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10:10 PM ET, April 27, 2016

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Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
Cruz names Fiorina as VP running mate  —  Ted Cruz announced Wednesday that Carly Fiorina will be his vice presidential nominee if he's the Republican Party's pick for president.  —  If nominated, “I will run on a ticket with my vice-presidential nominee, Carly Fiorina,” …
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New York Times:
Ted Cruz to Name Carly Fiorina as His Running Mate  —  INDIANAPOLIS — Senator Ted Cruz of Texas, desperate to alter the course of a presidential primary fight in which Donald J. Trump is closing in on victory, will announce Wednesday afternoon that Carly Fiorina will be his running mate …
David Mack / BuzzFeed:   Carly Fiorina Randomly Burst Into Song After She Became Ted Cruz's Running Mate
Ian Schwartz / RealClearPolitics:   Carly Fiorina Sings Lullaby At Cruz Ticket Announcement
WMUR:
WMUR first: Cruz to announce intention to name Fiorina as his running mate
Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
Ted Cruz's Hail Carly pass
Discussion: NBC News
John Podhoretz / New York Post:
Ted Cruz is crumbling before our very eyes
Discussion: The Last Tradition and Instapundit
Yamiche Alcindor / New York Times:
Bernie Sanders to Cut Hundreds of Staff Members and Turn to California  —  WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Senator Bernie Sanders is planning to lay off “hundreds” of campaign staffers across the country and focus much of his remaining effort on winning California, he said in an interview Wednesday.
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Gabriel Debenedetti / Politico:
Sanders campaign begins laying off staff  —  TERRE HAUTE, Ind. — Bernie Sanders' campaign started letting hundreds of field staffers go on Wednesday, hours after five states in the Northeast voted and the Vermont senator fell further behind Hillary Clinton in the race for the Democratic nomination …
Discussion: The Atlantic, The Slot and Mediaite
Kyle Blaine / BuzzFeed:
Bernie Sanders To Cut Hundreds Of Staffers After Losses On Tuesday
Discussion: New York Times
Fox News:
Sanders campaign lays off staff after primary losses
Discussion: RedState, TalkLeft and Fox 59
Donald J Trump for President:
DONALD J. TRUMP FOREIGN POLICY SPEECH  —  Thank you for the opportunity to speak to you, and thank you to the Center for the National Interest for honoring me with this invitation.  —  I would like to talk today about how to develop a new foreign policy direction for our country …
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Michael Crowley / Politico:
Trump fails to impress foreign-policy experts  —  In his address to an elite, invitation-only Washington foreign policy audience Wednesday, Donald Trump promised that, as president, he would restore a “coherent” vision to America's role in the world.  —  But across the ideological spectrum …
Discussion: Washington Post
New York Times:
Donald Trump, Laying Out Foreign Policy, Promises Coherence
Kevin Drum / Mother Jones:
Trump's Foreign Policy Doesn't Improve When Read From a Teleprompter
Discussion: the daily howler
Bob Fredericks / New York Post:   Donald Trump explains how he'd rule the world
Associated Press:
Trump's big speech tests his foreign policy and style
Natasha Korecki / Politico:
Hastert sentenced to 15 months in prison  —  CHICAGO — Former House Speaker Dennis Hastert was sentenced to 15 months in prison on Wednesday after a dramatic hearing in which a judge deemed him a “serial child molester” and victims tearfully testified that he forever altered their lives.
Discussion: The Week
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Michael Tarm / Associated Press:
FORMER HOUSE SPEAKER SENTENCED TO MORE THAN A YEAR IN PRISON
Discussion: Hullabaloo and Associated Press
Philip Bump / Washington Post:
Dennis Hastert's stunningly hypocritical 1998 speech about impeaching Bill Clinton
Discussion: Chicago Tribune, Raw Story and Guardian
Justin Kroll / Variety:
Will Ferrell to Play Former President Ronald Reagan in New Movie (EXCLUSIVE) … Having already famously portrayed former President George W. Bush in various comedy sketches, Will Ferrell is now setting his sights on another former commander in chief.  —  Sources tell Variety Ferrell …
Travis Gettys / Raw Story:
‘Thank you, you idiots’: Watch Maine Gov. Paul LePage melt down after students mock him during speech  —  DON'T MISS STORIES.  FOLLOW RAW STORY!  —  Maine's Republican governor threw a temper tantrum after he was confronted by protesters during an event at a university.
