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3:40 AM ET, March 5, 2016

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New York Times:
Rank and File Republicans Tell Party Elites: We're Sticking With Donald Trump  —  From Michigan to Louisiana to California on Friday, rank-and-file Republicans expressed mystification, dismissal and contempt for the instructions that their party's most high-profile leaders are urgently handing down to them …
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Karen Tumulty / Washington Post:
Trump throws the GOP into an identity crisis … Only a year ago, Republicans were congratulating themselves on having the strongest field of presidential candidates in a generation — diverse, highly credentialed conservatives who might be the salvation of a party that lost the popular vote in five of the last six elections.
Tim Mak / The Daily Beast:
Can Newt Gingrich Save GOP?  —  Newt Gingrich—yes, you read that right—is trying to play peacemaker between Republicans in Washington and the Trump campaign.  —  The Republican Party's establishment is slowly coming to terms with a tough reality: Donald Trump will be the nominee, and resistance is futile.
David Brooks / New York Times:
Donald Trump, the Great Betrayer
Andrew Blankstein / NBC News:
Knife Found on O.J. Simpson Property Inconsistent With Killings: Sources  —  A knife found over a dozen years ago on land where O.J. Simpson once lived appears to be inconsistent with the 1994 murders of the former football star's wife and her friend, multiple law enforcement sources told NBC News.
Discussion: Hot Air, ProFootballTalk and NBC News
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Myung J. Chun / Los Angeles Times:
Knife found on O.J. Simpson property being tested by LAPD  —  O.J. Simpson reacts as he is found not guilty of murdering his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ronald Goldman.  With him are members of his defense team, F. Lee Bailey, left, and Johnnie Cochran Jr.
TMZ.com:
O.J. Simpson — Buried Knife Found at O.J.'s Estate
Chico Harlan / Washington Post:
The debilitating economic disaster Louisiana's governor left behind  —  BATON ROUGE, La. — Already, the state of Louisiana had gutted university spending and depleted its rainy day funds.  It had cut 30,000 employees and furloughed others.  It had slashed the number of child services staffers …
Damian Paletta / Wall Street Journal:
Trump Reverses His Stance on Torture  —  Leading GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump said he wouldn't order the U.S. military to break international laws, addressing criticism from military and legal experts that his policies regarding torture and killing the family members of terrorists would violate the Geneva Convention.
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Ryan Browne / CNN:
Donald Trump reverses position on torture, killing terrorists' families
Discussion: TIME, Althouse and Washington Times
Sahil Kapur / Bloomberg Business:
Cruz Serves Up Spoilers on Contested Convention and Rubio's Florida Hopes  —  The Texas senator flatly rejected the idea of a contested convention on Friday at CPAC, warning that it would lead to a “manifest revolt.”  —  Ted Cruz flatly rejected the idea of a contested convention on Friday …
Discussion: Althouse
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Hot Air:   Cruz tries to take out Rubio in Florida, opens 10 campaign offices across the state
Patricia Mazzei / Naked Politics:
Ted Cruz makes play for Florida
Eliza Collins / Politico:
Jim Webb: I won't vote for Clinton, but I may for Trump  —  Former Democratic presidential candidate Jim Webb won't be voting for Hillary Clinton, but he hasn't ruled out casting his ballot for Donald Trump.  —  Webb, who briefly flirted with an independent bid before deciding against it …
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Wesley Pruden / Washington Times:   How could everybody get it so wrong?
Kendall Breitman / Bloomberg Business:
Romney Would Support Play to Stop Trump at Convention
Mark Hensch / The Hill:
Brother of murdered civil rights leader endorses Trump  —  for president.  —  “I believe in him first of all because he's a businessman,” Charles Evers said, according to The Clarion-Ledger.  “I think jobs are badly needed in Mississippi.”  —  Evers's brother, Medgar Evers, was assassinated in Jackson, Miss., in 1963.
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
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The Clarion Ledger:
Brother of slain civil rights leader Medgar Evers endorses Trump
Kenneth P. Vogel / Politico:
Behind Trump's CPAC deal gone bad  —  NATIONAL HARBOR, Maryland Donald Trump spent five years building a mutually beneficial relationship with the organization that hosts the annual Conservative Political Action Conference, filling its coffers with at least $150,000 in cash …
Ian Millhiser / ThinkProgressPage Array:
BREAKING: Supreme Court Reopens Clinics Closed By Anti-Abortion Law  —  The Supreme Court handed down a brief order Monday allowing four Louisiana abortion clinics to reopen after they were closed due to a recent decision by a conservative federal appeals court.
Discussion: addictinginfo.org and Slantpoint
Christian Datoc / The Daily Caller:
During a monologue Friday about Donald Trump's Thursday night debate performance, radio host Glenn Beck said that if he “had a knife, the stabbing just wouldn't stop.”  —  Beck's co-host, Stu Burguiere, told The Daily Caller Friday — after this article's publication — that …
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit and Politico
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J.D. Durkin / Mediaite:
No, Glenn Beck Did Not Say He Would Have Stabbed Trump at Last Night's GOP Debate
Discussion: Infowars and Joe.My.God.
