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Frank Bruni / New York Times:
Five Big Questions After a Vulgar Republican Debate  —  Does the size of Donald Trump's penis matter?  —  I'm not being cheeky.  I'm not being shocking.  I'm noting something that we cannot lose track of, should not shrug our shoulders about and must not gloss over: Trump has succeeded …
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 …
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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.
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.”
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.
Glenn Thrush / Politico:
5 takeaways from the GOP debate  —  It might be too late to beat Donald Trump, but it wasn't too late to give Trump a beating.  —  Two days after Super Tuesday put the billionaire frontrunner on a nearly unstoppable path to his party's nomination, Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz …
Discussion: New York Times
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
Discussion: Politico
Robert F. Bukaty / Los Angeles Times:   GOP elites have a new strategy to stop Donald Trump, but it carries a big risk
Edward-Isaac Dovere / Politico:
GOP crackup has Democrats in stitches
Discussion: Telegraph
Danny Vinik / Politico:
The Trump platform that Mitt Romney just attacked looks a lot like Mitt Romney's
Discussion: Hinckley Institute
Alyssa Bereznak / Yahoo Politics:
In sign of apocalypse, Donald Trump defends the size of his... hands
Discussion: Politico, Vox, The Week and Mother Jones
Eliza Collins / Politico:   Graham: A brokered convention wouldn't be fair to Trump
Lisa Belkin / Yahoo Politics:   John Kasich argues he's the grown-up on the GOP debate stage
Eliza Collins / Politico:
Priebus: There will be no ‘shell games’ with GOP nomination
Discussion: Yahoo Politics
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 …
Judy Kurtz / The Hill:
Miley Cyrus pledges to leave US if Trump wins  —  becomes president.  —  “Honestly f— this s— I am moving if this is my president!” the 23-year-old “We Can't Stop” singer wrote to her more than 38 million Instagram followers on Wednesday.  —  In a lengthy post that included photos …
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 …
Jonathan V. Last / Weekly Standard:
Lion Ted: Cruz Crushes the Detroit Debate  —  In theory, Ted Cruz's best states are behind him.  But at the Detroit debate, Cruz was clearly the class of the field and it's clear that no one should count him out as the delegate race moves into its next phase.
Discussion: Power Line, CNN and ABC News
Fox News Insider:
Luntz Focus Group's Winner of GOP Debate, Low Point of Night  —  What did Michigan voters think about tonight's GOP debate in Detroit?  —  Frank Luntz shared the reactions of his focus group on a special post-debate edition of The Kelly File.  —  The voters had some very negative things …
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Clash of Republican Con Artists  —  So Republicans are going to nominate a candidate who talks complete nonsense on domestic policy; who believes that foreign policy can be conducted via bullying and belligerence; who cynically exploits racial and ethnic hatred for political gain.
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
Charlie Nash / Breitbart:
Pitt Students ‘In Tears’ and Feeling ‘Unsafe’ After Milo Yiannopoulos Event  —  The University of Pittsburgh's Student Government Board held a public meeting on Tuesday to discuss the traumatizing visit the night before from “dangerous” homosexual and Breitbart Tech Editor Milo Yiannopoulos …
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.
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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 …
Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Trump kills GOP autopsy  —  Reeling from a second straight loss to Barack Obama, a flailing Republican Party in 2013 found its culprit: Mitt Romney's callous tone toward minorities.  Instead of being doomed to irrelevance in a changing America, the party would rebrand as a kinder, more inclusive GOP.
Discussion: New York Post and ABC News
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.
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 …
 
 
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Michael Wines / New York Times:
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Joseph R. Biden Jr / New York Times:
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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Mitt Romney offers scathing indictment of Republican tax policies
Samuel Gibbs / Guardian:
Facebook to pay millions more in UK tax
Discussion: Forbes and Tax Research UK
Sebastian Smith / Agence France-Presse:
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Associated Press:
Romanians Make Fun of Bernie Sanders Over Internet Tweet
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Meghan Keneally / ABC News:
The Controversy Surrounding Trump University
Andy Sullivan / Reuters:
Republican governors mostly steer clear of presidential race
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Andrew Pulver / Guardian:
George Clooney interview: ‘Donald Trump is a xenophobic fascist’
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
Discussion: Vox Popoli and naked capitalism
Kim Zetter / Wired:
Inside the Cunning, Unprecedented Hack of Ukraine's Power Grid
Gabriel Sherman / New York Magazine:
Trump Goaded Bloomberg Into Planning a Presidential Campaign. Here's Why He Probably Won't Run.
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
Fox News:
FBI investigating if Clinton aides shared passwords to access classified info
 

 
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Madhumita Murgia / Financial Times:
The Financial Times signs a deal with OpenAI to train AI models on the publisher's archived content and to let ChatGPT reply with short summaries of FT articles

The Hollywood Reporter:
Paramount CEO Bob Bakish steps down; Brian Robbins, Chris McCarthy, and George Cheeks will run Paramount on an interim basis as an “Office of the CEO”

Alex Sherman / CNBC:
Sources: Shari Redstone agreed to take less than $2B for her Paramount stake as part of Skydance's “best and final” offer, lower than what was initially offered

 
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