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New York Times:
In Republican Debate, a Feisty Marco Rubio Lays Into Donald Trump — Senator Marco Rubio, alarmed by Donald J. Trump's ascendancy and worried that his presidential chances were slipping away, unleashed a barrage of attacks on the real estate mogul's business ethics, hiring practices …
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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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Niall Stanage / The Hill:
Winners, losers in final GOP debate before Super Tuesday — There were fireworks galore when the Republican presidential candidates took to the stage on Thursday night for their final clash before Super Tuesday. — Front-runner Donald Trump — came to the CNN debate in Houston knowing …
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Politico and John Hawkins' Right Wing News
Nate Cohn / New York Times:
How Marco Rubio Could Lose Every State on Super Tuesday and Still Win — Marco Rubio has not won a state, a fact that worries allies and pleases skeptics who mock his chances to win the Republican presidential nomination. — It doesn't even sound as if the Rubio team knows when it will win one.
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CNN, SaintPetersBlog and Outside the Beltway
Frank Bruni / New York Times:
Five Big Questions After a G.O.P. Debate That Targeted Trump
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National Review, New Jersey Online, Political Wire, Washington Post, The Moderate Voice and Los Angeles Times
Holly Bailey / Yahoo Politics:
Rubio goes after Trump in fiery GOP debate
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Will Rahn / The Daily Beast:
Robot Rubio Turns Terminator on Donald Trump
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The Federalist
Michael Warren / Weekly Standard:
Rubio Finally Swings at Trump
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CNN:
Kansas shooting: Gunman kills 3 at lawn care company — Hesston, Kansas (CNN)A gunman burst into the Kansas lawn care company where he worked Thursday, spraying bullets that killed three people before police shot him dead. — The shooter wounded 14 people, all but two of them on the grounds …
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KBSL-TV:
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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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.
Detroit Free Press:
Top Snyder aides urged going back to Detroit water — The city of Flint, Snyder's top legal aide wrote in October 2014, “should try to get back on the Detroit system as a stopgap ASAP before this thing gets too far out of control.” — Two of Gov. Rick Snyder's top lawyers privately advocated moving …
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Chad Livengood / Detroit News:
Emails: Flint water warnings reached gov's inner circle — Lansing — Two top advisers to Gov. Rick Snyder urged switching Flint back to Detroit's water system in October 2014 after General Motors Co. said the city's heavily chlorinated river water was rusting engine parts …
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Washington Post:
The CNN-Telemundo Republican debate transcript, annotated … State of the 2016 race — The hall is set before the Republican presidential primary debate at The University of Houston. (Pat Sullivan/AP) … CNN's Wolf Blitzer introduced the candidates, laid out the rules and the debate began.
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Tal Kopan / CNN:
Republican debate: Live updates
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Ben Kamisar / The Hill:
Trump says audits might be linked to his religion — suggested that the Internal Revenue Service may be auditing him because he is a “strong Christian.” — In an interview with CNN immediately after Thursday's debate, the presidential hopeful complained about repeated audits to his business …
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Jon Favreau / The Daily Beast:
Why Electing Hillary in '16 Is More Important Than Electing Obama in '08 — A former Obama '08 speechwriter explains how why Secretary Clinton is a lot more compelling than you might think. — I hear you're still not Ready for Hillary. — I get it. I didn't start off as her biggest fan either.
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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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Jordan Fabian / The Hill:
Obama to meet McConnell, Grassley to discuss Supreme Court vacancy — President Obama will convene a long-anticipated meeting at the White House next Tuesday with top Republican senators to discuss the Supreme Court vacancy left by the death of Justice Antonin Scalia. — Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell
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WBUR:
WBUR Poll: In Mass., Clinton Edges Sanders, While Trump Leads Big — As Massachusetts prepares to vote in the state's presidential primaries this coming Tuesday, a new WBUR poll shows Donald Trump holds a hefty lead among likely Republican voters (topline, crosstabs).
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Political Wire and Politico
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John McCormick / Bloomberg Business:
Trump Dominates in Bloomberg Poll of ‘SEC Primary’ States
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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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FiveThirtyEight, The Huffington Post, Unqualified Offerings and Hot Air
Denise Grady / New York Times:
First Uterus Transplant in U.S. Bolsters Pregnancy Hopes of Many — Surgeons at the Cleveland Clinic have performed the first uterus transplant in the United States, the clinic announced Thursday. — The operation, which took nine hours, was performed Wednesday, using a uterus from a deceased organ donor.
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Anna Giaritelli / Washington Examiner:
Al Sharpton might ‘get out of here’ if Trump wins — Rev. Al Sharpton told attendees at a Center for American Progress Action Fund event Thursday he would flee the country if Donald Trump won the election, in order to avoid being deported by Trump. — Sharpton, a Democrat …
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Caitlin MacNeal / Talking Points Memo:
Clinton: Trump's ‘Divisive’ Rhetoric Doesn't ‘Fit’ With The Trump I Knew — In an interview that aired Friday on MSNBC's “Morning Joe,” Hillary Clinton said she's been surprised by Donald Trump's transformation from “good company” to a “mean-spirited” and “offensive” person.
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