarantee that all of his appendages measured up to greatness will be front, center and protuberant, evidence of the election's vulgar endowment.
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Harper Neidig / The Hill:
Dem convention host: Sanders supporters better ‘behave themselves’ when he loses — The chairman of the Philadelphia 2016 Host Committee for this summer's Democratic National Convention said supporters of presidential candidate Bernie Sanders — have to “behave themselves” when the Vermont senator loses the nomination.
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Evelyn Rupert / The Hill:
Trump tells crowd Clinton wants to ‘abolish’ Second Amendment — 's way at a Saturday rally, telling the crowd that she wants to do away with the Second Amendment. — “Hillary Clinton wants to abolish the Second Amendment. She wants to abolish it,” Trump said at a Saturday rally in Lynden …
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Jeremy Diamond / CNN:
Trump says Clinton wants to abolish the 2nd Amendment
Trump says Clinton wants to abolish the 2nd Amendment
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New York Times and Political Wire