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1:15 PM ET, February 25, 2016

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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 …
Discussion: Politico and Hullabaloo
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Andrew Kaczynski / BuzzFeed:
David Duke Urges His Supporters To Volunteer And Vote For Trump  —  “Voting against Donald Trump at this point is really treason to your heritage.”  —  w.soundcloud.com  —  David Duke, a white nationalist and former Ku Klux Klan grand wizard, is urging the listeners of his radio program to volunteer and vote for Donald Trump.
Discussion: Politico, RedState and Mediaite
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 …
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.
Ryan Struyk / ABC News:
Donald Trump Leads Marco Rubio by 16 Points in New Florida Poll
Discussion: Politico and Associated Press
Associated Press:
Debate Another Chance for Rubio, Cruz to Try to Slow Trump
Discussion: Politico, ABC News and Associated Press
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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Mike DeBonis / Washington Post:
Republican governor of Nevada Brian Sandoval being considered for Supreme Court
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.
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 …
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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Charles C. W. Cooke / National Review:
Donald Trump Turned Down 94.4 Percent of American Job Applicants, Applied for Hundreds of ‘H’ Visas Instead
Discussion: Raw Story
Rebecca Savransky / The Hill:
Romney: There's a ‘bombshell’ in Trump's tax returns  —  Mitt Romney is going after Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump  —  for not yet releasing his taxes.  —  “Frankly, I think we have a good reason to believe that there's a bombshell in Donald Trump's taxes,” the 2012 GOP nominee told Fox News on Wednesday.
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Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
‘The poorly educated’ people of America cut an ad for Donald Trump [Video]
Discussion: RedState
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.
MIT Technology Review:
Google Unveils Neural Network with “Superhuman” Ability to Determine the Location of Almost Any Image  —  Guessing the location of a randomly chosen Street View image is hard, even for well-traveled humans.  But Google's latest artificial-intelligence machine manages it with relative ease.
Discussion: Daily Mail and The Verge
Jason M. Breslow / FRONTLINE:
Eric Holder: If Sentencing Reform Dies, “I'd Be Ashamed”  —  As a judge in Washington, D.C. in the '80s and '90s, Eric Holder says it didn't take much to tell that the nation's criminal justice system - especially when it came to low-level drug offenses - was “fundamentally unfair.”
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Tom Angell / Marijuana:
Reschedule Marijuana, Says Former Attorney General Eric Holder
Post and Courier:
Woman, 50, died after being ‘deprived of water’ at Charleston County jail  —  A woman who was arrested at a hospital over the summer for failing to pay court fines died the next day because she was deprived of water at the Charleston County jail, her family's attorneys said Wednesday.
Discussion: Daily Kos, Raw Story, Fusion and Shakesville
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 …
Tyler Tynes / The Huffington Post:
Black Lives Matter Activists Interrupt Hillary Clinton At Private Event In South Carolina  —  They wanted her to account for some of her past statements on racial justice.  —  Politics Fellow, The Huffington Post  —  Two Black Lives Matter activists interrupted a private Hillary Clinton …
Arizona Republic:
Matt Salmon: Why I'm leaving Congress  —  Congressman: Sometimes you have to step back and look at the good and the bad parts of being in office.  —  Representing the wonderful people of Arizona has truly been one of the most rewarding blessings of my life.
Discussion: Talking Points Memo and Slantpoint
Mike Wise / ESPN:
British pols: Change Washington name or send different team to U.K.  —  The pressure to change the name of Dan Snyder's football team grows — and not just domestically.  —  Two members of British Parliament wrote a strongly worded letter to NFL commissioner Roger Goodell earlier this month …
 
 
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ACLU plans challenge to ruling finding no First Amendment right to film police
Ashley Collman For / Daily Mail:
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Hollywood Reporter:
Brutally Honest Oscar Ballot: Voter Skewers ‘Revenant’ ("Road Runner Movie"), ‘Brooklyn’ ("Sentimental Drivel")
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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
Matt Taibbi / Rolling Stone:
How America Made Donald Trump Unstoppable
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Fred Imbert / CNBC:
Google robot is ‘the end of manual labor’: VC
 

 
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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

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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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