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6:15 PM ET, April 1, 2016

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Gmail Blog:
Introducing Gmail Mic Drop  —  UPDATE April 1 2pm: We heard feedback that some of you were negatively impacted by this feature, so we quickly turned it off late last night.  In addition, we are working to bring back Mic-Dropped messages that had subsequent replies to your inbox, so you can read those.
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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.
Simon Denyer / Washington Post:
No joke. April Fools' Day has been banned in China.
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Jessica Elgot / Guardian:
April Fools' Day 2016: the best (and worst) jokes - live
Alex Hern / Guardian:
Google disables April Fool joke amid user fury after prank backfires
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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New York Times:
Donald Trump Clears Air With G.O.P. Leaders, and Chastises His Aides
Ben Schreckinger / Politico:
Delegates ready to flee Trump at contested convention
Jack Fink / CBS Dallas:
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 …
Craig Bannister / mrctv.org/videos:
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 White House:
Remarks by President Obama and President Hollande of France After Bilateral Meeting
Discussion: RedState and The Daily Caller
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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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
The looming Trump disaster, in three charts
Nancy Zdunkewicz / Democracy Corps:
Edging toward an earthquake election
Discussion: Mother Jones
Philip Klein / Washington Examiner:   GOP's problem: Can't rebuild, can't win now
Eva Resnick-Day / Greenpeace USA:
I'm the Greenpeace Activist Who Asked Hillary Clinton to Pledge to Reject Fossil Fuel Contributions at the Purchase NY Campaign Rally  —  Well, this has been an interesting day to say the least.  —  Since the media, Twitter, and Facebook world have spread this of Secretary Clinton and me …
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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.
Discussion: fox8.com
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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Emily Smith / New York Post:
Marco Rubio sets his sights on the NFL
Discussion: AOL and ProFootballTalk
Rachael Bade / Politico:
Clinton aides unite on FBI legal strategy  —  Four of Hillary Clinton's closest aides appear to have adopted an unusual legal strategy, hiring the same ex-Justice Department attorney to represent them in the FBI's investigation of Clinton's private email server.
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Justin Fishel / ABC News:
State Department Halts Its Clinton Email Investigation, Defers to FBI
Lauren Starke / New York Magazine:
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 …
Martin Longman / Washington Monthly:
Does Trumpism Have Any Shelf Life?  —  In one sense, I fear that Jeet Heer is correct.  Once you open up Pandora's Box, it's not so easy to put its contents back in the container.  This is a theme I've hit on repeatedly over the years, but it's usually been in the context of breaking norms …
Discussion: Associated Press
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Jeet Heer / New Republic:
Republic of Fear  —  Donald Trump has already transformed American culture.
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 …
Andrew Shain / The State:
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
Discussion: WJHL and WSAV-TV
Alexa St. John / Michigan Daily:
Schlissel responds to anti-Islam Diag chalk  —  Chalk graffiti on the Diag Wednesday that reads “#stop ISLAM” and “Trump 2016”.  “TRUMP 2016” was written over and altered to say “MAKE DONAL DRUMPF AGAIN 2016”.  —  More like this  —  University of Michigan president Mark Schlissel responded …
Kira Lerner / ThinkProgress:
Ted Cruz Calls For National Law To Cripple Unions  —  Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz said during a radio interview Thursday that he supports national “right-to-work” legislation, a type of anti-labor law that Wisconsin passed last year in an effort to cripple the state's unions.
Shane Goldmacher / 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 …
Discussion: The Atlantic
Los Angeles Times:
Knife linked to former O.J. Simpson property is not connected to homicide case, LAPD concludes  —  O.J. Simpson, center, reacts as he is found not guilty of killing his ex-wife Nicole Brown and her friend Ron Goldman, as members of his defense team, F. Lee Bailey, left, and Johnnie Cochran Jr. …
Discussion: CBS Miami and KTLA
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.
Discussion: Associated Press
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 …
Peggy Noonan / Wall Street Journal:
Trump's Mess Has Become His Message  —  His supporters are getting embarrassed by his sheer dumb grossness.  —  This is almost always true:  —  A woman who aborts a child is operating within an emotional and spiritual context of fear, disappointment, confusion and sadness.
Discussion: Daily Wire and CBS Philly
Rosanna Xia / Los Angeles Times:
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.
 
 
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Mark Landler / New York Times:
Obama Cites ‘Substantial Success’ of Nuclear Deal With Iran
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Phil Helsel / NBC News:
Lawsuit Filed Against Trump Over Violence at Kentucky Rally
Mario Trujillo / The Hill:
House GOP wants to cap Internet subsidy budget
Discussion: EveryJoe and The Bob and Chez Show
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America's 1 million-doctor shortage is right upon us
Carl Hulse / New York Times:
Merrick Garland to Meet With More Republicans
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Dylan Matthews / Vox:
2 political scientists have found a key reason Republicans and Democrats see politics so differently
Discussion: Honest Graft and Mother Jones
Sean Martin / Daily Express:
What is it like to be dead? Patient who ‘died’ says there is NOTHING after death
John Cassidy / New Yorker:
Is Donald Trump Self-Destructing?
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Hilarious moment anti-Trump activist backflips on to his own face after callling supporter a ‘fat b****’
 

 
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