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10:30 AM ET, March 17, 2016

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David Montgomery / Twin Cities:
Candid Marco Rubio blasts Trump and media, calls Cruz ‘only conservative left in the race’  —  Former presidential candidate Marco Rubio told a group of Minnesota supporters Wednesday he is hoping one of the remaining candidates for president will stop Donald Trump from winning the Republican nomination.
Discussion: Politico, RedState and The Daily Caller
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Zach Carter / The Huffington Post:
Donald Trump Got More Votes In Ohio Than Hillary Clinton  —  Democrats still have a turnout problem.  —  Tuesday was a very good day for Hillary Clinton.  She swept primary challenger Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) in five states, effectively ending his chances of securing the Democratic presidential nomination.
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit and Slantpoint
Gabriel Debenedetti / Politico:
Democrats sound alarm against Trump  —  PHOENIX — Leading liberals and progressive groups are turning their gaze away from the Democratic primary and toward efforts to unite the left against Donald Trump, framing him as a dangerous and unprecedented candidate who poses an existential threat to the progressive movement and the nation.
Amanda Marcotte / Salon:
Stop “helping” Hillary: Sorry, guys, but Clinton doesn't need to smile, whisper, or have John Kasich as her running mate  —  Instructions to Clinton to smile more or pick Kasich as her VP are just sexism disguised as advice  —  Tuesday night, those who were lucky enough to be watching …
Matt Bai / Yahoo Politics:
How Kasich became National Republican Grownup
Gavin Jackson / Post and Courier:
Gov. Nikki Haley siding with Ted Cruz in GOP race
Brian Beutler / New Republic:
Why Would Obama Nominate an Old White Guy to the Supreme Court?  —  There are a few reasons.  Political calculation isn't one of them.  —  President Barack Obama's decision to nominate Merrick Garland, a 63-year-old white moderate and perennial short-lister, to the Supreme Court …
Discussion: The Moderate Voice
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Associated Press:
Analysis: Obama Dares GOP to Let Clinton, Trump Pick Justice
Discussion: Politico, abc13.com and ABC News
Harper Neidig / The Hill:
No hearing for Obama's Supreme Court nominee, McConnell says
Sarah Almukhtar / New York Times:
Why Obama Nominated Merrick Garland for the Supreme Court
Chuck Grassley:
Grassley Statement on the President's Nomination of Merrick Garland to the U.S. Supreme Court
Rose Garden / The White House:
Remarks by the President Announcing Judge Merrick Garland as his Nominee to the Supreme Court
Paul Watson / Infowars:
How the GOP Elite Plan To Rob Donald Trump  —  Cleveland, ladies and gentlemen, won't be for the faint of heart  —  Shhhh.  I've just come from a meeting of the Republican Establishment.  You know, those guys who want to replace what the voters want with what they want.  That Republican Establishment.
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A.B. Stoddard / The Hill:
GOP reality check: Trump or convention fight  —  In a crushing rout in the Florida primary Tuesday, Donald Trump  —  , the candidate who once symbolized the future of the GOP.  Trump notched wins in five of six states voting that night, securing a more direct path to the nomination …
Trip Gabriel / New York Times:
Republicans Enter a Shadow Campaign to Sew Up Delegates  —  COLUMBUS, Ohio — With more than half the states having now held their nominating contests, Donald J. Trump and Senator Ted Cruz are quietly directing their attention to a second, shadow election campaign — one that is out of sight …
Discussion: No More Mister Nice Blog and AOL
Karen Tumulty / Washington Post:
Wild card for Trump: Who gets to be a convention delegate?  —  Why Trump isn't a sure bet to win the nomination … With the increasingly loud talk of a contested Republican convention, the obscure process of picking who actually gets to be a delegate is about to get underway in states across the country …
Discussion: Betsy's Page and New York Times
Harper Neidig / The Hill:   GOP official: The party chooses the nominee, not the voters
Joel Manby / Los Angeles Times:
Op-Ed SeaWorld CEO: We're ending our orca breeding program.  Here's why.  —  A killer whale raises its head out of the water during the first show since an orca killed a trainer at the SeaWorld theme park in Orlando, Fla. on Feb. 27, 2010.  —  Americans' attitudes about orcas have changed dramatically.
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Greg Allen / NPR:
SeaWorld Agrees To End Captive Breeding Of Killer Whales
Danielle Kreutter / KKTV-TV:
Facebook Post Leads To Police Ticket  —  An important lesson to be careful about what you post on Facebook and other public sites.  One local man ended up getting a ticket after a video he posted on Facebook was viewed by police.  —  Michael Dalton told 11 News he loves making Facebook videos in his free time.
Discussion: WNEP-TV
Alex Pappas / The Daily Caller:
Trump Appears To Have Heavily Plagiarized Op-Ed From Carson  —  An op-ed penned this month by Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump and published online appears to be blatantly plagiarized from an article written days earlier under former rival Ben Carson's name, The Daily Caller has determined.
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news.nike.com:
NIKE HYPERADAPT 1.0 MANIFESTS THE UNIMAGINABLE  —  “Innovation at Nike is not about dreaming of tomorrow.  It's about accelerating toward it,” says Tinker Hatfield.  “We're able to anticipate the needs of athletes because we know them better than anybody.  Sometimes, we deliver a reality before others have even begun to imagine it.”
Michael Grunwald / Politico:
What We Missed About Rubio  —  In February 2013, Senator Marco Rubio let me sit in on the politics course he taught part time at Florida International University.  He knew I was writing a cover story about him for Time magazine, but he still gave his students a master class in self-promotion in my presence …
Eli Lake / BloombergView.com:
Cruz Assembles an Unlikely Team of Foreign-Policy Rivals  —  In a year when the Republican Party is breaking apart because of Donald Trump, the only man left with a chance to beat him is trying to build a big tent — by GOP standards — when it comes to foreign affairs.
Discussion: Talking Points Memo and Politico
Michael R. Bloomberg / BloombergView.com:
Canada's New Hope  —  The value of the Canadian dollar and the price of oil, one of the nation's top exports, have both tumbled to near record lows.  But those details — and the apparent demise of the Keystone XL pipeline — don't begin to tell the story of what lies ahead for the economy of Canada …
John Bresnahan / Politico:
Schock in limbo as feds still loom  —  One year after resigning in disgrace, Aaron Schock — the high-flying GOP congressman whose penchant for drawing publicity to himself was nearly unrivaled in the House of Representatives — has largely disappeared from view.  But federal prosecutors still have their sights on him.
Jordan Sargent / Gawker:
PBS News Story on First-Time Trump Voters Prominently Displays Longtime White Power Tattoos  —  Last night, PBS NewsHour ran a story on the Tilly family of Fayetteville, North Carolina.  The Tillys do not have a history of being active in politics, but various members of the family …
Jim Hoft / The Gateway Pundit:
Sean Hannity: If GOP Elites Steal Nomination from Trump or Cruz, “I'm Walking” (VIDEO)  —  Conservative Sean Hannity announced Wednesday that if Republican Party elites try to steal the nomination from Donald Trump or Ted Cruz at the convention. … The post Sean Hannity …
Discussion: TPNN
 
 
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Daniel Woodruff / KUTV-TV:
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John McCormack / Weekly Standard:
How Trump Can Be Stopped  —  With Donald Trump's defeat in Ohio …
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