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12:30 AM ET, February 22, 2016

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David Lightman / McClatchy Washington Bureau:
Trump poised to step on the GOP accelerator  —  GOP delegate selection process favors front-runners  —  Nevada caucus up next; Trump favored He leads in 8 of the next states  —  CHARLESTON, S.C.  —  Things sure look good for Donald Trump.  —  The Republican presidential race expanded across …
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Philip Rucker / Washington Post:
GOP candidates chart different paths as race goes national on Super Tuesday  —  LAS VEGAS — After coursing through the first three intimate contests, the Republican presidential race is now accelerating to full throttle, becoming a truly national election that appears to favor celebrity front …
Discussion: Politico and ABC News
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
The party decided in South Carolina.  Nobody cared.
Isaac Arnsdorf / Politico:
Trump rewrites campaign cash rules
New York Times:
Ted Cruz and Donald Trump Head Toward Super Tuesday With G.O.P.'s Deepest Pockets
Discussion: Hot Air
Scott Conroy / The Huffington Post:
Exclusive: Mitt Romney To Endorse Marco Rubio
New York Times:
The Party of Bush Yields, Warily, to a New Face: Donald Trump
Discussion: BuzzFeed
Jonathan Swan / The Hill:
Secret anti-Trump donor revealed
Elaina Plott / National Review:
Following Jeb's Exit, Senator Heller Endorses Rubio
Discussion: Yahoo Politics and Power Line
ABC News:
ANALYSIS: Donald Trump Takes Ownership of Republican Party
Discussion: Downtrend and Associated Press
Breitbart:
Glenn Beck Responds to South Carolina Primary Results: ‘Join Me’ in a ‘Fast for Ted Cruz’
Karen Tumulty / Washington Post:
Sanders has the resources and a plan to go the distance.  Will it matter?  —  Bernie Sanders, his momentum slowed by a loss to Hillary Clinton in Nevada, faces two tests in the weeks ahead: parceling out his formidable resources to the states that offer his best targets …
Discussion: ABC News and Politico
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Jon Ralston / Reno Gazette-Journal:
Ralston Reports: ‘Reid-Culinary bond’ won Nevada for Clinton  —  I'd like to congratulate the winner of the Nevada Democratic caucus: Harry Reid.  —  What's that, you say?  Reid wasn't running?  What am I talking about?  —  Saturday may well be the day that altered the course …
Jamelle Bouie / Slate:
Barring a catastrophe, her nomination is inevitable.
John Wagner / Washington Post:
Bernie Sanders says lower turnout contributed to his Nevada loss to Hillary Clinton
Discussion: Politico and Occidental Dissent
Josh Feldman / Mediaite:
Now Trump ‘Not Sure’ If Rubio's Eligible to Be President (UPDATED)  —  Donald Trump slyly raised questions this morning about Marco Rubio's eligibility to be president.  —  Yesterday, Trump retweeted something a supporter sent to him that seemed to gin up questions about Rubio's eligibility to be president in addition to Ted Cruz's:
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Rebecca Savransky / The Hill:
Donnie Wahlberg endorses Rubio
Discussion: Raw Story
Ed O'Keefe / Washington Post:
Fall of the House of Bush: How last name and Donald Trump doomed Jeb  —  For Jeb Bush's campaign, August was a cruel month.  Donald Trump's attacks on the former Florida governor as a ­"low-energy" politician were beginning to stick, and the two were bickering over immigration.
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Eli Stokols / Politico:
Inside Jeb Bush's $150 Million Failure
Discussion: Yahoo Politics and RedState
Taylor Millard / Hot Air:
Why Charles Koch's awesome Bernie Sanders op-ed matters in future elections  —  Charles Koch has written an awesome op-ed in The Washington Post where he explains how he and Bernie Sanders actually agree on an issue.  It's one of the very few issues where the Tea party and Occupy Wall Street seemed …
Nick Miroff / Washington Post:
Zika has been linked to birth defects.  Now it may be causing paralysis.  —  TURBO, Colombia - The Zika epidemic flaring across the Americas has produced several hot spots with large numbers of cases.  But there is no place quite like Turbo.  —  The mosquito-borne virus has spread rapidly …
WOOD-TV:
Police: Kzoo shooting suspect was Uber driver  —  KALAMAZOO, Mich. (WOOD) — The man suspected of shooting eight people in the Kalamazoo area, killing six, was an Uber driver who was apparently taking fares in between opening fire at various locations, police tell 24 Hour News 8.
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Tom Cleary / Heavy.com:
Jason Dalton: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know
Ronald Brownstein / The Atlantic:
The New Shape of the Republican Race  —  After his solid, broadly based victories in New Hampshire and South Carolina, Donald Trump now holds a commanding position in the race for the Republican presidential nomination.  —  But Trump still faces two “known unknowns,” to borrow the memorable phrase …
Sam Adams / Mirror.co.uk:
Crowd CHEERS as Germany migrant hostel is burned out - and even try to stop firefighters battling the blaze  —  The blaze in the town of Bautzen early this morning caused serious damage to the former hotel which was being converted  —  A crowd is reported to have cheered as a building designated …
Discussion: Vox Popoli
Jeffrey Toobin / New Yorker:
Looking Back  —  Antonin Scalia, who died this month, after nearly three decades on the Supreme Court, devoted his professional life to making the United States a less fair, less tolerant, and less admirable democracy.  Fortunately, he mostly failed.  Belligerent with his colleagues …
NBC News:
Meet the Press - February 21, 2016  —  CHUCK TODD:  —  This Sunday morning, another big win for Donald Trump.  Now the undisputed Republican frontrunner.  —  DONALD TRUMP:  —  It's tough, it's nasty, it's mean, it's vicious, it's beautiful.  —  CHUCK TODD:
Discussion: Politicus USA
Clyde Haberman / New York Times:
16 Years After Bush v. Gore, Still Wrestling With Ballot-Box Rules  —  Reflecting on baseball attendance, the philosopher Yogi Berra observed that “if people don't want to come to the ballpark, how are you going to stop them?”  He could have said much the same thing about the American electorate.
Byron York / Washington Examiner:
Trump win confounds critics who thought gaffes would do him in  —  SPARTANBURG, S.C. — For months, Donald Trump's antagonists in rival campaigns, in the GOP establishment and in the punditocracy have believed the time would come, someday, when Trump would say something so outrageous …
 
 
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Agence France-Presse:
Leading Hindu priest decapitated in Bangladesh
Discussion: Jihad Watch
Caitlin Yilek / The Hill:
Muslim group challenges Trump to debate
Discussion: Raw Story
Fox News:
Donald Trump and Marco Rubio react to South Carolina primary results
Discussion: Politicus USA and Althouse
David Alandete / EL PAÍS:
Bashar al-Assad: “80 countries support the terrorists in Syria”
Discussion: NBC News, The Atlantic and NPR
 Earlier Items: 
Daily Mail:
‘Child’ asylum seeker caught out by his teeth: Afghan who claimed to be just 12 is revealed …
Tarini Parti / BuzzFeed:
Trump Campaign Aggressively Tried To Hire Staffers From Koch Group
Discussion: The Hill
Bradford Richardson / The Hill:
Trump on Iraq comments: ‘Who knows what was in my head?’
 

 
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Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica:
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Guthrie Scrimgeour / Wired:
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Bloomberg:
The DOJ's proposal would require Google to divest from AI partnerships, like with Anthropic, and ban Google from offering exclusive deals to content providers

 
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