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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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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
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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Washington Post, AMERICAblog NewsAMERICAblog … and Daily Kos
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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CNN, NBC News, The Daily Beast, Shakesville, John Hawkins' Right Wing News, Downtrend, The Last Refuge, New York Times, LawNewz, Talking Points Memo and Mediaite
Ryan Struyk / ABC News:
Donald Trump Leads Marco Rubio by 16 Points in New Florida Poll — With 19 days to go before the Florida Republican primary, GOP front-runner Donald Trump has opened up a 16-point lead over Sen. Marco Rubio. — The Quinnipiac poll result is a red flag for the Rubio campaign.
Discussion:
Politico and Associated Press
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.
Ross Douthat / New York Times:
What Is Marco Rubio Waiting For?
What Is Marco Rubio Waiting For?
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Vox, New York Magazine, The Week, RedState, Political Insider blog, U.S. News and Politico
Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
Cruz, Rubio prep for brutal debate night
Cruz, Rubio prep for brutal debate night
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JustOneMinute, Arkansas Blog, Arkansas Times, New York Times and Vox
Peter Beinart / The Atlantic:
The Ceiling Buster — Last Sunday, Marco Rubio voiced …
The Ceiling Buster — Last Sunday, Marco Rubio voiced …
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Washington Post, Hot Air, The Federalist, NBC News, TheStreet.com and Vox
Associated Press:
Debate Another Chance for Rubio, Cruz to Try to Slow Trump
Debate Another Chance for Rubio, Cruz to Try to Slow Trump
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Politico, ABC News and Associated Press
The Daily Beast:
Pro-Trump Robocall: Don't Vote for Cuban
Pro-Trump Robocall: Don't Vote for Cuban
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Talking Points Memo, Washington Post, Trail Blazers Blog, Naked Politics, RedState, Mediaite and The Right Scoop
Dan Balz / Washington Post:
Can Donald Trump be stopped?
Can Donald Trump be stopped?
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National Review, Politico, Business Insider, Washington Examiner, FiveThirtyEight and BloombergView.com
Jennifer Bendery / The Huffington Post:
GOP Congressman Circulates Letter Urging Rubio Or Cruz To Drop Out Of Presidential Race
GOP Congressman Circulates Letter Urging Rubio Or Cruz To Drop Out Of Presidential Race
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Slantpoint
Caitlin MacNeal / Talking Points Memo:
House GOPer Asks Reps. To Sign Letter Urging Cruz Or Rubio To Drop Out
House GOPer Asks Reps. To Sign Letter Urging Cruz Or Rubio To Drop Out
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The Week
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
Republican governor of Nevada Brian Sandoval being considered for Supreme Court
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Guardian, Washington Monthly, The Atlantic, Fox News Insider, Political Insider blog, New York Post, Cincinnati.com, SCOTUSblog, Towleroad, Vox, David S. Bernstein, Shakesville, Lawyers, Guns & Money, Wall Street Journal, The Week, Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion, ThinkProgressPage Array, Associated Press, Slantpoint, Power Line, Instapundit, ACS Blog, Business Insider, Hullabaloo, LawNewz, American Spectator, Hot Air and Daily Kos
New York Times:
Senate Republicans Lose Their Minds on a Supreme Court Seat
Senate Republicans Lose Their Minds on a Supreme Court Seat
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Talking Points Memo, BarbWire.com, The Week, Slantpoint and Above the Law
Carl Hulse / New York Times:
Struggle Over Supreme Court Pick Enters a New Level of ‘Hardball Politics’
Struggle Over Supreme Court Pick Enters a New Level of ‘Hardball Politics’
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Politicus USA, The Hill, Daily Kos and NBC News
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.
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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Business Insider, AMERICAblog NewsAMERICAblog …, Daily Kos and MichelleMalkin.com
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Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
‘The poorly educated’ people of America cut an ad for Donald Trump [Video]
‘The poorly educated’ people of America cut an ad for Donald Trump [Video]
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RedState and ThinkProgressPage Array
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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Mother Jones, New York Magazine, LawNewz, Althouse, Hot Air and Fusion
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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
Donald Trump Turned Down 94.4 Percent of American Job Applicants, Applied for Hundreds of ‘H’ Visas Instead
Discussion:
Raw Story
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 …
Discussion:
The Moderate Voice, Infowars, The Daily Caller and BizPac Review
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.
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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Hit & Run, The Daily Caller, Slantpoint, New York Times and Smell the Truth
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Tom Angell / Marijuana:
Reschedule Marijuana, Says Former Attorney General Eric Holder
Reschedule Marijuana, Says Former Attorney General Eric Holder
Discussion:
ThinkProgressPage Array and Hit & Run
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.
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Raw Story, Shakesville and Fusion
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.
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Daily Mail
Jeremy Roebuck / Philly.com:
ACLU plans challenge to ruling finding no First Amendment right to film police — Civil rights lawyers said Wednesday that they intend to appeal a federal court ruling in Philadelphia that citizens do not necessarily have a right protected by the First Amendment to record police activity.
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Washington Times, Fox17, The Week, FOX2now.com and Washington Post
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 …