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Rep. Paul Ryan / GazetteXtra:
Paul Ryan: Donald Trump can help make reality of bold House policy agenda — When Donald Trump became the Republican Party's presumptive nominee for president one month ago, many Republicans like me faced a big question. — Six months earlier, in October, as I was taking the job as House speaker …
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Frank Schultz / GazetteXtra:
Paul Ryan says he will vote for Donald Trump — The speaker of the House of Representatives says he will vote for Donald Trump. — Rep. Paul Ryan made that statement in a column submitted Thursday for publication in The Gazette, his hometown newspaper. — The statement at least partially answers …
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Detroit News:
Snyder decides against endorsing Trump for president — Gov. Rick Snyder has sidelined himself in the race for president, choosing not to make an endorsement of Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump. — The Republican governor also did not endorse in the March 8 primary …
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Los Angeles Times:
UCLA gunman had accused slain professor of stealing his computer code, sources say — Police respond to the UCLA campus after a shooting Wednesday. (Al Seib / Los Angeles Times) — The gunman who shot and killed a UCLA professor Wednesday has been identified as Mainak Sarkar …
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Tracy Bloom / KTLA:
Woman on UCLA Murder-Suicide Suspect's ‘Kill List’ Found Shot to Death in Minnesota: LAPD Chief Beck — Android users, if the above player does not work, please click here. — The man suspected in an apparent murder-suicide on the UCLA campus had a “kill list,” and a second victim named …
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Allegra Kirkland / Talking Points Memo:
Police Identify Shooter In UCLA Murder-Suicide As Grad Student
Police Identify Shooter In UCLA Murder-Suicide As Grad Student
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McClatchy Washington Bureau:
Donald Trump warns Barack Obama he'll ‘hit him’ like Bill Clinton — Presumptive Republican nominee rallies crowd in sweltering heat in Sacramento — Trump's remarks come after Obama waded into campaign — Trump says Obama 'doesn't have a clue' — Donald Trump, lashing back at Barack Obama …
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Hunter Walker / Yahoo:
Bill Clinton delivers a sharp message to Donald Trump and his base — CRANFORD, N.J. — President Bill Clinton dismissed presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump's policies as “divisive” and ineffective at a Wednesday campaign event for his wife, Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton.
Jon Reid / Morning Consult:
Most Voters: Trump's Not Worth $10 Billion
Most Voters: Trump's Not Worth $10 Billion
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Nick Corasaniti / New York Times:
Donald Trump Vows to ‘Make a Real Run’ at California in November
Adrian Carrasquillo / BuzzFeed:
The RNC's New Hispanic Media Director Bashed Trump Nonstop For Months — After the Republican National Committee Hispanic Media Director left Wednesday because of discomfort with working to elect Donald Trump, the RNC moved quickly to announce a replacement: commentator and journalist Helen Aguirre Ferré.
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New York Times:
Hispanic Official to Leave R.N.C. in Sign of Disaffection With Donald Trump — The head of Hispanic media relations at the Republican National Committee is resigning this month in what appears to be another indication of the lingering discomfort some party officials have about working to elect Donald J. Trump president.
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David McCabe / The Hill:
Trump's aversion to data puts RNC on the hot seat — 's apparent uninterest in using data and analytics in his campaign is putting pressure on the Republican National Committee (RNC), which could be forced to fill the gaps in the general election. — The RNC says it is ready for the challenge …
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Claire Landsbaum / New York Magazine:
Why Hillary Clinton Is Avoiding Press Conferences — She's playing to her strengths, as any politician would. — Pin It — Hillary Clinton hasn't held a press conference in 180 days. That fact hasn't been lost on reporters who cover her, nor has it escaped the notice of her Republican opponent.
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Matthew Balan / NewsBusters:
Daily Mail Editor: ‘A Lot’ of the Reporters Covering Hillary Are ‘Fans,’ ‘In Awe’
Daily Mail Editor: ‘A Lot’ of the Reporters Covering Hillary Are ‘Fans,’ ‘In Awe’
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Andrew Kaczynski / BuzzFeed:
Mitch McConnell: Trump's Insults Need To Stop, Add No Value — “It is something about him that I don't care for.” — Chip Somodevilla / Getty Images — w.soundcloud.com — Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said in a radio interview on Thursday that he is bothered by Donald Trump's use of personal insults.
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Burgess Everett / Politico:
Reid unloads: McConnell ‘cuddled up’ with Trump
Reid unloads: McConnell ‘cuddled up’ with Trump
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Josh Harkinson / Mother Jones:
Trump Delegate Says Current US Leaders May Need to Be “Killed” — Last December, Donald Trump's presidential campaign approved David Riden to be a delegate candidate on the Tennessee ballot, and when the state held its primary in March, voters selected Riden to go to the Republican National Convention.
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Michael Tarm / Associated Press:
APNewsBreak: Official says Prince died of opioid overdose — CHICAGO (AP) — Tests show that Prince died of an opioid overdose, a law-enforcement official told The Associated Press on Thursday. — The 57-year-old singer was found dead April 21 at his Minneapolis-area estate.
