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3:00 PM ET, April 17, 2016

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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.
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 …
Patrick Howley / Breitbart:
EXCLUSIVE — Trump Campaign: Cruz Staged ‘Attack’ In Georgia To Steal Delegates...'Not Grassroots Activism'  —  The Donald Trump campaign is accusing the Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) campaign of staging a coordinated “attack” in Georgia that led to pro-Trump delegate candidates being challenged …
Jim Galloway / Political Insider blog:
Donald Trump gets outmaneuvered by Ted Cruz forces in Georgia
Discussion: RedState, Raw Story and ABC News
Ginger Gibson / Reuters:
Ted Cruz wins Wyoming Republican presidential nominating contest
Discussion: AOL
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.
CBS News:
Poll: Donald Trump keeps large lead in New York; ahead in California  —  Donald Trump heads into his home-state primary of New York with a large edge over Ted Cruz and John Kasich, 54 percent to 21 percent and 19 percent respectively.  The lead, if it holds Tuesday night …
Discussion: RedState and Hot Air
Ian Schwartz / RealClearPolitics:
Priebus to Trump: “Delegates And Voters Choose The Nominee”; People Don't “Give A Darn” About Colorado  —  Reince Priebus, chairman of the Republican National Committee, says Donald Trump complaining about the way Colorado's delegates were chosen is “distracting.”
Jonathan Easley / The Hill:   Republican Party delegates feel sudden power as balance shifts
Jenna Johnson / Washington Post:
Trump to RNC: Reform nomination system or ‘have a rough July at that convention’
Discussion: RedState and Politico
Bethania Palma Markus / Raw Story:
Trump threatens a ‘rough time’ at the Republican National Convention if he isn't given the nomination
Discussion: KCCI-TV and Syracuse Post-Standard
Laura Bult / New York Daily News:
Hundreds of New York state voters to file suit calling the closed primary ‘a threat to our democratic system’ after claiming their party affiliation mysteriously changed  —  More than 200 outraged New York voters have joined a lawsuit claiming the party affiliation on their voter registration changed without their consent.
Jessie Hellmann / The Hill:
Clinton up by double digits in NY, Calif.  —  Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton  —  is holding on to her lead in New York, leading rival Sen. Bernie Sanders  —  (I-Vt.) by 10 points in a new poll released just days ahead of the state's critical primary Tuesday.
Paul Sperry / New York Post:
How US covered up Saudi role in 9/11  —  In its report on the still-censored “28 pages” implicating the Saudi government in 9/11, “60 Minutes” last weekend said the Saudi role in the attacks has been “soft-pedaled” to protect America's delicate alliance with the oil-rich kingdom.
Discussion: alan.com
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CNN:
Saudis warn of economic reprisals if Congress passes 9/11 bill
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.
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
 
 
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Mary Ann Georgantopoulos / BuzzFeed:
Sanders Lawyers Do Not Like These “Bernie Is My Comrade” T-Shirts One Bit
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Dan Berman / CNN:
Ted Cruz sweeps Wyoming Republican Convention
McClatchy Washington Bureau:
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Discussion: The Daily Caller
Suz Elvey / Daily Express:
Huge fireball at Manchester Airport as terror suspect is seized
Discussion: Pamela Geller and Jihad Watch