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1:20 PM ET, February 23, 2016

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Ross Ramsey / The Texas Tribune:
UT/TT Poll: Cruz Leads Trump in Texas; Rubio Lags Behind … UT/TT Poll, February 2016 - Methodology UT/TT Poll, February 2016 - Summary  —  With a week remaining before the Texas Republican primary, U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz has an 8-percentage-point lead over Donald Trump, according to the latest University of Texas/Texas Tribune Poll.
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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 …
Discussion: Daily Kos, New York Times and The Hill
Todd J. Gillman / Trail Blazers Blog:
Ted Cruz tells O'Reilly he would round up and deport all 12 million who are in U.S. illegally  —  Updated at 10:30 p.m. Monday with comment from Cruz spokeswoman and Tuesday morning with Trump comment.  —  WASHINGTON -Ted Cruz said Monday night that he would use federal immigration officers …
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 …
Discussion: Washington Post and Raw Story
Ben Domenech / The Daily Beast:
Why Evangelicals Are Born Again for Donald Trump  —  Why are conservative Christians embracing a vulgar New York secularist?  Because the battlefield of the culture war has suddenly and irrevocably changed.  —  Southern evangelicals are the types of voters that Donald Trump was supposed to find problematic.
Rasmussen Reports:
Trump's Lead Grows with Jeb Out of the Race
Mike Allen / Politico:
Koch brothers' D.C. guru joins Marco Rubio team
Discussion: New York Times and The Week
James Nash / Bloomberg Business:
Trump Eyes Nevada for Third Consecutive Victory
Discussion: Yahoo Politics
Daniel W. Drezner / Washington Post:
My very peculiar and speculative theory of why the GOP has not stopped Donald Trump
Discussion: Vox and FT Alphaville
Ross Ramsey / The Texas Tribune:
UT/TT Poll: Clinton Still Leads in Texas, But Margin Has Narrowed
Discussion: Washington Post and KXAN-TV
David Limbaugh / Townhall.com:   Suggested Cruz Campaign Reboot: Show, Don't Tell
Spencer Ackerman / Guardian:
Guantánamo Bay: Obama reiterates call to close prison in final plan to Congress  —  President expresses frustration at seven-year battle to close ‘counterproductive’ facility in imploring Congress to shut down detention center  —  A final plan by Barack Obama to fulfill his pledge …
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New York Times:
WASHINGTON — The White House on Tuesday sent Congress a long-awaited plan for closing American prison in Guantánamo Bay, beginning a final push to fulfill one of President Obama's earliest and most troubled national security policy goals in the face of deep skepticism from many Republican lawmakers.
U.S. DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE:
Statement by Pentagon Press Secretary Peter Cook on Submission of Guantanamo Closure Plan
Discussion: Business Insider and Raw Story
Halimah Abdullah / NBC News:
Obama: I'm ‘Absolutely Committed to Closing’ Gitmo
Discussion: Mediaite and Business Insider
Missy Ryan / Washington Post:
Obama asks lawmakers to lift obstacles to closing prison at Guantanamo Bay
New York Times:
The Plan to Shut Down Gitmo
Discussion: NPR and New York Magazine
Adan / Infowars:
VIDEO: OBAMA CRACKS JOKE ABOUT SCALIA'S DEATH  —  President grins after making joke at late Supreme Court justice's expense  —  During his National Governors Association speech Monday, President Obama joked there was a lot to get done during his final days in office, including “appointing judges.”
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Joel Gehrke / Washington Examiner:   Biden walks back 1992 blockade of Supreme Court nominees
Jordain Carney / The Hill:
Collins backs hearing for Obama SCOTUS nominee
Financial Times:
Bill Gates backs FBI iPhone hack request  —  Bill Gates has broken ranks with Silicon Valley in the stand-off between Apple and the US government, saying technology companies should be forced to co-operate with law enforcement in terrorism investigations.  —  The Microsoft founder took issue …
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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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Politico:
Full transcript: POLITICO's Glenn Thrush interviews Ben Carson
Eugene Scott / CNN:
Spike Lee endorses Sanders, tells voters to ‘wake up’  — “And you know that I know that you know that the system is rigged!  For too long we've given our votes to corporate puppets,” Lee said  —  Washington (CNN)Director Spike Lee endorsed Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders …
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Matthew Jaffe / CNN:
Jon Huntsman: I could get behind Donald Trump
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” …
Tatiana Schlossberg / New York Times:
Death Valley Is Experiencing a Colorful ‘Superbloom’  —  Death Valley, one of the hottest places on Earth, is currently a riot of color: More than 20 different kinds of desert wildflowers are in bloom there after record-breaking rains last October.  —  It's the best bloom there since 2005 …
Discussion: Mashable
Julia Hahn / Breitbart:
EXCLUSIVE: ICE Officer to Rubio: ‘You Lied to American Public on FOX News,’ Challenges Him to Meet  —  Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Council President Chris Crane is issuing a challenge to Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) following Rubio's attack on the officer.
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Julia Hahn / Breitbart:
Law Enforcement Sides with Chris Crane After Rubio's Anti-ICE Tirade
Discussion: Scared Monkeys
Chuck Hickey / FOX31 Denver:
Dynel Lane, accused of cutting baby from womb, found guilty of attempted murder … BOULDER, Colo. — Dynel Lane, the Longmont woman accused of attacking another woman and cutting the unborn baby from her womb, was found guilty of six felony counts, including attempted first-degree murder …
Discussion: KTLA
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.
 
 
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