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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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J.R. Taylor / National Enquirer:
SHOCKING CLAIMS: Pervy Ted Cruz Caught Cheating — With 5 Secret Mistresses!  —  The romps that could destroy his presidential campaign!  —  Presidential candidate Ted Cruz is trying to survive an explosive “dirt file” on the finger-wagging conservative senator!
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.
Jessie Opoien / madison.com:
Scott Walker predicts open GOP convention would nominate someone not currently running  —  If the Republican Party finds itself with an open convention in July, Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker believes the nominee may not be Donald Trump, Ted Cruz or John Kasich.
Gabby Morrongiello / Washington Examiner:
Poll: Nearly half of Republican women wouldn't vote for Trump  —  A new survey of women voters suggests a general election contest between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton could be disastrous for the Republican Party.  —  Nearly half of the female Republican electorate (47 percent) …
Discussion: NBC News and RedState
Jose A. DelReal / Washington Post:   Donald Trump can't stop saying nasty things about women. It could cost him.
Andrew Kaczynski / BuzzFeed:
Ted Cruz: I Didn't Attack Trump Earlier Because Those Who Did “Ended Up As Roadkill”
Discussion: Politico
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.
Los Angeles Times:
Garry Shandling dies at 66; comedian's influential career spanned decades
Discussion: American Spectator
New York Times:
Garry Shandling, Star of Groundbreaking Sitcoms, Dies at 66
Discussion: Lawyers, Guns & Money
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
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 …
WCSC-TV:
Report: Woman killed in ‘freak accident’ at Summerville drive-thru did not hit accelerator  —  An incident report from what authorities called a “freak accident” that killed a woman at a Summerville drive-thru Wednesday suggests she did not hit the accelerator prior to becoming pinned by her vehicle door.
Discussion: fox8.com, FOX5 San Diego and KTLA
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: FOX31 Denver and The Daily Caller
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
Abre' Conner / aclunc.org:
Two Lawyers Walk into a Bar.  And Get Kicked Out for Being Black.  —  Issues :  —  Racial Justice  —  We began the evening on a quest for a good karaoke night, and went to a bar called Brig. After waiting for more than half an hour to sing, we started to wonder when our number would be called.
Discussion: Slantpoint, KFOR-TV and Raw Story
David A. Graham / The Atlantic:
North Carolina Overturns LGBT-Discrimination Bans  —  DURHAM, N.C.—The North Carolina General Assembly called lawmakers back to Raleigh on Wednesday for a special session.  The reason wasn't a pressing budget crisis, a natural disaster, or court-mandated redistricting.  (That happened last month.)
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Sandhya Somashekhar / Washington Post:
Backlash builds against N.C. law on transgender bathroom use
Thomas D. Williams, Ph.D. / Breitbart:
Colorado School District to Begin Distribution of Satanic Materials to Children  —  After coming under fire from atheist groups for the distribution of free Bibles, the Delta County School District (DCSD) has approved the circulation of atheistic, secular and Satanic literature to middle and high school students.
Discussion: WND
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Makenzie O'Keefe / KJCT-TV:
Atheist and satanic literature to be distributed in Delta County schools
Discussion: EAGnews.org and Raw Story
Steve LeBlanc / BostonGlobe.com:
'I'm still cheering Bernie on,' Elizabeth Warren says  —  QUINCY, Mass. (AP) — U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren waded deeper into the presidential primary debate Thursday, sharpening her criticism of Donald Trump and cheering on Bernie Sanders.  —  The Massachusetts Democrat described …
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.
Edward-Isaac Dovere / Politico:
Biden accuses GOP of threatening democracy in Supreme Court standoff  —  Vice President Joe Biden on Thursday cast the Senate's refusal to consider Judge Merrick Garland's nomination to the Supreme Court as a viral dysfunction that would infect other branches of government and threaten the American democracy.
Discussion: Slantpoint, ThinkProgress and Daily Kos
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Associated Press:
Pope washes feet of Muslim migrants, says ‘we are brothers’  —  CASTELNUOVO DI PORTO, Italy — Pope Francis washed and kissed the feet of Muslim, Christian and Hindu refugees Thursday and declared them all children of the same God, as he performed a gesture of welcome and brotherhood …
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.
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 …
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 …
Tegna / WFAA-TV:
Company says demo mistake “Not a big deal” … ROWLETT — The company responsible for tearing down the wrong tornado damaged duplex had a demolition permit for another duplex, according to records obtained by News 8.  —  The demolition permit for 7601 and 7603 Cousteau confirms …
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 …
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.
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 …
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.”
Sarah Ferris / The Hill:
CBO trims tally for ObamaCare enrollment  —  The Congressional Budget Office on Thursday slightly lowered its projections for ObamaCare enrollment, trimming its tally by about 1 million people.  —  About 12 million people are now expected to have ObamaCare coverage by the end of 2016, according to the nonpartisan budget office.
Discussion: Hot Air
Liz Sly / Washington Post:
In Syria and Iraq, the Islamic State is in retreat on multiple fronts  —  BEIRUT — As European governments scramble to contain the expanding terrorist threat posed by the Islamic State, on the battlefield in Iraq and Syria the group is a rapidly diminishing force.
 
 
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Rory Appleton / Fresno Bee:
Family of man slain by Fresno police releases graphic video of shooting
Discussion: Slantpoint and Raw Story
Jordain Carney / The Hill:
McConnell: Trump ‘very cordial’ to me
Discussion: Political Wire
Daily Mail:
Who's a clever girl then? Talented parrot has been trained to go to the TOILET
Franklin Foer / Slate:
Donald Trump Hates Women
Discussion: Hullabaloo, FishbowlDC and The Week
Mariah Blake / Washington Monthly:
Revisionaries  —  How a group of Texas conservatives is rewriting your kids' textbooks.
Discussion: Slantpoint
Kyle Hicks / Fox 59:
Burglars ram vehicle into Indianapolis clothing store
Discussion: New York's PIX11, KFOR-TV and KTLA
Brandon Cockerham / Judicial Watch:
Judicial Watch Lawsuit Uncovers New Hillary Clinton Email Withheld from State Department
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Rick Rojas / New York Times:
Columbia Professor Files Sexual Harassment Suit Against University
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Los Angeles Times:
Disney threatens to stop filming in Georgia if anti-gay bill becomes law
Sarah Smith / ProPublica:
Wisconsin's Voter ID Law Requires an Education Campaign, Which the State Hasn't Funded
Sahil Kapur / Bloomberg Business:
Donald Trump's Tough But Plausible Path to Winning the White House
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