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10:25 PM ET, March 2, 2016

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Nick Gehring / bencarson.com:
Official Statement by Dr. Ben Carson  —  I have decided not to attend the Fox News GOP Presidential Debate tomorrow night in Detroit.  Even though I will not be in my hometown of Detroit on Thursday, I remain deeply committed to my home nation, America.  I do not see a political path forward …
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Robert Costa / Washington Post:
Ben Carson tells supporters he sees no ‘path forward’ for presidential campaign  —  Ben Carson, the retired neurosurgeon who briefly led the Republican presidential race before his campaign began an extended public implosion, told his supporters in a statement Wednesday afternoon that he does not see a …
Bloomberg Business:
Romney to Lay Out Case Against Trump in Speech Thursday  —  The party's 2012 presidential nominee will argue against allowing the billionaire front-runner follow in his footsteps.  —  michaelcbender  —  justinsink  —  The rapidly intensifying effort by the Republican establishment …
Adam Goldman / Washington Post:
Justice Dept. grants immunity to staffer who set up Clinton email server  —  The Justice Department has granted immunity to the former State Department staffer who worked on Hillary Rodham Clinton's private email server, a sign the FBI investigation into possible criminal wrongdoing is progressing.
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New York Times:
As Presidential Campaign Unfolds, So Do Inquiries Into Clinton's Emails
Discussion: Doug Ross
Frank Pallotta / CNNMoney:
ESPN ‘addressing’ Curt Schilling's Hillary Clinton slam
Discussion: Mediaite
Alexander Burns / New York Times:
Anti-Trump Republicans Call for a Third-Party Option  —  Spurred by Donald J. Trump's mounting victories, a small but influential — and growing — group of conservative leaders are calling for a third-party option to spare voters a wrenching general election choice between a Republican …
Discussion: Outside the Beltway
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Brian Beutler / New Republic:
Donald Trump's Nomination Will Have Real, Lasting Upsides  —  And the only thing that can stop it now is well-intentioned, but deeply misguided, #NeverTrump liberals.  —  In 2008, Republicans suffered a landslide defeat after placing Sarah Palin on the ballot and setting her loose on the campaign trail …
Lauren Fox / Talking Points Memo:
Harry Reid Savages Republicans For Making Trump
Discussion: Washington Monthly
Dan Balz / Washington Post:
Clinton, Trump victories foreshadow a nasty, contentious fall campaign
Gabriel Sherman / New York Magazine:
More Bad News for Marco Rubio: He Just Lost the Support of Fox News  —  “We can't do the Rubio thing anymore,” Roger Ailes told a network host.  —  In his role as the donor class's darling, Marco Rubio has enjoyed support from the Republican's media arm, Fox News.
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Ed O'Keefe / Washington Post:
Can Marco Rubio save his campaign, and his career, in Florida?
Tré Goins-Phillips / TheBlaze.com:
'It's Unstoppable': Glenn Beck Lays Out His 2016 ‘Dream Team’
Isaac Chotiner / Slate:
What Went Wrong for Marco Rubio
Julie Hirschfeld Davis / New York Times:
White House Said to Be Vetting Appeals Court Judge for Supreme Court Seat  —  WASHINGTON — The White House is vetting Jane L. Kelly, a career public defender turned federal appellate judge, as a potential nominee for the Supreme Court, as President Obama closes in on a decision that could reshape …
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Cristina Marcos / The Hill:
House to vote on filing brief in Supreme Court immigration case
Discussion: Daily Kos
KFOR-TV:
Police: Former CEO of Chesapeake Aubrey McClendon killed in car wreck  —  OKLAHOMA CITY - Police officers confirm that a man killed in a car wreck early Wednesday morning is the former CEO of Chesapeake Aubrey McClendon  —  On Wednesday, firefighters were called to a car wreck on Midwest Blvd., between Memorial and 122nd St.
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Jacob Pramuk / CNBC:
Police: McClendon crashed traveling at ‘high rate of speed’  —  Fmr. Chesapeake CEO killed in car crash  —  Former Chesapeake Energy CEO Aubrey McClendon, was killed in a car accident early on Wednesday in Oklahoma City, as announced in a police press conference.
