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9:20 PM ET, March 29, 2016

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Palm Beach Post:
Trump aide charged with misdemeanor battery vs. ex-Breitbart reporter  —  Corey Lewandowski, Donald Trump campaign manager, was charged this morning with misdemeanor battery after allegations of forcefully grabbing a reporter at a Jupiter news conference, town police confirmed this morning.
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Rebecca Savransky / The Hill:
Trump threatens to press charges against reporter  —  Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump  —  on Tuesday threatened to press charges against former Breitbart reporter Michelle Fields, claiming she grabbed him after a press conference.  —  “Victory press conference was over.
Ben Brody / Bloomberg Business:
Trump Fiercely Defends Campaign Manager Charged With Battery  —  Corey Lewandowski is innocent, the billionaire says: “Look at tapes-nothing there!”  —  Donald Trump's campaign manager was charged with misdemeanor battery against a journalist Tuesday, an accusation the Republican presidential front-runner slammed as meritless.
CNN:
Trump campaign manager charged with simple battery
Katherine Krueger / Talking Points Memo:
Trump Spox: Campaign Manager Will Stay On Even If Convicted Of Battery
Discussion: Death and Taxes and CBS Philly
Caleb Howe / RedState:
Rush Limbaugh Suggests Corey Lewandowski Arrest Nothing But A Political Attack
Discussion: Mediaite and Hot Air
Ian Millhiser / ThinkProgress:
How To Make Sense Of The Baffling Order The Supreme Court Just Handed Down On Birth Control  —  The biggest birth control case to reach the Supreme Court in 40 years just got a whole lot more confusing.  —  On Tuesday, the Supreme Court handed down an unusual order seeking more briefing in Zubik v. Burwell …
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Emily Atkin / ThinkProgress:
Republican Senator: I'm ‘Perplexed’ At Mitch McConnell's Decision To Block Merrick Garland  —  Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) says Republican Senate Leader Mitch McConnell is “not real happy” with her.  —  That's because Collins is part of a growing group of Republican Senators who have decided …
Greg Stohr / Bloomberg Business:
High Court Contraceptive Order Hints at Possible Compromise
Discussion: Politico
Adam Liptak / New York Times:
Victory for Unions as Supreme Court, Scalia Gone, Ties 4-4
Greg Stohr / Bloomberg Business:
Mandatory Union Fees Survive as U.S. Supreme Court Deadlocks
Robert Barnes / Washington Post:
Justices deadlock on public-employee-union case; Calif. teachers must pay dues
Governor Andrew M. Cuomo:
Governor Cuomo Bans Non-Essential State Travel to North Carolina  —  Governor Andrew M. Cuomo today signed an executive order banning all non-essential state travel to North Carolina.  The order requires all New York State agencies, departments, boards and commissions to immediately review …
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Ben Jacobs / Guardian:
Donald Trump berates Scott Walker for not raising taxes in Wisconsin  —  After the governor's endorsement of Ted Cruz the Republican frontrunner said Walker had failed to tackle a $2.2bn deficit and ‘the schools were going begging’  —  Donald Trump attacked Wisconsin governor Scott Walker …
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JSOnline:
By any measure, Donald Trump is unfit to be president  —  No to Donald Trump.  —  No to his bigotry.  —  No to his contempt for women and minorities.  No to his vague, clueless bluster about the problems facing the nation.  —  No to Trumpism, which runs counter to the ideals of this nation …
Discussion: Raw Story, Mediaite and The Week
JSOnline:
Kasich says he's not surprised Scott Walker endorsed Ted Cruz
Discussion: RedState, CNN and Hot Air
David Mitchell / FOX31 Denver:
Widower gets charged $853 ‘rebooking’ fee when wife dies before cruise … LOVELAND, Colo. — A Loveland man had just lost his wife only to be dealt another painful blow.  —  He received an $850 charge from Viking River Cruises because his late wife wasn't going on the prepaid trip.
Discussion: fox13now.com and Consumerist
Amanda Marcotte / Salon:
