memeorandum: U.K.'s Daily Mail Explores Bid for Yahoo Backed by Private Equity (Wall Street Journal)

9:30 AM ET, April 11, 2016

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jama.jamanetwork.com:

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.

Discussion: Wall Street Journal, New York Times, NPR, Washington Post and Bloomberg

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 …

Discussion: Arkansas Blog, Arkansas Times and Marginal REVOLUTION

Michelle Cho / NBC News:

Cruz-Supporting Delegates Picked in Virginia District Trump Won — Ted Cruz Makes Delegate Sweep in Colorado 2:03 — Wytheville, VA — Despite Donald Trump winning Virginia on Super Tuesday, two of three delegates elected in the first district convention here are supporters of rival Ted Cruz …

Discussion: The Gateway Pundit, No More Mister Nice Blog, American Spectator and NBC News

Zeke J Miller / TIME:

Donald Trump Loses Weekend Delegate Fight in 5 States — A no good, very bad start to turning his ground operation around — Donald Trump's effort to reset his campaign following defeat in Wisconsin showed no signs of paying off this weekend, as a series of technical failures by his campaign set his hopes back even further.

Discussion: Politico, New York Times, The Week, Daily News Bin, Guardian, The Daily Caller and The Right Scoop

Jim Hoft / The Gateway Pundit:
DISGUSTING! Colorado Trump Delegates Scratched From Ballots at GOP Convention - Cruzers Listed TWICE

Discussion: Breitbart, ABC News and CNBC

NBC News:
Trump's New Right-Hand Man Accuses Cruz Campaign of ‘Gestapo Tactics’

Discussion: NBC News, Althouse, Hot Air, Hullabaloo and Fusion

Eli Stokols / Politico:
Colorado GOP deletes #nevertrump tweet, pledges investigation

Discussion: Denver Post, Raw Story and American Power

Denver Post:
Texas senator says “people are waking up”

Discussion: Scared Monkeys

Washington Post:

A portrait of Trump the donor: Free rounds of golf, but no personal cash … Since the first day of his presidential campaign, Donald Trump has said that he gave more than $102 million to charity in the past five years. — To back up that claim, Trump's campaign compiled a list of his contributions — 4,844 of them, filling 93 pages.

Discussion: Talking Points Memo, Betsy's Page, AOL and The Week

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.

Discussion: Lawyers, Guns & Money, Politico, Associated Press, Booman Tribune, John Hawkins' Right Wing News, Eschaton and New York Post

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 …

Matt Higgins / CBS New York:
Obama On Clinton's Emails: 'There's Classified, And Then There's Classified'

Discussion: MichelleMalkin.com

Fox News:
Exclusive: President Barack Obama on ‘Fox News Sunday’

Discussion: Power Line, Florida Politics, Althouse and RealClearPolitics

Rebecca Savransky / The Hill:

Trump: Primary process ‘corrupt’ on both sides — Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump — on Sunday said the primary process on both the Republican and Democratic sides is corrupt. — Trump referenced Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders

Amy Kittelstrom / Salon: Ignorance, racism and rage: The GOP's transformation to the party of stupid started long before Donald Trump

Daily Mail: Trump claims Republican Party is ‘disenfranchising people’ …

Wall Street Journal:

U.K.'s Daily Mail Explores Bid for Yahoo Backed by Private Equity — Potential bid could take one of two forms, sources say — The U.K.'s Daily Mail has emerged as a suitor for Yahoo Inc. 's assets, joining a wide group of interested companies said to include telecom giant Verizon Communications Inc …

Discussion: New York Times, Boing Boing, France 24, The Week, Business Insider and Deadline, more at Mediagazer »

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” …

Discussion: Politico, Business Insider, The Gateway Pundit, NBC News, Guardian, Political Wire and The Week

Judd Gregg / The Hill:

Sanders fans are blind to reality of socialism — We have now been through more than half of the Democratic primaries to choose that party's presidential nominee. — In over forty percent of those contests, a socialist, Bernie Sanders — , has been the winner.

Greg Miller / Washington Post:

One woman helped the mastermind of the Paris attacks. The other turned him in. — All of Europe was looking for Abdelhamid Abaaoud, the planner of the Paris attacks, when two women approached his roadside hiding place, guided by the voice of someone secretly watching from a distance and giving directions by phone.

New York Times:
Revelation on Brussels Attackers Fuels Fears of New Assaults

Discussion: The Week and New York Magazine

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 …

Declan Walsh / New York Times:

Egypt Gives Saudi Arabia 2 Islands in a Show of Gratitude — CAIRO — Since King Salman of Saudi Arabia arrived in Cairo on Thursday for a five-day visit, the leader of the oil-rich kingdom has lavished his Egyptian allies with promises of aid and investment.