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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.
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New York Magazine, New York Times, New York Post and Washington Post
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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No More Mister Nice Blog
Alexander Burns / New York Times:
At Nevada Caucuses, Donald Trump's Rivals Hope to Break His Streak — Donald J. Trump's Republican rivals are seeking to make a stand against him in the Nevada caucuses on Tuesday, their last chance to slow his momentum before a dozen states vote on the party's presidential nomination next week.
Nolan D. McCaskill / Politico:
Cruz fires top staffer for promoting false story about Rubio and the Bible
Cruz fires top staffer for promoting false story about Rubio and the Bible
Fredreka Schouten / USA Today:
Meet the woman funding the effort to stop Trump
Meet the woman funding the effort to stop Trump
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New York Magazine, The Resurgent, Downtrend, Business Insider, Washington Free Beacon, The Week and twitchy.com
Sean Sullivan / Washington Post:
Rubio inherits establishment support but is on a narrow path to stop Trump
Rubio inherits establishment support but is on a narrow path to stop Trump
Jeff Stein / Vox:
Ted Cruz just fired a top aide for spreading a bogus story about Marco Rubio
Ted Cruz just fired a top aide for spreading a bogus story about Marco Rubio
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New York Times, Washington Post, American Spectator, Religion News Service, Power Line and Mother Jones
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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The Moderate Voice, The Daily Caller and Talking Points Memo
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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 …
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Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Game over: Joe Biden says in 1992 that the president shouldn't name a SCOTUS nominee …
Game over: Joe Biden says in 1992 that the president shouldn't name a SCOTUS nominee …
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TheBlaze.com, ABC News, The Federalist, John Hawkins' Right Wing News, Vox, The Hill and American Spectator
Caitlin MacNeal / Talking Points Memo:
Attorney Claims Scalia's Votes In Pending Cases Should Still Count
Attorney Claims Scalia's Votes In Pending Cases Should Still Count
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Daily Kos and AMERICAblog NewsAMERICAblog …
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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American Power, The Right Scoop and Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion
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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.
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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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 …
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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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Business Insider, The Hill, Mashable, Mother Jones, NBC News, Mediaite, Wall Street Journal, Vox, The Daily Caller, NPR, Federal Bureau …, VentureBeat, The Atlantic, MacRumors, KTLA, The Verge, Politico and Pew Research Center's …
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David Pierson / Los Angeles Times:
Pew survey: More Americans say Apple should unlock terrorist's iPhone
Pew survey: More Americans say Apple should unlock terrorist's iPhone
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Business Insider, NBC News and The Verge
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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Hot Air, Washington Post, Mediaite and Mother Jones
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Sara Jerde / Talking Points Memo:
Hot Mic Captures Trump Asking ‘Morning Joe’ Hosts For No ‘Too Hard’ Questions (AUDIO)
Hot Mic Captures Trump Asking ‘Morning Joe’ Hosts For No ‘Too Hard’ Questions (AUDIO)
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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?
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Guardian
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.
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Politico, ABC News, The Mahablog, Vox and 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 …
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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 …