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6:25 AM ET, March 4, 2016

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CNN:
First on CNN: Team Romney explores blocking Trump at RNC  —  Washington (CNN)Mitt Romney has instructed his closest advisers to explore the possibility of stopping Donald Trump at the Republican National Convention, a source close to Romney's inner circle says.
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Eli Stokols / Politico:
GOP freakout goes from bad to worse  —  DETROIT — The high-speed unraveling of the Republican Party somehow accelerated further on Thursday, as the party's last two presidential nominees joined the chorus of establishment voices warning voters not to allow Donald Trump to become the GOP's standard-bearer.
Philip Rucker / Washington Post:
Rivals pile on Trump in Republican candidates' debate  —  The GOP debate, in less than 3 minutes  —  DETROIT — The calamity brought upon the Republican Party by Donald Trump was laid bare Thursday by its two most recent presidential nominees, who delivered unprecedented denunciations …
Jenna Johnson / Washington Post:
Blistering attacks upend Trump's pivot to statesman mode  —  First, Donald Trump attacked former Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney for being a “failed candidate.”  Then he turned to “little” Marco Rubio.  He angrily listed his recent wins and poll standings.
Discussion: Politico
mccain.senate.gov:
STATEMENT BY SASC CHAIRMAN JOHN McCAIN ON STATE OF THE REPUBLICAN PRESIDENTIAL PRIMARY CAMPAIGN  —  Washington, D.C. - U.S. Senator John McCain (R-AZ), Chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, released the following statement today on the state of the Republican presidential primary campaign:
Robert F. Bukaty / Los Angeles Times:
GOP elites have a new strategy to stop Donald Trump, but it carries a big risk  —  Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump waves to supporters after a campaign stop Thursday in Portland, Maine.  —  Now it's the establishment that wants to blow up the Republican Party.
Alex Pareene / Gawker:
Donald Trump Was Set Up  —  The word came in from our best-sourced Fox News Kremlinologists: Fox News had settled for Donald Trump.  Roger Ailes had given up on the hapless Marco Rubio.  Megyn Kelly was sounding conciliatory, granting that Trump appeared more and more presidential.
Discussion: New York Magazine
Danny Vinik / Politico:
The Trump platform that Mitt Romney just attacked looks a lot like Mitt Romney's
Discussion: Hinckley Institute
Eliza Collins / Politico:   Graham: A brokered convention wouldn't be fair to Trump
Eliza Collins / Politico:
Priebus: There will be no ‘shell games’ with GOP nomination
Discussion: Yahoo Politics
Sara Jerde / Talking Points Memo:
Trump Hits Back At Romney: He Would've Dropped To His Knees For Me In '12
Tierney Sneed / Talking Points Memo:
Trump Brags About His Penis Size: ‘I Guarantee You There Is No Problem’  —  Donald Trump responded to a jab Marcio Rubio has made about the size of Trump's hands — a line widely interpreted to be a reference to Trump's manhood — by promising that when it comes to the size of “something else,” he guarantees “there is no problem.”
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Gregory Krieg / CNN:
Donald Trump defends size of his penis  —  (CNN)Donald Trump assured American voters Thursday night that despite what Marco Rubio had suggested, there was “no problem” with the size of his hands — or anything else.  —  “Look at those hands, are they small hands?” the front-runner …
Dawn Ennis / Advocate:
She Is Cait, and I Am Not: Face to Face with Jenner  —  Winding my way 'round deadman's curves at unsafe speeds all the way up a Malibu mountaintop to meet Caitlyn Jenner, I asked myself: who would live here except a recluse?  Cut off from the rest of the world, high above it all …
Ryan Grim / The Huffington Post:
Donald Trump Gets AIDS In A New Movie, And That Has Studio Execs In A Panic  —  Afraid of Trump's reaction, they're “subtly trying to make it disappear,” says an industry source.  —  Washington bureau chief for The Huffington Post  —  Audiences at screenings around the world …
Shane Goldmacher / Politico:
Rubio's path to an outright win has vanished  —  Marco Rubio's path to the Republican nomination short of a contested convention has narrowed to nearly nothing as his campaign and allies reboot their strategy to prepare for months of guerrilla warfare to deny Donald Trump a clean, pre-convention victory.
