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Anna Palmer / Politico:
Top Rubio adviser preparing donors for dismal Super Tuesday  —  Marco Rubio's top campaign adviser huddled with roughly 40 bundlers and K Streeters Tuesday morning to prepare them for a difficult primary election night—as well as to brief them on the campaign's plan for what to do next.
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CNN:
National poll: Clinton, Sanders both top Trump  —  Washington (CNN)Both of the remaining Democratic candidates for president easily top Republican front-runner Donald Trump in hypothetical general election match-ups, according to a new CNN/ORC Poll.  —  But Hillary Clinton …
Dareh Gregorian / New York Daily News:
Bad news for The Donald on Super Tuesday as court rules N.Y. attorney general's Trump University fraud lawsuit can proceed  —  Super Tuesday has gotten off to a not-so-super start for Donald Trump — a New York appeals court has denied his bid to to toss out a lawsuit that charges his Trump University was a fraud.
Tasneem Nashrulla / BuzzFeed:
Here's Why This Educated, Liberal Couple Is Considering Voting For Donald Trump  —  “Yes, we could be like the good citizens who voted for a “tameable” Hitler in 1933 to get things back on track.  But the alternatives look worse,” the couple wrote in a letter to the Financial Times.  —  The letter reads:
Justin Wolfers / New York Times:
‘Donald Drumpf’ Is Beating Rubio and Cruz for Second in Web Searches  —  Tuesday morning I wrote about how real-time Google search data can provide useful election forecasts.  With half the day gone and voters in Super Tuesday states still at the polls, Google Trends reveals a striking observation …
Scott Wong / The Hill:
Ryan denounces Trump over KKK dust-up: ‘There can be no evasion’  —  (R-Wis.) on Tuesday delivered a scathing rebuke of Donald Trump, warning that the GOP presidential front-runner cannot engage in “evasion” or “games” when it comes to rejecting bigotry.  —  But as the chairman …
Mark Hensch / The Hill:
Trump swaggers through Super Tuesday rally
Discussion: ABC News
James Hohmann / Washington Post:
The Daily 202: Why Donald Trump's support keeps expanding
Fox News:
Rubio, Cruz locked in critical Super Tuesday battle for runner-up
Discussion: whorunsGov
Ines de la Cuetara / ABC News:
10 Things You Never Thought You'd Hear Marco Rubio Say
Discussion: Politico
NBC News:
Trump Hits New High, Clinton Maintains Big Lead in New National Poll
Jordan Fabian / The Hill:
Republicans rebuff Obama in meeting on SCOTUS nomination  —  There were no signs of a breakthrough as President Obama met Tuesday with Senate Republican leaders pledging to block anyone he nominates to the Supreme Court.  —  Senate Majority Leader (R-Ky.) and Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley
Discussion: The Atlantic and Shakesville
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Senator Chuck Grassley / SCOTUSblog:
Coequal Branches of Government
Neetzan Zimmerman / The Hill:
Clinton to voter: 'Why don't you go run for something?'  —  was involved in brief confrontation with a young woman during a campaign stop in Minnesota Tuesday afternoon as voters headed to the polls to cast their ballot in the state's primary.  —  The Democratic presidential front-runner …
Discussion: Raw Story and The Daily Caller
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Sara Jerde / Talking Points Memo:
Carson Calls Meeting Of GOP Candidates After Race Takes ‘Turn For The Worse’  —  Dr. Ben Carson announced Tuesday that he was personally calling his rivals to ask them to meet ahead of Thursday's Republican presidential debate, saying the tone of the race had taken a “turn for the worse.”
Discussion: The Week
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Al Weaver / Washington Examiner:
Carson camp: 'We clearly don't know' our path to nomination  —  Ben Carson is staying in the race for the Republican nomination even though his campaign admits that it's not clear at all that Carson has a viable path to victory, and they don't have a plan to win.  —  “Well, we clearly don't know.
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
How Donald Trump Made Republicans Half-Aware of Racism  —  How could this happen to the movement founded by segregationist William F. Buckley?  —  Donald Trump represents a threat to conservatism in two ways.  He is extremely likely to lose if nominated, and even if elected …
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Bret Stephens / Wall Street Journal:
Staring at the Conservative Gutter
Jerry Hayes / WHNT-TV:
Deputy's dash cam captures video of drunk passenger falling head first into creek  —  LINCOLN COUNTY, Tenn. - The next time you're having a bad day, think about the two guys a Lincoln County Deputy encountered while on patrol.  —  The driver stops the truck in the middle of a road.
Discussion: WQAD-TV and New York's PIX11
Super User / dni.gov:
Bin Laden's Bookshelf  —  In the weeks following the raid on Osama bin Laden's compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan by United States forces, U.S. Intelligence Community analysts sifted through the recovered digital and hard copy materials in search of clues that would reveal ongoing al-Qa'ida plots …
Zach Carter / The Huffington Post:
DNC Chair Joins GOP Attack On Elizabeth Warren's Agency  —  Payday lenders get a new ally.  —  Senior Political Economy Reporter, The Huffington Post  —  WASHINGTON — Payday lenders have been gunning for the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau since the day President Barack Obama tapped Elizabeth Warren to set up the new agency.
Siobhan McFadyen / Mirror.co.uk:
Scientists discover 8000-year-old tiny hand prints in ancient cave were NOT made by humans  —  Experts probing the discovery of 13 hand prints in the eerie Egyptian Cave of Beasts say the 8000-year-old stencils did not belong to humans  —  Anthropologists probing the discovery …
Adrienne LaFrance / The Atlantic:
Can Google's Driverless Car Project Survive a Fatal Accident?  —  Everybody knew this day would come.  —  After several years and more than 1.4 million miles of test driving, Google's perfect streak came to an end.  In all that time, the tech giant's self-driving cars had been in fewer …
Matt Viser / BostonGlobe.com:
Bob Kraft praises Donald Trump ahead of Mass. primary  —  Tom Brady had a Donald Trump hat inside his locker.  —  And now Brady's boss — a man known for stirring up controversy, and winning big — has some glowing words about The Donald.  —  Bob Kraft, in a statement to the Globe on the eve …
Matt Egan / CNNMoney:
Sorry, OPEC: U.S. oil production at 43-year high  —  Sorry, OPEC.  The U.S. oil boom isn't dead yet.  —  The U.S. pumped an average of 9.43 million barrels per day last year, according to new government figures.  That's the highest level since 1972 and represents an impressive growth of 89% since 2008.
Paul Singer / USA Today:
Seven N.J. newspapers call on Christie to resign  —  48 Shares  —  Seven New Jersey newspapers issued a joint editorial Tuesday calling on Gov. Chris Christie to resign in the wake of his failed presidential campaign and his subsequent endorsement of rival Donald Trump.
Discussion: National Review
McKay Coppins / BuzzFeed:
Mike Huckabee Hearts Donald Trump  —  Mike Huckabee was one missed flight away from endorsing Donald Trump.  —  It was the day after February's Iowa caucuses, and Huckabee had just dropped out of the race.  He planned to make a quick stop in Little Rock, Arkansas, to drop off his daughter …
Discussion: Yahoo Politics and CNN
Natalie Neysa Alund / Tennessean.com:
Police: Teen shoots family in East Nashville  —  An argument over getting out of bed for school Tuesday morning led a teenage boy to open fire on three family members, including his grandmother and two young children, inside an East Nashville home, Metro police said.
Daily Mail:
I don't watch the Oscars to get harangued about racism, rape, sex abuse, greedy bankers, global warming and gay rights.  I watch to be entertained.  If you want to preach at us, darlings, get into politics  —  I'm exhausted; physically, mentally, emotionally and psychologically drained.
 
