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Mark Murray / NBC News:
Donald Trump's Lead Slashed in South Carolina: Poll — Donald Trump is now leading Saturday's South Carolina Republican primary by 5 points — down from his 16-point lead in the state a month ago, according to results from a new NBC News/Wall Street Journal/Marist poll.
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Eli Stokols / Politico:
Bush machine running on fumes — SUMMERVILLE, S.C. — Some of Jeb Bush's most steadfast allies think Saturday might be the end. — Donors, who poured millions into his campaign and super PAC, have stopped giving — one refusing a direct request to raise $1 million this week.
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Niall Stanage / The Hill:
Trump on brink of key win — COLUMBIA, S.C. — The author of “The Art of the Deal” is on the brink of closing his biggest one yet. — Victory for Donald Trump in the GOP primary here on Saturday would copper-fasten his status as the dominant front-runner, catapult him into a significant delegate lead …
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Charles P. Pierce / Esquire:
The Roots of Donald Trump's Candidacy Lie in a South Carolina Cemetery — Searching for the soul of South Carolina politics—and the modern Republican Party. — COLUMBIA, SOUTH CAROLINA—Bold and fiercely territorial, the geese in the small pond shatter the peace of the Greenlawn Memorial Park on a bright winter's afternoon.
Sean Sullivan / Washington Post:
In S.C., the GOP contest looks more and more like a three-man race
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Molly Ball / The Atlantic:
The Great Republican Stalemate
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Annie Karni / Politico:
How Bernie Sanders surged in Nevada
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Amy Walter / The Cook Political Report:
What to Watch In Nevada and South Carolina This Weekend
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Amy Chozick / New York Times:
Race in Nevada, Once a Hillary Clinton Firewall, Is Now Hotly Contested
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Paul Campos / Salon:
Scalia was an intellectual phony: Can we please stop calling him a brilliant jurist? — No one wants to disrespect the dead. But we disrespect the truth to hail his legal mind and phony, grand principles — George Orwell once noted that when an English politician dies …
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Michael Grunwald / Politico:
Biden hints at centrist Supreme Court pick
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Tierney Sneed / Talking Points Memo:
GOP Sen. Murkowski Backtracks On Giving Obama's SCOTUS Nom A Hearing
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Arlette Saenz / ABC News:
Joe Biden ‘Could Live With’ Supporting Hillary Clinton or Bernie Sanders
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Jordyn Phelps / ABC News:
Justice Antonin Scalia to Lie In Repose at Supreme Court
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Connor Sheets / al.com:
Harper Lee dead at age of 89: ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ author passes away — Nelle Harper Lee, who won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1961 for her book, “To Kill a Mockingbird,” has died at the age of 89, multiple sources in her hometown of Monroeville, including the mayor's office, confirmed Friday morning.
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William Grimes / New York Times:
Harper Lee, Author of ‘To Kill a Mockingbird,’ Dies at 89 — Harper Lee, whose first novel, “To Kill a Mockingbird,” about racial injustice in a small Alabama town, sold more than 10 million copies and became one of the most beloved and most taught works of fiction ever written by an American, has died.
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Andrew Kaczynski / BuzzFeed:
In 2002, Donald Trump Said He Supported Invading Iraq — “Are you for invading Iraq?” Howard Stern asked him, and Trump answered, “Yeah, I guess so.” — w.soundcloud.com — For months, Donald Trump has claimed that he opposed the Iraq War before the invasion began — as an example of his great judgment on foreign policy issues.
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CBS News:
Hillary Clinton: “I've always tried” to tell the truth — LAS VEGAS — For Hillary Clinton, these are high roller stakes in Nevada after losing New Hampshire in a landslide and essentially tying in Iowa. — She has decided to stay in Nevada through the caucus on Saturday.
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NBC News:
Transcript: MSNBC and Telemundo's Clinton-Sanders Town Hall — Below is a rush transcript of MSNBC and Telemundo's Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders Town Hall moderated by José Díaz-Balart and Chuck Todd live from Las Vegas on Thursday, Feb. 18 from 9-11 p.m. ET / 6-8 p.m. PT.
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Abby Phillip / Washington Post:
Bernie Sanders declares he is a ‘strong feminist’ and ‘honorary woman’
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Sundance / The Last Refuge:
CNN Busted Attempting “Pre-Scripted Ambush” of Donald Trump During Live Town Hall Event... CNN had advertised their two night candidate Town Hall event series as an informal opportunity for ordinary South Carolinians to ask the republican presidential candidates' questions.
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Streiff / RedState:
Donald Trump Says He Supports the ObamaCare Mandate — Anderson Cooper interviews Donald Trump on a CNN candidate town hall. — Last night Donald Trump was on CNN with Anderson Cooper. The subject of health care came up. Naturally it resulted in a dumpster fire of nitwit-ish blather …
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Jeffrey H. Anderson / Weekly Standard:
Trump: I ‘Like’ Obamacare's Individual Mandate — The most unpopular part of Obamacare now has a champion in the Republican presidential field. Via the Right Scoop, Donald Trump was asked on Thursday night by CNN's Anderson Cooper, “If...there's no mandate for everybody to have insurance …
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Dana Blanton / Fox News:
Fox News Poll: Clinton ‘feels the Bern,’ trails Sanders by three points nationally — Bernie Sanders now tops Hillary Clinton in the race for the Democratic nomination. — The latest Fox News national poll finds 47 percent of Democratic primary voters now back the Vermont senator, up from 37 percent in January.
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Silvio Canto, Jr / American Thinker:
‘El Papa’ embraces Raul Castro but calls Donald Trump anti-Christian! — Last Sunday, Pope Francis was in Mexico visiting sick children in hospitals. It was amazing to watch him holding the little kids and praying with their mothers. As a Catholic, I was so proud of “El Papa.”
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Katherine Krueger / Talking Points Memo:
Pope's Spox: ‘Not Christian’ Remark Was Not ‘Personal Attack’ On Trump
Peter Sullivan / The Hill:
Pope suggests people can use contraception to avoid Zika virus
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Melanie Eversley / USA Today:
Reports: Chicago court to hear case to knock Cruz off White House ballot — A judge in Cook County Circuit Court will hear testimony Friday in a lawsuit filed by an Illinois voter that alleges Republican presidential hopeful Ted Cruz should not be allowed to run for president, CNN and ABC are reporting.
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Theodore Schleifer / CNN:
Case against Ted Cruz's eligibility to be heard in Illinois on Friday
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Stephen Kinzer / BostonGlobe.com:
The media is misleading the public on Syria — COVERAGE OF the Syrian war will be remembered as one of the most shameful episodes in the history of the American press. Reporting about carnage in the ancient city of Aleppo is the latest reason why. — For three years, violent militants have run Aleppo.
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Mei Novak / Brown Daily Herald:
Schoolwork, advocacy place strain on student activists — Students struggle with mental health, academic pressures as they act on social justice responsibilities — Students for Justice in Palestine protested the Jewish Journeys event featuring Michael Douglas and Natan Sharansky earlier this month.
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Nico Hines / The Daily Beast:
Bernie Sanders's Brother: He Backs ‘Class Warfare,’ Bill Clinton Was Worse Than Bush — Larry Sanders says Bernie is a ‘genuine socialist’ trying to save the Democratic Party from ‘dreadful’ Bill Clinton, who is either a ‘terrible rapist or a nice rapist’ to the media.
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