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Brad Bell / WJLA-TV:
Law enforcement sources say Freddie Gray suffered head injury in police transport van — BALTIMORE, Md. (WJLA) — An investigation into the death of Baltimore resident Freddie Gray has found no evidence that his fatal injuries were caused during his videotaped arrest and interaction with police officers …
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Marlow Stern / The Daily Beast:
Morgan Freeman on Baltimore Protest Coverage: ‘F-ck the Media’ — The screen icon discussed police brutality and the televised news media's coverage of the Baltimore protests in the wake of Freddie Gray's death while in police custody. — “F-ck the media.”
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Mediaite, Hot Air, Politico and The Daily Caller
Maya Rhodan / TIME:
Watch This 6th Grader Cut Off President Obama for Talking Too Much — Somebody get this kid a talk show. — “Mr. President, let's move on to the next question,” is not something you hear that often in Washington, especially not on friendly panel discussions.
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Deborah Gates / Delmarva Daily Times:
Wicomico 6th-grader to interview Obama — A Bennett Middle School student will get the chance to interview President Obama on Thursday about books and reading. — Osman Yahya, a sixth-grader at the school, traveled to Washington for the 10:40 a.m. interview at the Anacostia Neighborhood Library.
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Andrew Prokop / Vox:
What Bernie Sanders thinks about the issues: a comprehensive primer — Sen. Bernie Sanders talks money in politics at his campaign announcement press conference (C-SPAN). — Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont, now a presidential candidate, is the only socialist in Congress.
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Ron Fournier / National Journal:
Hillary Clinton: Congenital Rule-Breaker.
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Arlette Saenz / ABC News:
Senator Bernie Sanders Calls Hillary Clinton Foundation Money ‘A Very Serious Problem’
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Gabriel Debenedetti / Politico:
Book alleges India cash swayed Hillary's nuclear stance
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Charlie Spiering / BREITBART.COM:
Obama Says He Wants To Go Back To Community Organizing After Presidency — President Obama spoke about his post-presidency during an event with school children today, saying he wants to go back to his life as a community organizer. — “I'll be done being president in a couple years …
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Jordan Fabian / The Hill:
Obama hints at return to community organizing — President Obama on Thursday dropped some hints about what he'll do after his time in office, saying he could return to his roots as a community organizer. — Speaking to a group of schoolchildren at the Anacostia Library in Washington …
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Hot Air, Bloomberg Business and Mediaite
Rachael Bade / Politico:
House passes final budget deal — The House on Thursday passed a final budget deal, bringing Republicans one step closer to enacting a spending blueprint that sets the stage for this summer's spending bills. — The chamber passed the framework, 226-197. It would balance the budget …
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Cristina Marcos / The Hill:
GOP delays vote on first spending bill
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Paul Waldman / American Prospect:
Indulging the Lunatics on the Right — Ask a Republican about the elaborate conspiracy theories that are so popular with many on the far right, and she's likely to respond that, sure, those people are there, but liberals have their wackos, too. But there is a difference …
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Washington Post:
Koch brothers make push to court Latinos, alarming many Democrats — LAS VEGAS — For Republicans, the road to warming the hearts and winning the votes of Latinos may begin at a Las Vegas flea market. — On a recent morning, inside the Eastern Indoor Swapmeet Las Vegas …
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RedState
Machine Learning:
Fun with ML, Stream Analytics and PowerBI - Observing Virality in Real Time — This post is authored by Corom Thompson and Santosh Balasubramanian, Engineers in Information Management and Machine Learning at Microsoft — This is a fun story of how we were expecting perhaps 50 users for a test but …
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Jezebel, fox4kc.com, Q13 FOX News, Mashable and US News
Tom LoBianco / Indianapolis Star:
Democrat Gregg enters governor's race, hits Pence on RFRA — Democrat John Gregg announced Thursday that he will run for governor, setting up a likely rematch with Gov. Mike Pence, who he narrowly lost to in 2012. — Democrat John Gregg is running again for governor …
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Talking Points Memo, The Huffington Post and PoliticusUSA
Burgess Everett / Politico:
Ted Cruz: ‘Absence is the equivalent of a no vote’ on Loretta Lynch — Ted Cruz has an explanation for why he missed Loretta Lynch's confirmation vote last Thursday: “Absence is the equivalent of a no vote.” — The Texas senator and Republican presidential candidate offered …
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PoliticusUSA and Trail Blazers Blog
Ta-Nehisi Coates / The Atlantic:
The Clock Didn't Start With the Riots — On Thursday, April 30, Ta-Nehisi Coates spoke at Johns Hopkins University in his native city of Baltimore, at the inaugural Forum on Race in America. This article is an edited transcript of his remarks. — About a year ago, I published …
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Democratic Strategist
Burgess Everett / Politico:
Iran bill a mess after Cotton, Rubio try to force votes — Republican amendments complicate efforts to secure Democratic support. — Sens. Tom Cotton and Marco Rubio used a hardball procedural tactic on Thursday to force contentious votes on a bill allowing congressional review of a nuclear deal …
Greg Abbott / Salon:
Right-wing lunatics think the military is planning to invade Texas. Here's why. — You have probably heard the selyrics at least a thousand times at televised Republican rallies: … Those of course are the words to “Proud to be an American” by Lee Greenwood, a song that could almost …
The Fiscal Times:
The Stagnant Economy Spells Trouble for Democrats — The Fiscal Times — So much for economic momentum. And perhaps, so much for Democratic hopes for a third straight term in the White House. — The Obama administration had made the argument just before last year's midterms that a spike …
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