Discussion: Franklin
Guardian:
Girl, 12, runs half-marathon by mistake  —  New York girl realised halfway through she was on wrong course but decided to finish anyway  —  A 12-year-old girl in New York has mistakenly run a half-marathon after she confused the start of the race with a five kilometre course she was supposed to be running.
Campbell Brown / Politico:
Why I Blame TV for Trump  —  A former cable host says the industry utterly caved to the candidate.  —  My friends in the TV news business are in a state of despair about Donald Trump, even as their bosses in the boardroom are giddy over what he's doing for their once sagging ratings.
Discussion: Mediaite and CNN
Julia Ioffe / GQ:
Melania Trump on Her Rise, Her Family Secrets, and Her True Political Views: “Nobody Will Ever Know”  —  How does a shy ex-model make her way from Slovenia to, just maybe, the White House?  To Melania Trump—and to the people who know her back home—her journey to marrying The Donald is like a fairy tale …
The White House / Medium:
Asked and Answered: President Obama Responds to an Eight-Year-Old Girl from Flint  —  At eight years old, Mari Copeny—known around town as “Little Miss Flint”—wrote to President Obama last month from her home in Flint, Michigan to share how she is working to bring attention to the public health crisis in her community.
Pat Peterson / WKRG-TV:
Foley Plane Crash Caught on Camera  —  FOLEY, AL-  —  Surveillance video from a Foley business captured incredible images of a plane crash near the city's airport.  —  The crash happened south of the airport off Hickory Street Tuesday afternoon.  A Cessna 421 Twin Engine clipped a few trees over business
Discussion: WBAY-TV
Nate Cohn / New York Times:
Donald Trump Beat Expectations Everywhere, Suggesting a Broad Shift  —  After just about every primary night this year, we've written something like “Donald Trump stayed on a narrow but clear path to the Republican nomination.”  —  After Tuesday night, Mr. Trump has never had a wider path to a majority of pledged delegates.
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Kevin Rector / Baltimore Sun:
13-year-old with ‘replica’ weapon shot by police in East Baltimore  —  Police investigate the shooting aroun the McKim Community Center.  —  A 13-year-old boy was shot by Baltimore Police officers in East Baltimore who said he was carrying a “replica” weapon, Police Commissioner Kevin Davis said Wednesday evening.
Dan McLaughlin / RedState:
Trump Supporters Already Pre-Spinning November Trump Loss  —  For all the bravado of Donald Trump's online supporters, now that his sweep of the Northeast has put him in a potentially strong position to take the nomination, they are mostly spending the day...preparing to blame other people for Trump's inevitable loss in November.
Discussion: Washington Free Beacon and Hot Air
Warner Todd Huston / Breitbart:
Top Twenty Sexual Crimes Committed at Target Stores  —  The Target department store chain has made itself infamous for announcing that it will allow transgender people to choose whatever bathroom they want to use at any given time, even though the chain already has many problems with sexual assaults in its stores.
Discussion: PinkNews
 
 
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James Kirchick / Politico:
Donald Trump's Russia connections
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Billy House / Bloomberg:
McCarthy ‘Hopeful’ House Will Pass Puerto Rico Bill by July 1
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Anders Melin / Bloomberg:
This CEO's $148 Million in Pay May Rank Him No. 1 for 2015
Discussion: STAT
Peter Frost / Chicago Business:
McDonald's plans to launch ‘cleaner’ Chicken McNuggets
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Janna Jihad / VICE News:
What It's Really Like to Fight for the Islamic State
Discussion: Washington Post and BizPac Review
Jack Suntrup / St. Louis Post-Dispatch:
‘Religious freedom’ measure defeated in Missouri House committee
Olivia Wu / Campus Reform:
Scripps ‘Unofficial Survival Guide’ claims ‘hatred of white people’ is ‘legitimate response to oppression’
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Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
Stephen Colbert to lawmakers pushing bathroom bills: 'You're the weirdos'
Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Trump passes Romney's popular vote total, likely to break GOP record
Archie Ingersoll Forum / Bismarck Tribune:
Firm with rainbow logo won't design rainbow logo for gay-friendly Fargo church
Discussion: PinkNews, Raw Story and Towleroad
Tom LoBianco / CNN:
Mary Pat Christie throws some shade during Trump's speech
Chris Kahn / Reuters:
Exclusive: Half of Americans think presidential nominating system ‘rigged’ - poll