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	Palin at GOP Dinner: Illegal Immigrants Being Enticed Here with 'Gift Baskets' by Josh Feldman Sarah Palin is speaking at a Milwaukee GOP dinner tonight and said something that's raised a few eyebrows on Twitter. Read More »

	Megyn Kelly: Trump’s Abortion Remarks Show 'Lack of Consideration on a Critical Issue' by Josh Feldman Megyn Kelly concluded tonight that Donald Trump's various different statements on abortion show "a lack of consideration on a critical issue" for many conservatives. Read More »

	Limbaugh: I'm Not Trying to Defend Trump, I'm Trying to 'Limit the Damage' of What He Says by Josh Feldman Rush Limbaugh has been making it pretty clear this week that he has no interest in tearing down Donald Trump, and today he further clarified exactly why. Read More »

	Sanders Demands Apology After Hillary Says He's 'Lying,' Clinton Camp Refuses by Josh Feldman The Bernie Sanders campaign is pretty outraged at Hillary Clinton for her mini-rant yesterday about how he's supposedly "lying" about her. Read More »

	Trump: Current Abortion Laws Are 'Set' and 'I Think We Have to Leave It That Way' by Josh Feldman If you thought Donald Trump was done giving confusing interviews on abortion this week, guess again. Read More »

	Dems, GOP Commemorate April Fool's Day About the Way You'd Expect They Would by Josh Feldman You know what kind of April Fool's jokes are the best April Fool's jokes? Political ones. Read More »

	Obama Responds to Trump on Nukes: He Has No Idea What He's Talking About by Josh Feldman It was only a matter of time until President Obama's post-Nuclear Security Summit featured a question about Donald Trump, and Obama did not hold back in his assessment of the GOP frontrunner's comments on nukes. Read More »

	Donald Trump Sued For ‘Inciting a Riot’ During Kentucky Rally by Matt Strong Read More »

	Gutfeld Wishes Caitlyn Jenner Was His BFF: A Right-Winger Big Sister Who Likes Sports! by Lindsey Ellefson Today the hosts of Fox's The Five answered questions from fans on Facebook. And from what illegal thing they would do the second it became legal to the person of the same sex they each find the most attractive, they gamely produced answers. Read More »

	Wolf Blitzer Confronts RNC Spox Over Trump’s 'Pretty Bad' Unfavorable Numbers by Josh Feldman RNC chief strategist and communications director Sean Spicer appeared with CNN's Wolf Blitzer earlier today to downplay potential problems down the road for the GOP given their frontrunner. Read More »

	Ben Carson Blames Media for Covering Incendiary Remarks, Not Trump for Saying Them by Sam Reisman Dr. Ben Carson, the former GOP candidate and current Donald Trump supporter, said that it was more appropriate to blame the media for covering Trump's incendiary remarks, rather than to blame the candidate himself for saying them. Read More »

	Complaint: Trump Violated Federal Law by Offering Carson a Job for His Endorsement by Ronn Blitzer Read More »

	Bernie Sanders Sets Another Record: Most Funds Raised in Single Month of Campaigning by Ken Meyer strong>Bernie Sanders' campaign released their fundraising numbers for March, and they've hit another record-breaking milestone. Read More »

	Oops! Rick Perry Says The Post Office Ate His Primary Ballot by Tommy Christopher It's been so long since former Texas Governor Rick Perry dropped out of the Republican presidential race that I had to double-check that he was ever in it. He was, and if CNN's Kate Bolduan is right, he might still be in the hunt this November. Read More »

	Hamburger Helper's New Rap Album Is a Total Bop, Y'all by Lindsey Ellefson Since there are only five songs, I am going to go ahead and label this an EP rather than a full LP, but since all those tracks are straight fire, I'm also going to go ahead and declare it the Album of the Weekend. Read More »

	Fox Will Air Primetime Interviews With GOP Candidates Ahead of Wisconsin Primary by Sam Reisman Fox's primetime lineup will feature interviews in front of live audiences with each of the three remaining GOP presidential candidates, all in the same night before the Wisconsin primary. Read More »

	Trump Goes Full Mean Girls and Compiles Audio Of People Insulting Cruz by Lindsey Ellefson Just be grateful Instagram wasn't around when you were in school (or running for president). Read More »

	Buoyed by CNN's The Eighties Debut CNN Leads Cable News Primetime in Demo by Mediaite Staff CNN's The Eighties premiere episode debuted Thursday night in the #1 spot for the 25-54 age demographic among cables news channels. Read More »

	WATCH LIVE: Protesters Rally in Minnesota Over Failure to Charge Officers Who Shot Jamar Clark by Lindsey Ellefson The protests stem from the belief that the police department used excessive force on Clark. Read More »

	Watch this Effing Clip of a Cruise Boat Crashing into a Pier in San Diego by Ken Meyer San Diego harbor personel and the Coast Guard are investigating the circumstances the that led to a cruise boat's docking to go terribly wrong. Read More »

