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Introducing Gmail Mic Drop — UPDATE: Well, it looks like we pranked ourselves this year. 😟 Due to a bug, the Mic Drop feature inadvertently caused more headaches than laughs. We're truly sorry. The feature has been turned off. If you are still seeing it, please reload your Gmail page.
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Telegraph, TechCrunch, NPR, SFist, Consumerist, The Verge, Business Insider, Boing Boing, New Urban Legends, Engadget, Mediaite, Advertising & Branding, NBC News, New York Times, USA Today, Fusion and VentureBeat
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Google pulls Gmail ‘Mic Drop’ button after April Fools joke receives backlash — Google attempted to prank its Gmail users for April Fools Day this year, but it seems like it created more tears than laughs. — On Thursday, a new “send + mic drop” button appeared next to the “send” button in Gmail.
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Washington Post, Business Insider, Consumerist, New Urban Legends and The Verge


April Fools' Day 2016: the best (and worst) jokes - live
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Raw Story, Hullabaloo and Liberal Values

Google disables April Fool joke amid user fury after prank backfires
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Shakesville and Forbes


Rand Paul: I'll support Trump if he's the nominee — Former presidential candidate Rand Paul said Friday he would still support Donald Trump if the controversial real estate tycoon ends up as the Republican nominee. — Paul's statement, in response to an Enquirer reporter's question …
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Washington Monthly, New York Magazine, Hullabaloo, Politico, Infowars and The Resurgent
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Donald Trump Clears Air With G.O.P. Leaders, and Chastises His Aides — Outwardly, Donald J. Trump called it a “unity meeting” — a closed-door session in Washington on Thursday involving his own inner circle and the Republican National Committee's high command.
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Gawker, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, Althouse, Townhall.com and Politico


FOX Business Network Poll: Cruz Leads in Wisconsin — Ted Cruz leads Donald Trump in the Republican nomination contest in Wisconsin, according to a Fox Business Network Poll released Thursday. — Cruz garners 42 percent among Wisconsin likely GOP primary voters, while Trump receives 32 percent.
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RedState, KRQE-TV, Bloomberg Business, Scared Monkeys, Washington Times, Politico, The Last Refuge, Hot Air, The Right Scoop and Public Policy Polling

Delegates ready to flee Trump at contested convention
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Washington Post, Townhall.com, New York Times, FiveThirtyEight, BizPac Review, Des Moines Register, Hot Air, EveryJoe, Daily Kos, National Review and CBS New York

RNC Chair Says GOPers Won't Break Pledge: 'It Doesn't Work That Way'
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Hot Air, Fox News Insider, Daily Kos and Hullabaloo


Police: Mother Admits To Doing Drugs, Hitting 4-Year-Old Daughter Before Child's Death — GRAND PRAIRIE (CBS11) - Grand Prairie Police have released graphic details in the hours leading up to the death of four-year-old Leiliana Wright. — The arrest warrant affidavit against her mother …
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Metro.co.uk, WTKR-TV, KTLA, Raw Story, fox8.com and Independent Journal …


VIDEO: WH Censors French President Saying ‘ISLAMIST Terrorism’ — The White House website has censored a video of French Pres. Francois Hollande saying that “Islamist terrorism” is at the “roots of terrorism.” — The White House briefly pulled video of a press event on terrorism with Pres. Obama …
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The Jawa Report, The Federalist, Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion, Mediaite, Hot Air, The Daily Caller, The White House, Jihad Watch and Pamela Geller
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78-year-old grandmother goes viral after powerlifting 245lbs — WOOD RIVER, IL (KTVI) - “I don't want any Grandma jokes in this story,” says Shirley Webb, the Weightlifting Grandma. — You heard the woman, which means no lines about the 78 year old grams who can dead-lift one hundred eleven thousand one hundred thirty grams.
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fox8.com

Karl Rove On The State Of Play Re: The Contested Convention — The Architect Karl Rove joined me today: — Audio: — 03-31hhs-rove — Transcript: — HH: Karl Rove is the Architect. He's also the author of an incredibly timely book about 1896, because we're going to a contested convention …
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The Gateway Pundit, Washington Examiner, Hot Air, Talking Points Memo, The Federalist, ThinkProgress and The Daily Caller
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Marco Rubio sets his sights on the NFL
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AOL and ProFootballTalk


Victim filming when shot, video posted to social media — Share Update: … CHICAGO — Video posted to social media appears to show a brazen Chicago shooting that left a man in critical condition. — The 31-year-old victim was recording himself, apparently on his phone, when someone opened fire on him.
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FOX6Now.com, WTVR-TV, New York's PIX11, FOX2now.com, Fox 59 and KFOR-TV


Republic of Fear — Donald Trump has already transformed American culture. Even if he loses the election, Trumpism is here to stay.
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No More Mister Nice Blog and Boing Boing
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Does Trumpism Have Any Shelf Life?
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Associated Press


Andrew Sullivan Joins New York Magazine As Contributing Editor — New York Magazine editor-in-chief Adam Moss announced today that writer Andrew Sullivan is joining the magazine as a contributing editor covering politics and the larger culture. He will write features throughout the year …
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Talking Points Memo, Politico, The Dish and The Week, more at Mediagazer »


