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10:55 AM ET, April 29, 2015

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Bob Kinzel / digital.vpr.net:
Bernie Sanders To Announce Presidential Run  —  Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., speaks at a luncheon at the National Press Club on Monday, March 9, 2015 in Washington.  VPR has learned that Sanders will announce his candidacy for the Democratic presidential nomination on Thursday.  —  ANDREW HARNIK AP
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Michael Falcone / ABC News:
The Note: What The 2016ers Are Saying About Baltimore … NOTABLES  —OBAMA — ‘NO EXCUSE’ FOR ‘SENSELESS’ VIOLENCE IN BALTIMORE: President Obama condemned the violence in Baltimore yesterday, saying there is “no excuse” for the violence, looting and arson that followed the funeral held for Freddie Gray …
Jennifer Epstein / Bloomberg Business:
Hillary Clinton to Outline Pitch for Criminal Justice Reform
Evan Halper / Los Angeles Times:
Hillary Clinton to call for end to ‘mass incarceration’
Adam B. Lerner / Politico:
Hillary Clinton's forgotten death penalty shift
Mike Segar / Reuters:
Bernie Sanders to launch Democratic presidential bid: Vermont radio
Discussion: WGN-TV and The Nation
Jonathan Easley / The Hill:
Sanders to launch presidential bid
Discussion: Common Dreams
CBS News:
Baltimore mom who smacked son during riots: “I don't want him to be a Freddie Gray”  —  Shares -  —  The Baltimore mother caught on video repeatedly smacking her son after catching him throwing things at police during rioting in Baltimore told CBS News that she was only concerned about protecting him.
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Michael Eric Dyson / New York Times:
Goodbye to Freddie Gray and Goodbye to Quietly Accepting Injustice  —  WASHINGTON — IN the spacious sanctuary of Baltimore's New Shiloh Baptist Church, at the funeral of Freddie Gray on Monday, the familiar weight of grief descended over me, not just for Mr. Gray, but for the countless Freddie …
Discussion: Washington Post
Michael A. Fletcher / Washington Post:
What you really need to know about Baltimore, from a reporter who's lived there for over 30 years  —  It was only a matter of time before Baltimore exploded.  —  In the more than three decades I have called this city home, Baltimore has been a combustible mix of poverty, crime, and hopelessness …
Washington Post:
Back in Baltimore, Martin O'Malley is heckled, and could face political fallout  —  BALTIMORE —Former Maryland governor Martin O'Malley was heckled on a street corner in riot-scarred West Baltimore Tuesday, after he cut short a trip to Europe to return to the city he led as mayor for seven years.
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Jason Horowitz / New York Times:   Martin O'Malley Takes a Walking Tour of an Angry Baltimore
Amy Mitchell / Journalism.org:
State of the News Media 2015  —  Call it a mobile majority.  At the start of 2015, 39 of the top 50 digital news websites have more traffic to their sites and associated applications coming from mobile devices than from desktop computers, according to Pew Research Center's analysis of comScore data.
Jessica Oh / KUSA-TV:
Mom claims school did not let child finish lunch  —  Mom claims school did not let child finish lunch.  9NEWS at 9 p.m. 04/27/15.  —  CONNECT  —  AURORA - A mother in Aurora claims a teacher at her child's preschool, Children's Academy, refused to let the little girl eat part of her lunch, because it wasn't nutritious.
Discussion: New York's PIX11
Brent Budowsky / The Hill:
Holy war against Hillary  —  What have the American people done to deserve the political campaigns that have become a permanent feature of American life, starring politicians who perpetually escalate every unsavory tactic that brings politics into widespread disrepute?
Evan McMurry / Mediaite:
Geraldo: ‘Annoying’ Protester Got in the Way of ‘Important Story’  —  Fox News' Geraldo Rivera nearly got into it with a protester last night as he was trying to interview Maryland State Senate Majority Leader Catherine Pugh in the midst of the Baltimore demonstrations.
