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1:30 PM ET, April 2, 2016

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Kevin Cirilli / Bloomberg Business:
RNC Lays Groundwork for Nominee Who May Not Be Trump  —  The Republican National Committee has begun to prepare the public for what could prove to be a nasty convention.  —  After months of tense dealings with Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump, the Republican National …
Discussion: Washington Times
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Kenneth P. Vogel / Politico:
Trump campaign shrinks Lewandowski's role  —  In public, Donald Trump is standing behind embattled campaign manager Corey Lewandowski as he faces battery charges for grabbing a reporter.  But behind the scenes, Lewandowski's role in the campaign is shrinking.
Discussion: The Week and RedState
Shane Goldmacher / Politico:   How the North Dakota GOP is freezing out Trump
Ben Riley-Smith / Telegraph:
Obama: Isil seeking nuclear material to kill as many people as possible  —  Play!  —  Isil terrorists are planning to use drones to spray nuclear material over Western cities in a horrific “dirty bomb” attack, David Cameron has warned.  —  World leaders are concerned that jihadists …
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Julian Hattem / The Hill:
Obama: Iran not following ‘spirit’ of deal  —  President Obama on Friday criticized Iranian leaders for undermining the “spirit” of last year's historic nuclear agreement, even as they stick to the “letter” of the pact.  —  In comments following the Nuclear Security Summit in Washington …
Los Angeles Times:
Father accused of fatally shooting son because he was gay  —  Los Angeles prosecutors on Friday charged a 69-year-old man with fatally shooting his son outside the family's North Hills home because the son was gay.  —  The shooting occurred Tuesday when police responded to a call …
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Associated Press:
Clinton's frustration grows, as primary race drags on  —  SYRACUSE, N.Y. (AP) — Hillary Clinton snapped at a Greenpeace protester.  She linked Bernie Sanders and tea party Republicans.  And she bristled with anger when nearly two dozen Sanders supporters marched out of an event near …
Discussion: ABC News and Associated Press
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Jeffrey M. Jones / Gallup:
Democrats Increasing Their Edge in U.S. Party Affiliation
Discussion: Politicus USA
Rick Rojas / New York Times:
Bull in Queens Is Captured, and Jon Stewart Chauffeurs It to Freedom  —  For a bull lost in a bustling stretch of Jamaica, Queens, the green lawn outside a school building was probably the closest thing to a pasture.  —  That, at least, was one theory floated about on Friday after the black and white Angus …
Discussion: New York Magazine and CBS New York
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Andreas Preuss / CNN:
No bull! Comedian Jon Stewart rescues runaway animal
Callum Borchers / Washington Post:
Megyn Kelly has a theory about why Donald Trump hates her.  And it makes lots of sense.  —  Here's what's at stake in the Wisconsin GOP primary … Donald Trump's rhetorical blitzkrieg against Fox News Channel star Megyn Kelly is one of the most-talked-about subplots of the 2016 presidential campaign.
Discussion: Hullabaloo and Hot Air
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Associated Press:
Megyn Kelly: Bill O'Reilly, CNN Should Have Done More for Me
Discussion: Fire Andrea Mitchell!
Jim Hoft / The Gateway Pundit:
Muslims March in Germany Chanting “With Allah's Help, We Shall Conquer You” (VIDEO)  —  They seem to be assimilating quite well, no?  —  Muslims march down a German street chanting, “With Allah's help, we shall conquer you!”  —  What lovely citizens.
Glenn Kessler / Washington Post:
Fact checking the Clinton-Sanders spat over Big Oil contributions  —  Here's what's at stake in the Wisconsin GOP primary … — Sen. Bernie Sanders (D-Vt.), interview on ABC's “Good Morning, America,” April 1 … — Bernie Sanders campaign, in a news release, April 1
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MaryAlice Parks / ABC News:
Bernie Sanders Demands Apology From Hillary Clinton for Accusing Him of Lying
New York Times:
North Carolina Law May Risk Federal Aid  —  WASHINGTON — The Obama administration is considering whether North Carolina's new law on gay and transgender rights makes the state ineligible for billions of dollars in federal aid for schools, highways and housing, officials said Friday.
Simon Maloy / Salon:
Cracks in the GOP wall: The Republicans' hardline Supreme Court obstruction is crumbling  —  Republicans hoped to enforce blanket obstruction of Obama's Supreme Court nominee, but defections are multiplying  —  The trick to making blanket obstructionism work as a political tool is to make it a team effort.
Matt Moffett / Wall Street Journal:
Pyros the Bear, Brought to Replenish the Pyrenees' Ursine Population, May Have Been Too Successful  —  The Pyrenees now have little genetic diversity, prompting talk of a new rival  —  A bear named Pyros, left, has fathered about three-quarters of the nearly 40 brown bears in the Pyrenees Mountains …
Discussion: Never Yet Melted
Elliot Smilowitz / The Hill:
Trump: If I win, everything bad in US will be reversed  —  is setting the bar high for campaign promises.  —  The Republican presidential front-runner said Saturday morning that if he wins the presidency, all problems in the country will be fixed.  —  “Wisconsin has suffered a great loss …
Discussion: Political Wire
Sarah Fowler / The Clarion Ledger:
Hernando mayor's ex sends revenge porn to city officials  —  A woman formerly involved with the mayor of Hernando allegedly sent a naked picture of the mayor to city aldermen.  —  Friday morning, Mayor Chip Johnson said a woman he was involved with sent a naked selfie of him to an unknown number of aldermen earlier this week.
Discussion: Political Wire and Mediaite
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Alexander Mallin / ABC News:
Man Arrested After Throwing Backpack, Jumping Over White House Fence  —  A man was arrested late Friday night after he allegedly threw a backpack and the jumped over the north fence of the White House.  —  According to the Secret Service, the incident occurred at approximately 11:44 p.m. …
Ari Berman / The Nation:
Wisconsin's Voter-ID Law Could Block 300,000 Registered Voters From the Polls  —  One of the country's toughest voting restrictions takes effect for the April 5 primary.  —  By ,  —  Johnny Randle, a 74-year-old African-American resident of Milwaukee, moved to Wisconsin from Mississippi in 2011 …
Daily Mail:
White House under fire for ‘censoring’ video of French president's speech by eliminating interpreter's translation of the words ‘Islamist terrorism’ (but don't worry - it's just a ‘technical issue’!)  — Francois Hollande said Thursday in Washington that nations must understand the roots …
 
