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5:20 PM ET, May 1, 2016

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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.
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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 …
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 …
Discussion: Real Clear Politics
John Santucci / ABC News:
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 …
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 …
Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Trump flops in Arizona delegate fight
Discussion: RedState and The Week
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.
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Ezra Klein / Vox:
The joke was that Obama wasn't joking  —  The White House Correspondents' Dinner has become a strange event.  It is, ostensibly, an evening when the president and the press can come together to share a few lighthearted laughs.  But it's evolved into a recital of brutal truths — albeit one neither side ever really admits happened.
Discussion: bradford-delong.com
Kristen East / Politico:
Obama's top 10 jokes at the correspondents' dinner  —  President Barack Obama dropped the mic on his last White House Correspondents' Dinner.  —  But before declaring “Obama out,” the president took a few jabs at his inner circle, as well as the candidates vying to replace him.
Brian Flood / The Wrap:
Fox News' Jesse Watters, HuffPost Reporter Get Into Fight After White House Correspondents' Dinner (Photo)
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
Washington Post:
The complete transcript of Larry Wilmore's 2016 White House correspondents' dinner speech
Matt Wilstein / The Daily Beast:
Larry Wilmore Roasts the Press in White House Correspondents' Monologue
Diana Pearl / People.com:
Kendall Jenner Met President Obama at WHCD: ‘He Was Like, Say Hi to Kim and Kanye’
Discussion: Complex and The Daily Caller
Josh Feldman / Mediaite:
Larry Wilmore Reflects on Obama's Legacy at WHCD: ‘You Did It, My N*gga’
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, AOL, NPR and The Week
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Alexander Mallin / ABC News:
Malia Obama to Attend Harvard University in Fall of 2017
Discussion: Washington Post and Politico
Sara Jerde / Talking Points Memo:
Malia Obama To Attend Harvard University After Taking Gap Year
Discussion: Refinery29
John Wagner / Washington Post:
Bernie Sanders's fundraising drops off sharply in April … Democratic presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders said he raised $25.8 million in April, well shy of his eye-popping totals of recent months.  —  The figure comes as Sanders's chance of defeating Hillary Clinton for the Democratic nomination …
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Yamiche Alcindor / New York Times:
Bernie Sanders's Fund-Raising Plunges Amid Campaign Woes
Sara Jerde / Talking Points Memo:
Cruz On Bathroom Bill: Transgender Individuals Aren't ‘The Real Danger’  —  Republican presidential candidate Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) said in an interview aired Sunday that transgender individuals weren't “the real danger.”  —  “If you pass a law, as Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump and Barack Obama want …
Discussion: Mediaite
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Sara Jerde / Talking Points Memo:   Cruz Repeatedly Refuses To Say If He'll Support Trump As The GOP Nominee
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
Rebecca Savransky / The Hill:
Sanders: ‘The convention will be a contested contest’  —  Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders  —  on Sunday said there will be a “contested contest.”  —  In a news conference from Washington, D.C., on Sunday, the Vermont senator urged superdelegates from states where he has won …
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
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
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 …
 
 
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Jessie Hellmann / The Hill:
CIA director: ‘28 pages’ contain inaccurate information
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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
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Lebanese journalist: ‘Aleppo would have been safe like the Golan were it annexed by Israel’
Discussion: Israel Matzav
 Earlier Items: 
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
Harper Neidig / The Hill:
Reid ‘fairly certain’ Democrats will win Senate
Jonathan Easley / The Hill:
Five ways Trump will attack Clinton
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