Bernie Becker / The Hill:
Thousands of new Lerner emails found  —  An inspector general investigating the IRS's improper scrutiny of Tea Party groups has found thousands of emails from Lois Lerner, the agency official at the center of that controversy, according to committees involved in the probe.
Timothy Cama / The Hill:
Senators vote to block EPA's use of ‘secret science’  —  A Senate committee voted Tuesday to prohibit the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) from using ‘secret science’ to back its regulations.  —  The vote in the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee came after the GOP-controlled House repeatedly approved the bill.
Discussion: Hit & Run and The Daily Caller
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
61 Times Bill Kristol Was Reminded of Hitler and Churchill  —  Foreign-policy analysts hate this one weird historic example that explains every foreign-policy scenario.  —  Shares  —  Weekly Standard editor William Kristol, writing in opposition to the Iran deal recently, observed …
Discussion: Lawyers, Guns & Money
Hillary Crosley Coker / Jezebel:
Why Can't Baltimore's Black Female Mayor Stop Saying ‘Thug’?  —  On Monday night, protesters took to the streets of Baltimore hours after the funeral of Freddie Gray, a young man who died following injuries he sustained while in police custody.  Last night, Baltimore's Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake stood …
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Ashley Edwards / New York's PIX11:
Mother viciously beats woman over parking space at LI mall as husband, children watch  —  Warning: Video contains graphic language and violence.  —  VALLEY STREAM, Long Island (PIX11) — Police are looking for a mother who viciously beat a woman in a Long Island mall parking lot as her husband …
Discussion: KFOR-TV and WGN-TV
John Nolte / BREITBART.COM:
Baltimore Is a Democrat Problem, Not America's Problem  —  Contrary to the emotional blackmail some leftists are attempting to peddle, Baltimore is not America's problem or shame.  That failed city is solely and completely a Democrat problem.  Like many failed cities, Detroit comes to mind …
Discussion: Guardian and Daily Kos
John Stanton / BuzzFeed:
Spokesman Disputes Book: Bill Clinton Not Paid For Series Of Speeches  —  Clinton Cash, the hotly anticipated book about the Clinton Foundation reports that the former president was paid for speeches by a contractor seeking Haiti relief contracts.  —  HECTOR RETAMAL / Getty
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Guardian:
Unmanned Russian spacecraft plunging to Earth, says official  —  Cargo vessel ferrying supplies to the International Space Station is said to be out of control after contact was lost  —  An unmanned Russian cargo spacecraft ferrying supplies to the International Space Station is plunging back to Earth and apparently out of control.
Discussion: The Week and The Verge
Amy Howe / SCOTUSblog:
No clear answers on same-sex marriage: In Plain English  —  It could turn out to be a nailbiter.  After two-and-a-half hours of oral argument in the same-sex marriage cases, it was not clear where Justice Anthony Kennedy - and therefore the rest of the Court - was headed.
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Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
Former Al Jazeera employee sues network, alleging anti-Semitism, anti-Americanism
Michelle Malkin:
Debunking Obama's bilious Baltimore babble
Discussion: Power Line and Wall Street Journal
Scott Wong / The Hill:
GOP leader: Gas tax hike ‘politically impossible’
Jeffrey Leonard / Washington Monthly:
Get the Energy Sector off the Dole
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Oregonian:
Kingsmen singer Jack Ely dead at 71
Discussion: The Week
TMZ.com:
Joni Mitchell — In a Coma, Unresponsive (Update: With Court Docs)
Allie Grasgreen / Politico:
Corinthian's collapse heightens calls for loan forgiveness
Discussion: BuzzFeed and Daily Kos
John Nolte / BREITBART.COM:
CNN Anchor Brooke Baldwin Blames Military Veterans for Baltimore Riots
Discussion: Hot Air and Washington Free Beacon
Eli Lake / Bloomberg View:
Marshall Islands Needs U.S. Help in Iran Standoff
Jamie Schram / New York Post:
Why I killed Jeffrey Dahmer