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12:35 PM ET, April 17, 2016

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Jessie Hellmann / The Hill:
RNC chief: No changes to delegate requirement likely  —  Republican National Committee (RNC) Chairman Reince Priebus said Sunday the GOP likely won't change a rule that requires candidates to have 1,237 delegates to clinch the GOP presidential nomination.  —  “Having a plurality of the delegates means the field has the majority.
Discussion: Politico and The Gateway Pundit
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Mark Murray / NBC News:
Poll: 62% Say Republican with Most Votes Should Be Nominee  —  More than six in 10 Republican voters believe that, if no GOP presidential candidate wins a majority of delegates before the convention, the one with the most votes should be the party's nominee, according to a new national NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll.
Jonathan Easley / The Hill:
Republican Party delegates feel sudden power as balance shifts  —  The balance of power in the Republican Party has suddenly shifted to delegates, many of whom are entering the national spotlight for the first time.  —  Delegates say their lives have been turned upside down by the possibility …
Jenna Johnson / Washington Post:
Trump to RNC: Reform nomination system or ‘have a rough July at that convention’
Discussion: RedState
Jim Hoft / The Gateway Pundit:
Donald Trump Is Outperforming Ted Cruz, Bernie Sanders AND Hillary Clinton  —  Donald Trump is not only outperforming Ted Cruz in the election to date, he also outperforms Democrats Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders as well.  —  The election results to date (as of Sunday April 17th) show that Trump outshines all the candidates.
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Kevin McCullough / Townhall.com:
Why Trump Loses  —  When Donald Trump looks back at the wasted time and money he put forward in producing the biggest flame-out in Presidential nominating history, he's going to easily be able to point to exactly where he lost it.  —  I've long thought of elections as similar to prize fights or NFL football match-ups.
Ginger Gibson / Reuters:
Ted Cruz wins Wyoming Republican presidential nominating contest
Discussion: AOL
Patrick Howley / Breitbart:
Trump Supporters Walk Out of Georgia Delegate Fight After Party Picks Cruz Supporter...'Uproar in the Hall'  —  Donald Trump supporters walked out of a delegate election in Georgia Saturday to protest a vote that robbed Trump of all of his slated delegates from a district that he won in the primary.
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Katie Glueck / Politico:
Trump massacred in delegate fights once more  —  It was another delegate bloodbath for Donald Trump.  —  In Georgia.  In Wyoming.  In South Carolina.  In Kansas.  In Florida.  Ted Cruz put on a clinic, mobilizing his GOP activist base to capture at least 50 delegates on Saturday …
Jim Galloway / Political Insider blog:
Donald Trump gets outmaneuvered by Ted Cruz forces in Georgia  —  On March 1, Donald Trump finished first in Georgia's Republican presidential primary with 39 percent of the vote.  —  On Saturday, at gatherings of Republican activists meeting by congressional district …
Discussion: RedState and ABC News
Denver Post:
Obama should visit Ground Zero — but without apologies  —  Last week, Secretary of State John Kerry did something that no predecessor had ventured to do.  He attended a memorial service in Hiroshima and toured the Hiroshima Peace Memorial museum, which commemorates the devastation wrought by the bomb Little Boy in 1945.
Terry Macalister / Observer:
Clouds gather over solar power after golden years of success  —  iven that the government is determined to avoid playing a financial role in the planned new nuclear plant at Hinkley Point, it is perhaps surprising that it is involved in the UK's largest solar array.
Angelique Chrisafis / Guardian:
Thousands of troops on Paris streets but are they France's new Maginot line?  —  Many welcome them, but others fear it is a ‘political anti-anxiety measure’  —  n the cobbled alleyways of Montmartre, as a busker warbled La Vie en Rose and street artists painted watercolours of the view over Paris …
Hannah Parry For / Daily Mail:
Not just a pretty face then?  Justin Trudeau stuns room full of reporters and scientists with perfect answer to complex quantum computing question  — Canadian Prime Minister was delivering his budget speech when he was put on spot with a joke question about quantum computing
Discussion: American Spectator
Alison Smale / New York Times:
German Comic Who Lampooned Erdogan to Extend Break From TV Show  —  BERLIN — The satirist whose crude lampoon of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey touched off a furor over free speech in Germany announced Saturday that he and his team would take a break from their satirical TV show until May 12.
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Frank Jordans / Associated Press:
MERKEL CRITICIZED, LAUDED FOR ALLOWING COMIC'S PROSECUTION
Discussion: Associated Press
CNN:
Saudis warn of economic reprisals if Congress passes 9/11 bill  —  (CNN)Saudi Arabia is warning it will sell off billions in American assets if the U.S. Congress passes a bipartisan bill that would allow victims of 9/11 and other terrorist attacks to sue foreign governments.
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Arturo Garcia / Raw Story:
DON'T MISS STORIES.  FOLLOW RAW STORY!  —  Bill Maher closed …
Jeremy Diamond / CNN:
Bernie Sanders smashes the Israel status quo
Dan Berman / CNN:
Ted Cruz sweeps Wyoming Republican Convention
McClatchy Washington Bureau:
Inside Panama Papers: Multiple Clinton connections
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Suz Elvey / Daily Express:
Huge fireball at Manchester Airport as terror suspect is seized
Discussion: Pamela Geller and Jihad Watch
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Los Angeles Times:
L.A.'s effort to equip officers with body cameras stalls
Discussion: Associated Press
Jim Hoft / The Gateway Pundit:
Migrant Brings Deadly Louse-Borne Relapsing Fever to German Refugee Hotel
Discussion: The Local
Rachel L. Swarns / New York Times:
272 Slaves Were Sold to Save Georgetown. What Does It Owe Their Descendants?
Discussion: Consortiumnews.com
Maureen Dowd / New York Times:
Hillary Is Not Sorry  —  WASHINGTON — IT'S hard not to feel sorry for Hillary Clinton.