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5:30 AM ET, April 15, 2016

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New York Post:
The Post endorses Donald Trump  —  Donald Trump is a rookie candidate — a potential superstar of vast promise, but making rookie mistakes.  The nominee Republicans need for the fall campaign is often hard to make out amid his improvisations and too-harsh replies to his critics.  —  New Yorkers vote Tuesday.
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Jessica Hopper / ABC News:
Discussion: abc7news.com, Associated Press and WND
Meera Jagannathan / New York Daily News:
Six ex-'Apprentice' stars to disavow Donald Trump for his ‘anti-American’ campaign
Benjy Sarlin / MSNBC:
How an army of pro-Donald Trump trolls are taking over Reddit
Discussion: Hullabaloo and Hit & Run
Dana Blanton / Fox News:
Fox News Poll: Trump widens lead in GOP race, Clinton-Sanders tightens  —  Donald Trump jumps to an 18-point lead over Ted Cruz this week with record high support for the Republican nomination.  —  Trump tops Cruz by 45-27 percent among GOP primary voters in a new Fox News national poll on the 2016 election.
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Frank Newport / Gallup:
Clinton's Image Among Democrats at New Low  —  Recent activity in the presidential election campaign is clearly taking a toll on the images of the leading presidential candidates, as Hillary Clinton drops to her lowest net favorable rating among Democrats since Gallup began tracking her in July …
Discussion: Washington Post and JustOneMinute
Daniel Strauss / Politico:
Pataki endorses Kasich, bashes Trump
Discussion: RedState
Jason Horowitz / New York Times:
Bernie Sanders Campaign Suspends Jewish Outreach Coordinator for Vulgar Remarks About Netanyahu  —  The Sanders campaign's announcement on Tuesday that Simone Zimmerman would be its national Jewish outreach coordinator delighted her fellow left-wing Jewish political activists and encouraged …
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Eliza Collins / Politico:
Lewandowski: Battery case became ‘huge distraction’ for Trump campaign
Discussion: ABC News
Timothy Cama / The Hill:
Palin: Bill Nye ‘as much a scientist as I am’  —  Sarah Palin tore into Bill Nye's scientific qualifications on Thursday, saying he has no authority to say climate skeptics are wrong.  —  Palin, the former governor of Alaska and the 2008 Republican vice presidential candidate …
Gabriel Debenedetti / Politico:
Clinton and Sanders brawl in Brooklyn  —  NEW YORK — Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders engaged in their most vicious debate yet, delivering a two-hour shouting match on the Democratic debate stage Thursday night as they brawled over Wall Street, guns, racism, the minimum wage and each other's fitness for the White House.
Discussion: Washington Post and ABC News
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Mark Murray / NBC News:
Poll: Clinton's Lead in New York Grows
Discussion: Guardian and Raw Story
Donald J. Trump / Wall Street Journal:
Let Me Ask America a Question  —  How has the ‘system’ been working out for you and your family?  No wonder voters demand change.  —  On Saturday, April 9, Colorado had an “election” without voters.  Delegates were chosen on behalf of a presidential nominee, yet the people of Colorado …
Alan Pyke / ThinkProgress:
Time Magazine Is Lying To You.  Here's Why.  —  Time Magazine is lying to you.  —  The cover of the venerated publication's newest issue sports a shocking warning with an all-red klaxon cover that shouts: “DEAR READER: You owe $42,998.12.”  The article in question, by gold-standard quack …
Discussion: Hullabaloo
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Matthew Yglesias / Vox:
Time magazine's new cover trolls economically literate people with absurd scare tactics
Discussion: Slate and Mother Jones
Lauren Fox / Talking Points Memo:
Ted Cruz's Senate Outreach Isn't Going Well  —  Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) has decided he may want some help from Washington after all to stop Trump.  —  But alas, his entreaties to his Senate colleagues aren't going very well.  —  Cruz is facing varied and dynamic obstacles in his quest to build support on the Hill.
