Dead at 57  —  The artist known as Prince has died ... TMZ has learned.  He was 57.  —  Prince's body was discovered at his Paisley Park compound in Minnesota early Thursday morning.  —  Multiple sources connected to the singer confirmed he had passed.  We've obtained the emergency dispatch call for a “male down, not breathing.”

Trump: Transgender people can use whatever bathroom they want  —  Transgender people should be able to use whatever bathroom they want, Donald Trump said Thursday.  —  “Oh, I had a feeling that question was going to come up, I will tell you.  North Carolina did something that was very strong.

Conservatives Aren't Taking The Harriet Tubman News Well  —  Hours after the Treasury Department announced its plans to revamp a number of U.S. paper bills with depictions of African American and female civil rights icons, conservatives started criticizing the move as “politically correct” and “unnecessary.”

Women will be on Hillary Clinton's vice president list  —  NEW YORK — Hillary Clinton's short list of vice presidential options will include a woman, a top campaign official said in an interview — creating the possibility of an all-female ticket emerging from the Democratic convention in Philadelphia.

Kasich on D.C. voting rights: 'That's just more votes in the Democratic Party.'  —  When asked his position on D.C. voting rights, Republican presidential contender John Kasich didn't pretend to draw on any constitutional clause or existing law to explain his stance against it.

ESPN — at long last — has fired Curt Schilling, and we're all better for it  —  Curt Schilling's firing has been a work in progress for many months.  —  ESPN could have gotten rid of him at the end of the 2015 baseball season for his tweet equating “Muslim extremists” with the Nazi regime in Germany …

Chyna Dead — WWE Legend Dies ... ‘Possible Overdose’ (PHOTO UPDATE)  —  WWE legend Chyna — real name Joanie Laurer — has died ... and officials are investigating as a possible overdose, TMZ Sports has learned.  —  We've learned she was in her apartment in Redondo Beach, CA …

The smug style in American liberalism  —  There is a smug style in American liberalism.  It has been growing these past decades.  It is a way of conducting politics, predicated on the belief that American life is not divided by moral difference or policy divergence — not really …

NBA's Silver: LGBT law must change to keep 2017 All-Star Game in Charlotte  —  NBA Commissioner Adam Silver addressed NC's House Bill 2 Thursday at the APSE commissioner meetings  —  On ESPN's ‘Mike & Mike’ morning radio show Thursday, NBA Commissioner Adam Silver addressed 2017 All-Star Game controversy

LePage vetoes bill aimed at increasing access to overdose antidote  —  ‘Naloxone does not truly save lives; it merely extends them until the next overdose,’ LePage writes in vetoing a bill to allow pharmacists to dispense naloxone without a prescription.  —  Gov. Paul LePage vetoed …

FBI paid more than $1.3 million to break into San Bernardino iPhone  —  Federal Bureau of Investigation Director James Comey said on Thursday the agency paid more to get into the iPhone of one of the San Bernardino shooters than he will make in the remaining seven years and four months he has in his job.

Child brides sometimes tolerated in Nordic asylum centers despite bans  —  Some child brides are living with older husbands in asylum centers in Scandinavia, triggering a furor about lapses in protection for girls in nations that ban child marriage.  —  Authorities have in some cases …

Video shows bystanders didn't help assault victim before he was run over  —  Warning: graphic content.  On Feb. 7, 2016, Marques Gaines was punched and knocked unconscious into a crosswalk outside a 7-Eleven on the Near North Side, where he lay before a taxi ran over him.

My wife and I are white evangelicals.  Here's why we chose to give birth to black triplets.  —  As I have made the stroll from my wife's hospital room to the NICU these past few days it has been hard to fathom the way that our family has been put together.  —  This past Sunday …