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11:35 AM ET, February 25, 2016

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Dan Balz / Washington Post:
Poll: Trump's negatives among Hispanics rise; worst in GOP field … Donald Trump has used the issue of immigration to help make himself the front-runner for the Republican presidential nomination, but his harsh rhetoric also has earned him the highest negative ratings among Hispanic voters …
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Washington Post:
GOP leaders, you must do everything in your power to stop Trump  —  THE UNTHINKABLE is starting to look like the inevitable: Absent an extraordinary effort from people who understand the menace he represents, Donald Trump is likely to be the presidential nominee of the Republican Party.
Jon Ward / Yahoo Politics:
Why Chris Christie never went after Donald Trump  —  Twenty-four hours before Chris Christie dropped out of the presidential race, the New Jersey governor chatted on his campaign bus about taking on Donald Trump the way he went after Marco Rubio.  —  Three days earlier …
Discussion: Politico
Ross Douthat / New York Times:
What Is Marco Rubio Waiting For?  —  New Hampshire has fallen.  South Carolina has been overwhelmed.  Nevada has surrendered.  And the Republican establishment, like the British Empire in the darkest days of 1940, finds its strength scattered on the beach at Dunkirk, desperately awaiting evacuation …
Daniel Strauss / Politico:
RNC sees leverage over Trump  —  Donald Trump has steamrolled toward the Republican nomination by lambasting all things political establishment, and now that establishment thinks it can convince their insult-wielding front-runner he needs them.  —  Republican National Committee chairman Reince Priebus …
Peter Beinart / The Atlantic:
The Ceiling Buster  —  Last Sunday, Marco Rubio voiced the conventional wisdom that guides much horse-race commentary about the GOP campaign: “Part of the dynamic up to this point,” Rubio declared, “is Donald [Trump] has been, you know, in the mid 30s to low 30s, high 20s, in most polls …
Tegna / WFAA-TV:
Cruz, Trump tied in WFAA Texas poll … DALLAS - Six days before Super Tuesday, Ted Cruz and Donald Trump are now tied in Texas, according to a new public opinion poll commissioned by WFAA-TV.  —  Cruz and Trump both had 32 percent support from likely and actual GOP primary voters, with a 3.9 percent margin of error.
Associated Press:
Debate Another Chance for Rubio, Cruz to Try to Slow Trump  —  With Donald Trump's grasp on the Republican presidential nomination tightening, the billionaire businessman's rivals get one more chance to challenge the GOP front-runner on the debate stage before next week's slate of Super Tuesday contests.
Discussion: Politico, ABC News and Associated Press
Ryan Struyk / ABC News:
Donald Trump Leads Marco Rubio by 16 Points in New Florida Poll
Discussion: Politico and Associated Press
Dan Balz / Washington Post:
Can Donald Trump be stopped?
Jennifer Bendery / The Huffington Post:
GOP Congressman Circulates Letter Urging Rubio Or Cruz To Drop Out Of Presidential Race
Discussion: Slantpoint
Caitlin MacNeal / Talking Points Memo:
House GOPer Asks Reps. To Sign Letter Urging Cruz Or Rubio To Drop Out
Discussion: The Week
Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
‘The poorly educated’ people of America cut an ad for Donald Trump [Video]  —  An ebullient Donald Trump declared Tuesday night after his victory in the Nevada caucuses that he loved “the poorly educated.”  —  It was, to say the least, an odd way of phrasing it.
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Amy Brittain / Washington Post:
Justice Scalia spent his last hours with members of this secretive society of elite hunters  —  When Justice Antonin Scalia died 11 days ago at a West Texas ranch, he was among high-ranking members of an exclusive fraternity for hunters called the International Order of St. Hubertus, an Austrian society that dates back to the 1600s.
The Hill:
How Obama, Dems plan to win fight on high court  —  President Obama and Senate Democrats plan to reach deep into their bag of tricks and tactics to ensure the Supreme Court dominates the political debate up until Election Day.  —  Their strategy is to portray the Senate Republican majority …
Discussion: Politico
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Washington Post:
Republican governor of Nevada Brian Sandoval being considered for Supreme Court
Carl Hulse / New York Times:
Struggle Over Supreme Court Pick Enters a New Level of ‘Hardball Politics’
Discussion: The Hill, Daily Kos and NBC News
Christopher Cameron / The Statesman:
Political science professor forecasts Trump as general election winner  —  A professor of political science at Stony Brook University has forecasted that Donald Trump has a minimum 97 percent chance of winning the general election as the Republican nominee.  —  Professor Helmut Norpoth's …
Natalie Swaby / KING-TV:
Boy removed from plane over allergies, passengers applaud  —  COUPEVILLE, Wash. - Instead of sightseeing on a ferry, 7-year-old Giovanni, his mom, Christina Fabian, and dad, George Alvarado should have already boarded a flight.  —  “We were on Flight 171,” said Fabian.
New York Times:
Donald Trump Taps Foreign Work Force for His Florida Club  —  Donald J. Trump's Mar-a-Lago Club in Palm Beach describes itself as “one of the most highly regarded private clubs in the world,” and it is not just the very-well-to-do who want to get in.  —  Since 2010, nearly 300 United States residents …
Andrea Cavallier / New York's PIX11:
Charges dropped in gang rape probe at Brownsville playground after victim recants story  —  BROWNSVILLE, Brooklyn — Charges have been dropped against the five teens who had been accused of raping an 18-year-old girl at a Brownsville playground last month after the victim changed her story.
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Al Baker / New York Times:
Prosecutors Will Move to Dismiss Charges in Brownsville Rape Case
Discussion: Gothamist
Tom Angell / Marijuana:
Reschedule Marijuana, Says Former Attorney General Eric Holder  —  The man who once had the power to initiate a federal reclassification of marijuana now says he supports it.  —  “I certainly think it ought to be rescheduled,” Eric Holder, the former U.S. attorney general, said in a newly published interview.
Camille Paglia / Salon:
Fight the soulless juggernaut: Big money, machine politics and the real issue separating Sanders and Clinton  —  Democrats face a stark choice: A money-mad, scandal-plagued establishment, or the potential of decency and change  —  Despite Bernie Sanders being tied with her for pledged delegates …
 
