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12:45 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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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:
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.
New York Times:
Ted Cruz and Donald Trump Head Toward Super Tuesday With G.O.P.'s Deepest Pockets
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit and Hot Air
Isaac Arnsdorf / Politico:
Trump rewrites campaign cash rules
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
Elaina Plott / National Review:
Following Jeb's Exit, Senator Heller Endorses Rubio
Discussion: Yahoo Politics and Power Line
Jonathan Swan / The Hill:
Secret anti-Trump donor revealed
ABC News:
ANALYSIS: Donald Trump Takes Ownership of Republican Party
Discussion: Downtrend and Associated Press
Igor Bobic / The Huffington Post:
What Donald Trump's Win In South Carolina Says About The Republican Party
Discussion: Slantpoint, Washington Post and Vox
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
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 …
Walter Smith-Randolph / WWMT-TV:
Alleged gunman worked as Uber driver during deadly shooting spree; passenger shares story  —  KALAMAZOO COUNTY, Mich. (NEWSCHANNEL 3) - In an exclusive interview with Newschannel 3, a passenger of Jason Dalton's details his Uber experience before Dalton allegedly shot eight people across Kalamazoo County.
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WOOD-TV:
Police: Kzoo shooting suspect was Uber driver
Tom Cleary / Heavy.com:
Jason Dalton: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know
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
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 …
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 …
Agence France-Presse:
Leading Hindu priest decapitated in Bangladesh  —  Dhaka (AFP) - A top Hindu priest was decapitated by attackers in northern Bangladesh Sunday and two worshippers wounded, police said, in the latest assault targeting minorities in the Muslim-majority nation.
Discussion: Jihad Watch
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.
 
 
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Rebecca Savransky / The Hill:
Donnie Wahlberg endorses Rubio
Discussion: Raw Story
Caitlin Yilek / The Hill:
Muslim group challenges Trump to debate
Discussion: Raw Story
Byron York / Washington Examiner:
Trump win confounds critics who thought gaffes would do him in
Fox News:
Donald Trump and Marco Rubio react to South Carolina primary results
Discussion: Politicus USA and Althouse
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Bashar al-Assad: “80 countries support the terrorists in Syria”
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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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