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9:50 AM ET, April 26, 2016

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Jim Hoft / The Gateway Pundit:
Rudy Giuliani: Trump Is the Nominee... Cruz-Kasich Backroom Deal is Devastating (Video)  —  Rudy Giuliani joined Sean Hannity tonight to discuss the Republican primary race.  —  Rudy says it's over and Trump is the nominee. … The post Rudy Giuliani: Trump Is the Nominee …
Discussion: The Last Tradition
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Wall Street Journal:
Map Shrinks for Donald Trump's Foes  —  Ted Cruz and John Kasich pin their fading hopes on Indiana's Republican presidential primary next week  —  ROCKVILLE, Md.—Donald Trump is poised to sweep five states' Republican primaries on the Eastern Seaboard on Tuesday, but his rivals …
Margaret Carlson / Bloomberg View:
How to Be Presidential, Trump-Style  —  If in the early hours of a Saturday morning, there's a traffic jam in your neighborhood, it won't be because it's the opening day of the county fair.  These days, it's more likely to be Donald Trump.  —  In Waterbury, Connecticut, this weekend …
New York Times:
Ted Cruz-John Kasich Alliance Against Donald Trump Quickly Weakens  —  The temporary alliance between Senator Ted Cruz and Gov. John Kasich of Ohio, formed to deny Donald J. Trump the Republican presidential nomination, was already in danger of fraying to the point of irrelevance on Monday …
Ben Kamisar / The Hill:
Cruz, Kasich join forces to stop Trump  —  Republican presidential candidates Ted Cruz  —  and John Kasich anounced Sunday they would work together as part of a joint effort to prevent party front-runner Donald Trump  —  from winning the Republican presidential nomination.
Jose A. DelReal / Washington Post:
Five states expected to help Trump and Clinton widen their leads
Jim VandeHei / Wall Street Journal:
Bring on a Third-Party Candidate  —  Establishment America deserves disruption, but not of the Sanders or Trump type.  Here's how to do it.  —  I have spent the past two decades in the Washington, D.C., bubble—the heart of Establishment America—covering politics and building a company, Politico, focused solely on politics.
Hadley Malcolm / USA Today:
More than 500,000 boycott Target over transgender bathroom policy  —  A conservative Christian activist group has gained more than half a million signatures and counting from people pledging to boycott Target over its transgender bathroom policy.  —  The petition started by the American Family Association …
Discussion: Mediaite
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New York Times:
Federal Judge Upholds North Carolina Voter Rules  —  RALEIGH, N.C. — A federal judge on Monday upheld sweeping Republican-backed changes to election rules, including a voter identification provision, that civil rights groups say unfairly targeted African-Americans and other minorities.
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Associated Press:
Federal judge upholds North Carolina photo ID mandate  —  RALEIGH, N.C. — Lawsuits challenging changes to North Carolina's election law failed to show it hampered the ability of minority voters to exercise political power, a federal judge ruled Monday in dismissing the cases.
Caitlin Yilek / The Hill:
Lena Dunham promises to move to Canada if Trump wins  —  Lena Dunham is the latest celebrity to say she'll hightail it out of the country if Donald Trump  —  is elected president.  —  “I know a lot of people have been threatening to do this, but I really will,” Dunham told Andy Cohen at the Matrix Awards on Monday.
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Nick Gass / Politico:
Trump: Americans will thank me when Lena Dunham flees to Canada  —  Not only would Donald Trump not mind if certain celebrities flee the United States upon his election, the Republican front-runner said Tuesday that their opposition to his candidacy only increases his will to win.
Discussion: The Week
Alex Roarty / Roll Call:
The Emotional Life of Sanders Supporters  —  Movement will go on, they say — with or without Democratic Party  —  Van Hollen, McGinty Surge Ahead In Kansas, Pompeo Won't Challenge Sen. Moran Major Mystery Donor Reveals Why He Backed Donna Edwards  —  BALTIMORE - Bailey Myers …
Eli Stokols / Politico:
Trump rejects new adviser's push to make him ‘presidential’  —  Donald Trump is bristling at efforts to implement a more conventional presidential campaign strategy, and has expressed misgivings about the political guru behind them, Paul Manafort, for overstepping his bounds, multiple sources close to the campaign tell POLITICO.
Office of Media Relations:
Americans Overwhelmingly Engaged in 2016 Election but Tone of Race Is Affecting Voters, New GW Battleground Poll Shows  —  Obama's Approval Rating Turns Positive for First Time in Three Years  —  MEDIA CONTACTS:  —  Jason Shevrin: jshevrin@gwu.edu, 202-994-5631  —  John Brandt: johnbrandt@gwu.edu, 202-994-3199
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Rebecca Savransky / The Hill:
Clinton leads Trump by just 3 points in new poll
Jim Hoft / The Gateway Pundit:
RUSH LIMBAUGH: If Cruz Plan Succeeds and He Wins on Second Ballot, It's the “End of the Republican Party”  —  Rush Limbaugh told his radio audience today that if Ted Cruz succeeds in his plan to win the nomination on the second ballot it will be the “end of the Republican party.”
