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11:20 AM ET, May 2, 2016

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Kerry Picket / The Daily Caller:
Cruz Scolds Boy After Child Tells Him ‘You Suck’ At Indiana Rally [VIDEO]  —  La Porte, IN-Texas Sen. Ted Cruz said a kid growing up in his household would have been spanked if they acted out the way a boy did towards him Sunday during a rally.  The pre-teen boy was escorted out by local law enforcement …
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Nick Gass / Politico:
Cruz to young heckler: You'd get spanked in my house  —  A youthful protester who interrupted his rally late Sunday evening should get a spanking, Ted Cruz suggested to his audience in La Porte, Indiana.  Such a punishment, he added, would have gone a long way in changing the behavior of Donald Trump.
Marc Caputo / Politico:
Why Rubio hasn't endorsed Cruz  —  Marco Rubio won't be endorsing Ted Cruz during the Republican presidential primary, but he's likely to back the Texas senator at a contested convention — if it gets that far.  —  The de facto plan, Rubio's backers say, is designed to help Cruz.
Discussion: Political Wire
Mike Pence / Indianapolis Star:
Why I will vote for Ted Cruz
Michael Falcone / ABC News:
The Note: Countdown to Indiana
Nick Gass / Politico:
Trump: 'We can't continue to allow China to rape our country'
Michael Walsh / New York Post:   How Donald Trump beats Hillary Clinton
Associated Press:
A Confident Trump Seeks Knockout of Cruz in Indiana
Discussion: ABC News
Andrew Sullivan / New York Magazine:
America Has Never Been So Ripe for Tyranny … Illustration by  —  As this dystopian election campaign has unfolded, my mind keeps being tugged by a passage in Plato's Republic.  It has unsettled — even surprised — me from the moment I first read it in graduate school.
BBC:
Craig Wright revealed as Bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto  —  Australian entrepreneur Craig Wright has publicly identified himself as Bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto.  —  His admission ends years of speculation about who came up with the original ideas underlying the digital cash system.
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Economist:
Craig Steven Wright claims to be Satoshi Nakamoto.  Is he?  —  Evaluating his claim will involve a multi-step paternity test  —  IMAGINE that the paternity of a particularly brilliant child is in doubt, and someone steps forward to claim he is the father.  In the real world a DNA test would sort the matter out quickly.
Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
Ohioans Want Kasich To Drop Out  —  PPP's newest Ohio poll finds voters in the state are getting sick of John Kasich's Presidential campaign.  Only 38% think he should stay in the race, compared to 49% who think it's time for him to drop out.  Those numbers have shifted substantially …
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Seung Min Kim / Politico:
Senate on pace for lightest work schedule in 60 years  —  Senate Republicans have left town for another recess with their yearlong claim that the Senate is “back to work” an increasingly tough sell to voters.  —  Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has worked painstakingly to craft …
Ros Krasny / Bloomberg:
Bernie Sanders Vows Contested Convention, Makes Case for Superdelegate Flips  —  The Vermont senator continued to argue that he could still win the Democratic nomination.  —  aritbenie  —  Bernie Sanders on Sunday marked the one-year anniversary of his bid for the White House by vowing …
Discussion: The Hill and liberalamerica.org
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Daniel Strauss / Politico:
Sanders: ‘It will be a contested convention’
John Wagner / Washington Post:
Sanders makes a public plea for Democratic superdelegates to switch allegiances
Discussion: The Week
Lauren Collins / New Yorker:
The Model American  —  In July of 2002, two years before Donald Trump became engaged to the Slovenian model Melania Knauss, he visited her native country for three hours.  The couple had been in London.  At around 8 P.M. on a Monday night, they landed at Ljubljana's Brnik airport in Trump's Boeing 727.
