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10:10 PM ET, April 21, 2016

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TMZ.com:
Dead at 57  —  The artist known as Prince has died ... TMZ has learned.  He was 57.  —  Prince's body was discovered at his Paisley Park compound in Minnesota early Thursday morning.  —  Multiple sources connected to the singer confirmed he had passed.  We've obtained the emergency dispatch call for a “male down, not breathing.”
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Cole Premo / WCCO | CBS Minnesota:
Prince, Dead At 57, Was Found Unresponsive In Paisley Park Elevator  —  MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO/AP) — Prince passed away Thursday morning at his Paisley Park recording studio.  He was 57.  —  Prince's publicist, Yvette Noel-Schure, confirmed the pop music superstar's death early Thursday afternoon.
Associated Press:
Trump team tells GOP he has been ‘projecting an image’  —  HOLLYWOOD, Fla. (AP) — Donald Trump's chief lieutenants told skeptical Republican leaders Thursday that the GOP front-runner has been “projecting an image” so far in the 2016 primary season and “the part that he's been playing is now evolving” …
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Nick Gass / Politico:
Trump: Transgender people can use whatever bathroom they want  —  Transgender people should be able to use whatever bathroom they want, Donald Trump said Thursday.  —  “Oh, I had a feeling that question was going to come up, I will tell you.  North Carolina did something that was very strong.
Philip Rucker / Washington Post:
Trump is playing ‘a part’ and can transform for victory, campaign chief tells GOP leaders
Discussion: Mediaite
Matea Gold / Washington Post:
As Trump moves to soften his image, Democrats seek to harden it
Discussion: Politico and miamiherald
Andrew R. Lewis / FiveThirtyEight:
Trump Doesn't Have A Monopoly On Intolerant Supporters  —  Many of Donald Trump's supporters are intolerant — racist, sexist and xenophobic.  Indeed, some high-profile work has highlighted Trump's populism and his appeal to less-educated authoritarians — a potent witch's brew challenging democratic norms.
Discussion: Hullabaloo
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Shane Goldmacher / Politico:
Private polls reveal a Trump-Cruz Indiana dogfight  —  No state in the coming weeks of the Republican presidential contest is viewed by the campaigns as more consequential than Indiana — and none has been a bigger black hole for polling, where not a single public survey of the state's electorate has been released.
Shane Goldmacher / Politico:
Poll: Trump winning big in California
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
Tommy Christopher / Mediaite:
Donald Trump Straight-Up Tells Republican Voter Yes, I Will Deport Your Relatives
Steven Hayward / Power Line:
Leftists Lose Their Lunch Over the Tubman 20  —  After years of complaining that America's paper money featured only dead white guys, a lot of folks on the Left are in a snit that Harriet Tubman is going to replace Andrew Jackson on the face of the twenty-dollar bill.
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Bryce Covert / ThinkProgress:
Conservatives Aren't Taking The Harriet Tubman News Well  —  Hours after the Treasury Department announced its plans to revamp a number of U.S. paper bills with depictions of African American and female civil rights icons, conservatives started criticizing the move as “politically correct” and “unnecessary.”
Annie Linskey / BostonGlobe.com:
Women will be on Hillary Clinton's vice president list  —  NEW YORK — Hillary Clinton's short list of vice presidential options will include a woman, a top campaign official said in an interview — creating the possibility of an all-female ticket emerging from the Democratic convention in Philadelphia.
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Jonathan Martin / New York Times:   With Uncertainty at Top of Ticket, Republicans Back Off in Some States
New York Times:
Long Primary Carries Costs for Hillary Clinton: Money and Time
Discussion: Common Dreams and Raw Story
Perry Stein / Washington Post:
Kasich on D.C. voting rights: 'That's just more votes in the Democratic Party.'  —  When asked his position on D.C. voting rights, Republican presidential contender John Kasich didn't pretend to draw on any constitutional clause or existing law to explain his stance against it.
Discussion: Mediaite
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Matthew Yglesias / Vox:
John Kasich says DC residents can't vote because they vote for Democrats
Allegra Kirkland / Talking Points Memo:
Ted Cruz Slams ESPN For Firing Schilling Over Anti-Trans Meme  —  According to Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), ESPN made the wrong decision by dismissing baseball analyst Curt Schilling after he argued that transgender individuals should use bathrooms that conform to their birth sex.
