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12:20 PM 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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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: RedState, Associated Press and Hot Air
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.
Politico:   Florida poll: Republican ‘brand damage’ bolsters Clinton
Mike Pence / Indianapolis Star:
Why I will vote for Ted Cruz
Ros Krasny / Bloomberg:
Bernie Sanders Vows Contested Convention, Makes Case for Superdelegate Flips
Discussion: The Hill and liberalamerica.org
Jim Young / National Review:
Cruz Delegates Waver as Trump Gains Momentum
Discussion: Fox News, NBC News and New York Times
ABC News:
The Note: Countdown to Indiana
Discussion: Politico
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.
Discussion: Towleroad, Computerworld and The Week
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Wright-Master / Dr. Craig Wright Blog:
Jean-Paul Sartre, Signing and Significance
Discussion: NPR and Al Jazeera English
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.
Jeremy Diamond / CNN:
Trump: 'We can't continue to allow China to rape our country'  —  (CNN)Donald Trump on Sunday compared the U.S.'s trade deficit with China, which he regularly laments and vows to tackle as president, to rape.  —  “We can't continue to allow China to rape our country, and that's what they're doing …
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Tom LoBianco / CNN:
Trump ‘fine’ with Obama's WH Correspondents' Dinner smackdown
Discussion: Washington Post and The Week
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
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 …
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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 …
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.
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 …
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.
WSVN-TV:
Sources: FBI foils terror attack at Aventura synagogue; 1 arrested  —  AVENTURA, Fla. (WSVN) — Federal agents arrested a man who, sources said, was planning to throw an explosive device into a South Florida synagogue.  —  According to law enforcement sources, the FBI set up a sting to thwart …
Discussion: Pamela Geller, Jihad Watch and LawNewz
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
Joe Romm / ThinkProgress:
Why Bill Gates' Math Error About Climate Change Matters  —  Bill Gates keeps saying confused and confusing things about climate policy and clean energy.  —  Gates has positioned himself as a major player and spokesman in this arena with his “Breakthrough Energy Coalition,” …
Discussion: The Daily Caller
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: Lawyers, Guns & Money and alan.com
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
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 …
 
 
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Clinton fundraising leaves little for state parties
Mark Hensch / The Hill:
Trump: The GOP's a ‘rigged party’
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Puerto Ricans leaving island for U.S. in record numbers
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For local transgender teen, national debate on restrooms is just a start
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A Mockery of Justice for the Poor
Daniel Strauss / Politico:
Sanders: ‘It will be a contested convention’
Tom Wilson / New York Post:
Historic church up in flames after Easter service
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