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2:55 PM ET, March 25, 2016

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J.R. Taylor / National Enquirer:
SHOCKING CLAIMS: Pervy Ted Cruz Caught Cheating — With 5 Secret Mistresses!  —  The romps that could destroy his presidential campaign!  —  Presidential candidate Ted Cruz is trying to survive an explosive “dirt file” on the finger-wagging conservative senator!
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Sundance / The Last Refuge:
The National Enquirer Runs Story of Multiple Ted Cruz Affairs...  Oh dear, the National Enquirer has come out with a story claiming evidence of multiple sexual trysts by presidential candidate Senator Ted Cruz.  —  Worse yet for the Cruz camp, the framework within the article is structurally very concerning:
Ted Cruz / Facebook:
I want to be crystal clear: these attacks are garbage.  For Donald J. Trump to enlist his friends at the National Enquirer and his political henchmen to do his bidding shows you that there is no low Donald won't go.  —  These smears are completely false, they're offensive to Heidi and me …
Alex Griswold / Mediaite:
Trump Supporter Derails CNN Segment by Accusing Fellow Guest of Having an Affair With Ted Cruz  —  A CNN debate between a Donald Trump supporter and former Ted Cruz communications director Amanda Carpenter went off the rails Friday when the Trump supporter suddenly accused Carpenter of having an illicit affair with her former boss.
Brendan O'Connor / Gawker:
National Enquirer: Ted Cruz Has Had at Least 5 Extramarital Affairs  —  According to the new issue of the National Enquirer, Republican political operatives are investigating rumors that Texas senator Ted Cruz has had extramarital affairs with at least five different women.
Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Carson claims credit for helping Trump act more ‘presidential’  —  Ben Carson says he's rubbing off on Donald Trump and has convinced him — at least in flashes — to act more presidential.  —  “I've had talks about being presidential, about toning it down a bit, appealing to a broader group of people …
Discussion: RedState
Samtata / New York's PIX11:
Photo of girls holding hands during nap time melts hearts  —  CLARKSDALE, Miss. — A photo taken of two little girls during nap time at their school is melting hearts across the Internet.  —  This sweet picture was taken while the girls were taking a snooze on a mat at the Presbyterian Day School in Clarksdale, Mississippi.
Discussion: WTKR-TV, FOX31 Denver and Althouse
NBC News:
Revealed: Donald Trump's Big Plan to Stop a Contested Republican Convention  —  Who are the delegates that could pick the GOP nominee?  —  On the campaign trail, Donald Trump has a clear answer to questions about a contested convention in Cleveland — it's not happening.
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Reid J. Epstein / Wall Street Journal:
Ted Cruz Gains in Louisiana After Loss There to Donald Trump  —  Despite coming up short in state's Republican presidential primary, Texan picks up more delegates and controls key convention roles  —  Donald Trump beat Sen. Ted Cruz earlier this month in Louisiana's Republican presidential primary …
CNN:
Brussels stories: Grief for the lost, hope for the missing  —  (CNN)Two siblings flying to New York.  A Peruvian chef.  A Belgian law student.  —  These are some of the dead and missing in Tuesday's terror attacks in Brussels.  —  At least 31 people were killed and 300 wounded …
Discussion: WDTN-TV, The Week and NBC News
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Daily Mail:
Brother and sister from New York confirmed dead in Brussels attack
Discussion: BizPac Review and FOX News Radio
New York Times:
A Top ISIS Leader Killed in Airstrike, Pentagon Says  —  WASHINGTON — The United States this week killed a top Islamic State commander in Syria as part of a spate of military actions targeting the terrorist group's leadership and explosives caches, Defense Secretary Ashton B. Carter said on Friday.
Discussion: The Atlantic, Fox News and The Week
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David Brooks / New York Times:
The Post-Trump Era  —  This is a wonderful moment to be a conservative.  For decades now the Republican Party has been groaning under the Reagan orthodoxy, which was right for the 1980s but has become increasingly obsolete.  The Reagan worldview was based on the idea that a rising economic tide would lift all boats.
