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9:20 AM ET, April 19, 2015

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Spencer S. Hsu / Washington Post:
FBI overstated forensic hair matches in nearly all trials before 2000  —  The Justice Department and FBI have formally acknowledged that nearly every examiner in an elite FBI forensic unit gave flawed testimony in almost all trials in which they offered evidence against criminal defendants over more than a two-decade period before 2000.
Discussion: The Week, Fox News and Instapundit
Maureen Dowd / New York Times:
Granny Get Your Gun  —  WASHINGTON — THE most famous woman on the planet has a confounding problem.  She can't figure out how to campaign as a woman.  —  In 2008, Hillary Clinton took advice from two men — Bill Clinton and Mark Penn — and campaigned like a man.
Discussion: Althouse
Joel Kotkin / The Daily Beast:
Big Idea: California Is So Over  —  California's drought and how it's handled show just what kind of place the Golden State is becoming: feudal, super-affluent and with an impoverished interior.  —  California has met the future, and it really doesn't work.
Discussion: The PJ Tatler
New York Times:
Voting Rights, by the Numbers  —  When the Supreme Court struck down the heart of the Voting Rights Act in 2013, its main argument was that the law was outdated.  —  Discrimination against minority voters may have been pervasive in the 1960s when the law was passed, Chief Justice John Roberts Jr. wrote …
Discussion: Hullabaloo
Washington Post:
New Hampshire could be make-or-break for Jeb Bush  —  MANCHESTER, N.H. — St. Anselm College has been a required stop on the pilgrimage for presidential aspirants, going at least as far back as John F. Kennedy and Richard M. Nixon more than a half-century ago.
Discussion: FOX News Radio and Political Wire
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Steve Peoples / Associated Press:
Marco Rubio-Jeb Bush alliance sours in GOP primary faceoff
Jackie Congedo / WLWT-TV:
Officer: ‘I wanted to be absolutely sure before I used deadly force’  —  Kidder says relative gave him body camera to use at work after Ferguson  —  Officer Jesse Kidder has only been on the New Richmond police force for a year, but he did two tours of duty in Iraq as a Marine and he's a Purple Heart recipient.
Betsy Hiel / Associated Press:
Reagan shooter Hinckley closer to permanent freedom  —  The last man to shoot an American president spends most of the year in a house overlooking the 13th hole of a golf course in a gated community.  —  He likes taking walks, plays guitar and paints, eats at Wendy's and drives around in a Toyota.
Harry Dunphy / Associated Press:
The world's financial leaders see a number of threats facing a global economy still on an uneven road to recovery with U.S. and European officials worrying that Greece will default on its debt.  —  The finance ministers and central bank governors ended three days of meetings in Washington determined …
Discussion: Bloomberg Business
Elahe Izadi / Washington Post:
George Lucas wants to build affordable housing on his land because 'we've got enough millionaires'  —  When George Lucas tried to expand his production company studios in California's wealthy Marin County, the community pushed back.  Then the “Star Wars” creator wanted to sell the land to a developer who would build affordable housing.
Discussion: Raw Story, Balloon Juice and Mashable
Kristina Wong / The Hill:
Iranian ship convoy moves toward Yemen, alarming US officials  —  U.S. military officials are concerned that Iran's support for Houthi rebels in Yemen could spark a confrontation with Saudi Arabia and plunge the region into sectarian war.  —  Iran is sending an armada of seven to nine ships …
Jesse Byrnes / The Hill:
Paul: Clinton needs one campaign plane just ‘for her baggage’  —  Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) dinged Hillary Clinton during a speech in New Hampshire on Saturday, suggesting the Democratic presidential candidate could face a serious primary challenge.  —  “I'm starting to worry …
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Mark Hensch / The Hill:
DNC planning primary debates for Hillary
Rory Ross / Newsweek:
Hillary Clinton's Big Benefactor Has Trade Links with Iran
Nicholas Garcia / Chalkbeat Colorado:
Jeffco board member apologizes for sharing link to “hate group” on Facebook  —  Jefferson County school board member Julie Williams said late Friday that she was “sincerely sorry” and that she would remove a link on her personal Facebook page that she shared that encouraged families to keep …
Discussion: FOX31 Denver and Raw Story
Ahiza Garcia / Talking Points Memo:
GOP Rep: Obamacare Makes America More Like North Korea  —  Rep. David Brat (R-VA) on Thursday, during a conversation with Lars Larson at the “Hold Their Feet To The Fire” conference, blamed Obamacare for moving America away from a free market system and making the country more like North Korea.
Discussion: Booman Tribune
 
 
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Sari Horwitz / Washington Post:
Race creeps into debate over stalled nomination for attorney general
Discussion: American Thinker and Instapundit
Natan Sharansky / Washington Post:
When did America forget that it's America?
Noah Barkin / Reuters:
Thousands in Germany protest against Europe-U.S. trade deal
Discussion: Common Dreams
Q13 FOX News:
Des Moines city councilwoman, bus driver charged with slapping 6-year-old student in face
Discussion: Raw Story and FreakOutNation
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NY Daily News:
Donald Trump deletes a Hil of a tweet about Clinton; Alice Cooper and John Varvatos rev up Detroit style
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