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2:20 PM ET, May 1, 2016

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Janet Hook / Wall Street Journal:
Donald Trump Holds 15-Point Lead Ahead of Republican Rivals in Indiana Poll  —  Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton 4 points ahead of rival Bernie Sanders  —  Donald Trump holds a 15-point lead in the Republican presidential primary in Indiana, and a majority of GOP voters disapprove …
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Mark Murray / NBC News:
Donald Trump Leads Cruz by 15 Points in Crucial Indiana Race  —  ‘Stop Trump’ movement's hopes hinge on Indiana primary 3:44  —  Donald Trump holds a 15-point lead over Ted Cruz in the potentially decisive May 3 presidential primary race in Indiana, according to results from a new NBC News/Wall Street Journal/Marist poll.
Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
Inside Cruz's camp, confidence crumbles  —  BURLINGAME, Calif. — Ted Cruz is speaking confidently about knocking off Donald Trump to take the GOP nomination, but his top staffers admit they're getting nervous.  —  In interviews, several aides, speaking on the condition of anonymity …
Discussion: The Hill, Vox and Los Angeles Times
Stephanie Wang / Indianapolis Star:
Poll: Ted Cruz leads Donald Trump in Indiana  —  A new poll gives U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz a significant lead in Indiana's Republican presidential primary, with support from 44.8 percent of voters polled.  —  The Mike Downs Center for Indiana Politics poll puts GOP front-runner Donald Trump …
Discussion: RedState, AOL, The Daily Caller and WISH-TV
Jeremy W. Peters / New York Times:
Ted Cruz's Support Softens Among the Delegates He Courted  —  Even as Donald J. Trump trounced him from New Hampshire to Florida to Arizona, Senator Ted Cruz could reassure himself with one crucial advantage: He was beating Mr. Trump in the obscure, internecine delegate fights that could end …
Associated Press:
CA Convention Is a Homecoming of Sorts for Carly Fiorina
Discussion: Associated Press
Washington Post:
The complete transcript of Larry Wilmore's 2016 White House correspondents' dinner speech … Thank you, thank you very much.  Thank you, thanks for keeping that applause going all the way, too, I appreciate that.  —  Well, welcome to “Negro Night” here at the Washington Hilton …
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Josh Feldman / Mediaite:
Larry Wilmore Reflects on Obama's Legacy at WHCD: ‘You Did It, My N*gga’
Diana Pearl / People.com:
Kendall Jenner Met President Obama at WHCD: ‘He Was Like, Say Hi to Kim and Kanye’
Discussion: Complex, The Daily Caller and Politico
Nolan D. McCaskill / Politico:
Obama roasts the media, RNC and, of course, Trump at annual dinner
Discussion: ABC News
Tommy Christopher / Mediaite:
Watch Ted Cruz Argue With Disabled Man's Family About Health Care  —  Texas Senator and Republican presidential hopeful Ted Cruz has placed a lot of electoral eggs in the basket that is Indiana, and so it was that Cruz found himself gamely pressing the flesh with voters outside the Pie Pan restaurant in Evansville this weekend.
Discussion: Raw Story
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Byron York / Washington Examiner:
Heidi Cruz says ‘Ted is an immigrant’  —  GREENFIELD, Ind. — At a campaign stop just days before the critical Indiana primary, Heidi Cruz, wife of Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz, said one of her husband's strengths in the campaign is that he “is an immigrant.”
Sara Jerde / Talking Points Memo:
Cruz Repeatedly Refuses To Say If He'll Support Trump As The GOP Nominee  —  Republican presidential candidate Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) repeatedly refused to say in an interview aired Sunday whether he would support opponent Donald Trump if the businessman was ultimately the party's nominee.
Discussion: alan.com
New York Times:
Malia Obama to Attend Harvard, but Not Until 2017  —  WASHINGTON — Malia Obama, the older daughter of President Obama, plans to attend Harvard University beginning in the fall of 2017, the White House announced on Sunday, waiting until her father leaves office to begin her college career.
Discussion: Vox, NPR, AOL and The Week
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Sara Jerde / Talking Points Memo:
Malia Obama To Attend Harvard University After Taking Gap Year
Discussion: Refinery29
Alexander Mallin / ABC News:
Malia Obama to Attend Harvard University in Fall of 2017
Discussion: Politico
Beverly Gage / New York Times:
‘Listen, Liberal’ and ‘The Limousine Liberal’  —  Liberals may be experiencing mixed emotions these days.  The prospect of a Trump presidency has raised urgent fears: of the nation's fascist tendencies, of the potential for riots in the streets.  At the same time, many liberals have expressed …
Emily Heil / Washington Post:
Nerdy fight breaks out at WHCD afterparty between Fox News and Huffington Post reporters  —  For an event held at the soaring U.S. Institute of Peace building in Foggy Bottom, the swanky afterparty hosted by MSNBC following the White House Correspondents' Association Dinner sure saw some conflict.
Discussion: Politico, Mediaite and TVNewser
Robert Stacy McCain / The Other McCain:
What #TrigglyPuff Means  —  The phenomenon of #TrigglyPuff — Cora Segal, the angry feminist who disrupted an event at the University of Massachusetts this week — deserves extended analysis, and I've got a 4,000-word draft in queue, awaiting the final touches.
Discussion: AMERICAN DIGEST
Daniel Lewis / New York Times:
Daniel J. Berrigan, Defiant Priest Who Preached Pacifism, Dies at 94  —  The Rev. Daniel J. Berrigan, a Jesuit priest and poet whose defiant protests helped shape the tactics of opposition to the Vietnam War and landed him in prison, died on Saturday in New York City.  He was 94.
Discussion: BBC, Slantpoint and The Week
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Democracy Now:
Father Daniel Berrigan, Anti-War Activist & Poet, Dies at 94
Discussion: Lawyers, Guns & Money
 
 
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Rebecca Savransky / The Hill:
Former Pentagon chief rips Trump's foreign policy
Dean Balsamini / New York Post:
Pizza Rat's newest friend: McDonald's Rat
Discussion: New York Magazine
Maayan Groisman / Jerusalem Post:
Lebanese journalist: ‘Aleppo would have been safe like the Golan were it annexed by Israel’
Discussion: Israel Matzav
Daniel Strauss / Politico:
Sanders raised over $25 million in April, a steep drop from March
Discussion: Towleroad and The Week
Mark Woods / Christian News on Christian Today:
Miracle in Chicago? Pilgrims flock to see Orthodox icon weeping drops of oil
Discussion: Friendly Atheist
Mario Trujillo / The Hill:
Sanders supporters hound FCC with complaints about media bias
Discussion: Hot Air
Michelle R. Smith / Associated Press:
ELEPHANTS TO PERFORM FOR FINAL TIME AT RINGLING BROS. CIRCUS
Discussion: The Atlantic
Anita Kumar / McClatchy Washington Bureau:
Obama's legacy: Politics of anger, fights, division
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Harper Neidig / The Hill:
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Maureen Dowd / New York Times:
Donald the Dove, Hillary the Hawk
Discussion: Vox, Althouse and Lawyers, Guns & Money
Jonathan Easley / The Hill:
Five ways Trump will attack Clinton
Discussion: Politico
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Bangladesh in denial, al-Qaeda releases new video of gay rights activist's assassination
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