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Trump, Clinton eye wins that would move them closer to nominations
Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton are poised to take big steps toward their party’s presidential nominations as voters in five northeastern states head to the polls Tuesday.

Bernie Sanders: ‘It’s a narrow path’
Bernie Sanders acknowledged Tuesday his path to winning the Democratic nomination is narrowing, as front-runner Hillary Clinton is poised to extend her lead among pledged delegates.

Deported veterans fight to return ‘home’ from Mexico
In a strip mall on a dusty street, a group of U.S. military veterans gather. Like any group of old soldiers, they joke, swap stories and keep each others’ spirits up. But they aren’t in Texas or California. This isn’t a local VFW. This is Tijuana, Mexico a place most of these men barely knew before being banished here.

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Honor system rules wild Pennsylvania primary
Donald Trump is expected to win Tuesday’s Pennsylvania Republican primary in a landslide, but the size of his all-important delegate haul figures to be a mystery that could stretch all the way to the convention floor in Cleveland this summer.

What to watch on Super Tuesday
Donald Trump can’t lock up the Republican nomination Tuesday — but he can counter his two opponents’ divide-and-conquer strategy and reassert his dominance in the race by running the table in five states.

Hastert accuser sues for $1.8 million
A man who says former House Speaker Dennis Hastert sexually abused him has filed a lawsuit, seeking $1.8 million that the victim says was promised to him to cover up the abuse.

Kasich: It’s Donald Trump who’s desperate, not me
John Kasich said Monday he’s not the desperate one on the campaign trail. Donald Trump is.

Sessions calls plan by Trump’s rivals ‘desperate measures’
Donald Trump’s lone Senate supporter, Jeff Sessions, on Monday dismissed as “desperate measures” coordination by the candidate’s two rivals aimed at derailing the businessman’s march to the Republican presidential nomination.

Trump signs Playboy magazine with him on the cover
After most of his rallies, Donald Trump inches his way along a ropeline with a hoard of Secret Service agents and scrawls his signature on a mix of hats, books and signs.

How Cruz and Kasich joined forces
Ted Cruz and John Kasich camped out just a few conference rooms apart from one another at the posh Diplomat resort in Hollywood, Florida, last Wednesday, each deploying a lobbying blitz in an effort to get Republican National Committee members and state party leaders to back their bids to defeat Donald Trump.

Trump on looking presidential: ‘How handsome am I?’
Donald Trump admits he hasn’t acted very presidential in the GOP primary, but he thinks he at least looks the part.

Sherrod Brown: I’m not interested in being Clinton’s vice president
Sherrod Brown, the populist Democratic senator from Ohio, said Monday that he had no interest in serving as Hillary Clinton’s vice president, distancing himself from the job as reports floated that he could be considered.

Cruz’s fellow lawmakers may decide his fate at an open GOP convention
House and Senate Republicans are quickly being selected as delegates to the Republican National Convention this summer, potentially giving them tremendous sway in helping choose the party’s presidential candidate if Donald Trump fails to clinch the nomination outright.

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Cruz-Kasich alliance: Will it work?
The eleventh-hour bid by Ted Cruz and John Kasich to deny Donald Trump the Republican nomination by dividing upcoming contests is bold — but likely doomed.

Clinton knocks Trump’s lavish lifestyle
Hillary Clinton cast Donald Trump as out of touch with the United States while campaigning Monday in Delaware, arguing that the Republican front-runner flies into states, gives speeches and then returns to the lap of luxury without listening to voters’ problems.

Top U.S. intelligence official: ISIS has cells in UK, Germany, and Italy
America’s top intelligence official, James Clapper, said Monday that ISIS has clandestine cells in the United Kingdom, Germany and Italy, comments that come as President Barack Obama concludes an overseas visit where he asked Europe to contribute more to the fight against ISIS.

Ted Cruz ‘narrowing’ vice-presidential shortlist — and it includes Carly Fiorina
Ted Cruz’s campaign is “narrowing” its list of potential vice-presidential choices and it includes Carly Fiorina, an indication that the campaign could choose a running mate while he continues to battle for the GOP nomination.

Letters written in support of Hastert
Former lawmakers wrote letters supporting the character of former House Speaker Dennis Hastert, who has been accused of sexual abuse against minors.

