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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, New Urban Legends, Guardian, WNEP-TV, Advertising & Branding, New York Times, Boing Boing, The Verge, Fusion, NBC News, Business Insider, Engadget, Mediaite 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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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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The Huffington Post:
Top Black Staffers Leave The Republican National Committee — The RNC, which has made broadening its base a priority, just lost its head of black outreach. — Politics Fellow, The Huffington Post — The Republican National Committee is losing the person who leads the GOP's outreach …
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Blue Nation Review
Ben Schreckinger / Politico:
Delegates ready to flee Trump at contested convention — The reality of a contested convention has become more real than ever, with Donald Trump facing the risk of losing Wisconsin next week, meaning he'd have to win roughly 60 percent of the remaining delegates to win the Republican presidential nomination outright.
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
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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Politico and Shakesville
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Harper Neidig / The Hill:
Clinton: 'I'm so sick' of Sanders campaign lying about me
Clinton: 'I'm so sick' of Sanders campaign lying about me
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Talking Points Memo, Washington Post, ABC News, Politico, JustOneMinute, Blue Nation Review, Common Dreams, MichelleMalkin.com and Raw Story
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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Slantpoint
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
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, Common Dreams, Fusion, Taylor Marsh, New York Magazine, Washington Post, ABC News, NBC News, U.S. Uncut, The Week and The Daily Caller
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
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, FiveThirtyEight, U.S. News, Outside the Beltway, Daily Kos, BizzyBlog and NPR
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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, New York Magazine, ON LABOR, Politicus USA and Pew Research Center
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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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, myfox8.com, Fox 59, FOX2now.com and KFOR-TV
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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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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fox8.com
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
Ildefonso Ortiz / Breitbart:
VIDEO: Cartel Smugglers Stumble into Mexican TV Reporters — A crew of Mexican reporters who were recording a segment on the border fence in the city of Nogales Arizona, ended up stumbling into two cartel smugglers who managed to sneak into the country undetected.
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Daily Mail, John Hawkins' Right Wing News, The Daily Caller and Daily Wire
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 …
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Shakesville
Dana Blanton / Fox News:
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.
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 shot Trooper Chad P. Dermyer Thursday afternoon at the Greyhound bus station in Richmond.
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WTKR-TV and CBS Chicago
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
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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Little Green Footballs and The Verge, more at Mediagazer »
Jill Filipovic / TIME:
Donald Trump's Abortion Logic Is Totally 100% Right — If abortion is murder, then women who have them are criminals—right? — The success of Donald Trump stems from one major factor: the perception that he tells it like it is because he's beholden to no one.
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New York Times, The Daily Beast, Friendly Atheist, Guardian, MSNBC and Right Wing Watch
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 …
Mark Plotkin / The Hill:
A divided party for Democrats? — This seems to be a time in the political presidential season when everything is uncertain and in great flux. Rather than comment about that, there are some things which can be said that are definable and, in my opinion, irrefutable.