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Hillary Clinton visited Wisconsin on Tuesday, appearing on stage in Milwaukee with mothers who had lost children to gun violence or in encounters with the police. Clinton expressly addressed African-American parents about the gun violence in their community, slamming Sen. Bernie Sanders for his record on gun control, The New York Times reports.

British media personality Piers Morgan thinks that if ex-Breitbart News reporter Michelle Fields were a man, the incident in which Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski allegedly shoved Fields at a press conference never would have been an issue. In fact, Morgan tweeted just hours after Lewandowski was charged Tuesday with misdemeanor battery for forcefully grabbing Fields at a Trump campaign event, a man would have been "mocked" for making such an accusation — and "rightly" so:

An Ohio gun shop owner refused to sell a gun to a man, despite the potential customer having cleared background checks. Now some are saying that in doing so, shop owner John Downs might have foiled plans for a mass shooting.

Donald Trump continued to defend campaign manager Corey Lewandowski Tuesday after he was charged with misdemeanor battery over allegations that he grabbed now ex-Breitbart News reporter Michelle Fields at a March 8 press conference. While surveillance footage captured from the event seemingly corroborates Fields' allegations that Lewandowski grabbed her and nearly pulled her to the ground after she tried to ask Trump a question, Trump says that the tapes show that nothing happened.

Actress, singer, and mental health advocate Patty Duke has died due to sepsis from a ruptured intestine. She was 69.

The birthplace of hockey has been virtually shut out of the National Hockey League's Stanley Cup playoffs, SB Nation reports. For the first time in 46 years, Canada will not be sending a team in one of the 16 spots vying for the NHL's highest honor.

Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski has been charged with misdemeanor battery over allegations that he grabbed now-ex Breitbart News reporter Michelle Fields at a Trump press conference on March 8, ABC News reported Tuesday morning. A police report says Lewandowski turned himself in to police just after 8 a.m.

Given the choice between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, actress Susan Sarandon says she might go with the latter. In a Monday night interview with MSNBC's Chris Hayes, the staunch supporter of Sen. Bernie Sanders sympathized with Democrats who would rather sit out the election than vote for Clinton if Sanders loses.

A Muslim-American candidate for a House of Representatives seat in Nevada claims that Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) told him to end his campaign.

Donald Trump never expected it to get this far in the presidential race, says Stephanie Cegielski, the former communications director of the Make America Great Again Super PAC, which closed its doors at Trump's request in October amid rumors of illegal coordination with the Trump campaign. Writing in XOJane, Cegielski chronicles her own experience with Trumpmania and claims Trump did not initially intend or desire to actually snag the Republican nomination:

The Supreme Court was divided 4-4 on Tuesday over a rule that requires around half of the nation's teachers, transit workers, and other public employees to pay a "fair share fee" toward their union, The Los Angeles Times reports. The money adds up to millions of dollars a year for unions. Because of the recent death of Justice Antonin Scalia, whose vote would have served as a tiebreaker, the split decision preserved the lower court's rule: The "fair share fee" will remain in place.

Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (R) announced Tuesday morning that he's throwing his support behind Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) in the Republican presidential race. Walker says that he thinks Cruz is the GOP candidate who has the best chance of beating Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton in the general election.

Rumors have been circling for months about a possible meeting between English singer Sir Elton John and Russian President Vladimir Putin. An outspoken LGBT activist, John has reportedly tried to arrange a meeting with Putin to discuss gay rights in Russia but so far had no luck. However, with John heading to Moscow for a concert in May, the Kremlin has announced the meeting might in fact go forward.

President Obama used his keynote address at a journalism awards dinner Monday night to reprimand political reporters for their role in enabling the rise of Donald Trump.

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The Justice Department said Monday that it was dropping its court effort to force Apple to help hack into an iPhone used by one of the San Bernardino terrorist attackers, Syed Rizwan Farook, because it had found its own way to unlock the smartphone. The FBI has started reviewing the phone's contents, but did not immediately say whether it had found anything significant.

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China's Anbang Insurance Group has increased its bid for Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide to nearly $14 billion... Читать дальше...

Pakistani authorities have detained more than 5,000 suspected militants since the Easter suicide bombing at a crowded park in the eastern city of Lahore that left at least 70 dead. All but 216 of the suspected militants have since been released. The remaining suspects are undergoing further investigation.

Cypriot officials have arrested the hijacker of EgyptAir flight MS181 following negotiations and a stand-off with hostages, NBC News reports. The tense situation has been declared "over" by a Cyprus official who spoke with the The Associated Press.

Unicorns might have actually walked the earth with humans, according to new fossils discovered and reported in the American Journal of Applied Sciences. The so-called "Siberian unicorn" fossils discovered in Kazakhstan are 29,000 years old; the first Homo sapiens evolved nearly 200,000 years ago, according to scientists.

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Egyptian officials said early Tuesday that EgyptAir flight MS181 from Alexandria to Cairo was hijacked and diverted to Cyprus. Cypriot officials identified the hijacker as Seif Eldin Mustafa, and President Nicos Anastasiades said the man, claiming to be wearing an explosive belt, appeared to be motivated by the prospect of reuniting with his estranged Cypriot wife. After the plane, an Airbus with 81 passengers aboard, landed at Larnaca airport in Cyprus, the hijacker allowed most passengers to disembark. Читать дальше...

Donald Trump claims the support of a near majority of Republicans nationwide in a new poll out Tuesday by NBC News/Survey Monkey. The Republican presidential frontrunner snags 48 percent support — a full 21 points ahead of second-place Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), who has 27 percent, and 30 points ahead of Ohio Gov. John Kasich with 18 percent. And in a potentially bad sign for GOP power brokers hoping for a contested convention, 57 percent of Republican voters say that if Trump secures the plurality ... Читать дальше...

Cypriot officials have named the hijacker who took over EgyptAir Flight MS181: Seif Eldin Mustafa. According to the Cypriot president, the hijacking is not a terrorist incident — Mustafa is reportedly seeking to speak to his estranged wife, BBC reports. Other reports say Mustafa is demanding the release of female prisoners in Egypt. Roughly seven people are believed to remain on the jet.

What could be worse than a messy American intervention in Syria — a military campaign that looks to be as expensive, indeterminate, and possibly counter-productive as Uncle Sam's litany of other Middle East entanglements?

Before he won the Nobel Peace Prize, Obama won the peacenik vote. When he ran for president in 2008, he was the one aiming to "turn the page" on America's failed foreign policy. He criticized the Iraq War as a distraction from the real business in Afghanistan. And yet, Obama is going to hand his successor more foreign policy disasters than he inherited.

For the past eight years, Republicans have looked for a political outsider to save them at the national level. They keep coming up empty.

The American left wing is stronger and healthier than it has been in a century, and many liberals are not happy about it.