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Kevin Drum / Mother Jones:
Republicans Have Totally Lost Their Mojo — A few hours ago I wondered why none of the other Republican candidates has seriously attacked Donald Trump. I got a bunch of responses, most of which related to policy. They can't attack him for his xenophobia because most of them support …
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Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
Trump leads Rubio Even Head To Head in Florida — PPP's newest Florida Republican poll (conducted Wednesday and Thursday before the debate) finds Donald Trump dominant in the state. He's getting 45% to 25% for Marco Rubio, 10% for Ted Cruz, 8% for John Kasich, and 5% for Ben Carson.
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Lee Drutman / Vox:
Marco Rubio's chances were always poor — Ranked choice voting could have told us this sooner — A new poll has Donald Trump beating Marco Rubio 44 percent to 28 percent in Rubio's home state of Florida. This is devastating news for Rubio. It also is bad news for the conventional wisdom …
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Douglas Heye / The Huffington Post:
How The Republican Party Has Failed To Dig Up Dirt On Donald Trump — GOP operatives are alarmed. Democrats are astonished. — WASHINGTON — It's no secret that rival campaigns were caught off guard by Donald Trump's ascent in the Republican primary. But the extent to which they are …
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MJ Lee / CNN:
First on CNN: Rubio prepares for contested convention — Marco Rubio's campaign is preparing for a contested Republican Convention as one option to take the GOP nomination away from Donald Trump and Ted Cruz — Houston (CNN)Marco Rubio's campaign is preparing for a contested Republican Convention …
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Jonathan Easley / The Hill:
Rubio, Cruz throw everything they can at front-runner Trump — threw everything they had at Donald Trump — at Thursday night's Republican debate, hoping to find some way to stop the clear front-runner for the party's presidential nomination. — Rubio in particular came out hot …
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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.
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Holly Bailey / Yahoo Politics:
Rubio goes after Trump in fiery GOP debate
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New York Times:
In Republican Debate, a Feisty Marco Rubio Lays Into Donald Trump
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Michael Nunez / Gizmodo:
Mark Zuckerberg Asks Racist Facebook Employees to Stop Crossing Out Black Lives Matter Slogans — The Black Lives Matter movement has shed light on the racial profiling, police brutality, and racial inequality experienced by the African-American community across America.
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KAKE-TV:
WATCH LIVE: Sheriff: 4 to 7 killed, up to 30 hurt in mass shooting in Hesston … Headlines List — HESSTON, Kan. (KAKE) — Several people have been killed, and as many as 20 are hurt in a shooting at Excel Industries in Hesston. — Officers responded Thursday afternoon to the report …
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Excel Industries shooter identified as Cedric Ford — Update: Eyewitness News has learned that Newton Medical Center is on lockdown due to police activity in the area. — Update: Multiple eyewitnesses and employees at Excel Industries identify the shooter as Cedric Ford, 38, an employee at the company in Hesston.
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Columbia Daily Tribune:
University of Missouri curators vote to fire Melissa Click — Melissa Click, an assistant professor of mass media at the University of Missouri, demands a journalist leave the Concerned Student 1950 camp area in November. The Missouri Board of Curators voted 4-2 in favor …
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Statement from University of Missouri leadership — Pam Henrickson, chair of the University of Missouri Board of Curators, released the following statement today: — Last week, the Board of Curators received the investigative report detailing the relevant facts surrounding recent conduct by MU assistant professor, Dr. Melissa Click.
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Tal Kopan / CNN:
Republican debate: Live updates — Live updates and video from the CNN Republican debate in Houston, Texas.
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Allegra Kirkland / Talking Points Memo:
Carson: I'll Consider The ‘Fruit Salad Of Their Life’ When Picking SCOTUS Nom — Dr. Ben Carson said Thursday night that the most important qualification he'd consider when selecting a new justice to nominate for the Supreme Court was “the fruit salad of their life.”
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John Fund / National Review:
Brian Sandoval: Obama's GOP Trojan Horse for the Supreme Court
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Juliet Eilperin / Washington Post:
Sandoval bows out of Supreme Court consideration
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Anne Gearan / Washington Post:
Clinton regrets 1996 remark on ‘super-predators’ after encounter with activist — Candidates battle for young black votes … State of the 2016 race — COLUMBIA, S.C. — Black voters are the linchpin of Hillary Clinton's strategy for winning the South Carolina Democratic presidential primary …
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Sophia Tesfaye / Salon:
“I'm not a Superpredator, Hillary!”: Black Lives Matter protestors confront Clinton at South Carolina fundraiser
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Darren Goode / Politico:
Cruz won't hold up Flint aid deal in Senate — Ted Cruz won't block a bipartisan Senate bill that would provide hundreds of millions of dollars' worth of aid for Flint, Mich. and other communities that need to upgrade their drinking water infrastructure. — “Cruz has reviewed the bill …
Mark Hensch / The Hill:
Former Mexican president: 'I'm not going to pay for that f—ing wall' … Former Mexican President Vicente Fox says his nation will not pay for Donald Trump — 's proposed border wall. — “I declare — I'm not going to pay for that f—ing wall,” he told Fusion's Jorge Ramos during an interview Thursday.
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Rafa Fernandez De Castro / Fusion:
Former Mexican President to Donald Trump: 'I'm not going to pay for that f**king wall'
WPMT FOX43:
23-year-old Ukrainian National arrested after posing as Harrisburg high school student — HARRISBURG, PA. - Harrisburg Police have confirmed they have arrested Artur Samarin, 23. Samarin was charged with Theft, Identity Theft, and Tampering with Public Records. — Samarin was using the false identity of Asher Potts.
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Robert Kagan / Washington Post:
Trump is the GOP's Frankenstein monster. Now he's strong enough to destroy the party. — Robert Kagan is a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and a contributing columnist for The Post. — When the plague descended on Thebes, Oedipus sent his brother-in-law to the Delphic oracle to discover the cause.
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New York Times:
Mrs. Clinton, Show Voters Those Transcripts — “Everybody does it,” is an excuse expected from a mischievous child, not a presidential candidate. But that is Hillary Clinton's latest defense for making closed-door, richly-paid speeches to big banks, which many middle-class Americans still blame …
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William Bender / Philly.com:
Point Breeze meeting ends after ‘anti-Semitic’ comments — A community meeting in Point Breeze turned ugly Monday evening when attendees began hurling what some witnesses perceived to be racist or anti-Semitic epithets to oppose Jewish developers. — Four witnesses attributed the comments …
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Mark Bergen / Re/code:
Google Will Join Microsoft in Backing Apple With a Legal Filing in FBI Case — Google plans to follow Microsoft in throwing its legal support behind Apple in its increasingly contentious dispute with the federal government around the iPhone connected with the San Bernardino terror attacks, according to sources.
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Cody Derespina / Associated Press:
‘Cecil Effect’ dangerous for lions, guides — Lion overpopulation has become a serious issue in Zimbabwe. (Byron du Preez) — The international backlash against big game hunters triggered by last year's killing of a beloved lion named “Cecil” could spell doom for hundreds of the beasts who now roam a Zimbabwe preserve.
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