memeorandum: Sanders wants to break up the biggest banks, double the minimum wage, and put the entire country on Medicare. (Tim Murphy/Mother Jones)

7:45 AM ET, April 22, 2016

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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” …

Discussion: John Hawkins' Right Wing News, Daily Wire, Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion, The Right Scoop, The Resurgent, NOLA River, Mediaite and American Power

Philip Rucker / Washington Post:

Trump is playing ‘a part’ and can transform for victory, campaign chief tells GOP leaders — What is the GOP establishment? … State of the race 2016 — HOLLYWOOD, Fla. — The two new leaders of Donald Trump's presidential campaign sought Thursday to reassure nervous Republican Party leaders …

Discussion: Daily Kos, Political Wire and Mediaite

Bloomberg:

Trump to Hone Image, Raise Funds for Republican Candidates, Adviser Says — The front-runner dispatched Paul Manafort to the party's final meeting ahead of the Republican convention. — McCormickJohn — tdopp — Outsider candidate Donald Trump sent emissaries to soothe tensions …

Discussion: Politico and TalkLeft

Kyle Cheney / Politico:

Delegates face death threats from Trump supporters — First it was an email warning Steve House, the Colorado GOP chairman, to hide his family members and “pray you make it to Cleveland.” Then there was the angry man who called his cell phone and told him to put a gun down his throat.

Discussion: Washington Examiner and Political Wire

New York Times:
Donald Trump to Reshape Image, New Campaign Chief Tells G.O.P.

Discussion: New York Post and Political Wire

Matea Gold / Washington Post:
As Trump moves to soften his image, Democrats seek to harden it

Discussion: Politico and miamiherald

Marc Caputo / Politico:
Rick Scott to RNC: No ‘monkey business’

Discussion: ABC News

Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
RNC leaders reject bid to rewrite convention rules

Discussion: NBC News, The Daily Caller, ABC News, New York Magazine and RedState

Peter Willis / mirror:

Inside Prince's bizarre life at Paisley Park: This is what happened when we visited the music icon — When the Daily Mirror's Peter Willis went to interview the music legend at his Paisley Park mansion in 2010 it was even weirder than he could have imagined

Discussion: Washington Post, Associated Press, CANNONFIRE, New York Times and Refinery29, more at Mediagazer »

TMZ.com:

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.”

Cole Premo / WCCO | CBS Minnesota:
Prince, Dead At 57, Was Found Unresponsive In Paisley Park Elevator

Discussion: Washington Post, TMZ.com, CBS Baltimore, Outside the Beltway, Raw Story, Heat Street, Independent Journal … and CBS Chicago

Andrew R. Lewis / FiveThirtyEight:

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.

Discussion: Politico and Hullabaloo

Jim Hoft / The Gateway Pundit: HANNITY: There Will Be No Contested Convention - Things Are Happening Behind the Scenes (VIDEO)

Shane Goldmacher / Politico:
Private polls reveal a Trump-Cruz Indiana dogfight

Discussion: Hot Air, The Last Refuge, BuzzFeed, Political Wire, neo-neocon and New York Times

Shane Goldmacher / Politico:
Poll: Trump winning big in California

Discussion: The Gateway Pundit

Emily Schultheis / CBS News:
Ted Cruz, Donald Trump spar over North Carolina transgender bathroom law

Discussion: Salon, Mediaite, Media Matters for America, The Last Tradition, Towleroad, Politicus USA, Lawyers, Guns & Money, No More Mister Nice Blog, The Daily Caller and Talking Points Memo

Travis / Uber Global:

Growing and growing up — Today we announced a settlement in two important class-action lawsuits: O'Connor (California) and Yucesoy (Massachusetts). The key issue at stake in both cases is whether drivers using the Uber app should be classified as independent contractors or employees.

Discussion: The Hill, KQED News, NPR, Mother Jones and Engadget

New York Times:
Uber Settles Cases With Concessions, but Drivers Stay Freelancers

Discussion: Forbes, New York Magazine and The Verge

Michelle Boorstein / Washington Post:

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.

Discussion: AOL, Independent Journal …, Hit & Run, Religion News Service, Mediaite and Raw Story

Ben Collins / The Daily Beast:

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 …

Discussion: Correct The Record, The Verge, Raw Story and Drudge Retort

James Pindell / BostonGlobe.com:
Five women Hillary Clinton could pick for VP

Discussion: Washington Post and New York Magazine

Perry Stein / Washington Post:

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.

Discussion: Mediaite

Matthew Yglesias / Vox:
John Kasich says DC residents can't vote because they vote for Democrats

Discussion: electionlawblog.org and Washington Post

Steven Hayward / Power Line:

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.

Discussion: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and Guardian

Harriet Tubman / National Review:
What They Didn't Teach You in School about Harriet Tubman

Discussion: Betsy's Page, Q13 FOX News, Hot Air and Guardian

Telegraph:

As your friend, let me tell you that the EU makes Britain even greater — In 1939, President Franklin D Roosevelt offered a toast to King George VI in the White House. “I am persuaded that the greatest single contribution our two countries have been enabled to make to civilisation …

Discussion: Politico, Washington Post, USA Today, The Atlantic, The Week, NBC News, Sputnik International, Coffee House, Business Insider, Guardian, France 24, New York Times and Al Jazeera English

Benjamin Weiser / New York Times:

New York City to Settle With 5 Over Wrongful Conviction Claims — New York City has agreed to pay $40 million to settle civil rights lawsuits filed by five people who claimed they were wrongfully convicted of murder in the Bronx and who each spent more than 17 years in prison …

Discussion: Q13 FOX News

Tim Murphy / Mother Jones:

Sanders wants to break up the biggest banks, double the minimum wage, and put the entire country on Medicare. … He attacked the administration's strict sex-segregated housing guidelines as “fornication of the Bible and Ann Landers,” triggering a campus debate on free love that made national news.

Discussion: Guardian

Jim Hoft / The Gateway Pundit:

Screaming Black Lives Matter Protesters Bust Up Milo Yiannopoulous Speech - Chaos Ensues (VIDEO) — Outspoken conservative Milo Yiannopoulos brought his “Most Dangerous Faggot” speaking tour to American University in Washington DC on Thursday. — The young leftists ripped up his signs before he got there.

Betsy McKay / Wall Street Journal:

Suicides in the U.S. Climb After Years of Declines — Rate increased 24% between 1999 and 2014, continued to rise in first half of 2015 — The U.S. suicide rate has risen sharply over the past decade and a half, according to a federal report released on Friday, prompting new concerns …

Discussion: USA Today, New York Times and The Week

Rebecca Savransky / The Hill:

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.

Discussion: The Gateway Pundit