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 team tells GOP he has been ‘projecting an image’  —  HOLLYWOOD, Fla. (AP) — Donald Trump's chief lieutenants told skeptical Republican leaders Thursday that the GOP front-runner has been “projecting an image” so far in the 2016 primary season and “the part that he's been playing is now evolving” …

Cruz ad imagines Clinton war room cheering on Trump  —  A new ad for Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz  —  imagines a war room with Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton  —  to be the GOP nominee.  —  The ad highlights reasons why Clinton could beat Trump in a general election.

Leftists Lose Their Lunch Over the Tubman 20  —  After years of complaining that America's paper money featured only dead white guys, a lot of folks on the Left are in a snit that Harriet Tubman is going to replace Andrew Jackson on the face of the twenty-dollar bill.

Hillary PAC Spends $1 Million to ‘Correct’ Commenters on Reddit and Facebook  —  FEC loopholes mean Correct the Record can openly coordinate with Clinton's campaign.  —  Citing “lessons learned from online engagement with ‘Bernie Bros,’” a pro-Hillary Clinton Super PAC is pledging to spend $1 million to …

Raunchy Prince was actually a conservative Christian who reportedly opposed gay marriage  —  (Kristian Dowling/Getty Images for Lotusflow3r.com)  —  With the death Thursday of Prince Rogers Nelson, you may see a strange mix on your Facebook feed of sex and religion.

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.

Trump Doesn't Have A Monopoly On Intolerant Supporters  —  Many of Donald Trump's supporters are intolerant — racist, sexist and xenophobic.  Indeed, some high-profile work has highlighted Trump's populism and his appeal to less-educated authoritarians — a potent witch's brew challenging democratic norms.

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

Changing Trump Confounds Everyone  —  RUSH: Donald Trump confounding his supporters today and confounding many in the Drive-By Media.  Donald Trump and his acceptance remarks after the New York primary referred to “Senator Cruz” a couple of times, did not refer to him as “Lyin' Ted.”

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.

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 …

What's old is new: MTV plots a major return to music  —  An MTV logo from 1996.  The channel plans to return to its music focus.  —  For much of the modern era, the word music in the MTV acronym has been an afterthought, a vestige of an earlier time and identity.  —  That's all about to change.

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 …

Koch-linked group scores legal victory over California AG  —  A federal judge in Los Angeles has again shut down California Attorney General Kamala Harris' drive to obtain the donor list for Americans for Prosperity, an influential political group funded by Charles and David Koch.

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 …

Poll: Trump winning big in California  —  Ted Cruz called California “the big enchilada” on Wednesday and said it would be the state that ultimately decides the Republican nomination.  But a new poll from Capitol Weekly/Sextant Strategies shows Donald Trump in a dominant position across the state.