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6:40 PM ET, March 24, 2016

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Garry Shandling / TMZ.com:
Dead at 66  —  Comedian Garry Shandling died at an L.A. area hospital on Thursday ... TMZ has learned.  —  The 66-year-old star was not suffering from any illness ... as far as we know ... so, it appears this was sudden.  A source connected to Shandling says he was healthy and speaking to people on Thursday morning.
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Alex Stedman / Variety:
Garry Shandling Dies at 66 (Report)  —  Comedian, actor, writer and producer Garry Shandling, known for “It's Garry Shandling's Show” and “The Larry Sanders Show,” has died, TMZ reported on Thursday.  —  He died at an L.A. hospital on Thursday, according to the outlet.  A cause of death has not been released.
Jesse Byrnes / The Hill:
Trump revs up Heidi Cruz attacks  —  over the Republican presidential rival's wife after she slammed his statements for having “no basis in reality.”  —  Trump shared an image on Twitter around midnight Wednesday comparing his wife, Melania, a former model, to Cruz's wife, stating, “A picture is worth a thousand words.”
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Andrew Rafferty / NBC News:
Ted Cruz: Trump is a ‘Sniveling Coward’  —  Ted Cruz called Donald Trump a “sniveling coward” and told him to leave his wife “the hell alone” on Thursday after Trump tweeted an unflattering photo of his spouse, Heidi Cruz.  —  “It's not easy to tick me off.
Andrew Kaczynski / BuzzFeed:
Ted Cruz: I Didn't Attack Trump Earlier Because Those Who Did “Ended Up As Roadkill”
Discussion: Politico
Rob Price / Business Insider:
Microsoft is deleting its AI chatbot's incredibly racist tweets  —  Microsoft's new AI chatbot went off the rails Wednesday, posting a deluge of incredibly racist messages in response to questions.  —  The tech company introduced “Tay” this week — a bot that responds to users' queries …
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Abby Ohlheiser / Washington Post:
Trolls turned Tay, Microsoft's fun millennial AI bot, into a genocidal maniac  —  It took mere hours for the Internet to transform Tay, the teenage AI bot who wants to chat with and learn from millennials, into Tay, the racist and genocidal AI bot who liked to reference Hitler.  And now Tay is taking a break.
Alex Kantrowitz / BuzzFeed:
Racist Twitter Bot Went Awry Due To “Coordinated Effort” By Users, Says Microsoft
Discussion: NPR
Alex Kantrowitz / BuzzFeed:
Microsoft's New AI-Powered Chatbot Mimics A 19-Year-Old American Girl
Discussion: ThinkProgress, Slate and Hit & Run
Telegraph:
World's oldest living animal, 184-year-old tortoise named Jonathan, has first ever bath  —  A giant tortoise living on the British outpost of St Helena is given a clean-up ahead of Royal visit.  —  The world's oldest living animal, a 184-year-old giant tortoise, has had its first ever bath.
Discussion: Fox 59, Mashable and AOL
Nick Gass / Politico:
Obama's tango ripped on ‘Morning Joe’  —  On Wednesday evening, President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama danced the tango at a state dinner in Argentina.  By the next morning, a bipartisan chorus of disapproval of the optics was bursting out on MSNBC's “Morning Joe.”
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Laura Wagner / NPR:
WATCH: Obama Dances The Tango During State Dinner In Argentina
Daily Mail:   Twinkle-toes Obama might be a demon at the tango but when it comes to reading the public mood he's tone-deaf
Matt Adams / Fox 59:
Mother shoots intruder who entered south side home through baby's window  —  INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. (March 24, 2016) - A homeowner shot an intruder who tried to break into her Indianapolis home Thursday afternoon.  —  According to police dispatchers, officers received the call around 12:10 p.m …
Discussion: The Daily Caller and FOX31 Denver
Sandhya Somashekhar / Washington Post:
Backlash builds against N.C. law on transgender bathroom use  —  North Carolina on Wednesday passed a sweeping law overturning gay and transgender protections at the local level and requiring students to use restrooms that correspond to the sex listed on their birth certificates.
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New York Times:
Brussels Attack Lapses Acknowledged by Belgian Officials  —  BRUSSELS — Belgium's justice and interior ministers acknowledged Thursday that the authorities had erred by not acting on Turkey's request last year that they take custody of a Belgian citizen arrested for suspected terrorist activity.
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CNN:
Brussels attack: Man wanted in subway bombing
Discussion: WLS-AM 890, WTVR-TV, KFOR-TV and Fox 59
Mark Hosenball / Reuters:
U.S. frustration simmers over Belgium's struggle with militant threat
WQAD-TV:
Davenport man protesting law that requires him to pay for another man's child … DAVENPORT, Iowa- A Quad City man is protesting a child support law that requires him to pay for another man's child.  —  Joe Vandusen thought it was a joke when he received a certified letter from the Iowa Department …
Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Shadow campaign to deny Trump his delegates begins  —  When South Dakota's Republican activists convened in Pierre to pick their delegates to the Republican National Convention, they got an unexpected visitor.  —  Merle Madrid, senior aide to Ohio Gov. John Kasich, had flown in from Columbus …
Sahil Kapur / Bloomberg Business:
Donald Trump's Tough But Plausible Path to Winning the White House  —  The Republican billionaire's support among working-class whites is worrying some Democrats and labor leaders.  —  For months, Democratic strategists viewed Donald Trump as a dream opponent in the 2016 presidential race …
Discussion: Washington Post
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Amber Phillips / Washington Post:
You know you're in trouble when you say what Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley just said  —  Trump loves to say these ‘facts.’ Here's where he's wrong. … State of the 2016 race  —  In the hours after a former friend and fired top cop told the media he could prove Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley …
Yanan Wang / Washington Post:
Ga. parents offended by the ‘Far East religion’ of yoga, get ‘Namaste’ banned from school  —  “We need to direct our attention inward and connect to the breath,” yoga instructor Rachel Brathen writes in her New York Times best-selling book about the practice.
Helena Horton / Telegraph:
Microsoft's ‘teen girl’ AI turns into a Hitler-loving sex robot within 24 hours  —  What happens when you introduce an innocent Artificial Intelligence chat robot to Twitter?  Well, it's kind of predictable - you get an evil Hitler-loving, incestual sex-promoting, 'Bush did 9/11'-proclaiming robot.
Thomas Burrows / Daily Mail:
A PR boss who asked a Muslim woman to ‘explain Brussels’ has been arrested on suspicion of inciting racial hatred.  —  Matthew Doyle, an LSE alumnus and partner at a south London-based talent agency, sparked outrage on social media after he ‘confronted’ a Muslim woman about the Brussels attacks which killed 34 people.
New York Times:
In N.F.L., Deeply Flawed Concussion Research and Ties to Big Tobacco  —  The National Football League was on the clock.  —  With several of its marquee players retiring early after a cascade of frightening concussions, the league formed a committee in 1994 that would ultimately issue …
Emily Steel / New York Times:
Apple's First Foray Into Original TV Is a Series About Apps  —  Apple's ambitions to go head to head with Netflix and create its own lineup of exclusive movies and TV shows has long been the subject of much chatter and speculation.  —  But its first original TV project …
Ross Douthat / New York Times:
Trumpism After Trump  —  There is now no possibility that the Republican Party will survive its rendezvous with Donald Trump unbroken.  —  If Trump is the party's nominee, the best-case scenario — the best case! — for G.O.P. unity probably involves a host of Republican officials withholding …
EndPlay / WSOC-TV:
Concord man arrested for not returning VHS rental 14 years later  —  CONCORD, N.C. —  A Concord man was arrested for failing to return a 2002 VHS rental movie, “Freddy Got Fingered.”  —  James Meyers showed Channel 9 the arrest warrant Wednesday.  It shows Meyers is charged with failure to return rental property, a misdemeanor.
Guardian:
Dyson developing an electric car, according to government documents  —  The company last year refused to confirm they were working on a green vehicle, but a government plan on infrastructure suggests they are  —  Dyson is developing an electric car at its headquarters in Wiltshire with help …
Katie Glueck / Politico:
Two major ex-Bush donors now backing Cruz  —  Fred and Jay Zeidman, two prominent Houston-based Republicans who are influential in the Jewish community, have decided to support Ted Cruz, they told POLITICO on Thursday.  —  Fred Zeidman, who sits on the board of the Republican Jewish Coalition …
Discussion: The Right Scoop
Caitlin MacNeal / Talking Points Memo:
GOP Sen.: ‘Not Fair’ Of GOPers To Block Any SCOTUS Nominee  —  Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) on Wednesday said that she doesn't believe it is fair of Republican senators to block any Supreme Court nominee from President Obama.  —  “I think it's simply not fair and not right to say that no matter …
Discussion: news.mpbn.net, Daily Kos and The Week
Mariah Blake / Washington Monthly:
Revisionaries  —  How a group of Texas conservatives is rewriting your kids' textbooks.  —  Don McLeroy is a balding, paunchy man with a thick broom-handle mustache who lives in a rambling two-story brick home in a suburb near Bryan, Texas.  When he greeted me at the door one evening last October …
Discussion: Slantpoint
 
