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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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TechCrunch, Telegraph, Guardian, WNEP-TV, Advertising & Branding, Boing Boing, NBC News, The Verge, Mediaite, Business Insider, Engadget, New York Times 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.
Harper Neidig / The Hill:
Clinton: 'I'm so sick' of Sanders campaign lying about me — 's campaign of lying about her in a heated exchange with an environmental activist. — “I am so sick of the Sanders campaign lying about me. I'm sick of it,” the visibly angry Democratic presidential hopeful said …
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Talking Points Memo, Washington Post, ABC News, Politico, JustOneMinute, Blue Nation Review, MichelleMalkin.com, Common Dreams and Raw Story
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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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Monica Alba / Blue Nation Review:
FACTCHECK: No, Hillary Did NOT Get Money from the ‘Fossil Fuel Industry’
FACTCHECK: No, Hillary Did NOT Get Money from the ‘Fossil Fuel Industry’
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Politico and Shakesville
Dan Merica / CNN:
Clinton to climate activist: 'I'm so sick of the Sanders campaign lying about me'
Clinton to climate activist: 'I'm so sick of the Sanders campaign lying about me'
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Slate, Fusion, Common Dreams, Taylor Marsh, New York Magazine, Washington Post, ABC News, NBC News, The Week, U.S. Uncut and The Daily Caller
MaryAlice Parks / ABC News:
Bernie Sanders Says Hillary Clinton Has ‘Moved Much Closer’ to Him on Issues
Bernie Sanders Says Hillary Clinton Has ‘Moved Much Closer’ to Him on Issues
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The Hill, NPR, Washington Post and Associated Press
Annie Karni / Politico:
De Blasio loves Clinton, but hearts Bern
De Blasio loves Clinton, but hearts Bern
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New York Times, NY State of Politics and ABC News
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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Ben Schreckinger / Politico:
Delegates ready to flee Trump at contested convention
Delegates ready to flee Trump at contested convention
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TIME, Des Moines Register, National Review, Daily Kos, Political Wire, RedState, Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion, Hot Air and CBS New York
The Huffington Post:
Top Black Staffers Leave The Republican National Committee
Top Black Staffers Leave The Republican National Committee
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BuzzFeed, NBC News, Blue Nation Review and Mediaite
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
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, U.S. News, Outside the Beltway, Daily Kos, NPR 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 — Americans are going back to work. — Powered by a burst of hiring in recent months and an uptick in wages, the huge army of workers that had been on the sidelines of the recovery is slowly returning to the job market.
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The Atlantic, New York Magazine, ON LABOR, Pew Research Center and Politicus USA
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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Jonathan Easley / The Hill:
Ted Cruz's moment to shine — is having a moment to shine. — The Texas senator has become the favorite to win Tuesday's primary in Wisconsin, which would be huge for his presidential campaign. — He's seen a GOP establishment that despised him warm to his presidential campaign …
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The Moderate Voice and CNN
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Dana Blanton / Fox News:
Fox Business Network Poll: Cruz leads in Wisconsin
Fox Business Network Poll: Cruz leads in Wisconsin
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Scared Monkeys, Washington Times, Political Wire, Hot Air, The Last Refuge, Politico, The Right Scoop and Public Policy Polling
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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ThinkProgress, Hot Air and The Daily Caller
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Byron York / Washington Examiner:
Karl Rove: ‘Fresh face’ might be best GOP nominee — One thing that unites many supporters of Donald Trump and Ted Cruz is the suspicion that party elders might try to hand the Republican presidential nomination to another candidate if neither Trump nor Cruz arrives in Cleveland with the 1,237 delegates required to win.
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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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.
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, CNN, NPR and CNNMoney
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
Catherine Treyz / CNN:
Explosive material accidentally left on school bus after training exercise — CIA leaves explosive material on school bus — The CIA used a school in Ashburn, Virginia, for canine explosive detection training while the campus was closed for spring break
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Townhall.com, AOL, WAVY-TV and The Daily Caller
Mark Faram / Navy Times:
The Navy just approved the military's best tattoo rules — The Navy is easing its tattoo policy in a bid to recruit and retain more sailors from the millennial generation, of whom more than 1 in 3 sport body art. — Sailors will be allowed to have neck tattoos, sleeves and even markings behind …
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.
Joseph Bernstein / BuzzFeed:
Top Conservative Writer Is A Group Effort, Sources Say — Sources claim interns produce much of Breitbart.com tech editor Milo Yiannopoulos's work. Yiannopoulos says his practices are “completely standard.” — A leading voice of the new “alt-right,” Breitbart.com tech editor Milo Yiannopoulos …
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Jacob Gershman / Wall Street Journal:
George Mason University Renames Law School After Justice Antonin Scalia — Change comes after school received two donations totaling $30 million — George Mason University School of Law, named after a founding father known for his refusal to sign the Constitution, is renaming itself …
Walter Shapiro / Roll Call:
Clinton Offers Predictability in an Erratic Political Year — Underlying message is ‘Everything will be okay’ — Cruz and Kasich Could Learn Lessons From 1968 John Kasich's Finest Hour John Kasich's Finest Hour — Looking out at the orchestra seats and up at two balconies filled …
Lisa Mascaro / Los Angeles Times:
The honeymoon may be over for House Speaker Paul Ryan — Last October, soon-to-be Speaker Paul D. Ryan (R-Wis.) talks to reporters on Capitol Hill after meetings with House Republican leaders and the Freedom Caucus. — When Rep. Paul D. Ryan (R-Wis.) took over as House speaker …
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Outside the Beltway and Mother Jones
John Tozzi / Bloomberg Business:
The World May Have Too Much Food — For the first time in history, more people are obese than underweight. — The past 40 years have seen an unprecedented increase in the number of obese adults worldwide, climbing to about 640 million from 105 million in 1975.
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