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6:20 PM ET, April 21, 2016

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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.
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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  —  Ted Cruz called California “the big enchilada” on Wednesday and said it would be the state that ultimately decides the Republican nomination.  But a new poll from Capitol Weekly/Sextant Strategies shows Donald Trump in a dominant position across the state.
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
Wall Street Journal:
Donald Trump Plans to Adopt More-Traditional Campaign Tactics
Tommy Christopher / Mediaite:
Donald Trump Straight-Up Tells Republican Voter Yes, I Will Deport Your Relatives
Eun Kyung Kim / TODAY.com:
Donald Trump joins TODAY Show for live town hall, answers voters' questions
German Lopez / Vox:
Donald Trump was asked about anti-transgender bathroom bills. His answer was ... correct.
Discussion: Althouse
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:
PUBLICIST: POP SUPERSTAR PRINCE DIES AT HIS MINNESOTA HOME
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.”
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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.
Rebecca Savransky / The Hill:
Greta Van Susteren: ‘Stupid’ to put Tubman on $20 bill
Christine Brennan / USA Today:
ESPN — at long last — has fired Curt Schilling, and we're all better for it  —  Curt Schilling's firing has been a work in progress for many months.  —  ESPN could have gotten rid of him at the end of the 2015 baseball season for his tweet equating “Muslim extremists” with the Nazi regime in Germany …
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Allegra Kirkland / Talking Points Memo:
Ted Cruz Slams ESPN For Firing Schilling Over Anti-Trans Meme
Discussion: The Bob and Chez Show
Jonathan Martin / New York Times:
With Uncertainty at Top of Ticket, Republicans Back Off in Some States  —  HOLLYWOOD, Fla. — The Republican National Committee is scaling back its financial commitments to some of the most hotly contested states because of flagging fund-raising, the most concrete evidence yet of how the party's divisive …
Discussion: Political Wire
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Patricia Murphy / Roll Call:   Hillary Clinton Is Too Big to Fail
New York Times:
Long Primary Carries Costs for Hillary Clinton: Money and Time
Brianna Ehley / Politico:
New Cruz ad has fake Clinton aides fret over her chances against him
Discussion: BuzzFeed
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.
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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.
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 …
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 …
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
Discussion: Raw Story, Towleroad and Outsports
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 …
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: Engadget and The Verge
Angelina Chapin / Guardian:
Sober is the new drunk: why millennials are ditching bar crawls for juice crawls  —  Juice crawls are just one of many booze-free events in the US catering to millennials who are ditching the hooch in favor of clarity  —  On a Saturday afternoon in Manhattan, Rachel Floyd and her boyfriend Paul Isham …
Discussion: Hit & Run
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 …
 
 
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Andrew Kaczynski / BuzzFeed:
Donald Trump Blamed The Victim In Mike Tyson's Rape Case
CNN:
Paul Ryan: I'm no John Boehner
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
Chicago Tribune:
Video shows bystanders didn't help assault victim before he was run over
Discussion: Mediaite
Jesse Hamilton / Bloomberg:
Wall Street Bonus Pay Restricted Under Regulators' Proposal
Marc Caputo / Politico:
Rick Scott to RNC: No ‘monkey business’
Rebecca Jeschke / Electronic Frontier Foundation:
Ruling Unsealed: National Security Letters Upheld As Constitutional
Aaron Halbert / Washington Post:
My wife and I are white evangelicals. Here's why we chose to give birth to black triplets.
Discussion: theGrio
Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
RNC leaders reject bid to rewrite convention rules
Discussion: ABC News
 Earlier Items: 
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 and alan.com
Associated Press:
Bike lane falls in Brazil Olympic city; at least 2 die
Discussion: The Atlantic
Wright Thompson / ESPN:
The Secret History of Tiger Woods
Discussion: USA Today
Marie Mawad / Bloomberg:
Musk's Secret Plan to Curb City Traffic With Self-Driving ‘Bus’
Camille Paglia / Salon:
Enough with the Hillary cult: Her admirers ignore reality, dream of worshipping a queen
Discussion: Althouse
 

 
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New York Times:
The NBC News-Ronna McDaniel saga highlights the perks and perils of partisan talk TV; a source says McDaniel is now seeking $600K+ for her two year deal

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New York Times:
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