Political Prediction Market: Cruz, Kasich league hurts Trump
News that Texas Sen. Ted Cruz and Ohio Gov. John Kasich are now in league with each other in their efforts to deny Donald Trump a majority of GOP delegates before the Republican National Convention had a real and immediate impact on Trump’s odds on CNN’s Political Prediction Market.

Next to Obama, world leaders take a pass at knocking Trump
It was a time for expressing “opinions” among friends — in a big way. Even on a referendum that is not in one’s own country.

Trump: Cruz-Kasich alliance ‘pathetic’
Ohio Gov. John Kasich and Texas Sen. Ted Cruz said Monday the rationale for their decision to coordinate campaign strategy — for now — is an effort to stop Donald Trump from winning the Republican nomination because they fear he would lose to Hillary Clinton in a general election matchup.

GOP veteran: Trump needs first ballot win but would be ‘disaster’; Cruz just a ‘fiasco’
Republican front-runner Donald Trump will need to secure the required 1,237 delegates by the end of the primary season — or come very close — if he is to keep the party’s nomination from slipping away, predicts GOP strategist Mike Murphy.

Justice Department says new policies to help ex-felons stay out of prison
The Justice Department says it is launching new policies designed to help convicted felons released from custody find work and rejoin their families, and not return to prison.

Poll: Trump’s support among young voters historically low
A new poll suggests that a race for president between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton could yield the lowest support for a Republican candidate among young voters in decades.

Trump hires another GOP veteran
The Trump campaign is continuing to beef up its political operations, bringing on board New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie’s former presidential campaign manager, Ken McKay.

Rapper Lil Yachty has Lil B to thank for getting into Sanders
When 18-year-old rapper Lil Yachty sat down for his interview with CNN, his posse of mostly hometown friends almost immediately began teasing him. “F–k Donald Trump. Say f–k Donald Trump!” Another voice, an older member of his crew, disagreed.

Obama pleads for unity in Europe
President Barack Obama made a lengthy, personal plea for European unity Monday as the continent faces an uncertain future, casting a fractured union as catastrophic to global markets and stability.

Resetting red and blue in the Rust Belt
The voters of the Rust Belt have shaken up the 2016 presidential campaign: Hoping to jolt a political system they see as ineffective and out of touch, they have repeatedly revolted by supporting unlikely, anti-establishment candidates.

Trump campaign holds organizing call with Pennsylvania delegate candidates
A senior adviser to Donald Trump held an organizing call with the campaign’s Pennsylvania delegate candidates Sunday night, another sign of the Trump operation’s increasingly sophisticated ground game.

Republican Party braces ahead of critical ‘Acela primary’
New York in the rearview mirror, the focus of both the Democratic and Republican presidential battles turns to a series of Northeast states that have typically been irrelevant in past cycles thanks their fairly late spot in the nomination process.

Cruz, Kasich join forces to stop Trump
Ted Cruz and John Kasich issued startling statements Sunday night about their paths ahead, the first sign the two campaigns are coordinating to deny Donald Trump the Republican presidential nomination.

Obama expected to announce an additional 250 special operations forces to Syria
President Barack Obama is expected to announce Monday an additional 250 special operations forces will be sent to Syria in the coming weeks, according to two U.S. officials. The expected announcement will come while the President visits Germany.

Poll: Trump, Clinton dominate ahead of Pennsylvania primary
Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton hold strong leads over their rivals in Pennsylvania, according to an NBC/Wall Street Journal/Marist poll released Sunday.

Former PA Sen. Wofford, 90, announces marriage to a man
Former Pennsylvania Sen. Harris Wofford announced Sunday that he is marrying a man 50 years his junior, almost 20 years after his wife died.

Trump: Oklahoma governor as VP is ‘great’ advice
Donald Trump praised Sunday the idea of Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin serving as his running mate.

The week in politics
Take a look at the week in politics from April 17 through April 23.

How Obama and Merkel learned to love one another
In a cold world, President Barack Obama has found some warmth in Germany.

Charles Koch: ‘Possible’ Clinton could be better than GOP nominee
Oil tycoon and conservative mega-donor Charles Koch had kind words for both Bill and Hillary Clinton in an interview Sunday, saying there was an outside chance he could support her in November.

Sanders: Path to nomination is not easy
Bernie Sanders failed Sunday to explain the logic behind his analysis that he was losing to Hillary Clinton because “poor people don’t vote” when confronted with the fact that the poorest voters support her, according to exit polls. He also said his remaining path to win the nomination is not easy.