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7:55 AM ET, February 23, 2016

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Todd J. Gillman / Trail Blazers Blog:
Ted Cruz tells O'Reilly he would round up and deport all 12 million  —  updated at 10:30 pm with comment from Cruz spokeswoman.  —  WASHINGTON -Ted Cruz said tonight that he would use federal immigration officers to round up and deport all 12 million people in the country illegally …
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Kyle Cheney / Politico:
GOP to Kasich: Get out  —  FAIRFAX, Va. — The Republican establishment has a message for John Kasich: get out, and get out of Marco Rubio's way.  —  A string of elected officials, GOP insiders and prominent donors officially threw their support behind Rubio on Monday, calling him their last chance to take down Donald Trump.
Sahil Kapur / Bloomberg Business:
Four Problems With the ‘Winnowing’ Theory of Trump's Downfall  —  For months, establishment Republicans have envisioned the billionaire losing support as the presidential field narrows.  —  Jeb Bush's decision to drop out of the presidential race after a dismal fourth-place finish …
Glenn Thrush / Politico:
Ben Carson: Obama was ‘raised white’  —  GREENVILLE, S.C. - Ben Carson is the only person in the 2016 presidential field who is vying to become the country's second African-American president.  —  If truth be told, however, he's not entirely sure he wouldn't actually be the first.
Hanna Trudo / Politico:
Cruz lurches right on immigration
Alexander Burns / New York Times:
At Nevada Caucuses, Donald Trump's Rivals Hope to Break His Streak
Discussion: Politico and Guardian
Nolan D. McCaskill / Politico:
Cruz fires top staffer for promoting false story about Rubio and the Bible
Sean Sullivan / Washington Post:
Rubio inherits establishment support but is on a narrow path to stop Trump
Jesse Byrnes / The Hill:
Graham floats Rubio-Kasich ticket
Numbers / Pew Research Center for the People …:
Majority of Public Wants Senate to Act on Obama's Court Nominee  —  Most opponents reject hearings no matter whom Obama nominates  —  In the high-stakes battle over replacing Justice Antonin Scalia on the Supreme Court, a majority of Americans (56%) say the Senate should hold hearings …
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Julie Hirschfeld Davis / New York Times:
Joe Biden Argued for Delaying Supreme Court Picks in 1992  —  WASHINGTON — As a senator more than two decades ago, Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. argued that President George Bush should delay filling a Supreme Court vacancy, should one arise, until the presidential election was over …
Discussion: MichelleMalkin.com
Associated Press:
Q & A About the Fight Over Replacing Scalia
Discussion: Politico and ABC News
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Why Jeb Bush's Campaign Died While Hillary Clinton's Lived  —  The two dynastic candidates turned out not to be alike.  —  Throughout 2015, news coverage of Jeb Bush tended to bracket him as his party's dynastic counterpart to Hillary Clinton.  He was the boring, preordained candidate of his party's power structure.
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Ashley Parker / New York Times:
Reporter's Notebook: Voters Might Not Miss Jeb Bush, but Campaign Reporters Will  —  Voters Might Not Miss Jeb Bush, but Campaign Reporters Will  —  Jeb Bush was like a goofy dad, an awkward uncle.  He spoke to children like adults and told jokes that made no sense.
New York Times:
How Jeb Bush Spent $130 Million Running for President With Nothing to Show for It
Discussion: The Week, The Atlantic, Vox and NPR
Nick Gass / Politico:
Spike Lee backs Sanders in radio ad  —  Director and producer Spike Lee made his endorsement of Bernie Sanders official on Tuesday, cutting a radio ad for the campaign in South Carolina.  —  “Wake up, South Carolina!  This is your dude, Spike Lee,” the honorary Oscar recipient says in the 60-second spot …
Discussion: The Week
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David McCabe / The Hill:
Clinton-Sanders battle stirs passionate Facebook debate  —  The Democratic primary fight between Hillary Clinton  —  is spilling over to Facebook, where supporters of both candidates are engaged in a passionate debate over who should be the party's standard-bearer this fall.
Discussion: ABC News, The Mahablog, Vox and Guardian
Benny Johnson / Independent Journal Review:
Actor Adam Baldwin Quits Twitter “For Good” In Protest Of The Platform Censoring Conservatives  —  Actor Adam Baldwin has quit Twitter and he isn't coming back.  —  Baldwin, who currently stars in the TNT hit show ‘The Last Ship,’ tells Independent Journal Review that Twitter's new policy …
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Leah Barkoukis / Townhall.com:   Actor Adam Baldwin Quits Twitter Over Platform's Alleged Silencing of Conservatives
Todd Starnes / Reuters:
Chick-fil-A flap rocks another American university  —  The war on poultry rages on yet another public university campus - this time at the University of Nebraska - Kearney.  —  The hullabaloo started last January when students were asked to select a new dining option for the student union.
Senator Claire McCaskill:
I very recently learned that I have breast cancer.  —  I very recently learned that I have breast cancer.  It was detected through a regular mammogram.  It's a little scary, but my prognosis is good and I expect a full recovery.  I will be in St Louis for the next 3 weeks receiving treatment.
Matthew Jaffe / CNN:
Jon Huntsman: I could get behind Donald Trump  —  The Axe Files, featuring David Axelrod, is a podcast distributed by CNN and produced at the University of Chicago Institute of Politics.  The author works at the institute.  —  Chicago (CNN)Former Republican presidential candidate Jon Huntsman …
Discussion: The Daily Caller and Guardian
Numbers / Pew Research Center for the People …:
More Support for Justice Department Than for Apple in Dispute Over Unlocking iPhone  —  Slight partisan differences in views of issue  —  As the standoff between the Department of Justice and Apple Inc. continues over an iPhone used by one of the suspects in the San Bernardino terrorist attacks …
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Justin Gillis / New York Times:
Seas Are Rising at Fastest Rate in Last 28 Centuries  —  The oceans are rising faster than at any point in the last 28 centuries, and human emissions of greenhouse gases are primarily responsible, scientists reported Monday.  —  They added that the flooding that is starting to make life miserable …
Andy Cush / Gawker:
Hot Mic Captures Trump Chatting With Morning Joe Hosts: “You Had Me Almost As a Legendary Figure”  —  The comedian and radio show host Harry Shearer has audio of what sure sounds like a casual off-the-air exchange between Donald Trump and Morning Joe co-hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski.
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Sara Jerde / Talking Points Memo:
Hot Mic Captures Trump Asking ‘Morning Joe’ Hosts For No ‘Too Hard’ Questions (AUDIO)
Discussion: RedState and Hullabaloo
 
