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Justin Sink / Bloomberg Business:
Democrats Evenly Split Over Clinton, Sanders in Bloomberg Poll — Sanders trusted on defending middle class, reining in Wall St. — Clinton stronger on foreign policy, security experience — More than halfway through a nomination race that she entered as the clear favorite …
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Politico, Common Dreams and Washington Times
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Eric Fehrnstrom / BostonGlobe.com:
Turnout, terror, and tactics favor Trump against Clinton — After adding to his delegate lead in Tuesday's GOP contests, Donald Trump remains on track to be the Republican nominee for president. The question is, can he beat Hillary Clinton? The answer is, yes.
Erick Erickson / The Resurgent:
There May Be One Major Reason Why a Third Party Is a Terrible Idea to Stop Trump — There may be on major, serious reason why those of us who will never vote for Trump should refrain from voting for a third party. No, the answer is not “because it would get Hillary elected.”
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RedState and Political Insider blog
Sahil Kapur / Bloomberg Business:
Donald Trump's Tough But Plausible Path to Winning the White House
Donald Trump's Tough But Plausible Path to Winning the White House
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Washington Post
Nick Gass / Politico:
Sanders ties Clinton in national poll
Sanders ties Clinton in national poll
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ABC News, Los Angeles Times and The Week
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 …
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ABC News, NBC News, Daily Kos, National Review and WND
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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Yahoo Politics, Hot Air, Mother Jones, New York Magazine, WND and The Week
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Laura Wagner / NPR:
WATCH: Obama Dances The Tango During State Dinner In Argentina
WATCH: Obama Dances The Tango During State Dinner In Argentina
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AOL and New York Times
Daily Mail:
Brussels bombers DID plan to attack nuclear power station as police uncover 12 hours of footage jihadists filmed outside a plant director's home — The Brussels terrorists were preparing an attack on a nuclear power plant and had recorded 12 hours of reconnaissance footage, it has been reported.
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WND
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Sandhya Somashekhar / Washington Post:
North Carolina passes bill blocking LGBT protections — The North Carolina legislature on Wednesday passed a sweeping bill overturning gay and transgender protections at the local level and requiring students to use public restrooms that correspond to their biological sex.
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The Atlantic, Human Rights Campaign, ACLU of North Carolina, Forbes, NPR, NBC News, New York Times, Raw Story, Shakesville, Common Dreams, The Slot, Mother Jones, The Week and emptywheel
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David A. Graham / The Atlantic:
North Carolina Overturns LGBT-Discrimination Bans
North Carolina Overturns LGBT-Discrimination Bans
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ThinkProgress and Vox
Sabato's Crystal Ball:
Assessing Trump's Path to 1,237 — A look at the remaining contests shows how he could get there — About a month ago, after Donald Trump won the South Carolina primary and all of its delegates, we headlined a piece “The Hour is Growing Late to Stop Trump.”
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Washington Post
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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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Raw Story, Mediaite, Guardian, CNNMoney, New York Magazine, Engadget, Daily Mail and The Verge
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 …
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No More Mister Nice Blog and Balloon Juice
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.
Camille Paglia / Salon:
This is why Trump's winning, and why I won't vote for Hillary — GOP needs to wake up and realize Trump is its fault. But the Trump/Clinton death match is a national nightmare — This week's horrific terrorist attacks on the Brussels airport and metro raised the pressure in the already tight U.S. presidential campaign.
Mashable:
Ted Cruz calls for police to ‘patrol and secure Muslim neighborhoods’ after Brussels attack — WASHINGTON — GOP presidential hopeful Ted Cruz called for police to patrol Muslim neighborhoods — in response to Tuesday's attacks in Brussels that killed at least 31 people.
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Eli Lake / Bloomberg Gadfly:
The Trump-Cruz Police State Exists. It's Called France.
The Trump-Cruz Police State Exists. It's Called France.
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Hit & Run, CNN, New York Times, Hot Air, Instapundit and The Hill
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 …
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ProFootballTalk, CBS Chicago, Dallas Morning News, Deadspin, abc13.com and CBS Boston
Dahlia Lithwick / Slate:
The Supreme Court's conservatives think the Affordable Care Act is hijacking insurance plans to provide contraception. — In case you believed Wednesday's big contraception/religious liberty case at the Supreme Court was about contraception, or about religious liberty, you would be wrong.
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Health Affairs Blog, Hamilton and Griffin on Rights, Balkinization and New York Times
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Travis Andersen / BostonGlobe.com:
Moulton compares Trump's rise to election of Hitler in 1930s — Congressman Seth Moulton on Wednesday compared the rise of Republican presidential frontrunner Donald J. Trump to the election of Adolf Hitler and said constituents should warn “that crazy uncle” against voting for the businessman if he wins the GOP nomination.
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CBS Boston and Politico
Chris Williams / The Register:
How one developer just broke Node, Babel and thousands of projects in 11 lines of JavaScript — Code pulled from NPM - which everyone was using — Updated Programmers were left staring at broken builds and failed installations on Tuesday after someone toppled the Jenga tower of JavaScript.
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The Next Web and Scripting News
Ari Berman / The Nation:
There Were 5-Hour Lines to Vote in Arizona Because the Supreme Court Gutted the Voting Rights Act — Reducing the number of polling places in Phoenix had catastrophic consequences in the March 22 primary. — By , — Aracely Calderon, a naturalized citizen from Guatemala …
Leslie Picker / New York Times:
TiVo Said to Be in Merger Talks With Rovi — TiVo, the digital video recorder company that popularized the DVR and revolutionized “time shifting” and fast-forwarding through advertising, is in advanced negotiations to be sold to Rovi, according to people briefed on the talks.
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