 
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Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Tennessee GOP delegate fight erupts ahead of party meeting
Dianne Marshall / THE MARSHALL REPORT:
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New York Times:
Why Should ‘Never Trump’ Mean Ted Cruz?
Carimah Townes / ThinkProgress:
Ignoring Court Orders, Maricopa County Locks Up Mentally Ill People Too Impaired For Trial
H.W. Brands / Politico:
How Trump Has Proved the Founders Right
Discussion: Lawyers, Guns & Money
Sky Chadde / Victoria Advocate:
Police want to use residential, business surveillance cameras
Daily Mail:
‘I was woken to this guy shouting in my face’: Muslim man yells ‘Allahu Akbar’ …
Discussion: Jihad Watch and Pamela Geller
 Earlier Items: 
Chicago Tribune:
Mother views son's cellphone footage of him being shot multiple times
Discussion: WGN-TV
Andrea Weigl / Raleigh News & Observer:
Some Triangle small-business owners show opposition to HB2 legislation
Discussion: Pirate's Cove and WNCN
Washington Post:
Under pressure to digitize everything, hospitals are hackers' biggest new target
Discussion: NPR and Associated Press
Shannon Giles / Los Angeles Times:
They're 400,000 strong and the Pentagon sees them as an emerging threat
Rosie Gray / BuzzFeed:
Trump Ally Roger Stone Says He's Planning “Days Of Rage” At The Convention
Discussion: Raw Story
Patti Domm / CNBC:
The 30-year-old prince who is changing the world
 

 
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Mandy Dalugdug / Music Business Worldwide:
UMG, ABKCO, and Concord sue Believe, a music distributor in 50+ countries, and its subsidiary TuneCore for $500M+, accusing Believe of copyright infringement

Alexandra Steigrad / New York Post:
iHeart says it is laying off employees; a source says the layoffs affect less than 5% of a workforce of more than 10,000 employees

Reuters:
French judicial source: investigators searched Netflix's offices in France and the Netherlands as part of a preliminary investigation into tax fraud laundering

 
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