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9:30 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.
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.”
Rebecca Savransky / The Hill:
Greta Van Susteren: ‘Stupid’ to put Tubman on $20 bill
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.
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Shane Goldmacher / Politico:
Poll: Trump winning big in California
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
RNC leaders reject bid to rewrite convention rules
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 …
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Philip Rucker / Washington Post:
Trump is playing ‘a part’ and can transform for victory, campaign chief tells GOP leaders
Discussion: Mediaite
Marc Caputo / Politico:   Rick Scott to RNC: No ‘monkey business’
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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New York Times:
Long Primary Carries Costs for Hillary Clinton: Money and Time
Discussion: Common Dreams and Raw Story
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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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
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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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 …
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.”
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 …
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 …
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.
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 …
Chicago Tribune:
Video shows bystanders didn't help assault victim before he was run over  —  Warning: graphic content.  On Feb. 7, 2016, Marques Gaines was punched and knocked unconscious into a crosswalk outside a 7-Eleven on the Near North Side, where he lay before a taxi ran over him.
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
Aaron Halbert / Washington Post:
My wife and I are white evangelicals.  Here's why we chose to give birth to black triplets.  —  As I have made the stroll from my wife's hospital room to the NICU these past few days it has been hard to fathom the way that our family has been put together.  —  This past Sunday …
Discussion: theGrio
Mark Berman / Washington Post:
Homicides were up last year in some major U.S. cities.  Just three cities saw most of the increase. … The number of homicides spiked in more than a dozen major U.S. cities last year, the increases ranging from relatively small (Las Vegas registered three more killings than it did in 2014) …
 
 
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Matea Gold / Washington Post:
As Trump moves to soften his image, Democrats seek to harden it
Discussion: Politico and miamiherald
Telegraph:
As your friend, let me tell you that the EU makes Britain even greater
Discussion: Politico and New York Times
Cortney O'Brien / Townhall.com:
Watch: Hillary Thinks Highest Soda Tax in America Will Fund Preschool
Discussion: RedState and Washington Times
Andrew Kaczynski / BuzzFeed:
Donald Trump Blamed The Victim In Mike Tyson's Rape Case
Discussion: Hot Air
CNN:
Paul Ryan: I'm no John Boehner
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
Jesse Hamilton / Bloomberg:
Wall Street Bonus Pay Restricted Under Regulators' Proposal
Rebecca Jeschke / Electronic Frontier Foundation:
Ruling Unsealed: National Security Letters Upheld As Constitutional
Discussion: Common Dreams
Alex Weprin / Politico:
Seth Meyers, Fred Armisen bringing ‘The War Room’ parody to IFC
Discussion: Political Wire
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Ian Swanson / The Hill:
When Prince got political
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
Associated Press:
Bike lane falls in Brazil Olympic city; at least 2 die
Discussion: The Atlantic
Tommy Christopher / Mediaite:
Donald Trump Straight-Up Tells Republican Voter Yes, I Will Deport Your Relatives
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’
Angelina Chapin / Guardian:
Sober is the new drunk: why millennials are ditching bar crawls for juice crawls
Discussion: Hit & Run