New York Just Created a Revolutionary New Family-Leave Policy — Women and men will both be entitled to 12 paid weeks off. — 2.1k — 2.1k — Pin It — You say you want a revolution? A political, social, economic policy upheaval that will dramatically alter the playing field …
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New York Times, Death and Taxes, Fusion, Mashable, Mommyish, Common Dreams and Lawyers, Guns & Money


Seven in 10 Women Have Unfavorable Opinion of Trump — PRINCETON, N.J. — Donald Trump's image among U.S. women tilts strongly negative, with 70% of women holding an unfavorable opinion and 23% a favorable opinion of the Republican front-runner in March. Trump's unfavorable rating among women …
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Salon, The Daily Caller, Politicus USA, AOL and Politico

Ted Cruz's evangelical problem — The day Ted Cruz announced he was running for president, in March 2015, he began his speech to thousands of cheering Christian evangelical students, “God bless Liberty University.” — One year later to the day, Cruz stood in midtown Manhattan under crystal chandeliers …

Learning From Obama — Like many political junkies, I've been spending far too much time looking at polls and trying to understand their implications. Can Donald Trump really win his party's nomination? (Yes.) Can Bernie Sanders? (No.) But the primaries aren't the only things being polled …
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Pirate's Cove and Washington Monthly

SC Secessionist Party to raise Confederate flag at State House in July — Civil War banner was banished last year in wake of the Charleston church shooting — Organizers said they plan an annual event on anniversary of flag's removal — Lawmakers said they cannot stop the rally expected to draw protests


State Department Halts Its Clinton Email Investigation, Defers to FBI — The U.S. Department of State has halted its internal review of Hillary Clinton's most sensitive emails until the FBI's own investigation is complete, the State Department announced today.
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Politico and Washington Free Beacon


Employment Situation Summary — Transmission of material in this release is embargoed until USDL-16-0662 8:30 a.m. (EDT) Friday, April 1, 2016 — Technical information: — Household data: (202) 691-6378 * cpsinfo@bls.gov * www.bls.gov/cps
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New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Infowars, NPR, Mother Jones, FiveThirtyEight, The Atlantic, U.S. News, Daily Kos, Outside the Beltway and BizzyBlog


Marion County mother charged with neglect for making children walk to school — A 32-year-old Marion County, Tenn., mother faces an April court date on child neglect charges after deputies found her driving ahead of her young daughters as she made them walk miles to school on Valley View Highway.
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Associated Press


Greyhound shooting suspect was from a Chicago suburb with a long record, anger at police — RICHMOND, Va. — Virginia State Police confirmed the identity of the suspect who fatally shot Trooper Chad P. Dermyer Thursday afternoon at the Greyhound bus station in Richmond.
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Fox News, WRBL-TV, Fire Andrea Mitchell!, WTKR-TV, CBS Chicago and Fox News Insider


On campuses across the country, students are standing up for Donald Trump — Hunkered behind a MacBook decorated with stickers that read “This laptop was brought to you by capitalism” and “TRUMP 2016,” Jake Lopez bounces T-shirt slogans off his friend Ian McIlvoy. — “Trumplicans,” he says, nodding with satisfaction.

Clinton Confirms She's on the Koch Payroll — Wichita, Kan. - In a tweet Friday morning, Koch Industries, Inc. confirmed that Clinton is indeed receiving funds that link directly back to the CEO of the second largest privately held company in the U.S. - Charles Koch.
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Mother Jones

Is Donald Trump Self-Destructing? — If Donald Trump were a normal political candidate, he would be in serious trouble at the moment. Over the past few days, he has said and done things that have raised more doubts about his temperament, judgment, and command of policy issues.
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New York Times, Washington Post, CNN and NPR


Hilarious moment anti-Trump activist backflips on to his own face after callling supporter a ‘fat b****’ — While Donald Trump certainly knows how to grab a headline, it seems these days that his supporters garner almost as much attention with bizarre and often violent displays at his rallies.
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John Hawkins' Right Wing News, Raw Story and BizPac Review

Edging toward an earthquake election — Democracy Corps' new poll on behalf of WVWVAF shows the country edging toward an earthquake in November. [1] Hillary Clinton already holds a 13-point margin against Donald Trump and a 6-point lead over Ted Cruz, just a point short of Obama's margin in 2008.
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Washington Post and Mother Jones


What is it like to be dead? Patient who ‘died’ says there is NOTHING after death — “Just black emptiness. No thoughts, no consciousness, nothing.” That is the view of the afterlife from a man who has ‘died’ in hospital TWICE. — GETTY — The man, who describes death, claims he has died and was revived twice


FACTCHECK: No, Hillary Did NOT Get Money from the ‘Fossil Fuel Industry’ — One of the most insidious attacks against Hillary is Bernie's false assertion that she has received money directly from corporations. … Following an event in New York, Hillary Clinton was working the crowd …
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The Hill, Washington Post, Politico, Common Dreams and Shakesville


America's 1 million-doctor shortage is right upon us — The doctor is disappearing in America. — And by most projections, it's only going to get worse — the U.S. could lose as many as 1 million doctors by 2025, according to a Association of American Medical Colleges report.


Iowa State players rescue woman from sinking car during spring break — The Iowa State football players saw the car sinking in the Laguna Madre Bay and sprinted over. — The taillights were still visible, but the front of the car was submerged, and it was taking on water from side to side.
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AOL, USA Today, The Daily Caller, Deadspin and KWQC-TV