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2:25 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.
Politico:
Florida poll: Republican ‘brand damage’ bolsters Clinton  —  Whether it's Donald Trump or Ted Cruz, the Republican presidential nominee looks like a sure loser to Hillary Clinton in Florida because of the Republicans' lack of popularity with crucial voting blocs in the state …
Discussion: Political Wire
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 …
Nick Gass / Politico:
Cruz to young heckler: You'd get spanked in my house
Hunter Walker / Yahoo:
Heidi Cruz responds to people who call her husband the Zodiac Killer
Discussion: Trail Blazers Blog
Sarah K. Burris / Raw Story:
Watch Carly Fiorina do a face-plant off a stage while Ted Cruz ignores her
David Wasserman / FiveThirtyEight:
Indiana May Be #NeverTrump's Last Stand
Mike Pence / Indianapolis Star:
Why I will vote for Ted Cruz
Andrew Kaczynski / BuzzFeed:
GOP Congressman: “I Truly Don't Know” If I'll Support Trump Or Clinton In November  —  “So, I think like a lot of Americans, we are gonna have to begin to spend the summer studying the candidates and decide who's best for the future of the country.”  —  BRIAN BLANCO / Reuters  —  w.soundcloud.com
Discussion: Talking Points Memo and The Week
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Patricia Mazzei / miamiherald:
Will Donald Trump drive Miami Cuban Americans from GOP?  New poll says yes  —  Likely Cuban-American voters dislike Trump  —  They also are increasingly accepting of President Obama's Cuba policy  —  That combination could cost the GOP its longtime Cuban-American support
Shane Goldmacher / Politico:
New Hampshire GOP cancels vote on blocking Trump allies from convention posts
Discussion: RedState and UnionLeader.com
Michael Walsh / New York Post:   How Donald Trump beats Hillary Clinton
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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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.
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Bernie's Bad End  —  This is really depressing: Sanders claiming that there will be a contested convention, and suggesting that the nomination fight was rigged.  Can someone tell Bernie that he's in the process of blowing his own chance for a positive legacy?
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Ros Krasny / Bloomberg:
Bernie Sanders Vows Contested Convention, Makes Case for Superdelegate Flips
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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 …
Discussion: Shot in the Dark
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.
Discussion: The Slot and The Week
Timothy Cama / The Hill:
Colorado court overturns fracking bans  —  Colorado's highest court overturned two cities' bans on hydraulic fracturing Monday, ruling that state law preempts them.  —  The state's Supreme Court cited the main state law regulating oil and natural gas drilling and found that lawmakers clearly intended …
Discussion: Washington Monthly
Seung Min Kim / Politico:
Senate takes 2016 sabbatical  —  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 an identity that's distinct …
Gina Kolata / New York Times:
After ‘The Biggest Loser,’ Their Bodies Fought to Regain Weight  —  Contestants lost hundreds of pounds during Season 8, but a study of them helps explain why they could not keep all of that weight off.  —  Danny Cahill stood, slightly dazed, in a blizzard of confetti as the audience screamed and his family ran on stage.
Discussion: The Week, The Lunch Tray and AOL
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.
#LASD Message from the Sheriff of Los:
# LASD Message from the Sheriff of Los Angeles County  —  Very recently I learned that three to four years ago LASD Chief Tom Angel shared inappropriate and unprofessional e-mails with others, during his service as Burbank Police Department Assistant Chief.  This incident is one that I find deeply troubling.
Discussion: 89.3 KPCC and New York Times
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Economist:
The saddest trend  —  Suicide rates are rising in America, and in other rich countries
Discussion: Hullabaloo
TeamHowell / Speaker Bill Howell:
House and Senate Republicans retain Charles J. Cooper to challenge McAuliffe's Rights Restoration Order
Discussion: Mother Jones and The Daily Caller
Dan Balz / Washington Post:
The question of the moment: What would Trump be like as GOP nominee?
Jim Young / National Review:
Cruz Delegates Waver as Trump Gains Momentum
Discussion: The Atlantic, NBC News, Fox News and Hot Air
WSVN-TV:
Sources: FBI foils terror attack at Aventura synagogue; 1 arrested
Discussion: Pamela Geller, Jihad Watch and LawNewz
Simon Maloy / Salon:
The Benghazi slow-walk: How to drag out an investigation for maximum political impact
Isaac Arnsdorf / Politico:
Clinton fundraising leaves little for state parties
Discussion: Business Insider, U.S. Uncut and NPR
 Earlier Items: 
Joe Romm / ThinkProgress:
Why Bill Gates' Math Error About Climate Change Matters
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Julie Shaw / Philly.com:
Blogger sues Kathryn Knott, her father, and Bucks D.A.
Discussion: Towleroad and Raw Story
Mark Hensch / The Hill:
Trump: The GOP's a ‘rigged party’
Jim Rutenberg / New York Times:
Letting Stephen Colbert Be Stephen Colbert (Whoever That Is)
New York Times:
Stricter Rules for Voter IDs Reshape Races
Discussion: Lawyers, Guns & Money and alan.com
Molly Worthen / New York Times:
Stop Saying ‘I Feel Like’
Discussion: Althouse
 

 
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