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12:00 PM ET, February 17, 2016

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CNN:
Poll: Clinton, Sanders in a dead heat for Nevada  —  Washington (CNN)Likely Democratic caucusgoers in Nevada are split almost evenly between Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders ahead of Saturday's caucuses, according to a new CNN/ORC Poll.  —  Though Clinton holds an edge over Sanders …
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Michael Falcone / ABC News:
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Alan Rappeport / New York Times:
National Poll Shows Donald Trump With Big Lead and Democrats in Virtual Tie
Discussion: Prairie Weather
USA Today:
USA TODAY/Suffolk Poll: Reaction by some to Trump and Clinton? Fear
Associated Press:
Apple to fight order to help FBI unlock shooter's iPhone  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — Apple Inc. CEO Tim Cook says his company will fight a federal magistrate's order to help the FBI hack into an encrypted iPhone belonging to one of the San Bernardino, California shooters.
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USA Today:
Apple ordered to break into San Bernardino shooter's iPhone
Discussion: New York Magazine and NPR
Tony Romm / Politico:
Apple CEO Tim Cook fires back at FBI in terror case
Discussion: Yahoo Politics
Jacob Heilbrunn / Politico:
Trump Is Trampling Over the GOP's Corpse  —  The most basic problem for the Republican Party isn't that Donald Trump is so strong, but that his competitors are so weak.  One can find no better illustration of this, perhaps, than the sorry spectacle of Jeb Bush—who only a year ago was seen …
Discussion: Booman Tribune and Washington Post
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Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Crazy Nut Donald Trump Thinks George W. Bush Was President on 9/11  —  Lying about Muslims is one thing, but accusing Bush of holding office in 2001 is beyond the pale.  —  Last fall, Donald Trump claimed that, on September 11, 2001, thousands of Muslims cheered the fall of the World Trade Center.
Trip Gabriel / New York Times:
The More Donald Trump Defies His Party, the More His Supporters Cheer  —  NORTH AUGUSTA, S.C. — Mark Jebens, a veteran of 22 years in the Marine Corps, found no fault with Donald J. Trump's scathing criticism that President George W. Bush “lied” about weapons of mass destruction while leading the United States into war in Iraq.
Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
Donald Trump makes me miss George W. Bush
Eliana Johnson / National Review:
S.C. Is Key Early Test of Cruz's Southern Strategy  —  Cruz at the Faith and Family Presidential Forum in Greenville, S.C. (Alex Wong/Getty)
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Katie Glueck / Politico:
Ted Cruz pinched in race for South Carolina's evangelicals
Discussion: Washington Post
Associated Press:
Ted Cruz rivals pounce on trust issues
Discussion: Associated Press and abc11.com
Jon Burkett / WTVR-TV:
‘Hangry’ woman arrested for biting Wendy's worker over wrong order  —  RICHMOND, Va. — Have you heard the expression “hangry?”  It's a combination of hungry and angry.  A fast food worker said that word perfectly described the customer who attacked and bit her over a wrong order.
Discussion: KFOR-TV
Thomas L. Friedman / New York Times:
I find this election bizarre for many reasons but none more than this: If I were given a blank sheet of paper and told to write down America's three greatest sources of strength, they would be “a culture of entrepreneurship,” “an ethic of pluralism” and the “quality of our governing institutions.”
Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
Clinton leads in 10 of 12 Early March Primaries; Benefits From Overwhelming Black Support  —  New Public Policy Polling surveys of the 12 states that will hold Democratic primaries for President between March 1st and 8th, conducted on behalf of American Family Voices, find Hillary Clinton leading …
Oliver Jj Lane / Breitbart:
‘Islamic Rape Of Europe’: Polish Magazine Splashes ‘White Europa’ Girl Groped By Migrant Hands  —  One of Poland's most popular weekly magazines has splashed a graphic depiction of the rape of Europe's women by migrants on its front cover.  The image may be one of the most politically incorrect illustrations …
Jon Ralston / Reno Gazette-Journal:
Ralston Reports: 5 questions that will decide Clinton-Sanders outcome in Nevada  —  In four days, Nevada will decide whether Hillary Clinton's campaign moves from intense fretting to full-blown panic or whether the Bernie Sanders surge goes from real to evanescent.
Discussion: Washington Post, CNN and Politico
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Thomas Piketty / Guardian:
Thomas Piketty on the rise of Bernie Sanders: the US enters a new political era
Discussion: emptywheel
Andrea Fisher / Great Falls Tribune:
Cops surround home, find ‘The Walking Dead’  —  A Great Falls family gave their neighbors quite a scare while enjoying a favorite TV show Sunday evening.  —  A 911 call came in at 7:28 p.m. from a neighbor who heard “screaming from a house about someone having a gun,” according to Great Falls Police Department notes from the call.
Discussion: fox8.com
Allum Bokhari / Breitbart:
Police have arrested a 40-year old man in Scotland over a number of allegedly “offensive” Facebook posts about refugees.  —  Police in Scotland said that a man had been held under the Communications Act, which bans “grossly offensive” and “menacing” posts on online platforms.
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Jim Hoft / The Gateway Pundit:
WOW!  Trump Invites Supporters On Stage for Handling Protester- CROWD ERUPTS WHEN ONE SAYS HE'S A VETERAN!  (VIDEO)  —  You can't plan something like this...  At a Trump campaign rally in North Augusta, South Carolina on Tuesday, Donald Trump was interrupted by a protester who was screaming profanities …
lettertosanders:
An Open Letter from Past CEA Chairs to Senator Sanders and Professor Gerald Friedman  —  Dear Senator Sanders and Professor Gerald Friedman,  —  We are former Chairs of the Council of Economic Advisers for Presidents Barack Obama and Bill Clinton.  For many years, we have worked …
Discussion: emptywheel and New York Times
Curtis Skinner / Reuters:
FBI finds trench of human feces at cultural site on Oregon refuge  —  The FBI said it has found a trench of human feces and a road excavated on or next to a sensitive cultural site with artifacts at the Oregon wildlife refuge where armed men staged a standoff with authorities, according to court records filed on Tuesday.
Discussion: Talking Points Memo and The Week
Milo Yiannopoulos / Breitbart:
EXCLUSIVE: Twitter Shadowbanning ‘Real and Happening Every Day’ Says Inside Source  —  Rumours that Twitter has begun ‘shadowbanning’ politically inconvenient users have been confirmed by a source inside the company, who spoke exclusively to Breitbart Tech.  His claim was corroborated by a senior editor at a major publisher.
Discussion: The Jawa Report
 
 
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David Niose / Salon:
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Tim Arango / New York Times:
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