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	Scott Walker Endorses Ted Cruz for President by Alex Griswold Former presidential candidate and Republican Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker endorsed Ted Cruz for president Wednesday. Read More »

	Donald Trump Threatens to Pull Out of Tonight's CNN Town Hall by Tommy Christopher Republican frontrunner Donald Trump, who is quicker to pull out than a devoutly Catholic porn star, has once again shocked the world by threatening to abandon CNN's planned town hall telecast Tuesday night. Unhappy with the network's choices in guests, Trump issued the following threat via his well-worn Twitter feed Tuesday morning. Read More »

	Susan Sarandon Calls Hillary a Liar, Says She May Not Vote if Bernie Loses by Tommy Christopher Renowned Actress Susan Sarandon has already made it clear that she will not vote with her vagina, but if Bernie Sanders doesn't win the Democratic primary, she may not pull the lever with anything else, either. In an interview with Chris Hayes on Monday night's All In with Chris Hayes, Sarandon did some next-level surrogacy for the insurgent candidate by telling Hayes that the "Bernie or Bust" crowd are just "principled" people who won't vote for a lying liar like Hillary Clinton, or anyone else who isn't pure like Bernie. Read More »

	Oops: MSNBC Reporter Admits to Network's Softball Questions to 'Keep Relationship' With Trump by J.D. Durkin He then continued to identify Sykes' advantage over others in the journalism world, and in the process, directly implicated his own network MSNBC for admittedly pulling punches. Read More »

	Don Lemon Calls Out Latest Katrina Pierson BS: 'I Think You're Being Very Disingenuous' by J.D. Durkin While doubling up on hosting duties this week on CNN's morning show New Day, Don Lemon interviewed Katrina Pierson, the bullet-wearing, unhinged Twitter rampaging, walking spell check squiggly line who moonlights as a spokesperson for the Donald Trump campaign. Read More »

	Geraldo Does Epically Bad Donald Trump Skit on Dancing with the Stars by Tommy Christopher Fox News host and known terpsichorean dumpster fire Geraldo Rivera really outdid himself on Monday night's episode of ABC's hit show Dancing with the Stars, building on his already poor audience response with a number that attempted to satirize Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump. In full Trump regalia, including orange mustache, Rivera and unlucky partner Edyta Sliwinska populated a White House set. Read More »

	EgyptAir Hijacker Identified As Seif Eldin Mustafa by J.D. Durkin After an EgyptAir Airbus A320 was hijacked on its way from Alexandria to Cairo Tuesday, early reports indicated that it was the work of a solo hijacker who demanded that the plane be rerouted. Read More »

	DEVELOPING: Egyptian Airliner Hijacked, Lands in Cyprus (UPDATED) by Tommy Christopher Overnight Monday into Tuesday morning, an Egyptian airliner was hijacked and forced to land in Cyprus, where authorities have negotiated the release of most of the passengers. According to CNN, EgyptAir flight MS181 was forced to land due to the threat of an explosive belt. Read More »

	Two Weeks Too Late, Trump Jr. Apologizes for Calling Nazi Saluter a Bernie Supporter by Sam Reisman Donald Trump Jr. tweeted out an apology Monday night for misidentifying the woman caught doing a Nazi salute at his father's rally as a Bernie Sanders supporter. He said he "got bad info." Read More »

	NYPD Commissioner: Bigger Threat to Americans Comes From 'Our Own Citizens' by Sam Reisman Speaking to CNN's Don Lemon Monday night, NYPD Commissioner William Bratton explained that the biggest threat to Americans came from the country's own citizens, rather than radical Muslim extremists, as Republican presidential candidates have asserted. Read More »

	The Deal Breaker for These Cruz Fans? Trump Was Mean to Heidi Cruz by Sam Reisman Ted Cruz supporters who were unmoved by Donald Trump's policies, record, and campaign trail antics said they would refuse to vote for him because the GOP frontrunner had mocked Heidi Cruz. Read More »

	Flustered Karl Rove Doesn't Quite Deny That Establishment Will Steal Trump's Nomination by Sam Reisman Eric Bolling grilled Karl Rove Monday night about reports of a cabal of establishment Republicans plotting to change convention rules in order to deny Donald Trump the nomination. Read More »

	White House Explains Noodle-Armed Raul Castro Photo Op: Obama Wanted to Deny 'Iconic' Image by Tommy Christopher One of many subplots to emerge from President Obama's historic trip to the island of Cuba last week was an awkward photo in which Cuban President Raul Castro tried to raise the President's arm, only... Read More »

	Sorry, Petitioners. Secret Service Says There Will Be No Guns at GOP Convention. by Sam Reisman A Change.org petition to allow open-carry at the Republican National Convention in July has not moved the Secret Service, who said in a statement Monday that guns would not be allowed inside the venue, Cleveland's Quicken Loans Arena. Read More »

	FBI Will Likely Drop Apple Case, Says It Hacked Terrorist's Phone Without Company's Help by Sam Reisman The Justice Department announced that it had successfully hacked into the iPhone of San Bernardino terrorist Syed Farook, and the federal government is expected to withdraw its legal action against the tech company. Read More »

	Trump Friend Roger Stone Challenges Cruz on Sex Story: ‘If It’s All a Lie, Sue Immediately’ by Rachel Stockman Read More »

	Who is Capitol Shooting Suspect Larry Dawson, Besides a Self-Proclaimed 'Prophet of God'? by Lindsey Ellefson He is a man from Tennessee . Read More »

