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6:50 PM ET, March 14, 2016

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Rosie Gray / BuzzFeed:
Michelle Fields, Ben Shapiro Resign From Breitbart  —  Breitbart reporter Michelle Fields and editor-at-large Ben Shapiro are resigning from the company over the site's handling of Donald Trump's campaign manager's alleged assault on Fields, BuzzFeed News has learned.
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Benny Johnson / Independent Journal Review:
Leaked Internal Messages Show ‘Ashamed’ Writers At Breitbart Revolting Against Weak Leadership  —  Michelle Fields is gone.  Ben Shapiro is gone.  Breitbart is in turmoil.  And it's all because of Donald Trump.  —  At 12 AM Monday morning, Michelle Fields, the Breitbart reporter …
Hadas Gold / Politico:
Two more staffers resign from Breitbart  —  Two more staffers for Breitbart have resigned from the company, citing the website's pro-Donald Trump stance.  —  National security correspondent Jordan Schachtel and associate editor Jarrett Stepman sent their resignations to management on Monday afternoon.
William Bigelow / Breitbart:
Ben Shapiro Betrays Loyal Breitbart Readers in Pursuit of Fox News Contributorship
Caitlin MacNeal / Talking Points Memo:
Two More Breitbart Staffers Resign Over Site's ‘Propaganda’ For Trump
Discussion: CANNONFIRE
Matthew Burns / WRAL-TV:
Presidential candidates crisscross NC on final day before primary  —  RALEIGH, N.C. — Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump and Democratic rivals Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton all campaigned Monday in North Carolina to make their final pitches to voters ahead of Tuesday's primary.
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David A. Fahrenthold / Washington Post:
After punching incident, N.C. sheriff ponders ‘inciting a riot’ charge against Trump  —  What's at stake in the Ohio GOP primary? … Catch up on the 2016 race  —  A North Carolina sheriff's office is investigating whether Republican front-runner Donald Trump's actions at a Fayetteville …
The Daily Beast:
NC Sheriff Not Considering Charging Trump for ‘Inciting Riot’
Discussion: RedState and LawNewz
Jordan Fabian / The Hill:
RNC launching task force to stop Obama Supreme Court nominee  —  The Republican National Committee (RNC) is teaming up with a prominent conservative advocacy group to block President Obama's effort to nominate a justice to the Supreme Court.  —  The RNC has formed a task force to launch radio …
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Los Angeles Times:   Southern California's Paul J. Watford is among Obama's top choices for Supreme Court
Ian Millhiser / ThinkProgressPage Array:
The War Against Obama's Potential Supreme Court Nominees Takes An Ugly, Offensive Turn
Discussion: Politico
Julia Hahn / Breitbart:
REPORT: Soros Money Funding John Kasich's Presidential Bid  —  As new reports break that a George Soros-linked group is taking credit for efforts to violently disrupt GOP frontrunner Donald Trump's campaign rallies, the Center for Responsive Politics reveals that another George Soros-linked group …
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NBC News:
Palin's Husband Injured in ‘Serious’ Snowmobile Crash  —  Sarah Palin cancelled a campaign stop for Donald Trump in Florida Monday after her husband Todd was injured in a snow machine crash.  —  A source told NBC News that Todd Palin was in “a very serious” crash Sunday night and is currently hospitalized in intensive care.
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Lisa Hagen / The Hill:
Palin appears in Florida with Trump
Patrick Wintour / Guardian:
Vladimir Putin orders start of Russian forces' withdrawal from Syria  —  Russian president says soldiers should begin pulling out of country as military intervention has largely achieved its aims  —  The Russian president, Vladimir Putin, has declared that he is withdrawing the majority …
Discussion: Common Dreams, Boing Boing and NPR
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Andrew Higgins / New York Times:
Putin Orders Start of Syria Withdrawal, Saying Goals Are Achieved
Discussion: Outside the Beltway
The Intercept:
The Rise of Trump Shows the Danger and Sham of Compelled Journalistic “Neutrality”  —  As Donald Trump's campaign predictably moves from toxic rhetoric targeting the most marginalized minorities to threats and use of violence, there is a growing sense that American institutions have been too lax about resisting it.
Discussion: Featured stories
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David Folkenflik / NPR:
NPR Clarifies Cokie Roberts' Role After Anti-Trump Column
KFOR-TV:
Watch: Dashcam video shows why you should never tailgate drivers  —  LITTLE CHUTE, Wis. - Police are investigating a crash that was caught on camera and posted to YouTube.  —  The video shows an SUV closely following a car on I-41 on Thursday morning, according to WBAY.
Discussion: WFLA-TV, WGN-TV and KTLA
USA Today:
Poll shows that millennials would flock to Clinton against Trump  —  WASHINGTON — Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders has expanded his double-digit lead among millennials in the Democratic presidential race, but a new USA TODAY/Rock the Vote poll finds a way for Hillary Clinton to solve her generation gap: Donald Trump.
