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3:25 PM ET, March 24, 2016

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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:
Obama dances while Brussels burns: President and Michelle take to the floor to TANGO during …
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: WGN-TV, Mashable and AOL
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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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
Eric Fehrnstrom / BostonGlobe.com:   Turnout, terror, and tactics favor Trump against Clinton
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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David A. Graham / The Atlantic:
North Carolina Overturns LGBT-Discrimination Bans
Discussion: Slate, Vox and ThinkProgress
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 …
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 …
Nolan D. McCaskill / Politico:
FBI director: Brussels attacks could deter others from joining Islamic State  —  The terrorist attacks that ravaged Brussels through a series of explosions Tuesday is unlikely to inspire copycat attacks in the homeland, FBI Director James Comey said Thursday.
Discussion: Yahoo Politics
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James B. Comey / Wall Street Journal:
The FBI Is Trying to Crack the San Bernardino Case, Not Set a Precedent
Discussion: Washington Post and New York Times
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: Daily Kos, news.mpbn.net and The Week
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Justin Sink / Bloomberg Business:   Biden Says Stalemate Over Garland Risks Constitutional Crisis
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 …
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 …
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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.
Discussion: WND
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Mark Hosenball / Reuters:
U.S. frustration simmers over Belgium's struggle with militant threat
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.
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.”
Discussion: Washington Post
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.
Science:
Design and synthesis of a minimal bacterial genome  —  1J.  Craig Venter Institute, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA.  —  2National Center for Microscopy and Imaging Research, University of California-San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA.  —  3Synthetic Genomics, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA.
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.
Brent Budowsky / The Hill:
Trump the loser  —  A great truth was told when Elizabeth Warren  —  on Monday, branding him a loser.  In her Twitter offensive, the senator labeled Trump an insecure narcissist with a list of failures in business who often demonstrates a problem respecting women and is — she repeated multiple times in tweets — a loser.
Los Angeles Times:
Disney threatens to stop filming in Georgia if anti-gay bill becomes law  —  Shown are the Walt Disney Co. headquarters in Burbank.  —  Delivering a potentially serious blow to one of the fastest growing production hubs in the country, Walt Disney Co. is threatening to no longer film …
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.
Discussion: WXIA-TV and Talking Points Memo
Sarah Smith / ProPublica:
Wisconsin's Voter ID Law Requires an Education Campaign, Which the State Hasn't Funded  —  On April 5, when voters cast ballots in Wisconsin's Republican and Democratic primaries, the state's controversial voter ID bill will face its biggest test since Governor Scott Walker signed it into law in 2011.
Christopher Massie / BuzzFeed:
Trump-Backing Congressman: “Many Members Are Supporting Trump Quietly”  —  Rep. Chris Collins of New York says his House colleagues don't like Ted Cruz and are withholding formal endorsements of Trump for “reasons unique to their particular congressional districts.”  —  Joshua Roberts / Reuters
Avianne Tan / ABC News:
Discussion: AOL
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 …
 
 
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Julie Hirschfeld Davis / New York Times:
Obama Expresses Regret for U.S. Policies During Argentina's ‘Dirty War’
Discussion: Horizons and The White House
Google Security PR / Google Online Security Blog:
More Encryption, More Notifications, More Email Security
Discussion: Engadget, The Verge and VentureBeat
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
Ruth Halkon / Mirror.co.uk:
Fears grow for priest ‘kidnapped by ISIS’ who may be crucified on Good Friday
Discussion: Walid Shoebat
Raheem Kassam / Breitbart:
Enough With The Teddy Bears And Tears: It's Time To Take Our Civilization Back
Leslie Picker / New York Times:
TiVo Said to Be in Merger Talks With Rovi
 Earlier Items: 
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Erick Erickson / The Resurgent:
There May Be One Major Reason Why a Third Party Is a Terrible Idea to Stop Trump
Andrew Prokop / Vox:
The GOP's nuclear option: how Trump could be denied the nomination even with a majority
Sinan Salaheddin / Associated Press:
Iraq says it's launched offensive to recapture IS-held Mosul
Discussion: Hot Air and The Week
Travis Andersen / BostonGlobe.com:
Moulton compares Trump's rise to election of Hitler in 1930s
 

 
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Jessica Toonkel / Wall Street Journal:
A deep dive into Paramount's sale to Skydance; sources: Skydance may integrate Pluto into Paramount+, and CBS head George Cheeks is expected to be head of TV

Bloomberg:
A look at the challenges facing Crunchyroll, as current and ex-staffers say its management is out of touch, amid Disney and Netflix's expansion into anime

Ankush Khardori / Politico:
Trump may erode press protections but the ABC case is not evidence of that as the decision to settle appears reasonable given Stephanopoulos' imprecise remarks

 
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