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10:20 AM ET, April 19, 2015

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Maureen Dowd / New York Times:
Granny Get Your Gun  —  WASHINGTON — THE most famous woman on the planet has a confounding problem.  She can't figure out how to campaign as a woman.  —  In 2008, Hillary Clinton took advice from two men — Bill Clinton and Mark Penn — and campaigned like a man.
Discussion: Althouse and The Moderate Voice
Spencer S. Hsu / Washington Post:
FBI overstated forensic hair matches in nearly all trials before 2000  —  The Justice Department and FBI have formally acknowledged that nearly every examiner in an elite FBI forensic unit gave flawed testimony in almost all trials in which they offered evidence against criminal defendants over more than a two-decade period before 2000.
Discussion: The Week, Fox News and Instapundit
New York Times:
Voting Rights, by the Numbers  —  When the Supreme Court struck down the heart of the Voting Rights Act in 2013, its main argument was that the law was outdated.  —  Discrimination against minority voters may have been pervasive in the 1960s when the law was passed, Chief Justice John Roberts Jr. wrote …
Discussion: Hullabaloo
Joel Kotkin / The Daily Beast:
Big Idea: California Is So Over  —  California's drought and how it's handled show just what kind of place the Golden State is becoming: feudal, super-affluent and with an impoverished interior.  —  California has met the future, and it really doesn't work.
Discussion: The PJ Tatler
Betsy Hiel / Associated Press:
Reagan shooter Hinckley closer to permanent freedom  —  The last man to shoot an American president spends most of the year in a house overlooking the 13th hole of a golf course in a gated community.  —  He likes taking walks, plays guitar and paints, eats at Wendy's and drives around in a Toyota.
Jackie Congedo / WLWT-TV:
Officer: ‘I wanted to be absolutely sure before I used deadly force’  —  Kidder says relative gave him body camera to use at work after Ferguson  —  Officer Jesse Kidder has only been on the New Richmond police force for a year, but he did two tours of duty in Iraq as a Marine and he's a Purple Heart recipient.
Harry Dunphy / Associated Press:
The world's financial leaders see a number of threats facing a global economy still on an uneven road to recovery with U.S. and European officials worrying that Greece will default on its debt.  —  The finance ministers and central bank governors ended three days of meetings in Washington determined …
Discussion: Bloomberg Business
Washington Post:
New Hampshire could be make-or-break for Jeb Bush  —  MANCHESTER, N.H. — St. Anselm College has been a required stop on the pilgrimage for presidential aspirants, going at least as far back as John F. Kennedy and Richard M. Nixon more than a half-century ago.
Discussion: FOX News Radio and Political Wire
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Steve Peoples / Associated Press:
Marco Rubio-Jeb Bush alliance sours in GOP primary faceoff
Nicholas Garcia / Chalkbeat Colorado:
Jeffco board member apologizes for sharing link to “hate group” on Facebook  —  Jefferson County school board member Julie Williams said late Friday that she was “sincerely sorry” and that she would remove a link on her personal Facebook page that she shared that encouraged families to keep …
Discussion: FOX31 Denver and Raw Story
Plain Dealer:
Ohio principal dumps school's Muslim headscarf day after online backlash  —  Mindy McCarty-Stewart, principal of Mason High School in Mason, Ohio, Thursday, April 16, 2015, canceled a student-led event in which girls planned to celebrate diversity by spending a day wearing a Muslim headscarf.
Kristina Wong / The Hill:
Iranian ship convoy moves toward Yemen, alarming US officials  —  U.S. military officials are concerned that Iran's support for Houthi rebels in Yemen could spark a confrontation with Saudi Arabia and plunge the region into sectarian war.  —  Iran is sending an armada of seven to nine ships …
James Hohmann / Politico:
Rand Paul slams GOP foreign policy hawks  —  NASHUA, N.H.—Rand Paul ripped into his hawkish rivals for the Republican nomination Saturday, suggesting that problems in the Middle East would actually be worse under them than President Barack Obama.  —  “There's a group of folks in our party …
Discussion: The Reaction
 
 
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Hari Pulakkat / The Economic Times:
Why not enough people are working on climate change in India
Discussion: Power Line and Watts Up With That?
Sari Horwitz / Washington Post:
Race creeps into debate over stalled nomination for attorney general
Discussion: American Thinker and Instapundit
Natan Sharansky / Washington Post:
When did America forget that it's America?
Noah Barkin / Reuters:
Thousands in Germany protest against Europe-U.S. trade deal
Discussion: Common Dreams
Ahiza Garcia / Talking Points Memo:
GOP Rep: Obamacare Makes America More Like North Korea
Discussion: Booman Tribune
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Elahe Izadi / Washington Post:
George Lucas wants to build affordable housing on his land because 'we've got enough millionaires'
Discussion: Raw Story, Balloon Juice and Mashable
Q13 FOX News:
Des Moines city councilwoman, bus driver charged with slapping 6-year-old student in face
Discussion: Raw Story and FreakOutNation
NY Daily News:
Donald Trump deletes a Hil of a tweet about Clinton; Alice Cooper and John Varvatos rev up Detroit style
Discussion: Raw Story and FOX News Radio
 

 
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Dominic Ponsford / Press Gazette:
Jason Cowley, the editor-in-chief of UK magazine the New Statesman, is stepping down from the position at the end of December after 16 years

The New York Times Company:
The New York Times names Dick Stevenson as Washington bureau chief; Stevenson has been at the paper for nearly 40 years and Washington editor since 2021

Ayodeji Rotinwa / Columbia Journalism Review:
A look at the Agora Center for Research, a Ugandan newsroom sitting between activism and investigative reporting, posting its work on various social media sites

 
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