 
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Caroline Paul / New York Times:
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Ellie Zolfagharifard For / Daily Mail:
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Aoife White / Bloomberg Business:
Google Ad Business Under Scrutiny as EU Said to Revive Probe
Discussion: The Hill
Los Angeles Times:
Republican voter registration tanks in California as more voters than ever don't affiliate with a party
Discussion: The Week
John J. Kim / Chicago Tribune:
Homicides in Chicago running nearly double from last year
Thomas Gibbons-Neff / Washington Post:
Report: U.S. aircraft carriers ‘unchallenged primacy may be coming to a close’
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Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Judge seems skeptical of call to block voter proof-of-citizenship requirement
Discussion: Power Line and Talking Points Memo
Isaac Arnsdorf / Politico:
Sheldon Adelson and the missing $100 million
Discussion: Guardian
Kristina Wong / The Hill:
Pentagon poised to submit plan for closing Guantanamo Bay
David Sims / The Atlantic:
The High-Def Majesty of Planet Earth Returns
Discussion: Guardian and The Verge
Julian Hattem / The Hill:
CIA leaker: Clinton ‘given a pass’ for emails
Discussion: Hot Air, Washington Post and LawNewz
Mike Opelka / TheBlaze.com:
High School Student's Art Project Goes Viral — When You See It Up Close, You'll Know Why
James Rothwell / Telegraph:
Hitler ‘had tiny deformed penis’ as well as just one testicle, historians claim
 

 
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Jack Dunn / Variety:
Trump appoints Mark Burnett, the British TV executive who created and produced the reality show The Apprentice, as a special envoy to the UK

Jessica Toonkel / Wall Street Journal:
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