	70-Year-Old Woman Faces Prison Sentence for Planned Parenthood Vandalism by Lindsey Ellefson She has been apprehended and charged by a grand jury with one count of breaking and entering, one of vandalism, and one of aggravated trespass. Read More »

	White House Translation Cuts Out Just as French President Says 'Islamist Terrorism' by Alex Griswold The White House translation of remarks made by French President François Hollande Thursday appeared to cut out just when Hollande began to use the term "Islamist terrorism." Read More »

	Would You Spend $1,732.68 On Burner Phones Just to Have An Affair? AL's Governor Might Have by Lindsey Ellefson Colleagues of Bentley's have spoken out to insist that he just preferred to conduct all of his business by text. Read More »

	China Bans April Fools. Apparently. by Sam Reisman As annoying as April Fools pranks can be, we can at least agree that they are harmless fun. China's government did not see it that way. Read More »

	College Student Insists She Didn’t Have Sex with Ted Cruz After Twitter Impersonation by Ronn Blitzer Read More »

	Rand Paul Reveals His Big Yuge Endorsement by Tommy Christopher Everyone's a comedian on April 1, even if they're not very good at it. On Wednesday, former presidential candidate Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) began teasing a major, even "yuge" endorsement on his Twitter feed. Read More »

	Here's Where Hillary Clinton Got Her 'Out of Context' Attack on Bernie Over Trump's Abortion Comments by Tommy Christopher Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump caused a veritable outrage-gasm this week when he said, then un-said, that women seeking abortions under a legal ban should be punished, an issue that Hillary Clinton managed to also turn into an attack on her Democratic primary rival Bernie Sanders. Read More »

	Charlie Rose Asks Megyn Kelly: Would You Ever Welcome Trump Back on Your Show? by Sam Reisman Since grilling him on his record of sexist remarks at the August GOP debate, Fox anchor Megyn Kelly has been on the receiving end of a torrent of criticism from Donald Trump and his supporters. Read More »

	Watch Out: This Police Dept. Will Come to Your House if You Tweet Mean Stuff by Lindsey Ellefson Did you know that some people use Twitter and other forms of social media to harass and intimidate people? Read More »

	Sanders Hits Back on Hillary's Slams Over Abortion: She Took Me 'Out of Context' by Ken Meyer Bernie Sanders appeared on Good Morning America today, where he responded to several of the attacks Hillary Clinton launched against him throughout the week. Read More »

	Mediaite Presents the Best April Fools' Headlines That Aren't Real But Should Be by Mediaite Staff And for our loyal Mediaite commenters, please feel free to bash us in the space below for the faux-outrage you feel over these stories, even thought not a single one of them is true. Read More »

	Michelle Fields Reduced to Political Pawn as All Sides Involved in Sordid Situation Share Blame by Joe Concha Many media members are rushing to the defense of Michelle Fields. But is the sentiment and support genuine? Or is Fields simply being used as a pawn, an excuse, to bring down Donald Trump? Read More »

	Not a Prank: See the Pics Sarah Palin Posted to Celebrate Husband Todd Finally Leaving the Hospital by Lindsey Ellefson All of that happened on March 14 and now, Todd is finally home. Sarah posted a Facebook update, as she so often does. Read More »

	Why Didn't MSNBC Liberals Call BS on 147 FBI Agents Investigating Hillary Email? by Tommy Christopher On Monday, it was reported that 147 FBI agents have been working on the review of Hillary Clinton's email server, a report which I immediately called BS on loudly and thoroughly. As the week progressed, the reporting caught up with what was already obvious, and it turns out there are only about 12 agents working on it, maybe. On Thursday night, All In with Chris Hayes host Chris Hayes did a segment debunking the reporting. Read More »

	Mediaite Breaks Traffic Record in March, LawNewz Surpasses 1 Million Visitors in Second Month by Dan Abrams March was a good month. SeaWorld finally agreed to end its Orca shows, Starbucks pledged to donate all its unsold food to the needy and Mediaite.com had its biggest month. Ever. Read More »

	Funny or Die Conquered by North Korea, Issues Totalitarian Remake of 'The Landlord' by Sam Reisman The comedy website Funny or Die has been conquered by the "Democratic Republic of North Korea to Dominate Viral Share Space," according to its home page, and rebranded "Funny Death Choose." Read More »

	Oops! CIA Accidentally Leaves 'Explosive Training Material' on School Bus by Sam Reisman The Central Intelligence Agency inadvertently left "explosive training material" (in stable form) on a Virginia school bus following a training exercise. Read More »

	U of Michigan Students Call Police Over Pro-Donald Trump Chalkings by Alex Griswold The national epidemic of college children being triggered by pro-Donald Trump chalk messages has continued anew, with students at the University of Michigan calling the police to complain about chalkings popped up there as well. Read More »