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6:05 PM ET, April 19, 2016

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JOHN HODGMAN:
Hillary Clinton for President  —  This is going to disappoint some of my friends, and maybe that's why I've been quiet about this until now.  —  Also, who cares what I think?  —  But here is what I think: Hillary Clinton for President.  —  I think Sen. Bernie Sanders has been an inspiring …
Discussion: Boing Boing and Politico
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Mike Zapler / Politico:
Sanders needs New York shocker vs. Clinton
Discussion: ABC News and USA Today
Jesse Byrnes / The Hill:
Sanders: Clinton will have to court my supporters
Discussion: Vox, Washington Monthly and Shakesville
Dante Chinni / Wall Street Journal:
New York Primaries: 5 Things to Watch
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Mollie Hemingway / The Federalist:
Are You Planning A Cake Hoax?  These 5 Tips Will Make Sure It's A Success  —  Social Justice Warrior hoaxing is having a heyday.  Whether you're a multi-racial family surreptitiously spray-painting your own home with racist graffiti, a lesbian waitress writing fake anti-gay notes on receipts …
Susanne Craig / New York Times:
Donald Trump's Jet, a Regular on the Campaign Trail, Isn't Registered to Fly  —  Over the past several months, Donald J. Trump has crisscrossed the country making dozens of campaign stops in places like Sioux City, Iowa, and Jackson, Miss., often in his sleek Cessna jet.
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David Mack / BuzzFeed:   So, Uh, Donald Trump's Plane Is Not Registered To Fly
Jesse Byrnes / The Hill:
Rep. Pete King: ‘I hate Ted Cruz’  —  New York Rep. Pete King (R) on Tuesday offered his harshest words yet for Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz  —  , slamming the Texas senator on the day of his state's primary.  —  “Well, first of all, in case anybody gets confused …
Discussion: Washington Monthly
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Nolan D. McCaskill / Politico:
Peter King: I hate Ted Cruz and I voted for John Kasich
Discussion: Washington Post and ABC News
Jose A. DelReal / Washington Post:
New York primary: Clinton and Trump look to cement front-runner status
Jillian Jorgensen / The New York Observer:
Comptroller Will Audit New York City Board of Elections  —  Comptroller Scott Stringer is launching an audit of the city's Board of Elections after reports of problems voting in today's primary elections and the purging of more than 100,000 voters from rolls in Brooklyn.
Discussion: Gothamist and WNYC News
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Rosie Gray / BuzzFeed:
Trump Campaign Paid A Breitbart Editor For Consulting Work  —  WASHINGTON — Donald Trump's campaign paid Breitbart News national security editor Sebastian Gorka $8,000 for “policy consulting” last year, according to Federal Election Commission filings.  —  The filings show that the payment to Gorka was made in October.
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Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
McCain to skip GOP convention  —  (R-Ariz.), who is facing perhaps the toughest reelection race of his career, will skip the Republican presidential nominating convention in Cleveland in July.  —  McCain says he will be focusing instead on his own race against Democratic Rep. Ann Kirkpatrick
Discussion: Talking Points Memo and Mediaite
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Nolan D. McCaskill / Politico:
McCain skipping convention to campaign for own Senate seat
Moriah Balingit / Washington Post:
Federal appeals court sides with transgender teen, says bathroom case can go forward  —  A federal appeals court in Richmond has sided with a transgender high school student, saying that he can proceed with his lawsuit arguing that his school board's decision to ban him from the boy's bathroom is discriminatory.
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Chris Geidner / BuzzFeed:
Federal Appeals Court Upholds Protections For Transgender People In Landmark Ruling
Discussion: Vox and Joe.My.God.
John Hanna / Associated Press:
With Kansas In Crisis, GOPers Abandon Gov Brownback On Tax Cuts  —  TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — After he became Kansas governor in 2011, Sam Brownback slashed personal income taxes on the promise that the deep cuts would trigger a furious wave of hiring and expansion by businesses.
Cynthia Cox / kff.org:
Analysis of UnitedHealth Group's Premiums and Participation in ACA Marketplaces  —  In late 2015, amid a series of closures of relatively small co-op health plans, the nation's largest private insurer, UnitedHealth Group, announced that it too expected losses in its Affordable Care Act (ACA) …
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Carolyn Y. Johnson / Washington Post:
UnitedHealth Group to exit Obamacare exchanges in all but a ‘handful’ of states
Emily Atkin / ThinkProgress:
New York's Primary Isn't Going Smoothly So Far  —  NEW YORK, NEW YORK — Less than halfway though primary election day in New York, a main voter protection hotline has already received “hundreds” of phone calls from people with complaints, issues, and questions about their voter registrations and polling sites.
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Sophia Rosenbaum / New York Post:
It's NYC's first relevant primary in decades, and nobody can vote
Discussion: Common Dreams and Rush Limbaugh
John Harwood / CNBC:
Biden to critics: We had 8 atom bombs land on our desk  —  Vice President Joe Biden says politicians need to stop questioning each other's motives and question their judgments and decisions instead.  —  ABOARD AMTRAK ACELA #2166 — Joe Biden, 73, has been an influential figure in American politics for more than four decades.
CBS News:
Donald Trump reorganizes campaign just before big state primaries  —  Two senior Trump sources confirmed an extensive reorganization of the Trump campaign to CBS News on Monday.  —  Paul Manafort, hired last week to be the convention manager, will now run the Trump campaign …
The Huffington Post:
Sanders And Trump Have Something In Common, Bloomberg Says  —  “I'm not trying to knock Donald Trump, but...”  —  NEW YORK — Michael Bloomberg says there's a connection between Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump.  —  The two presidential candidates elude facts and attract voters with rhetoric …
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Joshua David Stein / Guardian:
When the New York Observer endorsed Donald Trump, I had to resign
benjerry.com:
Why Ben and Jerry Just Got Arrested  —  Earlier today, our cofounders, Jerry Greenfield and Ben Cohen, along with hundreds of other activists, were arrested as part of Democracy Awakening's direct action on the steps of the U.S. Capitol Building.  —  JUST BEFORE THEY WERE ARRESTED
Philip Bump / Washington Post:
Donald Trump: I ‘helped a little bit’ with clearing rubble at Ground Zero … Donald Trump has gotten a lot of attention over the past 12 hours for referring to the Sept. 11 terror attacks as “7/11” during a speech in Buffalo.  It's an awkward, amusing slip-up — but it's just a slip-up.
Anchorage Daily News:
Man fatally shot while photographing people firing guns in Sutton  —  An Anchorage man was shot and killed Saturday while filming or photographing people firing guns in Sutton, according to Alaska State Troopers.  —  Troopers said in a Monday dispatch that they were informed …
Blake Seitz / Washington Free Beacon:
Bernie Sanders Was Asked to Leave Hippie Commune for Shirking, Book Claims  —  Bernie Sanders was asked to leave a hippie commune in 1971 for “sitting around and talking” about politics instead of working, according to a forthcoming book.  —  We Are As Gods by Kate Daloz, scheduled for release April 26 …
Paul Bond / Hollywood Reporter:
Pat Boone Accuses ‘SNL’ of Anti-Christian Bias After 'God's Not Dead 2' Parody  —  EMAIL ME  —  “This skit was outright sacrilege.  They know if they did this to Muslims they'd have to be put into the witness protection program,” the singer-actor said.  —  Pat Boone is calling out NBC …
Discussion: Mediaite, The Daily Caller and PinkNews
 
 
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Obama officials warn states about cutting Medicaid funds to Planned Parenthood
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House Republican on health care plan: ‘Give us a little time’
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