Jim Rutenberg / New York Times:
Letting Stephen Colbert Be Stephen Colbert (Whoever That Is)  —  Last Wednesday, the CBS chairman Leslie Moonves ducked into that night's taping of Stephen Colbert's “Late Show,” and then joined Mr. Colbert in his office above the Ed Sullivan Theater.  —  There Mr. Moonves …
Detroit News:
DPS closes 94 schools due to teacher sickout  —  Detroit Public Schools closed 94 of its 97 schools on Monday, citing the Detroit teachers union's call for a districtwide sickout amid concerns about the weakening finances of Michigan's largest school district.
Molly Worthen / New York Times:
Stop Saying ‘I Feel Like’  —  IN American politics, few forces are more powerful than a voter's vague intuition.  “I support Donald Trump because I feel like he is a doer,” a senior at the University of South Carolina told Cosmopolitan.  “Personally, I feel like Bernie Sanders is too idealistic …
Discussion: Althouse
Simon Maloy / Salon:
The Benghazi slow-walk: How to drag out an investigation for maximum political impact  —  Trey Gowdy's committee has been overloading the Pentagon with interview requests and hunting down Hannity callers  —  At some point over the next few months, the House Select Committee on Benghazi …
New York Times:
Stricter Rules for Voter IDs Reshape Races  —  SAN ANTONIO — In a state where everything is big, the 23rd Congressional District that hugs the border with Mexico is a monster: eight and a half hours by car across a stretch of land bigger than any state east of the Mississippi.
Discussion: alan.com
Mark Hensch / The Hill:
Trump: The GOP's a ‘rigged party’  —  on Monday said that the Republican Party is trying to stack the deck against him becoming the GOP presidential nominee.  —  “The bosses are trying to run it,” he told host Chris Cuomo on CNN's “New Day.”  “It's a rigged party.  The bosses want to pick whoever they want to pick.
Jad Mouawad / New York Times:
Catching a Flight?  Budget Hours, Not Minutes, for Security  —  If you sense that airport security lines are getting longer — much longer — you're definitely not alone.  —  A combination of fewer Transportation Security Administration screeners, tighter budgets, new checkpoint procedures …
Isaac Arnsdorf / Politico:
Clinton fundraising leaves little for state parties  —  In the days before Hillary Clinton launched an unprecedented big-money fundraising vehicle with state parties last summer, she vowed “to rebuild our party from the ground up,” proclaiming “when our state parties are strong, we win.
Discussion: The Week
Julie Shaw / Philly.com:
Blogger sues Kathryn Knott, her father, and Bucks D.A.  —  A blogger who wrote about Kathryn Knott - the Bucks County woman convicted of participating in a 2014 attack on a gay couple in Center City - has sued Knott, Knott's father, the Bucks County district attorney, and others.
Discussion: Raw Story and Towleroad
 
 
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Sources: FBI foils terror attack at Aventura synagogue; 1 arrested
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Joe Romm / ThinkProgress:
Why Bill Gates' Math Error About Climate Change Matters
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Jeffrey Acevedo / CNN:
Puerto Ricans leaving island for U.S. in record numbers
Discussion: ImmigrationProf Blog
Victoria St. Martin / Washington Post:
For local transgender teen, national debate on restrooms is just a start
John Pfaff / New York Times:
A Mockery of Justice for the Poor
Shane Goldmacher / Politico:
Trump delegates blocked from key posts in New Hampshire
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Sony files to patent new contact lenses that can record video, store it, play it back …
Tom Wilson / New York Post:
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Kyle Smith / New York Post:
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John Hinderaker / Power Line:
The Reagan Coalition Is Dead. What's Next For Conservatism?
CNN:
U.S. cruise sets sail for Cuba; first voyage in decades draws protests
Discussion: The Hill and The Week
Dylan Matthews / Vox:
Obama's “Trudge up the Hill” joke wasn't really about Hillary. It was a Bernie Sanders dig.
Discussion: Scripting News
Jordain Carney / The Hill:
Pennsylvania GOP senator on collision course with Trump
Christopher Ingraham / Washington Post:
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