TMZ: Prince Dead at 57 and other top stories.

• TMZ: Prince Dead at 57

  A career that revolutionized rock, R&B, and many more genres came to a shocking, sudden end on Thursday.One of the most iconic musicians in American rock and R&B history is dead at 57.Prince—the singer, songwriter, and legendary guitarist behind songs like “Purple Rain,” “Raspberry Beret,” and “1999”—was found dead at his Paisley Park home and recording studio in Chanhassen, Minn., on Thursday morning. The Carver County Sheriff’s Office responded to a call from the home at 9:43 a.m. and discover..

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• Debate over North Carolina 'bathroom law' flares in GOP race

  

  (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post) A debate over a North Carolina law that rolled back protections for gay and transgender people roiled the Republican presidential race Thursday, with front-runner Donald Trump criticizing the measure as bad for business and Ted Cruz defending it as something that will protect young girls. The North Carolina law has been dubbed the "bathroom bill" and now "bathroom law" because it mandates that people use the restroom that corresponds to the sex on their ..

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• BYU students investigated by school after reporting rape

  

  PROVO, Utah — Madeline MacDonald says she was an 18-year-old freshman at Brigham Young University when she was sexually assaulted by a man she met on an online dating site. She reported the crime to the school’s Title IX office. That same day, she says, BYU’s honor code office received a copy of the report, triggering an investigation into whether MacDonald had violated the Mormon school’s strict code of behavior, which bans premarital sex and drinking, among other things. Now MacDonald is amon..

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• Repeal of Passover restriction has some Jews happy, others resistant

  

  This Friday night, Jews will gather at the Seder table and read from the Haggadah, a book full of questions, biblical passages, rabbinic tales and songs woven together around the themes of suffering and liberation. But this year, Jews will surely bring a new question to the Seder table.Why on this night can we now eat kitniyot? Since the 13th century, the Passover custom among Ashkenazic Jews has been to prohibit kitniyot, or legumes, rice, seeds and corn. Chickpeas, popcorn, millet, lentils, e..

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