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7:45 AM ET, March 31, 2016

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Tim Murphy / Mother Jones:
Donald Trump's Muslim Ban Somehow Got Worse  —  Donald Trump told a Wisconsin town hall on Wednesday that his proposed ban on Muslims entering the United States would have an exception for the billionaire's rich friends.  —  “I have actually—believe it or not, I have a lot of friends …
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Bloomberg.com:
Trump Says Women May Need Punishment If Abortion Is Banned  —  Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump says there would “have to be some form of punishment” for women who have abortions if it were outlawed in the U.S.  — Trump speaks at taping of MSNBC town hall to be aired later
Donald J Trump for President:
DONALD J. TRUMP STATEMENT REGARDING ABORTION  —  If Congress were to pass legislation making abortion illegal and the federal courts upheld this legislation, or any state were permitted to ban abortion under state and federal law, the doctor or any other person performing this illegal act upon …
Ali Vitali / NBC News:
Trump Advocates Abortion Ban, Walks Back ‘Punishment’ for Women Remark  —  Trump: ‘Some form of punishment’ for abortion 6:37  —  GREEN BAY, Wisc.  — After saying on Wednesday that he believes there should be punishment for women who undergo abortions if the procedure was outlawed …
Tim Murphy / Mother Jones:
Donald Trump Won't Rule Out Using Nuclear Weapons in Europe
Kevin Cirilli / Bloomberg Business:
Trump Says Abortion Ban Should Carry Punishment for Women
Miranda Blue / Right Wing Watch:
Trump Calls For Women To Face ‘Punishment’ For Abortion While Cruz Adviser Wrote Of Executing Abortion Providers
Discussion: Mediaite, Raw Story and Mashable
Maggie Haberman / New York Times:
Pressed on an Abortion Ban, Donald Trump Sees a Penalty for Women
Ashley Paredez / KTBC:
Central Texas mother allows children to get tattoos  —  A Central Texas mother was taken into custody after allowing her young children to be tattooed.  Police say the mom was intoxicated at the time and let her boyfriend's brother do the work.  Now the three children each have tattoos on their ankles.
Discussion: WNEP-TV and fox8.com
Genny McLaren / FOX40:
Seventh Person Dies from Fentanyl Overdose in Sacramento County  —  A seventh person has died of a fentanyl overdose in Sacramento County.  —  Family confirms that Jerome Butler, who was in a coma with liver and kidney failure after taking a fentanyl pill, was taken off life support on Wednesday afternoon.
Rina Nakano / FOX40:
Citrus Heights Police Need Help Identifying Serial Peeper, Sex Assault Suspect … It's the police sketch giving Citrus Heights residents the creeps — a man police are looking for in a sexual assault investigation.  —  “I don't know.  He looks really creepy,” resident Brianna Rowland said.
Discussion: WGN-TV
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KQCA-TV:
Sketch released of Citrus Heights sexual assault suspect  —  Man seen around apartment complex since January  —  Citrus Heights police released a sketch Monday of a man wanted in connection with a sexual assault at a Citrus Heights apartment complex, along with several other suspicious encounters.
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DID YOU SEE THIS AMAZING VIDEO??  It was taken by visitor Tina Dorschel on the Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary boardwalk early Monday morning.  (Please be warned, there is a curse word at the end!)  —  This gorgeous # Floridapanther seems to have unexpectedly found himself cornered while traveling around …
Discussion: WGN-TV and AOL
Nick Gass / Politico:
Limbaugh vows to muzzle himself on Lewandowski, Fields  —  Those hoping to hear the thoughts of Rush Limbaugh on the misdemeanor battery charge against Donald Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski will have to look elsewhere, the host declared Wednesday.  —  “My friends, I have decided …
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Associated Press:
FBI Agrees to Unlock iPhone, iPod in Arkansas Homicide Case  —  The FBI agreed Wednesday to help an Arkansas prosecutor unlock an iPhone and iPod belonging to two teenagers accused of killing a couple, just days after the federal agency announced it had gained access to an iPhone linked to the gunman in a mass shooting in California.
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Paul Kane / Washington Post:
Can Trump become so unpopular that Democrats take back the House? … It's one of the most controversial things to say on Capitol Hill, sparking looks of shock and disbelief: The House majority is in play this fall.  —  For almost five years, ever since state legislatures and commissions finished drawing …
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Dan Balz / Washington Post:
How the GOP loyalty pledge completely fell apart
Joe Concha / Mediaite:
AJAM's David Shuster Exclusive: Hillary Clinton to be Interviewed by FBI Director Comey in Coming Days  —  Al Jazeera America may be shutting off the lights permanently soon, but that doesn't mean reporters like David Shuster aren't continuing to go about their business until the final gun sounds.