Discussion: Daily Kos, CBS News and Hot Air
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Lauren Fox / Talking Points Memo:
Ted Cruz: Yes, Mitch McConnell Lied To Me And I Don't Regret Saying It
Discussion: RedState and Hot Air
Indira A.R. Lakshmanan / Politico:
The Mystery of the Two Hillarys  —  Hillary Clinton knows her biggest weakness as a candidate is that she's not much of one.  She works hard at it, but she's not in her element doing the things that presidential contenders need to do: performing in arenas, charming the media, electrifying the masses.
Los Angeles Times:
In a win for unions, appeals court reverses ruling that threw out teacher tenure in California  —  Student Beatriz Vergara testifies in the Vergara vs. California case in Los Angeles Superior Court on Feb. 11, 2014.  —  In a major victory for unions, a California appeals court reversed …
Nicole Gonzalez Van Cleve / New York Times:
Chicago's Racist Cops and Racist Courts  —  AS a report by a panel commissioned by Mayor Rahm Emanuel of Chicago found on Wednesday, racism in the city's Police Department is rampant: Blacks are disproportionately subjected to traffic stops, Tasers and street stops that do not lead to arrest …
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Laura Reiley / Tampa Bay Times:
you're being fed fiction  —  The restaurant's chalkboard makes claims as you enter from the valet parking lot.  At the hostess stand, a cheery board reads, “Welcome to local, farm-fresh Boca.”  —  Brown butcher paper tops tables and lettuces grow along a wooden wall.
Discussion: NPR and Eater
Bloomberg:
Apple Pursues New Search Features for a Crowded App Store  —  Company explores adding Google-like ‘paid search’ feature  —  Effort follows last year's App Store leadership change  —  Apple Inc. has constructed a secret team to explore changes to the App Store, including a new strategy …
Paul Bedard / Washington Examiner:
Tim Tebow eyed for open Florida House seat, ‘a shoo-in’  —  The surprise retirement of a key Florida congressman has Republican strategists eager to give the ball to former Florida Gators quarterback Tim Tebow, according to several sources.  —  “We do not pick favorites,” said a key party strategist …
Michele Gorman / Newsweek:
SANDY HOOK LAWSUIT: JUDGE RULES AGAINST GUN COMPANIES  —  In a major blow to gun companies, a judge in Connecticut on Thursday denied a motion to dismiss a lawsuit brought by 10 families affected by the December 2012 massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School against the maker of the Bushmaster AR-15 rifle used in the shooting.
Tennessean.com:
Gov. Bill Haslam vetoes Bible bill  —  Gov. Bill Haslam has vetoed the controversial bill that would have made the Bible the official book of Tennessee.  —  Haslam cited an opinion issued in 2015 by Attorney General Herbert Slatery that said the bill could violate the state and federal constitutions.
Paul Mirengoff / Power Line:
Dem dust up in Maryland is a sign of things to come  —  Given what's going on in the Republican presidential contest, I'm not going to pass any popcorn when it comes to Democratic infighting.  I was amused, though, by this story from the Democrats' Senate primary in Maryland.
Discussion: Washington Post
David E. Sanger / New York Times:
Paul Ryan on Foreign Policy Is Closer to Hillary Clinton Than Donald Trump  —  WASHINGTON — “I am not a neocon,” House Speaker Paul D. Ryan said on Thursday, mapping out a series of foreign policy views that separated him from virtually all of the Republicans who have sought the presidential nomination this year.
Discussion: AOL and Washington Post
Nick Gass / Politico:
Poll: Trump more unpopular than anyone but David Duke in last 30 years of presidential elections  —  Donald Trump is the most unpopular top-tier presidential candidate over more than three decades of ABC News/Washington Post polls, except for former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke.
Discussion: Daily Kos and The Week
 
 
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Discussion: Vox Popoli
Jake Coyle / Associated Press:
Jon Stewart-produced film gives close-up to Syrian refugees
Discussion: Mediaite and Raw Story
Sean Gregory / TIME:
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