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10:35 AM ET, March 2, 2020

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New York Times:
Pete Buttigieg Drops Out of Democratic Presidential Race  —  The first openly gay major presidential candidate, Mr. Buttigieg rose to the primary's top tier, but was unable to build a broad coalition of voters, and lost badly in South Carolina Saturday.  —  SOUTH BEND, Ind. — Pete Buttigieg …
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Nihar Kabinittal / ABC News:
Bloomberg's biggest test: winning votes on Super Tuesday
Discussion: NBC News, Politico and The Daily Beast
John Wagner / Washington Post:   Election live updates: Ahead of Super Tuesday, Democrats make late-hour appeals in reshaped race
Tim Miller / The Bulwark:
A Tale of Two Mayors  —  A song of Pete and Mike.
Discussion: The Guardian
Chelsea JanesAmy B Wang / Washington Post:
Pete Buttigieg is ending his presidential bid
ABC7:   Bernie Sanders brushes off Joe Biden's South Carolina win: 'We're going to do just fine on Tuesday'
Daniel Kreps / Rolling Stone:
Public Enemy Fire Flavor Flav After Bernie Sanders Rally Spat  —  “We thank him for his years of service and wish him well”  —  Public Enemy announced they are permanently “moving forward” without Flavor Flav, firing one of hip-hop's most memorable hypemen after more than 35 years.
Pete Williams / NBC News:
Supreme Court will take up challenge to Obamacare's individual mandate  —  The decision to take up the lawsuit in the new term that starts in October means the program will continue for at least another year and any ruling will come after Election Day.  —  The Supreme Court said Monday …
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Robert Barnes / Washington Post:
Supreme Court will once again consider fate of Affordable Care Act  —  The Supreme Court will hear a third challenge to the Affordable Care Act, this time at the request of Democratic-controlled states that are fighting a lower court decision that challenged the constitutionality of the law.
Discussion: Raw Story
Mark Sherman / Associated Press:   Supreme Court will decide fate of Obama health care law
Richard Salame / The Guardian:
Texas closes hundreds of polling sites, making it harder for minorities to vote  —  Guardian analysis finds that places where black and Latino population is growing by the largest numbers experienced the majority of closures and could benefit Republicans  —  Last year, Texas led the US south …
Nick Miroff / Washington Post:
Ken Cuccinelli's appointment to top immigration job was unlawful, court rules, invalidating policy memos he signed  —  A federal judge ruled Sunday that President Trump's appointment last year of Ken Cuccinelli to be head of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services was a violation of federal vacancy laws …
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Nihar Kabinittal / Associated Press:
Judge rules head of immigration agency was unlawfully named
Discussion: Fox News
William Kristol / The Bulwark:
The Simple Answer  —  Don't overthink your Super Tuesday vote.  —  “They say the world has become too complex for simple answers.  They are wrong.  There are no easy answers, but there are simple answers.”  —  You are a normal American.  You don't like demagogues of the right or the left.
Discussion: The Week and Althouse
George Packer / The Atlantic:
The President Is Winning His War on American Institutions  —  When Donald Trump came into office, there was a sense that he would be outmatched by the vast government he had just inherited.  —  The new president was impetuous, bottomlessly ignorant, almost chemically inattentive …
Discussion: Raw Story
Timothy Bella / Washington Post:
Trump retweets video of him defeating his critics after second confirmed coronavirus death reported in U.S.  —  Shortly after health officials in Washington state confirmed the second U.S. death from the novel coronavirus in as many days, President Trump retweeted an animated video Sunday night …
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Lawrence Mower / Tampa Bay Times:   Florida's first coronavirus cases found in Hillsborough and Manatee counties
New York Times:
2nd Death Near Seattle Adds to Signs Coronavirus Is Spreading in U.S.  —  Officials see growing indications that the virus has been spreading undetected for weeks.  A cluster of cases at one nursing home have made Kirkland, Wash., a focus of concern.  —  KIRKLAND, Wash. …
CNN:
Obama tells Biden he won't endorse anybody yet  —  (CNN)In former President Barack Obama's conversation with Joe Biden after the South Carolina primary — the first congratulatory call the former president has been able to make to his former vice president during the 2020 campaign …
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Ben Smith / New York Times:
Why the Success of The New York Times May Be Bad News for Journalism  —  In his debut, our new media columnist says The Times has become like Facebook or Google — a digital behemoth crowding out the competition.  —  The first time I met A.G. Sulzberger, the publisher of The New York Times, I tried to hire him.
Hiroko Tabuchi / New York Times:
How a Trump Insider Embeds Climate Denial in Scientific Research  —  An official at the Interior Department embarked on a campaign that has inserted misleading language about climate change — including debunked claims that increased carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is beneficial …
Axios:
CDC lab for coronavirus test kits may have been contaminated  —  The Trump administration has ordered an independent investigation of the lab.
Elizabeth Cohen / CNN:
CDC hasn't revealed information to doctors that would help coronavirus patients  —  (CNN)As new cases of coronavirus arise daily in the United States — including several announced over the weekend and one death — the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has failed …
Discussion: The Intellectualist and Raw Story
David Von Drehle / Washington Post:
Vladimir Putin's virus  —  How the Russian president has infected our national trust  —  The president of the United States fires his director of national intelligence after aides brief a congressional committee on new Russian efforts to interfere in the 2020 election.
Leah Nylen / Politico:
Bad news for Silicon Valley: William Barr is taking control of antitrust probes  —  Attorney General William Barr has spent months taking greater control of the Justice Department's antitrust probes into the big tech companies, a development that could increase the peril for major players like Google and Facebook.
Discussion: National Review and Raw Story
Katie Mettler / Washington Post:
‘STOP BUYING MASKS’: Health officials beg Americans to stop panic-shopping  —  The morning after the United States reported its second coronavirus death, health and government officials continued to plead with Americans to stop buying precautionary face masks — unless they are already sick or a health-care worker.
Rishika Dugyala / Politico:
Klobuchar rally in Minnesota canceled amid protests  —  Sen. Amy Klobuchar canceled a rally in her home state Sunday night as several dozen protesters chanted “Black Lives Matter,” “Klobuchar has got to go” and “Free Myon” — referencing the case of a black teenager convicted of murder after a flawed police investigation.
ASPI:
Uyghurs for sale … The Chinese government has facilitated the mass transfer of Uyghur and other ethnic minority1 citizens from the far west region of Xinjiang to factories across the country.  Under conditions that strongly suggest forced labour, Uyghurs are working in factories …
Associated Press:
Virus kills member of council advising Iran's supreme leader  —  TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — A member of a council that advises Iran's supreme leader died Monday after falling sick from the new coronavirus, state radio reported, becoming the first top official to succumb to the illness …
Discussion: POLITICUSUSA and The Week
Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
Republicans plot blue-state invasion in November  —  National Republicans are launching a multi-million-dollar field effort in four blue states, a move that comes as Democrats express mounting concern that a Bernie Sanders nomination could doom them in critical down-ballot contests.
 
 
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Jackson Diehl / Washington Post:
Putin is an expert at poisoning dissidents. Trump shouldn't just let it happen.
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