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Gmail Blog:
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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Guardian, Telegraph, TechCrunch, Consumerist, Business Insider, New Urban Legends, Forbes, Advertising & Branding, The Verge, USA Today, Boing Boing, Engadget, Fusion, New York Times, Mediaite, NBC News and VentureBeat
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Katherine Lam / New York's PIX11:
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 and The Verge
New York Times:
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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Los Angeles Times, Althouse and Politico
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Scott Wartman / Cincinnati.com:
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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Politico, Infowars, The Resurgent and The Daily Caller
Matthew Continetti / Washington Free Beacon:
How to Dump Trump — “Sir, with all due respect …
How to Dump Trump — “Sir, with all due respect …
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Washington Post, Salon and Vocativ
Caitlin MacNeal / Talking Points Memo:
RNC Chair Says GOPers Won't Break Pledge: 'It Doesn't Work That Way'
RNC Chair Says GOPers Won't Break Pledge: 'It Doesn't Work That Way'
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Fox News Insider, Daily Kos and Hullabaloo
Hugh Hewitt / The Hugh Hewitt ShowThe Hugh Hewitt Show:
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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Hot Air, Talking Points Memo, ThinkProgress and The Daily Caller
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Patrick Clark / FOX2now.com:
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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Monica Alba / Blue Nation Review:
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, Politico, Common Dreams and Shakesville
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Jonathan Bernstein / Chicago Tribune:
Commentary: No, the race between Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton isn't close
Commentary: No, the race between Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton isn't close
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Common Dreams, The Huffington Post and Hot Air
Mark Plotkin / The Hill:
A divided party for Democrats?
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
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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Washington Monthly and Pirate's Cove
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Rebecca Traister / New York Magazine:
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, Fusion, Mashable, Lawyers, Guns & Money, Mommyish and Common Dreams
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James Odato / Reuters:
New York To Raise Minimum Wage Towards $15 An Hour
New York To Raise Minimum Wage Towards $15 An Hour
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Mother Jones, Syracuse Post-Standard and Daily Kos
WGN Web Desk / WGN-TV:
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, New York's PIX11, Fox 59, myfox8.com, FOX2now.com and KFOR-TV
Bureau of Labor Statistics:
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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Mother Jones, Wall Street Journal, NPR, FiveThirtyEight, U.S. News, Outside the Beltway, Daily Kos and BizzyBlog
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Nelson D. Schwartz / New York Times:
U.S. Kept Up Pace of Hiring in March, Adding 215,000 Jobs
U.S. Kept Up Pace of Hiring in March, Adding 215,000 Jobs
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The Atlantic, Politicus USA, New York Magazine, Pew Research Center and ON LABOR
Gallup:
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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The Daily Caller, Business Insider, Politicus USA, AOL and Politico
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Ben Benton / timesfreepress.com:
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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KFTC-TV:
WATCH: Local teen's acceptance into college — Lansdale Pa.(WTXF) A North Penn High School student found out she got accepted to college and her reaction is truly priceless. — Rachel Grace, who has been the Knights girls basketball manager for three years, has been accepted to East Stroudsburg University.
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FOX31 Denver and fox8.com
New York Daily News:
Woman admits she lied about being slashed in face, called ‘terrorist’ in lower Manhattan — A woman who told cops she was called a terrorist and slashed on her cheek in lower Manhattan on Thursday later admitted she made up the story, police said early Friday.
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Gothamist, Jihad Watch and Pamela Geller
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Sean Martin / Daily Express:
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
John Cassidy / New Yorker:
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
Mark Holmberg / WTVR-TV:
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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WTKR-TV, CBS Chicago and Fox News Insider
Chris Pleasance For / Daily Mail:
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 and Raw Story
John Hasnas / Wall Street Journal:
The One Kind of Diversity Colleges Avoid — I've seen faculty searches up close. Somehow teachers with conservative views just don't make the cut. — Many universities are redoubling their efforts to diversify their faculties in response to last fall's wave of protests from student groups representing women and minorities.
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National Review and Washington Post
Koch News:
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
New York Post:
Mom and son ‘stoners’ are ruining our Central Park West pad — The address is 400, but board members at a Central Park West condo say it might as well be “420” — code for marijuana smoking — thanks to residents in one first-floor studio apartment who are chronically making the building reek.
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Gothamist and CBS New York
Guardian:
Exclusive: royal family considering dramatic Brexit intervention — Royals are believed to be willing to risk a potential constitutional crisis to express their anger over the leave campaign — The royal family is seriously considering making a dramatic intervention in the referendum debate …
Chad Petri / WKRG-TV:
MPD Officer and Suspect in Intensive Care After Early Morning Shooting — (WKRG — GRAND BAY, ALABAMA) — STORY UPDATED AT 11:45AM — Mobile Police have confirmed the undercover MPD officer shot early this morning in Grand Bay is in STABLE CONDITION. A family member tells News 5 …