Howard Sheppard / WPMT FOX43:
86-year-old woman accidentally hangs herself with medical alert necklace  —  CUMBERLAND COUNTY, Pa. - An 86-year-old Cumberland County woman is dead after she trips and is accidentally hanged by her medical alert necklace.  It happened on February 15.  —  County Coroner Charles Hall …
Discussion: WGN-TV and KTLA
Ben White / Politico:
Wall Street readies big Trump assault  —  NEW YORK — Wall Street is getting ready to go nuclear on Donald Trump.  —  Terrified that the reality TV star could run away with the Republican nomination and bring his brand of anti-immigrant, protectionist populism to the White House …
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JAMES EDWARDS:
Political Cesspool Host James Edwards Reports From Inside Donald Trump's Press Pen  —  I attended a Donald Trump rally in Memphis on Saturday night as a fully credentialed member of the media and enjoyed the unique experience of being able to air a live broadcast of The Political Cesspool Radio Program …
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USA Today:
Tavis Smiley: Black America could get on Trump train
Allison Yang / New York's PIX11:
Family mourns transgender woman who died after eating seeds from ‘suicide tree’  —  CALUMET CITY, Ill. — A mother of a 22-year-old transgender woman is warning other parents to beware of a deadly seed from an Asian plant called the “suicide tree.”  —  Two weeks ago, Natosha Anderson found …
Sara Jerde / Talking Points Memo:
Texas County GOP Implodes Over Newly-Elected Chairman's Crude Tweets  —  The vice chair of the Republican Party in Travis County, Texas wants to remove the newly-elected chairman of the chapter from his post over comments he tweeted Tuesday about the Clintons having sex and jailing members of the Bush family.
Discussion: Joe.My.God.
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Austin American-Statesman:
Robert Morrow, new Travis GOP chair, faces party revolt
Jordan Rudner / The Texas Tribune:
Travis County GOP Apoplectic Over New Chairman
Tom Hamburger / Washington Post:
GOP strategist Castellanos: Time to rally around Trump, ‘too late to ask mommy to step in and rewrite rules’  —  Even as major Republican donors coalesced Wednesday around a last-ditch effort to halt Donald Trump's march toward the GOP presidential nomination, resignation was setting in among some onetime Trump critics.
Discussion: New York Magazine
Eric Holthaus / Slate:
“The Old Normal Is Gone”: February Shatters Global Temperature Records  —  Our planet's preliminary February temperature data are in, and it's now abundantly clear: Global warming is going into overdrive.  —  There are dozens of global temperature datasets, and usually I …
Andrew Kaczynski / BuzzFeed:
Trump On His Trump U Blog: “Outsourcing Jobs... Not Always A Terrible Thing”  —  “Outsourcing Creates Jobs in the Long Run.”  —  John Moore / Getty Images  —  In his speech after his victory on Super Tuesday Republican frontrunner Donald Trump said he'd stop American jobs from moving overseas …
Nicholas Confessore / New York Times:
Beneath Hillary Clinton's Super Tuesday Wins, Signs of Turnout Trouble  —  Hillary Rodham Clinton set out 10 months ago to inspire and energize the Democratic Party, hoping to bring together the rising American electorate of black, brown, young and female voters into a durable presidential coalition.
Alexandra Petri / Washington Post:
Chris Christie's wordless screaming  —  Is Chris Christie okay?  —  I believe that Donald Trump was talking, tonight, and that he, in fact, held an entire press conference.  But it was impossible to hear him over Chris Christie's eyes.  —  Chris Christie spent the entire speech screaming wordlessly.
Joshua Miller / BostonGlobe.com:
Charlie Baker won't vote for Donald Trump in November  —  NORTH ANDOVER — Massachusetts Republican Governor Charlie Baker, under pressure from Democrats and the news media to take a position on whether he would publicly support Donald J. Trump, should he be the GOP presidential nominee …
Nick Gass / Politico:
Limbaugh: Trump has been ‘planning this for years’  —  Donald Trump's campaign did not just happen out of a spur-of-the-moment decision, Rush Limbaugh said Wednesday, recalling past golfing trips and talks with the candidate-to-be.  —  “It was a conversation like that …
Discussion: Rush Limbaugh and Political Wire
 
 
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John Hinderaker / Power Line:
To Flee Donald Trump's America, You Will Need the Right Documents
Kate Knibbs / Gawker:
How to Move to Canada If Trump Wins, By a Person Who Moved to Canada When Bush Won
Discussion: Grist
Jesse Byrnes / The Hill:
Murdoch: GOP ‘would be mad’ not to unify around Trump if he's nominee
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit and Politico
LASVEGASNOW:
I-Team: Clinton aide seeks UFO files
Discussion: Mother Jones
Ben Sisario / New York Times:
Bob Dylan's Secret Archive
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Vivian Yee / New York Times:
Racism Charges in Bus Incident, and Their Unraveling, Upset University at Albany
Margaret Sullivan / New York Times:
How Trump's ‘Off the Record’ Remarks Crept Out
Discussion: Mediaite and The Intercept
Wes Swietek / Daily News:
Trump leads among Kentucky GOP voters in WKU poll
Discussion: Business Insider
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Todd Zywicki / Washington Post:
So far, Trump wins open primaries and Cruz wins closed ... and the calendar is starting …
Discussion: Power Line
Egyptian Streets:
Egyptian Student Who ‘Threatened Trump’ on Facebook to Be Deported
Jason Meisner / Chicago Tribune:
Chicago police officer faces sentencing in beating caught on camera
Discussion: Chicagoist and Newsalert
Adam Liptak / New York Times:
Supreme Court Appears Sharply Divided as It Hears Texas Abortion Case
Edward-Isaac Dovere / Politico:
Dems: Trump may get us a SCOTUS win
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