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3:55 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:
Breitbart piece mocking editor who resigned was written under father's pseudonym  —  Early Monday morning Breitbart posted, and then deleted, a piece mocking Ben Shapiro, the site's editor-at-large who resigned on Sunday evening.  —  “Former Breitbart News editor-at-large Ben Shapiro announced …
William Bigelow / Breitbart:
Ben Shapiro Betrays Loyal Breitbart Readers in Pursuit of Fox News Contributorship  —  LOS ANGELES — Former Breitbart News editor-at-large Ben Shapiro announced Sunday evening via left-wing Buzzfeed that he is abandoning Andrew Breitbart's lifelong best friend, widow, hand-picked management team …
Discussion: The Daily Caller and Joe.My.God.
Hadas Gold / Politico:
Two more staffers resign from Breitbart
Mark Hensch / The Hill:
Rubio: My campaign wouldn't survive its manager hurting a reporter
Matthew Burns / WRAL-TV:
Latest: Cumberland authorities weigh charging Trump following rally violence  —  RALEIGH, N.C. — Republican front-runner Donald Trump and Democratic rivals Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton all planned Monday campaign stops in North Carolina to make their final pitches to voters ahead of Tuesday's primary.
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The Daily Beast:
NC Sheriff Not Considering Charging Trump for ‘Inciting Riot’
Discussion: LawNewz
Jose A. DelReal / Washington Post:   Trump: There has been ‘no violence’ at campaign rallies
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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Ian Millhiser / ThinkProgressPage Array:
The War Against Obama's Potential Supreme Court Nominees Takes An Ugly, Offensive Turn  —  We do not yet know who President Obama will name to succeed the late Justice Antonin Scalia.  We do know, however, that anyone the president names will be subjected to a brutal campaign to discredit them in the eyes of the public.
David Folkenflik / NPR:
NPR Clarifies Cokie Roberts' Role After Anti-Trump Column  —  NPR is acting to clarify the role of long-time analyst and commentator Cokie Roberts after she co-wrote a syndicated newspaper column calling for “the rational wing” of the Republican Party to stop Donald Trump's march toward its presidential nomination.
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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
Politico:
Trump dumps Illinois campaign director  —  CHICAGO — Donald Trump's Illinois campaign director has been sidelined after the national campaign grew furious over what sources described as a lack of organization in the state in the run-up to Tuesday's primary.
Discussion: RedState and Associated Press
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Shane Goldmacher / Politico:
Inside Cruz's state-by-state plan to defeat Trump
Brad Wilmouth / NewsBusters:
CNN Anchor Taken Aback When GOP Guest Ties Clinton Camp to Birtherism  —  As CNN Newsroom host Poppy Harlow on Saturday tried to suggest Republicans like John Kasich deserve blame for not speaking out against Donald Trump when he was pushing birtherism against President Barack Obama several years ago …
Discussion: BizPac Review
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Jesse Byrnes / The Hill:
Quinnipiac: Trump ahead in Florida, ties Kasich in Ohio
Discussion: Politico and Outside the Beltway
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.
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 …
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, KTLA and WNEP-TV
Charles P. Pierce / Esquire:
A Message to Those Protesting at Trump Rallies  —  Don't become part of the show.  —  Having watched almost every second of the appalling events of the weekend just passed, I have a modest suggestion for all the groups working in rough alliance to keep the Republic out of the hands of a vulgar talking yam.
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 TalkLeft
Sasha Issenberg / Bloomberg Politics:
How to Steal a Nomination From Donald Trump  —  Donald Trump has spent much of his campaign selling himself as a maker of great deals.  But in the next phase of the campaign, the author of The Art of the Deal may be confronted with the ultimate dealmaking challenge, gaming the rulebook …
Natalie Allison Janicello / The Times:
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 …
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.
Discussion: Chicagoist and Raw Story
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.
Jeff Greenfield / Politico:
What's Wrong With Hillary?  —  When Hillary Clinton began her second run for the White House, it must have seemed that the road ahead would rise up to meet her.  This time, there would be no political phenomenon in her way—no younger, more charismatic figure who would strip Clinton of the mantle of “change.”
Jim Hoft / The Gateway Pundit:
VIDEO UNEARTHED=> Pastor Calls for Execution of Gays - Then Introduces Ted Cruz at Conference  —  In November Senator Ted Cruz appeared at the National Religious Liberties Conference in Iowa, where he courted the support of the conference's organizer, Colorado-based pastor and radio host Kevin Swanson.
Marc A. Thiessen / Washington Post:
Stop blaming Trump supporters for campaign violence  —  In recent days, Donald Trump supporters have been demonized as some sort of racist mob spun up by Trump's racially tinged rhetoric.  Former Environmental Protection Agency head and New Jersey governor Christine Todd Whitman declared …
Martin Longman / Washington Monthly:
Don't Call it Fascism?  —  Prepare to be concern-trolled by Clive Crook: … The rest of his column is one of the most wrongheaded and myopic things I've read in recent months.  —  Mr. Crook assures us that Trump is a dealmaker, and he's not really so bad:
Alice Ollstein / ThinkProgressPage Array:
More Than 1.5 Million Florida Voters Will Be Missing From Tuesday's Primary  —  MIAMI, FLORIDA — Sheena Meade is campaigning to be the youngest African-American woman to ever represent Central Florida in the state legislature, and her husband Desmond Meade couldn't be prouder.
Discussion: Mother Jones
 
 
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Tom Goldstein / SCOTUSblog:
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Patrick Wintour / Guardian:
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Ryan Lizza / New Yorker:
The Great Divide
James S. Robbins / USA Today:
If anti-Trump protests grow, they could hand Donald the election: James Robbins
Conor Friedersdorf / The Atlantic:
The Obama Administration's Drone-Strike Dissembling
Christopher Brennan / New York Daily News:
Students chant ‘you killed Jesus’ at game against school with many Jewish students
Discussion: Friendly Atheist
Elise Young / Bloomberg Business:
Orthodox Jews Set Sights on N.J. Town and Angry Residents Resist
Paul Bedard / Washington Examiner:
ICE: 124 illegal immigrants released from jail later charged in 138 murder cases
 Earlier Items: 
New York Post:
NYC cops hate their jobs
Discussion: Front Page Magazine
Richard L. Hasen / The Atlantic:
The Hard Power of ‘Soft’ Voter-ID Laws
Dick Uliano / WTOP:
Local Trump supporter says she's facing harassment, vandalism
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
Jon Favreau / The Daily Beast:
How the Republican Party Became a Failed State
Matt Stevens / Los Angeles Times:
Beverly Hills' crackdown on water wasters is having the desired effect
Isaac Arnsdorf / Politico:
Trump's Week of Errors, Exaggerations and Flat-out Falsehoods
Discussion: Washington Post and Raw Story
Jennifer Epstein / Bloomberg Business:
Clinton Won't Meet Embattled Mayor Emanuel in Chicago Visit
Discussion: Washington Post and Hot Air
 

 
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