 
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Jeremy Roebuck / Philly.com:
ACLU plans challenge to ruling finding no First Amendment right to film police
MIT Technology Review:
Google Unveils Neural Network with “Superhuman” Ability to Determine the Location of Almost Any Image
Discussion: Daily Mail
Ashley Collman For / Daily Mail:
Act better! Academy Award-winner Jamie Foxx takes a dig at Will Smith's Oscar boycott
Los Angeles Times:
Biden and Lady Gaga to team up at Oscars
Discussion: Politico, The Week and Just Jared
Janell Ross / Washington Post:
Melania Trump defends Donald by saying she immigrated legally.  But for models like her, it's easier.
Discussion: ImmigrationProf Blog
 Earlier Items: 
Matt Taibbi / Rolling Stone:
How America Made Donald Trump Unstoppable
Fred Imbert / CNBC:
Google robot is ‘the end of manual labor’: VC
Post and Courier:
Woman, 50, died after being ‘deprived of water’ at Charleston County jail
Discussion: Shakesville and Fusion
Jeremy Tanner / New York's PIX11:
Baby sitter charged with murder in death of Staten Island 16-month-old
New York Times:
Apple Is Said to Be Working on an iPhone Even It Can't Hack
Bill James / The Federalist:
Trump Is A Rump, But He Has A Point
Discussion: Bill James Online and Politico
 

 
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Max Tani / @maxwelltani:
Memo: WaPo's Matt Murray lays out plans for WP Ventures, the “third newsroom”; Krissah Thompson will be editor and Samantha Henig will be general manager

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

Liz Pelly / Harper's:
How Spotify used its Perfect Fit Content program to rig its system against musicians, filling popular playlists with “ghost artists” to cut its royalty payouts
 
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