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Mike Zapler / Politico:
Clinton sinks Sanders in N.Y.: 'This one's personal'  —  Badly trailing Hillary Clinton in delegates and the popular vote despite his eight-of-nine winning streak, Bernie Sanders needed a dramatic moment in New York on Tuesday night to shake up the Democratic nomination contest before it's simply too late.
Discussion: ABC News, Washington Post and USA Today
Rick Klein / ABC News:
ANALYSIS: Hometown Wins Boost Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton
Kristin Salaky / Associated Press:   Exit Poll Shows NY Dems Energized By Nomination Contest, GOP Divided
JOHN HODGMAN:
Hillary Clinton for President
Discussion: Boing Boing and Politico
Austin American-Statesman:
Whole Foods taking legal action against cake accuser, releases video  —  Austin-based Whole Foods Market said it is taking legal action against an Austin man who claims he purchased a cake from the retailer that included a slur against gay people.  —  Whole Foods also released …
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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 …
Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Whole Foods: We're suing the gay activist who claimed we sold him a cake with a slur written on it — and we have video  —  Via Drew McCoy and Just Karl, you mean the cake section at Whole Foods — in Austin(!) — isn't a hotbed of reactionary anti-gay sentiment?  —  Watch Jordan Brown's short video, posted below, for background.
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
Discussion: RedState
Brigid Bergin / WNYC News:
De Blasio Demands Explanation, as Decline in Registered Brooklyn Democrats Doubles  —  Mayor Bill de Blasio has ordered the New York City Board of Elections to investigate why more than 63,000 registered Democrats were dropped from the voting rolls since last fall.
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Sara Jerde / Talking Points Memo:   NYC Board Of Elections To Be Audited After Reports Of Voting ‘Irregularities’
Amita Kelly / NPR:
After More Than 100,000 Voters Dropped In Brooklyn, City Officials Call For Action
Discussion: Politico and WNYC News
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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Emily Atkin / ThinkProgress:
BREAKING: Judge Denies Request To Immediately Open Up New York Primary To Independent Voters  —  NEW YORK, NEW YORK — Independent New York voters who were hoping to gain the right to vote in the state's closed primary received some disappointing news from a federal judge on Tuesday …
Reihan Salam / Slate:
Why I'm Voting for Ted Cruz  —  I don't like his personality.  I don't love his vision for the GOP.  He's by far the best Republican candidate.  —  I just voted for Ted Cruz in New York's Republican primary, and it was not a hard call.  The emotions I most closely associate with this campaign season are …
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Jesse Byrnes / The Hill:
Rep. Pete King: ‘I hate Ted Cruz’
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.
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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Larry O'Dell / Associated Press:
Court Overturns Virginia School's Transgender Bathroom Rule
Discussion: The Bob and Chez Show
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
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Nolan D. McCaskill / Politico:
McCain skipping convention to campaign for own Senate seat
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.
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
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 …
Steve Benen / MSNBC:
House Republican on health care plan: ‘Give us a little time’  —  One of the best running jokes in American politics is the one about Republicans releasing their own alternative to the Affordable Care Act.  Any day now, GOP leaders have been saying for many years, they're going to have a plan that rivals …
Michael Weissenstein / Associated Press:
Fidel Castro Gives Rare Speech Saying He Will Soon Die  —  HAVANA (AP) — Cuban revolutionary leader Fidel Castro delivered a valedictory speech Tuesday to the Communist Party that he put in power a half-century ago, telling party members he will soon die and exhorting them to help his ideas survive.
 
 
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The Hill:
GOP debates ‘white knight’ after meeting RNC chairman
Discussion: Hot Air
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Carolyn Y. Johnson / Washington Post:
UnitedHealth Group to exit Obamacare exchanges in all but a ‘handful’ of states
Sophia Rosenbaum / New York Post:
It's NYC's first relevant primary in decades, and nobody can vote
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Cops Taunted Black Veteran as He Died
theGrio:
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Spencer Kornhaber / The Atlantic:
Better Call Saul and the Edge of Boredom
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Donald Trump: I ‘helped a little bit’ with clearing rubble at Ground Zero