Oliver Darcy / TheBlaze.com:
Michelle Fields Abandons Apartment Over Safety Concerns After Fox, BuzzFeed Publish Personal Info  —  Ex-Breitbart reporter Michelle Fields said Wednesday she had temporarily moved out of her D.C.-area apartment over safety concerns after Fox News and BuzzFeed accidentally published her address online.
Robert McCartney / Washington Post:
Metro could shut down entire rail lines to do extended maintenance, board chair says  —  Metro's top officials warned Wednesday that the transit system is in such need of repair that they might shut down entire rail lines for as long as six months for maintenance, potentially snarling thousands …
Discussion: New York Times and The Week
Harper Neidig / The Hill:
Trump releases letter confirming tax audit  —  campaign on Wednesday released what appears to be a letter from the Republican presidential front-runner's tax attorneys saying that his tax filings since 2009 are currently being audited.  —  “Your personal tax returns have been under continuous examination …
Philip Oltermann / Guardian:
Revealed: how Associated Press cooperated with the Nazis  —  German historian shows how news agency retained access in 1930s by promising not to undermine strength of Hitler regime  —  The Associated Press news agency entered a formal cooperation with the Hitler regime in the 1930s …
Wilmot Proviso / Conservative Tribune:
Cops Wreck Man's Home Over Anti-Islam Post... But He Has Epic Surprise for Them  —  A British man whose house was trashed by police after he tweeted something that was deemed to be anti-Islamic has an epic surprise for the cops who did it: A lawsuit.  —  According to the U.K. Telegraph …
Shawn Moran / bpunion.org:
National Border Patrol Council Endorses Donald Trump for President  —  The National Border Patrol Council is the official organization representing our nation's Border Patrol Agents.  We represent 16,500 agents who selflessly serve this country in an environment where our own political leaders try to keep us from doing our jobs.
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Harper Neidig / The Hill:
Border patrol union endorses Trump
Discussion: Hullabaloo
John Hudson / Foreign Policy:
Erdogan Uses Closed-Door Meeting to Blast Obama Administration  —  The Turkish president told a gathering of academics and former government officials that the White House was wrong to back the Kurds in the fight against the Islamic State.  —  Facing a high-profile snub from the White House …
Tom Cahill / U.S. Uncut:
A Bernie Sanders Supporter Confronted a Superdelegate — Then Leaked Their Private Conversation  —  One superdelegate casually admitted to a Bernie Sanders supporter that she'll vote to nominate Hillary Clinton, despite 81.6 percent of her state voting for Sanders.
Discussion: CANNONFIRE and Slantpoint
Wall Street Journal:
Pentagon Readies More Robust U.S. Military Presence in Eastern Europe  —  Move aims to reassure NATO allies and send message to Russia  —  The Pentagon has drawn up plans to position American troops, tanks and other armored vehicles full time along NATO's eastern borders to deter Russian aggression …
Ben Schreckinger / Politico:
Trump calls Geneva Conventions ‘the problem’  —  APPLETON, Wis. — Donald Trump believes American troops are afraid to fight for fear of violating the Geneva Conventions, he said Wednesday.  —  “The problem is we have the Geneva Conventions, all sorts of rules and regulations …
Justin Gillis / New York Times:
Climate Model Predicts West Antarctic Ice Sheet Could Melt Rapidly  —  For half a century, climate scientists have seen the West Antarctic ice sheet, a remnant of the last ice age, as a sword of Damocles hanging over human civilization.  —  The great ice sheet, larger than Mexico …
Chris Tomlinson / Breitbart:
Government Handing Cash To Mosques, Not Schools, To Teach Migrants To Read  —  The German government has given money to mosques in hopes migrants might be more receptive to integration classes and schooling from religious authorities.  —  Literacy courses in Turkish-run mosques have been funded …
Discussion: Infowars
 
 
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Isaac Chotiner / Slate:
Barney Frank Is Not Impressed by Bernie Sanders
Discussion: Boston Globe
Daily Mail:
Could a HERB be the secret to living to 100? …
Associated Press:
Obama Shortens Prison Sentences for 61 Drug Offenders
Julia Manchester / CNN:
Stricken ex-beauty queen emotionally thanks Trump
Discussion: Mediaite and The Daily Caller
Charlie Peat / Daily Express:
Saudi government ‘wants to EXECUTE gay people who show their sexuality in public & online’
Discussion: Jihad Watch
Mytheos Holt / The Federalist:
The Intellectual Case For Trump I: Why The White Nationalist Support?
Discussion: alicublog
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Corinna Da Fonseca-Wollheim / New York Times:
Vanishing Languages, Reincarnated as Music
Ashley Thorne / New York Post:
The drive to put Western civ back in the college curriculum
New York Times:
Corporations Grow Nervous About Participating in Republican Convention
Discussion: Politicus USA and Booman Tribune