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5:45 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.
Katherine Krueger / Talking Points Memo:
Trump Spox: Campaign Manager Will Stay On Even If Convicted Of Battery
Discussion: Death and Taxes and CBS Philly
Los Angeles Times:
Supreme Court's tie vote upholds public employee fees for unions  —  Rebecca Friedrichs, a veteran Orange County public school teacher, sued to challenge the mandatory fees paid to the California Teachers Assn.  —  The Supreme Court announced a tie vote today in what labor law experts had called a …
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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 …
Libby Nelson / Vox:
Public sector unions just avoided a huge defeat at the Supreme Court  —  If Antonin Scalia were alive, things could have turned out very differently.  —  A case that had the potential to weaken public sector unions across the United States ended with a somewhat unexpected victory for unions on Tuesday …
Robert Barnes / Washington Post:
Supreme Court deadlocks over public employee union case; Calif. teachers must pay dues … The Supreme Court on Tuesday said it was unable to resolve a major challenge to organized labor, and the result was a defeat for a group of California teachers who claim their free speech rights …
Adam Liptak / New York Times:
Victory for Unions as Supreme Court, Scalia Gone, Ties 4-4  —  WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Tuesday handed organized labor a major victory, deadlocking 4 to 4 in a case that had threatened to cripple the ability of public unions to collect fees from workers who chose not join …
Ian Millhiser / ThinkProgress:
How To Make Sense Of The Baffling Order The Supreme Court Just Handed Down On Birth Control
Nina Totenberg / NPR:
Supreme Court Deadlocks On Challenge To Union Fees
Discussion: Joanne Jacobs
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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Gary Robertson / Associated Press:
North Carolina Attorney General Won't Defend Anti-Gay Law In Court
Discussion: Daily Kos
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 …
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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.”
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: Consumerist and WREG-TV
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Michael Gerson / Washington Post:
Rush Limbaugh's blessing of Trump is killing conservatism
Ben Schreckinger / Politico:
Trump brings GOP civil war to Paul Ryan's backyard
Discussion: ABC News and Yahoo Politics
Cnycentral / WRGB:
Nurse who snapped photo of patient's penis surrenders license  —  FULTON, N.Y. — A Fulton nurse convicted of taking a photo of an unconscious patient's penis with her iPhone last year surrendered her license, according to the New York State Education Department.
David A. Fahrenthold / Washington Post:
Nev. candidate says Reid urged him to quit, because ‘a Muslim cannot win this race.’ … A Muslim Democrat running for a U.S. House seat in Nevada says that — in a private meeting last year — Senate Minority Leader Harry M. Reid (D-Nev.) had encouraged him to end his campaign by saying, “a Muslim cannot win this race.”
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Paul Mirengoff / Power Line:
Harry Reid accused of telling candidate to stand down because “a Muslim can't win”
Discussion: Ralston Reports
Juliet Perry / CNN:
Real ‘Siberian unicorn’ remains found  —  (CNN)New research has revealed the ‘Siberian unicorn’ roamed the planet far more recently than we originally thought.  —  The bad news is it looked nothing like the mythical creatures portrayed in so many fairy tales.  —  Real unicorns — not so pretty.
Discussion: WGN-TV and The Week
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
Cameron Easley / Morning Consult:
Half of Voters Back Muslim Travel Ban, Patrols of Muslim Neighborhoods  —  Have the terrorists won?  The main motif to emerge from a new Morning Consult survey taken after the attacks in Brussels last week is that the threat of terrorism may diminish how much people worry about privacy and civil rights.
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
Daily Mail:
Grinning passenger poses for a SELFIE alongside hijacker wearing a ‘suicide vest’: Jet is forced to land in Cyprus where hostage taker gives himself up after demanding officials hand a letter to his ex-wife  — Are you the man taking the selfie with the hijacker?  Do you know him?
Discussion: Hot Air
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BBC:
EgyptAir hijack: Man surrenders at Larnaca airport
Steven Shepard / Politico:
Trump's popularity nosedives in critical stretch  —  Donald Trump wasn't wildly popular to begin with.  And now he's becoming even more disliked among American voters, creating a significant threat to his chances of winning the Republican presidential nomination.
Michael Rothman / ABC News:
Patty Duke Is Dead at 69
diystream.cns.utexas.edu:
Skin Cancer Reminder App  —  This app is designed to aide individuals in a self-examination of their skin.  It is primarily aimed towards anyone concerned about cancerous or precancerous lesions.  Users should examine their body every month to document possible changes and report to their doctor anything suspicious.
Discussion: WSPA-TV
 
 
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