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Dylan Byers / CNNMoney:
Bush campaign: CBS News should apologize for ‘inexcusable’ report — Jeb Bush's campaign is calling on CBS News to apologize for a report that cited jokes about the Republican presidential hopeful committing suicide. — “The network should apologize,” Kristy Campbell, Bush's press secretary …
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Associated Press:
GOP Candidates in High-Stakes Chess Match in South Carolina — Jeb Bush, John Kasich and Marco Rubio are locked in a high-stakes political chess match in South Carolina, strategically moving money and other campaign resources around in a bid to pull ahead in the Republican primary race …
CNN:
South Carolina primary: CNN/ORC poll full results - CNNPolitics.com — Donald Trump holds a broad lead among those likely to vote in South Carolina's Republican primary, according to a new CNN/ORC Poll, and Hillary Clinton tops Bernie Sanders by 18 points on the Democratic side.
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CNN:
In South Carolina, big leads on both sides
In South Carolina, big leads on both sides
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NBC News:
Bernie Sanders Closes Gap on Hillary Clinton After N.H. Win: Poll
Bernie Sanders Closes Gap on Hillary Clinton After N.H. Win: Poll
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The Week, CNN, The People's View, New York Times and Washington Post
NBC News:
Trump Maintains National Lead Heading Into South Carolina
Trump Maintains National Lead Heading Into South Carolina
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Salon, Independent Journal Review, NBC News, CBS News, Florida Politics and New York Times
Washington Post:
In South Carolina, Clinton and Sanders compete for black votes
In South Carolina, Clinton and Sanders compete for black votes
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Politico, Daily Kos and The Resurgent
Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
Trump, Clinton Still Have Big SC Leads
Trump, Clinton Still Have Big SC Leads
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Sahil Kapur / Bloomberg Business:
Republicans Show Signs of Division on Supreme Court Tactics — The “no hearings, no votes” stance for potential Obama nominees becomes a little less absolute for those wary of an electoral blowback. — After Justice Antonin Scalia was found dead on Saturday, many Republican senators categorically ruled …
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Scott Keyes / ThinkProgress:
GOP Senator Breaks Ranks, Calls Party's Supreme Court Strategy ‘Obstructionist’ — Senate Republicans' widespread vow to automatically block any Supreme Court nominee President Obama puts forth may be wavering. — Within minutes of Justice Antonin Scalia passing away on Saturday …
David Nakamura / Washington Post:
Obama rejects GOP calls to let next president choose Scalia's successor
Obama rejects GOP calls to let next president choose Scalia's successor
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SCOTUSblog and ABC News
Paul Kane / Washington Post:
Sensing Republican confusion, Democrats boastfully predict Senate vote for Scalia successor
Sensing Republican confusion, Democrats boastfully predict Senate vote for Scalia successor
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Andrew Kaczynski / BuzzFeed:
Carson: Republicans Wouldn't Wait To Replace Scalia If We Held The White House
Carson: Republicans Wouldn't Wait To Replace Scalia If We Held The White House
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American Bridge PAC, Talking Points Memo and Daily Kos
Alex Griswold / Mediaite:
Trump: ‘Pretty Unusual’ Scalia Was Found With ‘Pillow on His Face’
Trump: ‘Pretty Unusual’ Scalia Was Found With ‘Pillow on His Face’
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AMERICAblog NewsAMERICAblog …, Little Green Footballs and Right Wing Watch
New York Post:
Detectives question lack of autopsy in Scalia death
Detectives question lack of autopsy in Scalia death
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Weasel Zippers and John Hawkins' Right Wing News
Greg Stohr / Bloomberg Business:
Scalia's Death Pushes Politically Shy Court Into Partisan Fray
Scalia's Death Pushes Politically Shy Court Into Partisan Fray
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Working In These Times, Politico, Stanford Law School, Des Moines Register, ncsl.org and SCOTUSblog
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.
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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.
Andrew Blankstein / NBC News:
Judge Forces Apple to Help Unlock San Bernardino Shooter iPhone — A federal judge on Tuesday ordered Apple to give investigators access to encrypted data on the iPhone used by one of the San Bernardino shooters, assistance the computer giant “declined to provide voluntarily,” according to court papers.
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Nathan McDermott / BuzzFeed:
Bill Clinton Incorrectly Says San Bernardino Shooters Never Visited The Middle East
Bill Clinton Incorrectly Says San Bernardino Shooters Never Visited The Middle East
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New York Times and Power Line
T. Rees Shapiro / Washington Post:
That gun Jeb Bush tweeted today? Its maker has a long and fascinating history. … Republican candidate Jeb Bush made a campaign stop at a firearm manufacturer in Columbia, S.C., on Tuesday, marking the occasion with a pithy tweet of a handgun that has gone viral on social media
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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.
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Washington Monthly, Washington Post and Infowars
Thomas Piketty / Guardian:
Thomas Piketty on the rise of Bernie Sanders: the US enters a new political era — The Vermont senator's success so far demonstrates the end of the politico-ideological cycle opened by the victory of Ronald Reagan at the 1980 elections — ow can we interpret the incredible success of the …
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Fox News:
Exclusive: China sends surface-to-air missiles to contested island in provocative move — The Chinese military has deployed an advanced surface-to-air missile system to one of its contested islands in the South China Sea according to civilian satellite imagery exclusively obtained by Fox News …
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Washington Free Beacon, New York Times and Slantpoint
Al Weaver / Washington Examiner:
Coburn: Trump-circulated quote attacking Cruz ‘absolute fabrication’ — Former Sen. Tom Coburn is angry about being quoted in the latest Donald Trump attack on Ted Cruz. — Coburn called the quote an “absolute fabrication.” — As part of his never-ending criticism of Cruz …
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Libby Brooks Scotland / Guardian:
Man arrested for Facebook posts about Syrian refugees in Scotland — Offensive comments related to refugees on Isle of Bute and police say arrest shows social media abuse will not be tolerated — Police Scotland have said the arrest of a man responsible for a series of offensive Facebook posts …
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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.
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The Week
Robert D. McFadden / New York Times:
George Gaynes, a Versatile Character Actor, Dies at 98 — George Gaynes, who played a grouchy foster parent on the 1980s sitcom “Punky Brewster,” the beleaguered commandant in seven “Police Academy” films and a soap opera star with a crush on Dustin Hoffman in drag in the Hollywood hit …
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