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11:00 AM ET, March 30, 2015

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Dave Itzkoff / New York Times:
Trevor Noah to Succeed Jon Stewart on ‘The Daily Show’  —  In December, Trevor Noah, a 31-year-old comedian, made his debut as an on-air contributor on “The Daily Show With Jon Stewart,” offering his outsider's perspective, as a biracial South African, on the United States.
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Comedy Central Press:
COMEDY CENTRAL® NAMES TREVOR NOAH AS NEXT HOST OF “THE DAILY SHOW”
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The Washington Institute for Near East Policy:
Iran's Nuclear Breakout Time: A Fact Sheet  —  With reports that Washington and its partners may reach a nuclear accord with Iran in the coming days, a former senior IAEA safeguards official answers the most pressing questions about Tehran's program and how the agreement might affect its capabilities.
Mark Hensch / The Hill:   O'Malley: Nuclear Iran ‘greatest man-made threat’
Jeffrey Goldberg / The Atlantic Online:
What to Worry About in an Iran Nuclear Deal
Discussion: Horizons
Tim Cook / Washington Post:
Pro-discrimination ‘religious freedom’ laws are dangerous  —  Tim Cook is chief executive of Apple.  —  There's something very dangerous happening in states across the country.  —  A wave of legislation, introduced in more than two dozen states, would allow people to discriminate against their neighbors.
Juan Williams / The Hill:
Boehner, Israel and race  —  Speaker John Boehner's (R-Ohio) trip to Israel this week is so blatantly political that even the avowedly impartial Associated Press describes it as looking “like a jab at the White House.”  —  It is worse than that.  President Obama can jab back in any political fight.
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Kevin Cirilli / The Hill:
Elizabeth Warren plays Ted Cruz card with House Democrats  —  Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) is meeting with House Democrats in an effort to push back against President Obama's trade agenda.  —  The liberal senator met Tuesday with a group of House Democrats before administration officials …
Discussion: Political Wire
Edward-Isaac Dovere / Politico:
White House to Netanyahu: Your move
Discussion: The Times of Israel
Timothy Cama / The Hill:
White House: Nuclear talks' success depends on Iran
Discussion: Pirate's Cove
Kevin McDermott / St. Louis Post-Dispatch:
Spence Jackson, spokesman for the late Tom Schweich, found dead  —  UPDATED at 7:30 a.m. with comment from former Gov. Matt Blunt  —  JEFFERSON CITY  • Veteran Missouri state official Spence Jackson, who was media director for the late state auditor Tom Schweich, was found dead Sunday, sources said.
Ian Millhiser / ThinkProgress:
State Attorneys Tell Supreme Court That Gay People Are Too Powerful To Have Equal Rights  —  Ohio does not want to recognize plaintiff Jim Obergefell's marriage to his late husband.  —  CREDIT: AP  —  Gay Americans simply have too much political power to be afforded equal rights under the Constitution …
Discussion: Raw Story
Ben S. Bernanke / Brookings Institute:
Why are interest rates so low?  —  Interest rates around the world, both short-term and long-term, are exceptionally low these days.  The U.S. government can borrow for ten years at a rate of about 1.9 percent, and for thirty years at about 2.5 percent.  Rates in other industrial countries …
New York Times:
In Delaying Vote on Loretta Lynch as Attorney General, G.O.P. Is in a Quandary  —  WASHINGTON — Senate Republicans bolted for a two-week spring recess with the confirmation of Loretta E. Lynch as attorney general in jeopardy, and themselves in a quandary: Accept a qualified nominee they oppose …
Peter Nicholas / Wall Street Journal:
Why Hillary Clinton Will Launch 2016 Campaign Soon  —  It's a near certainty that a few weeks from now Hillary Clinton will be a full-fledged presidential candidate, campaigning through New Hampshire and Iowa with a vast press corps in tow.  —  Some politicians relish the campaign trail: the rope lines, rallies and photo ops.
Discussion: ABC News and Bloomberg Business
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Jon WardSenior / Yahoo Politics:   Hillary Clinton's darkest days detailed in new book about White House staff
Charlie Rose / CBS News:
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad on 60 Minutes  —  Charlie Rose interviews the Syrian dictator as a four-year-old civil war drags on in which his regime has been accused of devastating attacks on civilians  —  The following is a script from “Bashar al-Assad” which aired on March 29, 2015.
Discussion: Power Line, Politico and Common Dreams
Roberta Rampton / Reuters:
Republicans see Obama as more imminent threat than Putin: Reuters/Ipsos poll  —  (Reuters) - A third of Republicans believe President Barack Obama poses an imminent threat to the United States, outranking concerns about Russian President Vladimir Putin and Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
Discussion: Political Wire
Jesse Byrnes / The Hill:
Cruz: ‘I was not a community organizer’  —  Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), the only major declared Republican presidential candidate, is defending his credentials as a freshman senator while pursuing a White House bid.  —  “Unlike Barack Obama, I was not a community organizer before I was elected to the Senate …
Discussion: Bloomberg Business and Politico
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Reuters:
Former HP CEO Fiorina puts chances of presidential bid over 90 percent
Discussion: FOX News Radio
 
 
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David G. Savage / Los Angeles Times:
Supreme Court may hear case on school barring American flag shirts on Cinco de Mayo
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Glenn Harlan Reynolds / USA Today:
You are probably breaking the law right now
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Elizabeth Yale / The Atlantic Online:
When Do Official Documents Belong to the Public?
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Dan Nowicki / Arizona Republic:
Cruz is no Barry Goldwater, McCain and Flake say
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Weather Underground bomber unmasked — as city schoolteacher
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