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Todd J. Gillman / Trail Blazers Blog:
Ted Cruz tells O'Reilly he would round up and deport all 12 million — updated at 10:30 pm with comment from Cruz spokeswoman. — WASHINGTON -Ted Cruz said tonight that he would use federal immigration officers to round up and deport all 12 million people in the country illegally …
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Sahil Kapur / Bloomberg Business:
Four Problems With the ‘Winnowing’ Theory of Trump's Downfall — For months, establishment Republicans have envisioned the billionaire losing support as the presidential field narrows. — Jeb Bush's decision to drop out of the presidential race after a dismal fourth-place finish …
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Washington Post, Raw Story and The Daily Caller
Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
GOP wakes up to Trump nightmare — Establishment Republicans are reckoning with something they thought would never happen: That it might soon be too late to stop Donald Trump. — With the controversial businessman the clear front-runner heading into Nevada and next week's Super Tuesday contests …
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New York Times and The Hill
Kyle Cheney / Politico:
GOP to Kasich: Get out — FAIRFAX, Va. — The Republican establishment has a message for John Kasich: get out, and get out of Marco Rubio's way. — A string of elected officials, GOP insiders and prominent donors officially threw their support behind Rubio on Monday, calling him their last chance to take down Donald Trump.
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Alexander Burns / New York Times:
At Nevada Caucuses, Donald Trump's Rivals Hope to Break His Streak
Hanna Trudo / Politico:
Cruz lurches right on immigration
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Washington Post and Little Green Footballs
Dylan Byers / CNNMoney:
Donald Trump declines to appear on Megyn Kelly's ‘Voter Summit’
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Talking Points Memo, New York Magazine and BizPac Review
Julia Hahn / Breitbart:
Law Enforcement Sides with Chris Crane After Rubio's Anti-ICE Tirade
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Scared Monkeys and Politicus USA
Fredreka Schouten / USA Today:
Meet the woman funding the effort to stop Trump
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Numbers / Pew Research Center for the People …:
Majority of Public Wants Senate to Act on Obama's Court Nominee — Most opponents reject hearings no matter whom Obama nominates — In the high-stakes battle over replacing Justice Antonin Scalia on the Supreme Court, a majority of Americans (56%) say the Senate should hold hearings …
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Jordain Carney / The Hill:
Collins backs hearing for Obama SCOTUS nominee
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Julie Hirschfeld Davis / New York Times:
Joe Biden Argued for Delaying Supreme Court Picks in 1992
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Glenn Thrush / Politico:
Ben Carson: Obama was ‘raised white’ — GREENVILLE, S.C. - Ben Carson is the only person in the 2016 presidential field who is vying to become the country's second African-American president. — If truth be told, however, he's not entirely sure he wouldn't actually be the first.
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David McCabe / The Hill:
Clinton-Sanders battle stirs passionate Facebook debate — The Democratic primary fight between Hillary Clinton — is spilling over to Facebook, where supporters of both candidates are engaged in a passionate debate over who should be the party's standard-bearer this fall.
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Ashley Parker / New York Times:
Reporter's Notebook: Voters Might Not Miss Jeb Bush, but Campaign Reporters Will — Voters Might Not Miss Jeb Bush, but Campaign Reporters Will — Jeb Bush was like a goofy dad, an awkward uncle. He spoke to children like adults and told jokes that made no sense.
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Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Why Jeb Bush's Campaign Died While Hillary Clinton's Lived
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No More Mister Nice Blog
Maajid Nawaz / The Daily Beast:
How Obama Lost the Mideast to Putin — Vision, strategy, and courage might have prevented the disaster we see today in Syria. But those elements were nowhere to be found. — LONDON — The Middle East is in flames. Just as Iraq was President George W. Bush's catastrophic legacy, Syria will be Obama's.
Sarah El Sirgany / CNN:
READ: Egypt toddler sentenced — Officials offered different explanations. — An aide to the Interior Minister phoned Ebrashy's show to say it was a case of mistaken identity. — The aide, General Abu Bakr Abdel-Karim, promised that Ahmed and his father would not be jailed.
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David Limbaugh / Townhall.com:
Suggested Cruz Campaign Reboot: Show, Don't Tell — I don't believe I've ever presumed to offer unsolicited advice on campaign strategy to a presidential candidate, especially in a public forum, but I've decided to make an exception today. — I am an unabashed Ted Cruz supporter and believe …
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Nolan D. McCaskill / Politico:
Cruz fires top staffer for promoting false story about Rubio and the Bible
Justin Gillis / New York Times:
Seas Are Rising at Fastest Rate in Last 28 Centuries — The oceans are rising faster than at any point in the last 28 centuries, and human emissions of greenhouse gases are primarily responsible, scientists reported Monday. — They added that the flooding that is starting to make life miserable …
Todd Starnes / Reuters:
Chick-fil-A flap rocks another American university — The war on poultry rages on yet another public university campus - this time at the University of Nebraska - Kearney. — The hullabaloo started last January when students were asked to select a new dining option for the student union.
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John Hawkins' Right Wing News, The Last Tradition and Independent Journal Review
Benny Johnson / Independent Journal Review:
Actor Adam Baldwin Quits Twitter ‘For Good’ in Protest of the Platform Censoring Conservatives — Actor Adam Baldwin has quit Twitter and he isn't coming back. — Baldwin, who currently stars in the TNT hit show “The Last Ship,” tells Independent Journal Review that Twitter's new policy …
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The Right Scoop, American Power and Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion
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Gallup:
“Dishonest” and “Socialist” Lead U.S. Reactions to Dems — PRINCETON, N.J. — Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders have multifaceted images among the American public. But the most common responses Americans give when asked to say what comes to mind when they think of each are “dishonest” …
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Politico, Associated Press and Washington Free Beacon
Ellie Zolfagharifard For / Daily Mail:
Largest fireball since Chelyabinsk falls into the ocean: Nasa reports huge explosion of seven meter space rock over the Atlantic — A huge fireball crashed into the Atlantic earlier this month - and went almost unseen. — The event took place on February 6 at 14:00 UTC when a meteor exploded …
Detroit Free Press:
Ex-Snyder aide: Financial focus led to crisis in Flint … Schornack predicts successful recall vote — LANSING — The drinking water catastrophe in Flint is the result of a failed model of trying to run state government like a business, says a former adviser to Gov. Rick Snyder …
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Motor City Muckraker and Washingtonian
Andy Cush / Gawker:
Hot Mic Captures Trump Chatting With Morning Joe Hosts: “You Had Me Almost As a Legendary Figure” — The comedian and radio show host Harry Shearer has audio of what sure sounds like a casual off-the-air exchange between Donald Trump and Morning Joe co-hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski.
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Sara Jerde / Talking Points Memo:
Hot Mic Captures Trump Asking ‘Morning Joe’ Hosts For No ‘Too Hard’ Questions (AUDIO)
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RedState and Hullabaloo
Numbers / Pew Research Center for the People …:
More Support for Justice Department Than for Apple in Dispute Over Unlocking iPhone — Slight partisan differences in views of issue — As the standoff between the Department of Justice and Apple Inc. continues over an iPhone used by one of the suspects in the San Bernardino terrorist attacks …
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David Pierson / Los Angeles Times:
Pew survey: More Americans say Apple should unlock terrorist's iPhone
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