 
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Franklin Foer / Slate:
Donald Trump Hates Women
Discussion: Hullabaloo, FishbowlDC and The Week
Brandon Cockerham / Judicial Watch:
Judicial Watch Lawsuit Uncovers New Hillary Clinton Email Withheld from State Department
WGN Web Desk / WGN-TV:
Young teen in custody, elderly woman safe after bizarre theft and chase
Discussion: KFOR-TV
Makenzie O'Keefe / KJCT-TV:
Atheist and satanic literature to be distributed in Delta County schools
Discussion: Breitbart, WND, EAGnews.org and Raw Story
 Earlier Items: 
Brent Budowsky / The Hill:
Trump the loser  —  A great truth was told when Elizabeth Warren
Rick Rojas / New York Times:
Columbia Professor Files Sexual Harassment Suit Against University
Discussion: Gothamist and New York Magazine
Laura Fraser / CBC News:
Jian Ghomeshi not guilty, topless protester disrupts Crown's statement
Sarah Smith / ProPublica:
Wisconsin's Voter ID Law Requires an Education Campaign, Which the State Hasn't Funded
Nicole Sperling / EW.com:
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Sabato's Crystal Ball:
Assessing Trump's Path to 1,237
Discussion: Washington Post
Camille Paglia / Salon:
This is why Trump's winning, and why I won't vote for Hillary
Discussion: Maggie's Farm
 

 
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Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple is working on a smart doorbell system with advanced facial recognition that can wirelessly connect and unlock third-party smart locks

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
Donald Trump announces that Sriram Krishnan, until recently a general partner at a16z, will serve as senior policy advisor for AI at the White House OSTP

Financial Times:
Sources: Palantir and Anduril are in talks with OpenAI, SpaceX, and more to form a consortium to bid for US defense contracts and plan to announce it in January

 
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