The strange silence about Hillarymania: Clinton fires up voters more than Bernie does, so why is no one talking about it?  —  More Clinton supporters are enthusiastic than those backing Sanders, but the media won't tell you that  —  Hillary Clinton suffers from an “enthusiasm gap.”
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Matt Wilstein / The Daily Beast:
Susan Sarandon: Trump Might Be Better for America Than Hillary Clinton  —  If Bernie Sanders fails to get the Democratic nomination, Susan Sarandon isn't sure she'll vote for Hillary Clinton.  She even said Monday that Trump could be the better option.  —  One of the biggest question marks …
Heather Holeman / KFOR-TV:
Man invents gun that looks exactly like a cell phone  —  Good idea or bad?  —  Kirk Kjellberg from Minnesota says he came up with the “Ideal Conceal” pocket gun, designed to look identical to a smartphone, after a little boy pointed out Kjellberg's own larger, not-so-concealed gun at a restaurant.
Discussion: Fox 59 and Q13 FOX News
Nick Corasaniti / New York Times:
Donald Trump vs. Ted Cruz Creates a Headache for Talk Radio Hosts  —  Even Michael Savage had had enough.  —  As the insults and innuendos over candidates' wives and tabloid reports of suspected affairs dominated the back and forth between Senator Ted Cruz and Donald J. Trump, Mr. Savage …
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Michael Gerson / Washington Post:
Rush Limbaugh's blessing of Trump is killing conservatism
Phil Plait / Slate:
Jupiter Got Whacked by Yet Another Asteroid/Comet!  —  On March 17, Gerrit Kernbauer, an amateur astronomer in Mödling, Austria, was taking video of Jupiter using a 20 cm telescope.  This is a common technique to capture thousands of frames of an object, so that the best parts of each frame …
James T. Mulder / Syracuse Post-Standard:
Nurse who took pics of patients' private parts at Syracuse hospital turns in license  —  SYRACUSE, N.Y. — A nurse who took photos of an unconscious Upstate University Hospital patient's penis with her smart phone has turned in her nursing license.  —  The state Education Department announced …
Andrea Cavallier / New York's PIX11:
New Jersey hospital emergency room becomes first in U.S. to end use of opioid painkillers  —  PATERSON, N.J. — St. Joseph's Regional Medical Center announced it has become the first hospital in the country to implement a program that will manage patients' pain in the emergency room without the use of opioid painkillers.
Discussion: Fox 59, WREG-TV and CBS New York
Michael Rothman / ABC News:
Patty Duke Is Dead at 69
Liam Stack / New York Times:
James Noble, Absent-Minded Governor on ‘Benson,’ Dies at 94  —  James Noble, the actor best known for his role as the absent-minded governor on the hit 1980s sitcom “Benson,” died on Monday at Norwalk Hospital in Connecticut.  He was 94.  —  His death was confirmed by Douglas Moser …
Discussion: AOL and Deadline
Alex Weprin / Politico:
2016 election coverage keeps shattering cable news ratings records  —  For the first time since it launched in 1996, Fox News was the most-watched channel in all of cable TV last quarter, topping ESPN, which had NFL and college football playoff games; AMC, which televises the ratings juggernaut …
 
 
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Emily Kirschenheuter / KRON4.com:
Viral video prompts investigation at SFSU
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Driver dies after crash sends jeep over bridge, into trees in Phenix City
Discussion: WKBN-TV
Dan Lamothe / Washington Post:
Pentagon and State Department order families of U.S. troops and diplomats to leave Turkey
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Skin Cancer Reminder App
Discussion: WSPA-TV
 Earlier Items: 
Warner Todd Huston / Breitbart:
An illegal immigrant has been arrested and charged with raping and impregnating a 12-year-old …
Matthew Yglesias / Vox:
This 2014 study explains an enormous amount about Trumpism
Discussion: The Atlantic
Juliet Perry / CNN:
Real ‘Siberian unicorn’ remains found
Discussion: WGN-TV and The Week
Steven Shepard / Politico:
Trump's popularity nosedives in critical stretch
 

 
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