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11:55 AM ET, April 28, 2016

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Ada Statler-Throckmorton / Stanford Daily:
John Boehner talks election, time in office  —  “You can call me boner, beaner, jackass, happy to answer to almost anything,” said former Speaker of the House John Boehner as he took the stage at CEMEX Auditorium on Wednesday evening.  Boehner joined David M. Kennedy, faculty director …
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Nick Gass / Politico:
Boehner: Cruz is ‘Lucifer in the flesh’  —  When it comes to Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, even a few months' time out of Congress has done little to lessen former Speaker John Boehner's contempt for his former Capitol Hill colleague.  —  “Lucifer in the flesh,” Boehner told an audience at Stanford …
Discussion: Vox and The Gateway Pundit
Ben Kamisar / The Hill:
Boehner: Ted Cruz a ‘miserable son of a bitch’  —  as “Lucifer in the flesh” during comments at an event Wednesday night at Stanford University.  —  “I have Democrat friends and Republican friends.  I get along with almost everyone,” Boehner  —  (R-Ohio) said, according to The Stanford Daily.
Carrie Dann / NBC News:
Former Speaker Boehner Calls Cruz ‘Lucifer in the Flesh’
Discussion: Vox
CBS News:
Commentary: Yes, Donald Trump can beat Hillary Clinton  —  How would Donald Trump fare in a general election against Hillary Clinton?  The conventional wisdom is that he wouldn't stand a chance.  The GOP is divided.  His campaign, despite a recent spate of landslide primary wins, appears to have its own civil war going on.
Discussion: Hot Air
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Ron Fournier / The Atlantic:
How Hillary Clinton Can Win the Right Way  —  Hillary Clinton seems poised to win the Democratic nomination, and polls suggest she has an excellent chance of securing the White House in November.  For Clinton, it may be less a question of whether she'll win in November, than of how—and what she'll do next.
Discussion: New York Times
Avik Roy / Forbes:
Ted Cruz's Carly Fiorina VP Pick Could Backfire—Badly  —  On Tuesday, Donald Trump crushed the opposition, winning 110 of the 119 bound delegates available in the “Acela primary” of northeastern states.  Ted Cruz tried to bounce back by naming former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina as his Vice Presidential pick.
Discussion: Washington Post
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Patrick Thibodeau / Computerworld:
With Fiorina pick, Cruz's H-1B stance now in question  —  In 2013, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) emerged as one of the Senate's top H-1B visa supporters, and argued for a 500% H-1B visa cap increase.  But during his bid for the Republican presidential nomination, Cruz had a conversion.
Michael Falcone / ABC News:
The Note: Cruz, Carly Come Together
Paul Bedard / Washington Examiner:
ICE releases 19,723 criminal illegals, 208 convicted of murder, 900 of sex crimes  —  The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency in 2015 decided not to deport but release 19,723 criminal illegal immigrants, including 208 convicted of murder, over 900 convicted of sex crimes and 12,307 …
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Jessica Vaughan / Center for Immigration Studies:
ICE Released 19,723 Criminal Aliens in 2015
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 …
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Rebecca Hawkes / Telegraph:   Will Ferrell's' Ronald Reagan dementia comedy is disrespectful to my father, says former president's son
Daniel Nussbaum / Breitbart:
Will Ferrell to Play Ronald Reagan with Dementia in New Comedy
Discussion: Guardian
Pete Williams / NBC News:
Prince's Death: Local Investigators Ask for DEA's Help on Case  —  The county sheriff investigating the death of Prince is asking for help from the Drug Enforcement Administration, federal law enforcement officials told NBC News on Wednesday.  —  The officials say prescription painkillers …
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Evan Perez / CNN:
Source: Prince had opioid medication on him at time of death
Rebecca Savransky / The Hill:
Coulter: Trump gave best foreign policy speech since George Washington  —  Conservative commentator Ann Coulter praised Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump
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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:
What Bernie Sanders wants
Discussion: Vox and Political Wire
Scott MacFarlane / NBC4 Washington:
Secret Service Plans to Raise White House Fence by 5 Feet  —  Secret Service: ‘Current fence simply is not adequate for a modern era’  —  The U.S. Secret Service plans to raise the height of the White House security fence by 5 feet and add a new concrete foundation to reduce the risk of fence-jumpers …
Rebecca Kheel / The Hill:
Defense bill would require women to register for draft  —  Women would have to register for the draft under an amendment added to an annual defense bill Wednesday.  —  “If we want equality in this country, if we want women to be treated precisely like men are treated and that they should not be discriminated …
Discussion: Politico, LawNewz and The Week
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Karoun Demirjian / Washington Post:
Are women headed for the draft? One House committee says yes
Alex Pfeiffer / The Daily Caller:
Democratic Strategist: Trump Will Beat Hillary Like ‘A Baby Seal’  —  Democratic strategist Dave “Mudcat” Saunders believes Donald Trump will beat Hillary like a “baby seal,” and that working class whites who haven't already left the Democratic Party for cultural reasons will due so now for economic ones.
Discussion: DailySurge, TPNN and BizPac Review
Andrew Ross Sorkin / New York Times:
President Obama Weighs His Economic Legacy  —  Eight years after the financial crisis, unemployment is at 5 percent, deficits are down and G.D.P. is growing.  Why do so many voters feel left behind?  The president has a theory.  —  Two months ago, across an assembly-room table in a factory …
Discussion: Politico, JustOneMinute and The Week
Franklin Foer / Slate:
The Quiet American  —  Paul Manafort made a career out of stealthily reinventing the world's nastiest tyrants as noble defenders of freedom.  Getting Donald Trump elected will be a cinch.  —  Mar-a-Lago, Donald Trump's palace, is impressive by the standards of Palm Beach …
Nolan D. McCaskill / Politico:
Biden makes surprise trip to Baghdad  —  Vice President Joe Biden arrived in Baghdad on Thursday, in an unannounced trip designed to address the political turmoil in Iraq.  —  Biden plans to meet with a number of senior Iraqi officials, according to two senior administration officials …
Discussion: Washington Post and The Week
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Nick Gass / Politico:
Trump refuses to rule out nuclear strike against ISIL
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
Noah Remnick / New York Times:
Yale Defies Calls to Rename Calhoun College  —  Despite fervent student protests, the president of Yale announced on Wednesday that the university would keep the name of a residential college named for the 19th-century politician and white supremacist John C. Calhoun.
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Yale retains Calhoun College's name, selects names for two new residential colleges …
Discussion: The TickerThe Ticker and NBC News
Jesse Byrnes / The Hill:
Ex-RNC chairman: Trump is the ‘presumptive nominee’  —  Former Republican National Committee chairman Michael Steele says presidential candidate Donald Trump  —  should be called the GOP's “presumptive nominee.”  —  “He calls himself the presumptive nominee, what should we call him?”
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
 
 
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Campbell Brown / Politico:
Why I Blame TV for Trump
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