Greg Margason / Fox 59:
Joey Feek from Joey + Rory passes away after battle with cancer  —  ALEXANDRIA, Ind. (March 4, 2016) - Hoosier native Joey Feek of the country music duo Joey + Rory passed away Friday, her husband Rory wrote.  —  “My wife's greatest dream came true today,” Rory wrote.  “She is in Heaven.”
Nick Gass / Politico:
Ben Carson announces campaign is over  —  Ben Carson is suspending his bid for the presidency, the retired neurosurgeon announced Friday, speaking at the Conservative Political Action Conference in National Harbor, Maryland.  —  “Even though I might be leaving the campaign trail …
Discussion: RedState and NY State of Politics
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Tal Kopan / CNN:
Ben Carson to lead Christian voter group
Discussion: KLFY-TV and The Atlantic
Lynnley Browning / Bloomberg Business:
Sanders Tax Plans Seen Raising $15.3 Trillion Over 10 Years  —  Broad tax increases would hit top earners hardest, report says  —  Proposals could reduce incentives to invest, study finds  —  Senator Bernie Sanders's proposals for sweeping tax hikes on businesses and individuals …
Discussion: The Agonist
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Jim Hoft / The Gateway Pundit:
VIDEO=> Trump Supporters Walk Out on Ted Cruz at CPAC  —  So this happened.  —  Trump supporters today walked out on Senator Ted Cruz during his CPAC speech.  —  This happened during Cruz's lecture at CPAC. … The post VIDEO=> Trump Supporters Walk Out on Ted Cruz at CPAC appeared first on The Gateway Pundit.
Niall Stanage / The Hill:
Debate fatigue sets in for GOP  —  There are two more Republican presidential debates left on the schedule — and that is more than enough for party insiders, who fear that the insult-rich clashes are becoming deeply damaging to the GOP's image.  —  In their minds, Thursday's debate in Detroit was a nadir.
Gregg Zoroya / USA Today:
New VA hotline chief has a history of dropped calls from veterans  —  A former Air Force officer chosen to fix the VA's problem-plagued suicide hotline has been running other agency phone banks that have a poor record of service, dropping as many as one in five calls from veterans, according to internal data provided to USA TODAY.
Jesse Byrnes / The Hill:
Clinton has most retweeted tweet of GOP debate  —  's campaign mocking the shouting matches between Republican candidates became the most retweeted moment of the Thursday GOP debate.  —  The tweet showed a clip of Donald Trump  —  jawing at each other with subtitles stating " …
Paul Schwartzman / Washington Post:
Psychologists and massage therapists are reporting ‘Trump anxiety’ among clients  —  To the catalogue of anxieties her patients explore during therapy — marriage, children, and careers — psychologist Alison Howard is now listening to a new source of stress: the political rise of Donald Trump.
Daily Mail:
Hillary Clinton promises to ‘get to the bottom of UFO mystery’ if elected, and ‘maybe send a task force’ to alleged alien prison Area 51  — Podesta pressured Bill Clinton and Barack Obama to declassify files while working for their administrations  —  While Donald Trump continues to promise …
Discussion: CANNONFIRE and New York Magazine
John Berlau / Forbes:
How Fiduciary Rule May Censor Financial Broadcasters Like Dave Ramsey  —  Popular financial radio show host Dave Ramsey caused a firestorm on Twitter last week when he weighed in against the “fiduciary rule”—the controversial pending Department of Labor regulation that would impose …
Jason Noble / Des Moines Register:
Patty Judge makes it official: She's running for Senate  —  It's official: Patty Judge is running for the U.S. Senate.  —  The Democratic former Iowa lieutenant governor and secretary of agriculture confirmed her intention to seek the seat long held by Republican U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley …
 
 
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Claire E. Parker / Harvard News:
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Jeremy B. Merrill / New York Times:
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Katherine Krueger / Talking Points Memo:
GOPer Who Made Muslims Renounce Terrorism Loses Primary By 118 Votes
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 Earlier Items: 
Steven Shepard / Politico:
Insiders: Convention is only chance to stop Trump
South Florida / Sun-Sentinel:
Why we can't endorse Trump, Rubio, Cruz or Kasich
Discussion: Florida Politics
Sophie Jamieson / Telegraph:
Rupert Murdoch and Jerry Hall marry on Friday …
Discussion: TalkLeft
Guy Benson / Townhall.com:
Vanity, Fear: Why Trump Dropped Out of CPAC
Discussion: Washington Post
Dan Snierson / EW.com:
PRESIDENT OBAMA THANKS MYTHBUSTERS FOR PROVING THAT AMERICA DID ACTUALLY LAND ON THE MOON
Discussion: Raw Story and Comicbook.com
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