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6:55 PM ET, March 29, 2016

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Palm Beach Post:
Trump aide charged with misdemeanor battery vs. ex-Breitbart reporter  —  Corey Lewandowski, Donald Trump campaign manager, was charged this morning with misdemeanor battery after allegations of forcefully grabbing a reporter at a Jupiter news conference, town police confirmed this morning.
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Rebecca Savransky / The Hill:
Trump threatens to press charges against reporter  —  Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump  —  on Tuesday threatened to press charges against former Breitbart reporter Michelle Fields, claiming she grabbed him after a press conference.  —  “Victory press conference was over.
Ben Brody / Bloomberg Business:
Trump Fiercely Defends Campaign Manager Charged With Battery  —  Corey Lewandowski is innocent, the billionaire says: “Look at tapes-nothing there!”  —  Donald Trump's campaign manager was charged with misdemeanor battery against a journalist Tuesday, an accusation the Republican presidential front-runner slammed as meritless.
Caleb Howe / RedState:
Rush Limbaugh Suggests Corey Lewandowski Arrest Nothing But A Political Attack
Discussion: Mediaite
Katherine Krueger / Talking Points Memo:
Trump Spox: Campaign Manager Will Stay On Even If Convicted Of Battery
Discussion: CNN, Death and Taxes and CBS Philly
New York Times:
Corey Lewandowski, Donald Trump's Campaign Manager, Is Charged With Battery
Ian Millhiser / ThinkProgress:
How To Make Sense Of The Baffling Order The Supreme Court Just Handed Down On Birth Control  —  The biggest birth control case to reach the Supreme Court in 40 years just got a whole lot more confusing.  —  On Tuesday, the Supreme Court handed down an unusual order seeking more briefing in Zubik v. Burwell …
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Emily Atkin / ThinkProgress:
Republican Senator: I'm ‘Perplexed’ At Mitch McConnell's Decision To Block Merrick Garland  —  Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) says Republican Senate Leader Mitch McConnell is “not real happy” with her.  —  That's because Collins is part of a growing group of Republican Senators who have decided …
Libby Nelson / Vox:
Public sector unions just avoided a huge defeat at the Supreme Court  —  If Antonin Scalia were alive, things could have turned out very differently.  —  A case that had the potential to weaken public sector unions across the United States ended with a somewhat unexpected victory for unions on Tuesday …
Adam Liptak / New York Times:
Victory for Unions as Supreme Court, Scalia Gone, Ties 4-4
Robert Barnes / Washington Post:
Supreme Court deadlocks over public employee union case; Calif. teachers must pay dues
Governor Andrew M. Cuomo:
Governor Cuomo Bans Non-Essential State Travel to North Carolina  —  Governor Andrew M. Cuomo today signed an executive order banning all non-essential state travel to North Carolina.  The order requires all New York State agencies, departments, boards and commissions to immediately review …
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Gary Robertson / Associated Press:
North Carolina Attorney General Won't Defend Anti-Gay Law In Court
Discussion: Daily Kos
Matt Wilstein / The Daily Beast:
Susan Sarandon: Trump Might Be Better for America Than Hillary Clinton  —  If Bernie Sanders fails to get the Democratic nomination, Susan Sarandon isn't sure she'll vote for Hillary Clinton.  She even said Monday that Trump could be the better option.  —  One of the biggest question marks …
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Amanda Marcotte / Salon:
The strange silence about Hillarymania: Clinton fires up voters more than Bernie does, so why is no one talking about it?  —  More Clinton supporters are enthusiastic than those backing Sanders, but the media won't tell you that  —  Hillary Clinton suffers from an “enthusiasm gap.”
Discussion: Balloon Juice, Shadowproof and The Week
David Mitchell / FOX31 Denver:
Widower gets charged $853 ‘rebooking’ fee when wife dies before cruise … LOVELAND, Colo. — A Loveland man had just lost his wife only to be dealt another painful blow.  —  He received an $850 charge from Viking River Cruises because his late wife wasn't going on the prepaid trip.
Discussion: Consumerist and WREG-TV
Ben Jacobs / Guardian:
