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9:35 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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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 …
Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
GOP wakes up to Trump nightmare  —  Establishment Republicans are reckoning with something they thought would never happen: That it might soon be too late to stop Donald Trump.  —  With the controversial businessman the clear front-runner heading into Nevada and next week's Super Tuesday contests …
Discussion: New York Times and The Hill
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.
Alexander Burns / New York Times:
At Nevada Caucuses, Donald Trump's Rivals Hope to Break His Streak
Discussion: Politico, Guardian and US News
Hanna Trudo / Politico:
Cruz lurches right on immigration
Julia Hahn / Breitbart:
Law Enforcement Sides with Chris Crane After Rubio's Anti-ICE Tirade
Discussion: Scared Monkeys and Politicus USA
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
Discussion: MichelleMalkin.com
Associated Press:
Q & A About the Fight Over Replacing Scalia
Discussion: Politico and ABC News
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.
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, Guardian, The Mahablog and Vox
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Nick Gass / Politico:
Spike Lee backs Sanders in radio ad
Discussion: The Week
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.
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Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Why Jeb Bush's Campaign Died While Hillary Clinton's Lived
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
Maajid Nawaz / The Daily Beast:
How Obama Lost the Mideast to Putin  —  Vision, strategy, and courage might have prevented the disaster we see today in Syria.  But those elements were nowhere to be found.  —  LONDON — The Middle East is in flames.  Just as Iraq was President George W. Bush's catastrophic legacy, Syria will be Obama's.
Sarah El Sirgany / CNN:
READ: Egypt toddler sentenced  —  Officials offered different explanations.  —  An aide to the Interior Minister phoned Ebrashy's show to say it was a case of mistaken identity.  —  The aide, General Abu Bakr Abdel-Karim, promised that Ahmed and his father would not be jailed.
Discussion: myfox8.com
David Limbaugh / Townhall.com:
Suggested Cruz Campaign Reboot: Show, Don't Tell  —  I don't believe I've ever presumed to offer unsolicited advice on campaign strategy to a presidential candidate, especially in a public forum, but I've decided to make an exception today.  —  I am an unabashed Ted Cruz supporter and believe …
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Nolan D. McCaskill / Politico:
Cruz fires top staffer for promoting false story about Rubio and the Bible
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 …
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.
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
Gallup:
“Dishonest” and “Socialist” Lead U.S. Reactions to Dems  —  PRINCETON, N.J. — Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders have multifaceted images among the American public.  But the most common responses Americans give when asked to say what comes to mind when they think of each are “dishonest” …
Ellie Zolfagharifard For / Daily Mail:
Largest fireball since Chelyabinsk falls into the ocean: Nasa reports huge explosion of seven meter space rock over the Atlantic  —  A huge fireball crashed into the Atlantic earlier this month - and went almost unseen.  —  The event took place on February 6 at 14:00 UTC when a meteor exploded …
Detroit Free Press:
Ex-Snyder aide: Financial focus led to crisis in Flint … Schornack predicts successful recall vote  —  LANSING — The drinking water catastrophe in Flint is the result of a failed model of trying to run state government like a business, says a former adviser to Gov. Rick Snyder …
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
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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Caroline Paul / New York Times:
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Aoife White / Bloomberg Business:
Google Ad Business Under Scrutiny as EU Said to Revive Probe
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Matthew Jaffe / CNN:
Jon Huntsman: I could get behind Donald Trump
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
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Report: U.S. aircraft carriers ‘unchallenged primacy may be coming to a close’
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
David Sims / The Atlantic:
The High-Def Majesty of Planet Earth Returns
Discussion: Guardian and The Verge
Senator Claire McCaskill:
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Julian Hattem / The Hill:
CIA leaker: Clinton ‘given a pass’ for emails
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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

Max Tani / @maxwelltani:
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