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2:30 PM ET, April 11, 2016

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The Association Between Income and Life Expectancy in the United States, 2001-2014  —  FREE ONLINE FIRST  —  Raj Chetty, PhD1; Michael Stepner, BA2; Sarah Abraham, BA2; Shelby Lin, MPhil3; Benjamin Scuderi, BA4; Nicholas Turner, PhD5; Augustin Bergeron, MA4; David Cutler, PhD4  —  JAMA.
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New York Times:
The Rich Live Longer Everywhere.  For the Poor, Geography Matters.  —  Life expectancy of 40-year-olds with household incomes below $28,000,  —  For poor Americans, the place they call home can be a matter of life or death.  —  The poor in some cities — big ones like New York and Los Angeles …
Washington Post:
A new divide in American death
Discussion: Washington Monthly
Emily Badger / Washington Post:
Where living poor means dying young
Ari Melber / NBC News:
Despite Complaints, Delegate System Has Given Trump a 22 Percent Bonus  —  Trump Takes on Political Establishment, Delegate Count, Ted Cruz 6:10  —  Donald Trump blasted the GOP's delegate rules Sunday, saying a “corrupt” system is denying him delegates in states he won.
Discussion: NBC News, Hot Air and The Federalist
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Zeke J Miller / TIME:
Donald Trump Loses Weekend Delegate Fight in 5 States
Reuters:
Trump hammers successful Cruz delegate strategy as ‘crooked’
Discussion: Political Wire
Richard Rubin / Wall Street Journal:
Trump Aide Accuses Cruz of Using ‘Gestapo Tactics’
Discussion: American Spectator
Katherine Krueger / Talking Points Memo:
Oops: Trump's Kids Ivanka And Eric Never Registered To Vote For Their Dad  —  While plenty of New Yorkers say they'll cast their votes for native son Donald Trump in next week's Republican primary contest, two of Trump's own kids won't be among them.  —  Trump confirmed in a Monday call …
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Jonathan Shorman / Topeka Capital-Journal:
Kris Kobach advised Donald Trump on border wall plan
Gabrielle Bluestone / Gawker:
Donald Trump's Kids Never Bothered to Register to Vote for Him
Discussion: ABC News, Politico and The Week
ABC News:
The Note: Hillary Clinton Fighting a Two-Front War  —  Ahead of the New York primary, Hillary Clinton's campaign has released a new attack ad against Donald Trump that overtly blasts him for his policies on Muslims and abortion, ABC's LIZ KREUTZ reports.  The 30-second spot, titled …
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Sarah K. Burris / Raw Story:
Hillary Clinton and Bill de Blasio set off cringing with painful joke about ‘colored people time’
Discussion: Fusion
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Past cases suggest Hillary won't be indicted  —  It's the most explosive question of the 2016 presidential campaign: Could Hillary Clinton get indicted for her handling of sensitive materials through her home email server?  —  A POLITICO review of dozens of recent federal investigations …
Discussion: Washington Post and Fox News
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Guy Benson / Townhall.com:
Uh Oh: US Extradites Romanian Hacker Tied to Hillary Email Scandal
Matt Higgins / CBS New York:
Obama On Clinton's Emails: 'There's Classified, And Then There's Classified'
Discussion: MichelleMalkin.com
Dustin B Levy / York Daily Record:
Gettysburg man selling Hillary Clinton's car  —  Mike Lawn worked for seven presidents and met nine.  That number could be up to 10 by November if Hillary Clinton wins the White House.  He just happens to be selling her car, which sits in his driveway adorned with an Arkansas license plate and a 1990 …
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Kate Andersen Brower / Vanity Fair:
The Permanent White House Staff Is, Understandably, on Edge About the 2016 Presidential Race
Discussion: CNNMoney and The Daily Caller
Jennifer Steinhauer / New York Times:
Paul Ryan, a Mirage Candidate, Wages a Parallel Campaign  —  WASHINGTON — As the Republican candidates for the White House battled in Wisconsin last week, Speaker Paul D. Ryan was conspicuously absent from his home state — but he was very much on the political stage.
Harry Enten / FiveThirtyEight:
Trump Is The Weakest GOP Front-Runner In The Modern Era  —  Despite getting drubbed in Wisconsin this week, Donald Trump has won more votes than any other Republican candidate this year.  So, he's doing OK, right?  Well, for all the talk that unbound delegates and quirky convention rules …
Discussion: Hullabaloo and The Right Scoop
Caitlin MacNeal / Talking Points Memo:
Kobach's Office Puts Out Spanish Voter Guide With Wrong Registration Deadline  —  The Spanish-language voter guides from Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach's office include two errors about registering to vote in the state, while the English guides do not include the same errors.
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Dion Lefler / Kansas City Star:   Errors in Kansas' Spanish voting guide include wrong registration deadline
Josh Peterson / Washington Free Beacon:
Trump's Twitter Followed by Millions of Inactive or Fake Accounts  —  Sixty-four percent of Donald Trump's 7.51 million Twitter followers have not been in use for at least the past six months, according to a Washington Free Beacon analysis.  —  Additionally, using StatusPeople.com's Twitter analysis app …
Discussion: RedState
Byron York / Washington Examiner:
Is GOP headed for its own Bush v. Gore?  —  It's now likely Republicans are headed toward a contested convention in July.  But they might be headed toward more than that — the party could be on its way to an internal version of the 2000 election, the race in which the candidate who lost …
Discussion: Washington Monthly
Bill Allison / Bloomberg:
Washington Watchdog Adjusts to Life With Partisan Roommates  —  Republicans have faced the vast majority of campaign finance allegations from CREW in recent months.  —  For more than a decade, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, or CREW, has scrutinized and assailed federal agencies …
Discussion: RedState
Glenn Thrush / Politico:
‘Hillary would beat him from jail’  —  Like an army decimated on the battlefield, the vanquished Republican operatives allied with Jeb Bush have shed their uniforms, collected as much ammo as they could carry and taken to the hills to wage bitter guerrilla war against Donald Trump.
Jim Norman / Gallup:
U.S. Worries About Race Relations Reach a New High  —  WASHINGTON, D.C. — More than a third (35%) of Americans now say they are worried “a great deal” about race relations in the U.S. — which is higher than at any time since Gallup first asked the question in 2001.
NBC News:
Director Brennan: CIA Won't Waterboard Again — Even if Ordered by Future President  —  CIA director: I will not allow waterboarding, despite campaign rhetoric 0:36  —  CIA Director John Brennan told NBC News in an exclusive interview that his agency will not engage in harsh “enhanced interrogation” …
CBS News:
Meet the “Trump Bros”  —  Jack Rowe, an 18-year-old high school student from St. Paul, Minnesota, sat in the front row of a Donald Trump rally in Eau Claire, Wisconsin last weekend, sandwiched between two friends.  —  He had caucused for Trump in Minnesota for the very first time a few weeks earlier.
Discussion: Raw Story
 
 
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Trump's own Beltway establishment guy: The curious journey of Don McGahn
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Los Angeles Times:
A disproportionate share of blacks and Latinos lose their driver's licenses because of unpaid tickets, study finds
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When Pieties Collide  —  Feminism and multiculturalism in Western Europe
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McAuliffe guts Virginia's electric-chair bill
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