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6:40 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.
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.
Hanna Trudo / Politico:
Cruz lurches right on immigration  —  Ted Cruz would use Immigration and Customs Enforcement to search for and ultimately help deport 12 million immigrants in the U.S. illegally if elected president.  —  In an interview with Bill O'Reilly on Fox News Monday night, the Texas senator …
Nolan D. McCaskill / Politico:
Cruz fires top staffer for promoting false story about Rubio and the Bible  —  Ted Cruz on Monday asked for the resignation of top aide Rick Tyler, who he accused of a “grave error of judgment” for promoting a false story that questioned Marco Rubio's faith.
Jesse Byrnes / The Hill:
Graham floats Rubio-Kasich ticket
Sean Sullivan / Washington Post:
Rubio inherits establishment support but is on a narrow path to stop Trump
Dan Nowicki / Arizona Republic:
Jeff Flake endorses ‘Gang of Eight’ co-member Marco Rubio
Discussion: CBS Miami and The Week
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
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.
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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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
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.
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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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
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
Isaac Arnsdorf / Politico:
Sheldon Adelson and the missing $100 million  —  It's one of the biggest mysteries in Republican circles: Why has Sheldon Adelson who spent upward of $100 million during the previous presidential campaign suddenly stopped pouring huge sums of money into politics?
Discussion: Guardian
Los Angeles Times:
Republican voter registration tanks in California as more voters than ever don't affiliate with a party  —  Californians may be more disenchanted with political party labels than at any time in modern history, as new voter registration data show another shift away from party affiliation coming …
Discussion: The Week
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 …
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
 
 
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Aoife White / Bloomberg Business:
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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’
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Judge seems skeptical of call to block voter proof-of-citizenship requirement
Discussion: Power Line and Talking Points Memo
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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
Jeff Greenfield / The Daily Beast:
Can Anyone Beat Trump in the Primary? History Says No
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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

Max Tani / @maxwelltani:
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