Discussion: RedState and Daily Kos
James S. Robbins / USA Today:
If anti-Trump protests grow, they could hand Donald the election: James Robbins  —  In the wake of the 1968 riots, Nixon won by portraying his opponent as soft on crime.  —  Black Lives Matter protesters may help elect Donald Trump president, just as their predecessors did for Richard Nixon.
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Howard Fineman / The Huffington Post:
This Election Is 1968 All Over Again, And That's Not A Good Thing
Discussion: Slantpoint
Shane Goldmacher / Politico:
Inside Cruz's state-by-state plan to defeat Trump  —  Rubio and Kasich might be sweating Tuesday but Cruz is looking down the road to a #NeverTrump sweep.  —  It sounds like a nightmare for Donald Trump's opponents: The billionaire sweeps Ohio and Florida on Tuesday and storms ahead …
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Brianna Ehley / Politico:
White House knocks GOP leaders for not standing up to Trump
Discussion: ABC News
Claude Brodesser-Akner / New Jersey Online:
Christie skips N.J. trooper funeral to campaign for Trump  —  TRENTON — Gov. Chris Christie will not attend the Monday funeral of the New Jersey State Trooper who was killed in the line duty last week, and will instead spend the day campaigning out of state for Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump.
Allegra Kirkland / Talking Points Memo:
New Anti-Trump Ad Quotes Trump Saying 'Women, You Gotta Treat ‘Em Like Sh**’ (VIDEO)  —  An anti-Trump super PAC on Monday released a new TV ad highlighting some of the Republican presidential frontrunner's most offensive comments about women through the years.
Discussion: The Week
Lucas Combos / Q13 FOX News:
Hatchet-swinging attacker shot and killed by customer at 7-11 … WHITE CENTER, Wash. — A customer with a concealed carry permit shot and killed a masked man wielding a hatchet inside a convenience store Sunday morning, according to investigators.  —  The King County Sheriff's Office …
South Florida / Sun-Sentinel:
Mayo: My choice at Trump rally - Leave or go to jail  —  Sun Sentinel columnist Michael Mayo on his experience of being thrown out of Tramp rally in Boca Raton for videotaping and tweeting from inside the Sunset Cove Amphitheater Sunday night. … Privacy Policy
Discussion: Raw Story and Mediaite
globaltimes.cn:
Trump opens Pandora's box in US  —  Donald Trump, front-runner to be the GOP's candidate for the upcoming US presidential election, encountered a major protest at his campaign event in Chicago on Friday evening.  Over a thousand people, both his supporters and opponents engaged in a physical confrontation …
Michael Bastasch / The Daily Caller:
BREAKING: EPA's Gold King Mine Blowout Was No Accident  —  Obama administration officials called the Gold King Mine disaster in Colorado an “accident,” but an analysis from The Daily Caller News Foundation of government documents and public statements makes clear the disaster was anything but accidental.
William Lee / Chicago Tribune:
Northwestern University students charged with hate crime, vandalism to chapel  —  Northwestern University freshmen Anthony Morales, 19, left, and Matthew Kafker, 18, are charged with institutional vandalism and hate crime to a place of worship in connection with vandalism to the Alice Millar Chapel on campus.
Elise Young / Bloomberg Business:
Orthodox Jews Set Sights on N.J. Town and Angry Residents Resist  —  Burgeoning religious community seeks new housing in Toms River  —  Agents' aggressive approach prompts cease-and-desist measure  —  Every home is big on glass in a Toms River, New Jersey, neighborhood called North Dover.
Heather D. Boonstra / The Hill:
Effort to restrict and stigmatize abortion access is misguided and harmful  —  On March 15, the Senate Judiciary Committee is holding a hearing on two separate bills that would, among other things, impose a federal ban on abortion at or after 20 weeks post-fertilization (equivalent to 22 weeks' gestation).
Discussion: Shakesville
 
 
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Jim O'Sullivan GLOBE / BostonGlobe.com:
Charlie Baker amasses record-setting campaign war chest
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Jesse Byrnes / The Hill:
Sanders gains on Clinton ahead of huge Tuesday contests
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Ryan Lizza / New Yorker:
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Marc A. Thiessen / Washington Post:
Stop blaming Trump supporters for campaign violence
Brad Wilmouth / NewsBusters:
CNN Anchor Taken Aback When GOP Guest Ties Clinton Camp to Birtherism
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 Earlier Items: 
Natalie Allison Janicello / The Times:
Updated: 134 cars involved in hours-long interstate pile-up
New York Post:
NYC cops hate their jobs
Discussion: RT, TPNN and Front Page Magazine
Alice Ollstein / ThinkProgressPage Array:
More Than 1.5 Million Florida Voters Will Be Missing From Tuesday's Primary
Discussion: Mother Jones
Charles P. Pierce / Esquire:
A Message to Those Protesting at Trump Rallies
Sasha Issenberg / Bloomberg Politics:
How to Steal a Nomination From Donald Trump
Matt Stevens / Los Angeles Times:
Beverly Hills' crackdown on water wasters is having the desired effect
Discussion: Mashable
Politico:
Trump dumps Illinois campaign director
Discussion: RedState and Associated Press