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7:20 AM ET, April 8, 2016

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Michelle Goldberg / Slate:
Fire Bill Clinton  —  No one is doing more damage to Hillary's campaign than her husband.  —  I wonder if there's a part of Bill Clinton that doesn't really want Hillary Clinton to become president, particularly if she has to distance herself from his legacy to do so.
Discussion: The Federalist and Politico
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Shoshana Weissmann / Weekly Standard:
Bill Clinton: ‘Black Lives Matter’ Protesters Are Defending Murders And Drug Dealers  —  On Thursday, while Bill Clinton was giving a speech to a crowd of Hillary Clinton supporters, he was repeatedly interrupted by Black Lives Matter protesters.  —  He responded to them, saying …
Sam Sanders / NPR:
Bill Clinton Gets Into Heated Exchange With Black Lives Matter Protester … In a prolonged exchange Thursday afternoon, former President Bill Clinton forcefully defended his 1994 crime bill to Black Lives Matter protesters in the crowd at a Hillary Clinton campaign event.
Alex Griswold / Mediaite:
Bill Clinton Battles Black Lives Matter Protesters in Philly: 'They're Afraid of the Truth!'  —  Former president Bill Clinton got in a heated argument with Black Lives Matter protesters as he was campaigning for his wife Hillary Clinton in Philadelphia, battling the protesters over his passage of criminal justice reform.
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Andrew Kaczynski / BuzzFeed:
Peter King: New Yorkers Voting For Cruz “Should Have Their Head Examined”  —  “Look, I hope he gets the cold shoulder and other things from every New Yorker.  Send him back where he belongs.”  —  w.soundcloud.com  —  Rep. Peter King of New York said in a radio interview on Thursday …
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Carl Campanile / New York Post:
Rudy Giuliani is voting for Donald Trump  —  Former Mayor Rudy Giuliani said he's voting for fellow New Yorker Donald Trump for president in the April 19 Republican primary.  —  “I support Trump.  I'm gonna vote for Trump,” Giuliani told The Post Thursday.
Jeff Poor / Breitbart:
Buchanan on Trump, Cruz Joining Forces: ‘That Ticket Would Set the Country on Fire’
Discussion: Hot Air and The Federalist
Kira Lerner / ThinkProgress:
Ted Cruz, Unwelcome In The Bronx, Gets A Taste Of ‘New York Values’
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Sanders Over the Edge  —  From the beginning, many and probably most liberal policy wonks were skeptical about Bernie Sanders.  On many major issues — including the signature issues of his campaign, especially financial reform — he seemed to go for easy slogans over hard thinking.
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Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
Not Good, Not Good At All  —  As you no doubt saw, last night Bernie Sanders launched a pretty blistering attack on Hillary Clinton, calling her unqualified to be president because of various past positions, relationships and votes.  The attack was premised on Sanders' claim that Clinton …
Charles P. Pierce / Esquire:   Reading Between the Lines of Hillary and Bernie's Big Media Battle
Ronald Brownstein / The Atlantic:
Bernie Sanders's Successful Insurgency
Jordan Fabian / The Hill:
Obama warns Dems against ‘Tea Party mentality’  —  President Obama on Thursday warned Democrats against adopting a “Tea Party mentality” that could lead to deep divisions within the party and harm its chances of winning national elections.  —  Following the rise of the Tea Party and Donald Trump
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Jordain Carney / The Hill:
Graham to meet with Supreme Court nominee  —  (R-S.C.) will sit down with President Obama's Supreme Court pick even though he believes the seat should remain vacant until next year.  —  Kevin Bishop, Graham's spokesman, confirmed that the South Carolina Republican will have a “courtesy meeting” with nominee Merrick Garland.
Discussion: RedState
Edward-Isaac Dovere / Politico:
Obama: Abandon all hope if GOP doesn't change  —  CHICAGO — President Barack Obama returned to the University of Chicago on a mission to encourage law students not to give up on government.  But he ended up laying out a near apocalyptic vision of Washington's future if Republicans don't confirm his Supreme Court nominee.
Associated Press:
AP-GfK Poll: Americans overwhelmingly view Trump negatively  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — For Americans of nearly every race, gender, political persuasion and location, disdain for Donald Trump runs deep, saddling the Republican front-runner with unprecedented unpopularity as he tries to overcome recent campaign setbacks.
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Edward Morrissey / The Fiscal Times:
Trump's Wisconsin Debacle a Major Warning to the GOP
David Pegg / Guardian:
David Cameron admits he profited from father's Panama offshore trust  —  PM sold stake in Blairmore investment fund, which featured in Panama Papers, for £31,500 four months before entering No 10  —  David Cameron has finally admitted he benefited from a Panama-based offshore trust set up by his late father.
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ITV:
Exclusive: David Cameron admits he did have a stake in his father's offshore trust
Discussion: Guardian, NBC News and The Atlantic
Neil MacFarquhar / New York Times:   Vladimir Putin Says Allegations in Panama Papers Are an American Plot
Katie Connor / Cosmopolitan:
Scarlett Johansson on Efforts to Defund Planned Parenthood: “We're Moving Backward”  —  The May 2016 cover star talks Planned Parenthood, hitting rock bottom, and more.  —  On cutting the budget for Planned Parenthood: “There are countries at war, there's terrorism, global warming …
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Amanda Marcotte / Salon:
Have you had an abortion?  Missouri Republicans want to know. …
Elise Labott / CNN:
In Bahrain, Kerry walks tightrope on human rights  —  Iran-Saudi Arabia tensions spread to other nations  —  Manama, Bahrain (CNN)Secretary of State John Kerry treads carefully on the issue of human rights in Bahrain — a key Gulf ally in the fight against ISIS — but whose government …
Sarah Frier / Bloomberg:
Facebook Wants You to Post More About Yourself  —  Staff said to call lack of intimate sharing ‘context collapse’  —  Facebook tries prompting more personal types of posting  —  Facebook Inc. is working to combat a decline in people sharing original, personal content …
Eli Watkins / CNN:
Clinton campaign chair: ‘The American people can handle the truth’ on UFOs  —  Washington (CNN)There has long been an air of conspiracy surrounding theories of alien life, and the head of Hillary Clinton's campaign said Thursday it's time to do away with the secrecy.
Skip Foreman / BuzzFeed:
Feds “Ready” For Transgender Discrimination Complaints In North Carolina  —  Equal Employment Opportunity Commission officials told BuzzFeed News that transgender workers who have faced discrimination in the workplace can file a federal claim.  —  The federal agency that enforces anti-discrimination laws …
Discussion: Daily Kos
Speaker.gov:
Politics these days, amirite?  —  It's a common refrain, both in the news media and among Americans who are sick and tired of hearing politicians battle over insults rather than ideas.  Imagine, for a moment, if politics was about actually about uniting Americans, not dividing us.
Discussion: Breitbart
USCIS:
USCIS Reaches FY 2017 H-1B Cap  —  WASHINGTON - U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has reached the congressionally mandated H-1B cap for fiscal year (FY) 2017.  USCIS has also received more than the limit of 20,000 H-1B petitions filed under the U.S. advanced degree exemption.
Mark Davis / McClatchy Washington Bureau:
Ben & Jerry's co-founder tempts Secret Service by stamping messages on money  —  Ben & Jerry's co-founder says money is corrupting politics, so he stamps message on cash  —  H&R Block and others have faced questions about the legality of advertising on money
 