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Dan Rather / Facebook:
I felt a shudder down my spine yesterday watching Donald Trump's fusilade against the press. This is not a moment to be trifled with. It wasn't his first tirade and it won't be his last. — I was reminded of my college journalism professor, the late Hugh Cunningham …
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Michael Barbaro / New York Times:
Donald Trump's Secret Weapon: Letters of Love, Flattery and Revenge — In one letter, Donald J. Trump ranted about the crisis of unsightly hot dog vendors on his beloved Fifth Avenue. “Having ketchup and mustard splattered all over the sidewalk,” he wrote, “is disgraceful.”
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James Kirchick / Tablet MagazineTablet Magazine:
The Sad Story of Milo Yiannopoulos: the Trump Troll With Daddy Issues — Milo Yiannopoulos is a fervent supporter of Donald Trump's presidential campaign. Referring to Trump as “Daddy,” the ostentatiously gay British media personality provides a camp component to the presumptive Republican nominee's fan base.
Philip Klinkner / Vox:
The easiest way to guess if someone supports Trump? Ask if Obama is a Muslim. — You can ask just one simple question to find out whether someone likes Donald Trump more than Hillary Clinton: Is Barack Obama a Muslim? If they are white and the answer is yes, 89 percent of the time that person …
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Geoffrey R. Stone / The Huffington Post:
The Senate Republicans, Merrick Garland and the Lessons of History — Edward H. Levi Distinguished Service Professor of Law, University of Chicago — On February 13, the very day of Justice Antonin Scalia's untimely death, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell stunningly announced that the Senate …
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Seanna Adcox / Associated Press:
Haley talks of Trump, Confederate flag ahead of anniversary — COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley said Thursday she wishes Donald Trump communicated differently because bad things result from divisive rhetoric, as evidenced by last June's massacre in Charleston.
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David Wasserman / FiveThirtyEight:
‘Missing’ White Voters Might Help Trump, But Less So Where He Needs It — A common refrain is that demographics will ultimately doom Donald Trump's candidacy. His most reliable supporters have been whites without college degrees — a group that made up 65 percent of voters in 1980 but is on pace to make up just 33 percent in 2016.
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Camille Paglia / Salon:
Zombie time at campaign Hillary: Camille Paglia on Trump's real strength and Clinton's fatal sleepwalking — The media covers for Hillary on her email scandal while Trump gallops through the non-stop artillery barrage — It's zombie time at campaign Hillary. Behold the dead men walking!
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Amy Chozick / New York Times:
Hillary Clinton to Portray Donald Trump's Foreign Policy Positions as Dangerous — Hillary Clinton plans to deliver a scorching assessment of Donald J. Trump's foreign policy prescriptions on Thursday, casting her likely Republican rival as a threat to decades of bipartisan tenets …
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Reuters:
Use it or lose it: Occasional Ohio voters may be shut out in November — When Larry Harmon tried to vote on a marijuana initiative in November in his hometown of Kent, Ohio, the 59-year-old software engineer found his name had been struck from the voter rolls.
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Katie Pavlich / Townhall.com:
State Department: Yep, We Deleted That Video Proving We Lied About The Iran Deal — After being caught lying last month about the Iran nuclear deal, specifically negotiations between the Iranian regime and the Obama administration, the State Department deleted an important exchange between …
Mark Hosenball / Reuters:
Some officials worry about briefing Trump, fearing spilled secrets — Some U.S. intelligence officials are concerned that Donald Trump's “shoot from the hip” style could pose national security risks as they prepare to give him a routine pre-election briefing once he is formally anointed as the Republican presidential nominee.
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Charles Franklin / Washington Post:
The polls are not broken. Say it again: The polls are not broken. — Are the polls broken? A steady stream of articles over the past nine months has examined the challenges of the polling industry, pointing to highly visible failures, the rise of cell phones and the decline of response rates.
Nick Gass / Politico:
Obama warns of isolationism as ‘false comfort’ — The United States must resist the temptation to turn inward, President Barack Obama said Thursday, making his case for the role of the American military as he offered up a defense of his diplomatic resolutions in Iran, Cuba, Syria and beyond.
Don Walton / Lincoln Journal Star:
Ebke bolts GOP after Ricketts speech — Sen. Laura Ebke of Crete left the Republican Party and registered as a Libertarian Party member two weeks after Gov. Pete Ricketts called out state senators who are Republicans by name for not supporting him or the GOP on some contentious legislative issues.
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Sarah Frier / Bloomberg:
Snapchat Passes Twitter in Daily Usage — The four-year-old messaging app is said to have 150 million people using it each day. — Snapchat Inc. has 150 million people using the service each day, said people familiar with the matter. That makes the four-year-old messaging app more popular than Twitter Inc. by daily active users.
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Leon H. Wolf / RedState:
Trump Tries to Pretend He Never Said Japan Should get Nukes (VIDEO) — I'm going to make a confession about Donald Trump. I have no idea what causes him to do this thing where he just boldly states that he never said something that he very obviously said before. There are at least several possible explanations, though.