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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.
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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 …
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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 …
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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.
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 …
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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.
Peter Beinart / The Atlantic:
The Ceiling Buster — Last Sunday, Marco Rubio voiced …
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Caitlin MacNeal / Talking Points Memo:
House GOPer Asks Reps. To Sign Letter Urging Cruz Or Rubio To Drop Out
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CNN:
Mitt Romney predicts Donald Trump ‘bombshell’ in his taxes
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Charles C. W. Cooke / National Review:
It's Time for an Anti-Trump Manhattan Project
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Jennifer Bendery / The Huffington Post:
GOP Congressman Circulates Letter Urging Rubio Or Cruz To Drop Out Of Presidential Race
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Dan Balz / Washington Post:
Can Donald Trump be stopped?
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Fox News:
Romney suggests a ‘bombshell’ in Trump's tax returns
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Steven Ertelt / LifeNews.com:
Cecile Richards: “I Appreciate Donald Trump's Kind Words About Planned Parenthood”
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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.
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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 …
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Republican governor of Nevada Brian Sandoval being considered for Supreme Court
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New York Times:
Senate Republicans Lose Their Minds on a Supreme Court Seat
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Carl Hulse / New York Times:
Struggle Over Supreme Court Pick Enters a New Level of ‘Hardball Politics’
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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 …
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 …
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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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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.
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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
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Los Angeles Times:
Biden and Lady Gaga to team up at Oscars — Vice President Joe Biden speaks in St. Paul, Minn., on Feb. 18. — Vice President Joe Biden will team up with Lady Gaga during Sunday's Academy Awards ceremony for a special presentation aimed a combating sexual violence, White House officials said Thursday.
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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 …
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 …
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Matt Taibbi / Rolling Stone:
How America Made Donald Trump Unstoppable — He's way above average — and the American political system is his easiest mark ever — The first thing you notice at Donald Trump's rallies is the confidence. Amateur psychologists have wishfully diagnosed him from afar as insecure, but in person the notion seems absurd.
New York Times:
Apple Is Said to Be Working on an iPhone Even It Can't Hack — WASHINGTON — Apple engineers have already begun developing new security measures that would make it impossible for the government to break into a locked iPhone using methods similar to those now at the center of a court fight in California …
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Enjoli Francis / ABC News:
Exclusive: Apple CEO Tim Cook Says iPhone-Cracking Software ‘Equivalent of Cancer’
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