 
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New York Times:
ISIS Abducts Workers From Cement Factory in Syria
Discussion: NPR
Eric Roston / Bloomberg:
Trying to Put a Price on Big Oil's ‘Climate Obstruction’ Efforts
Discussion: Grist and Common Dreams
Stephanie Marken / Gallup:
U.S. Uninsured Rate at 11.0%, Lowest in Eight-Year Trend
Ian Leslie / Guardian:
The sugar conspiracy  —  In 1972, a British scientist sounded …
Discussion: The Atlantic and Instapundit
Julian Hattem / The Hill:
Sessions: Don't bet on me being Trump's VP
Guardian:
Tigers declared extinct in Cambodia
Discussion: ThinkProgress and NPR
CNNMoney:
FBI director: We bought ‘a tool’ to hack terrorist's iPhone
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Chris Geidner / BuzzFeed:
Federal Appeals Court: Yes, Puerto Rico's Same-Sex Marriage Ban Is Unconstitutional
Discussion: Towleroad and Vox
Josh Mitchell / Wall Street Journal:
More Than 40% of Student Borrowers Aren't Making Payments
Discussion: The Daily Caller and Vox
Paul Bedard / Washington Examiner:
Dems on FEC target conservatives, vote to punish maker of anti-Obama movie
John R. Schindler / The New York Observer:
Panama Papers Reveal Clinton's Kremlin Connection
Arwa Mahdawi / Guardian:
20,000 lesbians in the desert: welcome to the Dinah, a world without men
 

 
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Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica:
FCC Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel announced she will leave the agency on January 20; she was the first woman to be confirmed to lead the agency

Guthrie Scrimgeour / Wired:
Hawaii's The Garden Island stops using AI-generated newscasters on YouTube, Facebook, and Instagram after two months, likely due to the negative public response

Lachlan Cartwright / The Ankler:
Sources: MSNBC renewed Rachel Maddow's contract early this fall, but with a pay cut; MSNBC bosses' plan to shake up daytime and weekend programming

 
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