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6:40 PM ET, April 16, 2016

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Maureen Dowd / New York Times:
Hillary Is Not Sorry  —  WASHINGTON — IT'S hard not to feel sorry for Hillary Clinton.  She is hearing ghostly footsteps.  —  She's having her inevitability challenged a second time by a moralizing senator with few accomplishments who chides her on her bad judgment on Iraq and special-interest money …
Discussion: Foreign Policy
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Chris Collins / New York Times:
The Case for Donald Trump  —  Clarence, N.Y. — AMERICANS are angry.  I hear it from the former factory workers who lost their jobs to other countries because of bad trade deals, the veterans who wait months to see a doctor at a Veterans Affairs hospital and the small-business owners …
Evelyn Rupert / The Hill:
Rosie O'Donnell: Trump is like Voldemort
Discussion: BizPac Review
Stephen Ohlemacher / Associated Press:
HOW TRUMP CAN LOCK UP GOP NOMINATION BEFORE THE CONVENTION  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — To all the political junkies yearning for a contested Republican convention this summer: not so fast.  —  It's still possible for Donald Trump to clinch the nomination by the end of the primaries on June 7.
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Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Trump likely to win West Virginia but lose delegates  —  Donald Trump has a new enemy in the fight for national convention delegates: the alphabet.  —  Trump is well-positioned for a resounding victory in West Virginia's May 10 primary, but his win will be accompanied by a delegate selection process stacked …
Discussion: RedState and BizPac Review
Jon Ronson / Guardian:
Monica Lewinsky: ‘The shame sticks to you like tar’  —  Now she's turned that dark time into a force for good  —  ne night in London in 2005, a woman said a surprisingly eerie thing to Monica Lewinsky.  Lewinsky had moved from New York a few days earlier to take a master's in social psychology at the London School of Economics.
Discussion: Mashable and The Week
Gabriel Debenedetti / Politico:
Bernie Sanders secures five minutes with Pope Francis  —  The US presidential hopeful managed to sit down with pontiff after all.  —  ROME — Bernie Sanders privately met with Pope Francis at the pontiff's residence in Vatican City on Saturday morning before the pope left on a trip for Greece.
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Ines San Martin / CRUX:
Pope Francis calls Sanders greeting only ‘common courtesy’
Perry Bacon Jr / NBC News:
Hillary Clinton Faces a Liberal War Against the 1990s  —  Hillary Clinton has long literally and figuratively stood beside Bill Clinton, fully embracing his policy moves to make the Democratic Party more centrist in the 1990s and defending him after his affair with a White House intern and subsequent impeachment.
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Collier Meyerson / New Yorker:   Clinton, Sanders, and the Myth of a Monolithic “Black Vote”
Eli Watkins / CNN:   Jill Stein: The Democratic Party ‘fakes left,’ marches right
Tom Boggioni / Raw Story:
College student booted from Southwest flight after passenger heard him say ‘God willing’ in Arabic  —  DON'T MISS STORIES.  FOLLOW RAW STORY!  —  A UC Berkeley student whose family fled Iraq in 2002 after his diplomat father was killed under Saddam Hussein's regime, was booted …
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San Francisco Chronicle:   Iraqi seeks apology after being removed from Oakland-bound plane
Maya Eliahou / The Daily Californian:
UC Berkeley student questioned, refused service after speaking Arabic on flight
Discussion: NBC Bay Area, ThinkProgress and Fusion
Mark Mazzetti / New York Times:
Saudi Arabia Warns of Economic Fallout if Congress Passes 9/11 Bill  —  WASHINGTON — Saudi Arabia has told the Obama administration and members of Congress that it will sell off hundreds of billions of dollars worth of American assets held by the kingdom if Congress passes a bill that would allow …
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Fox News:
Report: Saudis vow to sell US assets if Congress decides gov was involved in 9/11
Lauren Fox / Talking Points Memo:
Nevada Court Arraignment Of Bundy Brothers Goes Off The Rails  —  The arraignment of Ammon and Ryan Bundy grew tense Friday as both brothers scoffed when asked to enter pleas in a case regarding their involvement in the 2014 Bundy Ranch standoff in Nevada.  —  Brian Cavalier …
McKay Coppins / BuzzFeed:
Donald Trump Is A Fiercely Loyal Boss Right Up Until He Fires You  —  For a man who once tried to trademark the phrase “You're fired,” Donald Trump seems awfully eager these days to cast himself as a loyal boss.  —  With his campaign reeling from tactical blunders and his inner circle gripped by infighting …
Discussion: The Week
Sean Martin / Daily Express:
END OF HUMANITY?  Artificial Intelligence could destroy us ‘WITHIN DECADES’ warns expert  —  A LEADING scientist involved in the development of Artificial Intelligence (AI) has warned that it could rise up against us and end humanity within decades.  —  GETTY  —  AI could destroy humanity ‘within decades’
Tom Boggioni / Raw Story:
WATCH: Chicago police release video of cop standing on neck of suspect who died during arrest  —  DON'T MISS STORIES.  FOLLOW RAW STORY!  —  Two Chicago police officers have been placed on desk duty after authorities finally released dashcam video showing one of them standing on the neck …
Rachel L. Swarns / New York Times:
272 Slaves Were Sold to Save Georgetown.  What Does It Owe Their Descendants?  —  In 1838, the Jesuit priests who ran the country's top Catholic university needed money to keep it alive.  Now comes the task of making amends.  —  WASHINGTON — The human cargo was loaded on ships …
Los Angeles Times:
L.A.'s effort to equip officers with body cameras stalls  —  Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti, left, displays a police body camera last year with LAPD Chief Charlie Beck, who is wearing one of the cameras.  —  Los Angeles' much-touted plan to equip thousands of police officers with body cameras …
Suz Elvey / Daily Express:
Huge fireball at Manchester Airport as terror suspect is seized  —  A CAR exploded into flames at a UK airport today just minutes before a man was arrested on suspicion of terrorism offences.  —  A car burst into flames at Manchester Airport  —  The drama unfolded as it was revealed police discovered a …
Discussion: Pamela Geller and Jihad Watch
 
 
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Jim Hoft / The Gateway Pundit:
Migrant Brings Deadly Louse-Borne Relapsing Fever to German Refugee Hotel
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Saeed Kamali Dehghan / Guardian:
Iran bars female MP for ‘shaking hands with unrelated man’
Stacy Teicher Khadaroo / Christian Science Monitor:
Racially diverse ‘new majority’ set to reshape US public schools
Tom Ciccotta / Breitbart:
Milo Yiannopoulos Leads Emory Students on ‘Chalkening’ Crusade Around Campus
Discussion: Da Tech Guy Blog
Jordan Fabian / The Hill:
Obama immigration actions face critical day at high court
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Parag Khanna / New York Times:
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Max Tani / @maxwelltani:
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Jack Dunn / Variety:
Trump appoints Mark Burnett, the British TV executive who created and produced the reality show The Apprentice, as a special envoy to the UK

Stephen Alpher / CoinDesk:
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