	Predictably, Fox Is First Network to Allude to ISIS, Terror Plots During Capitol Shooting Coverage by J.D. Durkin Ah yes, like clockwork, Fox News was the first of the main cable networks to allude to the fact the very much active Capitol shooting situation -- the one unfolding right before our eyes, with cripplingly low known information -- could be tied to the Islamic State. Read More »

	Trump Campaign Defector Takes 'Full Responsibility for Helping Create This Monster' by Sam Reisman A former PR operative for the Donald Trump campaign published a contrite open letter Monday, expressing her sympathy with Trump supporters whom she says were, like her, hoodwinked by a candidate whose bid for the White House was never very serious -- and is now turning dangerously plausible. Read More »

	With Terrorism Fears Looming, There Are 147 FBI Agents Working On Hillary's Emails by Tommy Christopher You might not have noticed, but there was a big terrorist attack last week, and now, we're actually discussing whether or not we need to have police "patrol Muslim neighborhoods" to keep us safe, and... Read More »

	NYers, Stay Calm: The ‘Suspicious Package’ That Evacuated a Times Square Hotel Was Just Trash by Lindsey Ellefson Now that it is clear there is no threat, New Yorkers are returning to their usual Times Square-related attitude. Read More »

	Good News: Donald Trump Said He Won’t Consider Internment Camps for Muslims by Lindsey Ellefson Jonathan Karl, also of ABC, posed a question on internment camps to the presidential candidate yesterday, too. Read More »

	White Supremacist Party Releases Proposed Trump Cabinet and It's Predictably Bonkers by Alex Griswold The white supremacist American Freedom Party has released their draft of a proposed Donald Trump cabinet, and as you can imagine, their ideas are somewhat crazy. Read More »

	In Radio Interview, Trump Proves That He Just Can't Let Anything Go by Sam Reisman Speaking to Charlie Sykes in a Wisconsin AM radio interview Monday morning, Donald Trump proved to the world that he can't let anything go. Read More »

	Shooting on Capitol Hill, Shooter in Custody by Alex Griswold Congressional staffers have been ordered to shelter in place after shots were reportedly fired at the Capitol Hill Visitors Center. Read More »

	Fidel Castro Releases a Very ‘Thanks But No Thanks’ Op-Ed About Obama’s Cuban Efforts by Lindsey Ellefson The hand of friendship Obama tried to extend just got slapped away by an 89-year-0ld man who said, simply, "We don't need the empire to give us any presents." Read More »

	Clinton Strategist: We Won't Do Any More Debates Unless Bernie Sanders Changes His Tone by Alex Griswold Hillary Clinton chief strategist Joel Benenson said on CNN Monday that they would refuse to schedule any further debates with Bernie Sanders unless his campaign changed its tone. Read More »

	A Gleeful Meghan McCain Foretells the Downfall of Clinton's 'Henchwoman' Huma Abedin by Lindsey Ellefson While pivoting to long-time Clinton aide Abedin, she clenched her fists and her jaw and could barely hide how excited the prospect of the aide facing legal action was to her. Read More »

	MSNBC Guest Argues It's a ‘Higher Bar’ to Prosecute Clinton Because She’s Running for President by Christopher White Read More »

	Glenn Beck Opens Show With Bizarre Joke: ‘We Were All Raped By Ted Cruz’ by Alex Griswold Talk radio and The Blaze host Glenn Beck mocked the National Enquirer's story claiming Ted Cruz had an affair with five different women, opening his Monday show by jokingly claiming that everyone on the show had been raped by Cruz. Read More »

	Amid Fears Of Assault From Migrants, German Train Offers Cars Just for Women by Lindsey Ellefson Chancellor Angela Merkel has been more open to restrictions on refugees lately, but other German companies are stepping up personally to intervene. Read More »

	Scant Coverage of Attacks in Turkey, Pakistan Underscores Over There vs. Over Here Mentality by Joe Concha In a week when the American media did an excellent job in its handling of the Brussels attacks, there is still a disconnect. Over here. Over there. Somewhere an imaginary red line exists that dictates what gets wall-to-wall and what gets a passing minute. Read More »

	BREAKING: Georgia Governor Will Veto Anti-LGBT 'Religious Liberty' Bill by Tommy Christopher "Money talks, bigotry walks" could be the moral of the story for opponents of discriminatory "religious liberty" bills, if Georgia's Free Exercise Protection Act is any indication. On Monday morning, Georgia Governor Nathan Deal announced that, under pressure from a growing list of influential companies, he will veto the bill that landed on his desk, and even appeared to conced the discriminatory purpose of the bill. Read More »

	Former Meet the Press Host David Gregory Joins CNN as Contributor by Alex Griswold David Gregory, the former host of NBC's Meet the Press, has found a new home at CNN as a political analyst. Read More »

	CNN Commentator Slams Trump Supporter: He's Had Three Wives, Cheated; You Call THAT Integrity? by J.D. Durkin The issue at hand was a simple one: how can Trump -- the GOP frontrunner whose derisive rhetoric against woman in his past has sparked untold controversies on the campaign trail -- be considered a role model to young women? Read More »

	Donald Trump on Why He Made Sexist Comments: 'I Never Thought I Would Run For Office' by Alex Griswold During an interview with Wisconsin talk radio host Charles Skyes, presidential candidate Donald Trump excused his history of sexist comments by saying he didn't plan to run for office at the time. Read More »