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New York Times:
Transgender Law Makes North Carolina Pioneer in Bigotry
Jen Steer / fox8.com:
Thousands sign petition to allow guns at RNC in Cleveland … CLEVELAND- Support is growing for an online petition to allow guns inside Quicken Loans Arena during the Republican National Convention.  —  More than 4,000 people have signed the Change.org petition since it was started two days ago.
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Doug Livingston / Akron Beacon Journal:
More than 5,000 support petition to allow guns at Republican National Convention in Cleveland
Mitch Smith / New York Times:
Indiana Governor Signs Abortion Bill With Added Restrictions  —  CHICAGO — Indiana's governor signed a bill on Thursday that adds broad limits to women's access to abortions, banning those motivated solely by the mother's objection to the fetus's race, gender or disability, and placing new restrictions on doctors.
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Lachlan Markay / Washington Free Beacon:
Free Beacon Poll: Cruz Expands Lead Over Trump in Wisconsin  —  Ted Cruz holds a modest lead over Donald Trump in Wisconsin two weeks before that state's winner-take-all Republican primary, according to a new Washington Free Beacon poll.  —  The Basswood Research survey …
Jesse Byrnes / The Hill:
Trump aide fulfills threat to ‘spill the beans’ on Heidi Cruz  —  on Friday fulfilled the businessman's threat to “spill the beans” on Republican presidential rival Ted Cruz  —  's wife, Heidi.  —  Trump spokeswoman Katrina Pierson rattled off a list of attacks three days after Trump first made the threat.
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Jose A. DelReal / Washington Post:
Donald Trump can't stop saying nasty things about women. It could cost him.
Discussion: CNN and Prairie Weather
CBS Miami:
Republican Curbelo Open To Voting For Clinton  —  MIAMI (CBSMiami) — In recent weeks Republican Congressman Carlos Curbelo has been telling some Democrats in his district he would vote for Hillary Clinton over Donald Trump if those were his two choices, according to those who have spoken to him.
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Tierney Sneed / Talking Points Memo:
Why A Third Party Alternative Won't Save the GOP From Trump
Discussion: Hot Air
Daily Mail:
BREAKING NEWS: Anti-terror police shoot suspect holding rucksack at tram station in fresh Brussels swoop as two explosions are heard  —  Armed police shot a terror suspect at a Brussels tram station as they launched fresh raids in the Belgian capital in the wake of the suicide attacks on Tuesday.
Rachel Weiner / Washington Post:
Why Emily's List is spending big to defeat a progressive Democrat  —  Rep. Chris Van Hollen seems an unlikely target for a Democratic super PAC's ­biggest-ever primary campaign.  A rising star in the party, the Senate candidate is a longtime protege of House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi …
Erik Opsal / The Huffington Post:
Arizona's Long Voting Lines Showed How Democracy is Broken.  Here's How to Fix it  —  Deputy Communications Director, Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law  —  While Americans waited for election results on Tuesday, some voters in Arizona waited five hours or more just to cast a ballot — long after the polls closed.
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Fernanda Santos / New York Times:
Angry Arizona Voters Demand: Why Such Long Lines at Polling Sites?
Jamie Weinstein / The Daily Caller:
Hillary On Area 51 Secrets: ‘I Think We Ought To Share It With The Public’ [VIDEO]  —  Hillary Clinton says barring any national security risk, she would like to open up the government files on Area 51 to the public if she is elected president.  —  “I would like us to go into those files …
Discussion: JustOneMinute and Clayton Cramer
 
 
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Jeff Stein / Vox:
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CNN:
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Nick Gass / Politico:
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Jane C. Timm / NBC News:
Criticism of Trump Draws Online Harassment, Threats
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New York Times:
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Steven Shepard / Politico:
Insiders to Trump: No majority, no nomination
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Los Angeles Times:
Long delay in identifying the flight attendant who fled LAX raises security concerns
Bloomberg Business:
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Chicago Tribune:
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A.B. Stoddard / The Hill:
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Julian Hattem / The Hill:
Lost emails from Clinton server discovered
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WCSC-TV:
Report: Woman killed in ‘freak accident’ at Summerville drive-thru did not hit accelerator
Discussion: fox8.com, KTLA and FOX5 San Diego