Donald Trump berates Scott Walker for not raising taxes in Wisconsin  —  After the governor's endorsement of Ted Cruz the Republican frontrunner said Walker had failed to tackle a $2.2bn deficit and ‘the schools were going begging’  —  Donald Trump attacked Wisconsin governor Scott Walker …
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JSOnline:
Kasich says he's not surprised Scott Walker endorsed Ted Cruz
Discussion: RedState, CNN and Hot Air
Ben Schreckinger / Politico:
Trump brings GOP civil war to Paul Ryan's backyard
Discussion: ABC News and Yahoo Politics
Cnycentral / WRGB:
Nurse who snapped photo of patient's penis surrenders license  —  FULTON, N.Y. — A Fulton nurse convicted of taking a photo of an unconscious patient's penis with her iPhone last year surrendered her license, according to the New York State Education Department.
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Michael Gerson / Washington Post:
Rush Limbaugh's blessing of Trump is killing conservatism  —  If Donald Trump becomes the Republican nominee, one of the main reasons will be that many in the conservative movement found him acceptable.  And one of the main reasons that many conservatives are finding Trump acceptable …
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Nick Corasaniti / New York Times:   Donald Trump vs. Ted Cruz Creates a Headache for Talk Radio Hosts
Andrea Cavallier / New York's PIX11:
New Jersey hospital emergency room becomes first in U.S. to end use of opioid painkillers  —  PATERSON, N.J. — St. Joseph's Regional Medical Center announced it has become the first hospital in the country to implement a program that will manage patients' pain in the emergency room without the use of opioid painkillers.
Discussion: Fox 59, WREG-TV and CBS New York
Heather Holeman / KFOR-TV:
Man invents gun that looks exactly like a cell phone  —  Good idea or bad?  —  Kirk Kjellberg from Minnesota says he came up with the “Ideal Conceal” pocket gun, designed to look identical to a smartphone, after a little boy pointed out Kjellberg's own larger, not-so-concealed gun at a restaurant.
Discussion: Q13 FOX News
Liam Stack / New York Times:
James Noble, Absent-Minded Governor on ‘Benson,’ Dies at 94  —  James Noble, the actor best known for his role as the absent-minded governor on the hit 1980s sitcom “Benson,” died on Monday at Norwalk Hospital in Connecticut.  He was 94.  —  His death was confirmed by Douglas Moser …
Discussion: AOL and Deadline
Juliet Perry / CNN:
Real ‘Siberian unicorn’ remains found  —  (CNN)New research has revealed the ‘Siberian unicorn’ roamed the planet far more recently than we originally thought.  —  The bad news is it looked nothing like the mythical creatures portrayed in so many fairy tales.  —  Real unicorns — not so pretty.
Discussion: WGN-TV and The Week
Michael Rothman / ABC News:
Patty Duke Is Dead at 69
Steven Shepard / Politico:
Trump's popularity nosedives in critical stretch  —  Donald Trump wasn't wildly popular to begin with.  And now he's becoming even more disliked among American voters, creating a significant threat to his chances of winning the Republican presidential nomination.
Cameron Easley / Morning Consult:
Half of Voters Back Muslim Travel Ban, Patrols of Muslim Neighborhoods  —  Have the terrorists won?  The main motif to emerge from a new Morning Consult survey taken after the attacks in Brussels last week is that the threat of terrorism may diminish how much people worry about privacy and civil rights.
 
 
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JSOnline:
By any measure, Donald Trump is unfit to be president
Discussion: Raw Story, Mediaite and The Week
Dan Lamothe / Washington Post:
Pentagon and State Department order families of U.S. troops and diplomats to leave Turkey
diystream.cns.utexas.edu:
Skin Cancer Reminder App
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Think Trump's 45 Percent Tariffs Are Bad? Try Obama's 10,000 Percent Tariffs
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Jeffrey H. Anderson / Weekly Standard:
CBO Misses Its Obamacare Projection by 24 Million People
Discussion: Betsy's Page
Russ Alan Prince / Forbes:
Elite Hospitals Cultivating Elite Patients
Warner Todd Huston / Breitbart:
An illegal immigrant has been arrested and charged with raping and impregnating a 12-year-old …
Matthew Yglesias / Vox:
This 2014 study explains an enormous amount about Trumpism
Discussion: The Atlantic
Katie Zavadski / The Daily Beast:
The American Anti-Vaccine Mom Turned ISIS Superstar
Discussion: Raw Story
 

 
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