Discussion: Hot Air and New York Times
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Matt Jarzemsky / Wall Street Journal:
Number of Troubled Companies Nears 2009 Peak  —  Financially strapped companies' ranks are swelling.  —  A Moody's Investors Service tally of the least-creditworthy companies rose by 10 to 274 this month, pushing it nearer to April 2009's record 291.  The list comprises companies rated …
Breitbart:
Mittens: GOP Establishment Chooses Mount Romney as Hill to Die on  —  After , , , , , and , the Republican establishment is now turning once again to the Adlai Stevenson of the GOP - Willard Mitt Romney.  —  Perhaps nothing is more symptomatic of the GOP establishment's death drive …
Dan Tuohy / UnionLeader.com:
DeLemus supporters sing ‘God Bless America’ at court appearance  —  New Hampshire Union Leader  —  Federal agents have arrested Jerry DeLemus, a local Tea Party leader who stood with Cliven Bundy's armed resistance at his ranch in Nevada in 2014, in connection with the standoff and alleged assault.
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U.S. Department of Justice:
Fourteen Additional Defendants Charged For Felony Crimes Related To 2014 Standoff In Nevada
Meghan Keneally / ABC News:
The Controversy Surrounding Trump University
Greg Jaffe / Washington Post:
Sasha Obama's high school classes will keep first family in Washington for a while  —  MILWAUKEE — President Obama can issue sweeping directives and deploy troops to faraway corners of the world.  But it became clear Thursday that the leader of the free world sometimes takes orders from his 14-year-old daughter.
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
Associated Press:
Romanians Make Fun of Bernie Sanders Over Internet Tweet  —  From across the ocean, Bernie Sanders has managed to offend a good number of Romanians.  —  A Romanian travel agency on Thursday offered Sanders airline tickets to visit the country as residents alternately mocked or felt hurt …
Discussion: JustOneMinute
Sahil Kapur / Bloomberg Business:
Trump Softens Immigrant Visa Stance After Cementing Front-Runner Status  —  And he made no apologies for it.  —  Two days after cementing his front-runner status for the Republican nomination, Donald Trump softened his position on legal immigration in Thursday's debate, and made no apologies for it.
Discussion: ParaPundit and Business Insider
Andy Sullivan / Reuters:
Republican governors mostly steer clear of presidential race  —  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - As Republican party insiders mount a desperate effort to derail the presidential campaign of billionaire Donald Trump, many of the party's 31 state governors are staying out of the fray.
Discussion: Truth Revolt
Sebastian Smith / Agence France-Presse:
Brazil on course for worst recession in century  —  Rio de Janeiro (AFP) - Brazil's economy shrank by 3.8 percent in 2015, the government said Thursday, with the biggest contraction in 25 years set to push the Latin American giant into its worst recession for more than a century.
Discussion: Infowars
 
 
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Lisa Belkin / Yahoo Politics:
John Kasich argues he's the grown-up on the GOP debate stage
Andrew Pulver / Guardian:
George Clooney interview: ‘Donald Trump is a xenophobic fascist’
Katie Zezima / Washington Post:
Chris Christie: 'I wasn't being held hostage' by Donald Trump
David A. Fahrenthold / Washington Post:
What ever happened to all that money Trump raised for the veterans?
Discussion: Bangor Daily News and U.S. Uncut
Tyler Durden / Zero Hedge:
How The U.S. Government And HSBC Teamed Up To Hide The Truth From A Pennsylvania Couple
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Kim Zetter / Wired:
Inside the Cunning, Unprecedented Hack of Ukraine's Power Grid
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Trump Goaded Bloomberg Into Planning a Presidential Campaign. Here's Why He Probably Won't Run.
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Fox News:
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