Daily Mail:
Jay-Z's not the only one who needs to be nervous about Beyonce, the born-again-black woman with a political mission  —  I never like it when entertainers go all political.  —  The cynic in me believes it's rarely done for genuine reasons but for strictly commercial ones.
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Melissa Harris-Perry / ELLE:   A Call and Response with Melissa Harris-Perry: The Pain and the Power of ‘Lemonade’
Richard Pollock / The Daily Caller:
EXCLUSIVE: Kerry, Heinz Family Have Millions Invested In Offshore Tax Havens  —  Secretary of State John Kerry and his wife Teresa Heinz have invested millions of U.S. dollars through family trusts in at least 11 offshore tax havens, according to The Daily Caller News Foundation's Investigative Group.
Discussion: Betsy's Page and Instapundit
Tim Murphy / Mother Jones:
The only campaign that would have even been legal eight years ago belongs to a 74-year-old socialist. … The Uncampaign has upended the system across the board, turning even the most basic of candidacies into something unrecognizable. … “All the rules of the playbook are thrown out the window …
Sophia A. McClennen / Salon:
Maybe Donald Trump has really lost his mind: What if the GOP frontrunner isn't crazy, but simply not well?  —  We've become familiar with his ramblings, and at ease mocking them.  But they might be the sign of someone unwell  —  The Donald Trump gaffe track keeps playing.
WLKY-TV:
Husband charged with killing wife in St. Regis Park  —  Man says he didn't know gun was loaded when he pointed it at his wife, pulled trigger  —  A woman was shot and killed Sunday and her husband is behind bars at Metro Corrections.  —  Police said 22-year-old Damien Lacambra was arrested overnight and faces a murder charge.
Discussion: Raw Story and Courier-Journal
Rick Noack / Washington Post:
This city embedded traffic lights in the sidewalks so that smartphone users don't have to look up  —  Few nations in the world take red traffic lights more seriously than Germany.  —  Foreign visitors frequently wonder why crowds of Germans wait for traffic lights to turn green when there are no cars in sight.
Shoshana Weissmann / Weekly Standard:
Don't Suggest to Hillary She Could Ever Be Behind in Votes  —  During MSNBC's town hall with Hillary Clinton, Rachel Maddow made the mistake of suggesting Clinton could ever in the future be behind Bernie Sanders in the delegate count.  —  “That was June 7, 2008 when you got out of the race and endorsed President Obama.
Patrick Howley / Breitbart:
EXCLUSIVE: Colorado County GOP Chair: Errors with Ted Cruz's Delegate Win, Might Need Do-Over  —  The chairwoman of the Boulder County GOP has admitted that grave errors affected the Colorado Republican caucus, in which Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) won a clean sweep of 34 delegates without opening up the process to voting by everyday citizens.
Mother Jones:
Flint and America's Corroded Trust  —  It's been the subject of protests and debates, but if anything is improving in Flint, Michigan, it's hard for any of us on the ground to see.  —  One of the city's lead pipes has been replaced for the benefit of the press, but more than 8,000 additional service lines …
NBC News:
Poll: Trump Reaches 50 Percent Support Nationally for the First Time  —  Trump: New Cruz-Kasich Alliance to Stop Him is ‘Pathetic’ and ‘Weak’ 2:47  —  Donald Trump has reached 50 percent support from Republicans and Republican-leaners nationally for the first time since the beginning of the NBC News|
NBC News:
Dennis Hastert's Accuser Sues Him for $1.8 Million  —  The accuser at the center of the Dennis Hastert hush-money case filed a $1.8 million lawsuit against him on Monday, two days before the former House Speaker's sentencing.  —  The man known only as Individual A — who says he was just 14 years old …
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Chicago Tribune:
Alleged sex abuse victim sues Dennis Hastert for breach of contract
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Roger Harrabin / BBC:
Rise in CO2 has ‘greened Planet Earth’  —  Carbon dioxide emissions from industrial society have driven a huge growth in trees and other plants.  —  A new study says that if the extra green leaves prompted by rising CO2 levels were laid in a carpet, it would cover twice the continental USA.
Discussion: Daily Mail, Power Line, AOL and Carbon Brief
 
 
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 Earlier Items: 
Jim Hoft / The Gateway Pundit:
WOW! MUST-SEE VIDEO=> HUNDREDS OF SUPPORTERS Chase Down Trump's Caravan in Rhode Island
Discussion: Fox News, ABC News and Jamie Dupree
Larry Downes / Washington Post:
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Stacey Barchenger / Tennessean.com:
Erin Andrews settles peephole lawsuit
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Mercatus Center / Conversations with Tyler:
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Discussion: Neatorama and Marginal REVOLUTION
Mark Hensch / The Hill:
Bobby Knight to campaign for Trump in Indiana
Michael Warren / Weekly Standard:
Cruz Campaign Vetting Carly for VP