Discussion: The Bob and Chez Show
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Katherine Peralta / The Charlotte Observer:
NBA's Silver: LGBT law must change to keep 2017 All-Star Game in Charlotte  —  NBA Commissioner Adam Silver addressed NC's House Bill 2 Thursday at the APSE commissioner meetings  —  On ESPN's ‘Mike & Mike’ morning radio show Thursday, NBA Commissioner Adam Silver addressed 2017 All-Star Game controversy
Kevin Miller / The Portland Press Herald:
LePage vetoes bill aimed at increasing access to overdose antidote  —  ‘Naloxone does not truly save lives; it merely extends them until the next overdose,’ LePage writes in vetoing a bill to allow pharmacists to dispense naloxone without a prescription.  —  Gov. Paul LePage vetoed …
Michelle Boorstein / Washington Post:
Raunchy Prince was actually a conservative Christian who reportedly opposed gay marriage  —  (Kristian Dowling/Getty Images for Lotusflow3r.com)  —  With the death Thursday of Prince Rogers Nelson, you may see a strange mix on your Facebook feed of sex and religion.
TMZ.com:
Chyna Dead — WWE Legend Dies ... ‘Possible Overdose’ (PHOTO UPDATE)  —  WWE legend Chyna — real name Joanie Laurer — has died ... and officials are investigating as a possible overdose, TMZ Sports has learned.  —  We've learned she was in her apartment in Redondo Beach, CA …
Rush Limbaugh:
Changing Trump Confounds Everyone  —  RUSH: Donald Trump confounding his supporters today and confounding many in the Drive-By Media.  Donald Trump and his acceptance remarks after the New York primary referred to “Senator Cruz” a couple of times, did not refer to him as “Lyin' Ted.”
Julia Edwards / Reuters:
FBI paid more than $1.3 million to break into San Bernardino iPhone  —  Federal Bureau of Investigation Director James Comey said on Thursday the agency paid more to get into the iPhone of one of the San Bernardino shooters than he will make in the remaining seven years and four months he has in his job.
Discussion: The Verge and Engadget
Alister Doyle / Reuters:
Child brides sometimes tolerated in Nordic asylum centers despite bans  —  Some child brides are living with older husbands in asylum centers in Scandinavia, triggering a furor about lapses in protection for girls in nations that ban child marriage.  —  Authorities have in some cases …
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Koch-linked group scores legal victory over California AG  —  A federal judge in Los Angeles has again shut down California Attorney General Kamala Harris' drive to obtain the donor list for Americans for Prosperity, an influential political group funded by Charles and David Koch.
Emmett Rensin / Vox:
The smug style in American liberalism  —  There is a smug style in American liberalism.  It has been growing these past decades.  It is a way of conducting politics, predicated on the belief that American life is not divided by moral difference or policy divergence — not really …
Marc Caputo / Politico:
Rick Scott to RNC: No ‘monkey business’  —  Florida Gov. Rick Scott passed up a chance to urge Republican National Committee members to support his preferred presidential candidate, Donald Trump.  —  But he warned them: no “monkey-business.”  —  “We've got to be transparent,” …
Discussion: ABC News
 
 
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Telegraph:
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Cortney O'Brien / Townhall.com:
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Andrew Kaczynski / BuzzFeed:
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CNN:
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Rebecca Jeschke / Electronic Frontier Foundation:
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Discussion: Common Dreams
Aaron Halbert / Washington Post:
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Discussion: theGrio
Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
RNC leaders reject bid to rewrite convention rules
Alex Weprin / Politico:
Seth Meyers, Fred Armisen bringing ‘The War Room’ parody to IFC
Discussion: Political Wire
Ian Swanson / The Hill:
When Prince got political
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
Associated Press:
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Discussion: The Atlantic
Wright Thompson / ESPN:
The Secret History of Tiger Woods
Discussion: USA Today
Angelina Chapin / Guardian:
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Discussion: Hit & Run