 
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Newsdesk / Valdosta Today:
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Discussion: Raw Story and Western Journalism
Chris Geidner / BuzzFeed:
Federal Agency Sues Companies, Alleging Anti-Gay Bias Is Banned By Existing Laws
Discussion: Vox
Dave Urbanski / TheBlaze.com:
Experiment Tests Kids Raised Around Guns and Those Shielded From Them …
Chicago Tribune:
Man accused of waterboarding girlfriend
Discussion: Chicagoist
Erik Kirschbaum / Los Angeles Times:
Refugees buying one-way tickets home after finding Germany intolerable
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Dante Chinni / Wall Street Journal:
Mapping Out ‘Trump Country’ on Super Tuesday
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Lloyd Grove / The Daily Beast:
How Breitbart Unleashes Hate Mobs to Threaten, Dox, and Troll Trump Critics
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Olivia Nuzzi / The Daily Beast:
Donald Trump Is Paying Himself to Run for President
Discussion: The Week
Caitlin MacNeal / Talking Points Memo:
Carlson, Ingraham Label Romney A Liberal For Condemning Trump On KKK
Discussion: Lawyers, Guns & Money
Paul Watson / Infowars:
Report: Trump Supporters in Texas See Votes Switched to Rubio
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
Mark Hensch / The Hill:
Farrakhan praises Trump for rejecting ‘Jewish’ money
 

 
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UMG, ABKCO, and Concord sue Believe, a music distributor in 50+ countries, and its subsidiary TuneCore for $500M+, accusing Believe of copyright infringement

Alexandra Steigrad / New York Post:
iHeart says it is laying off employees; a source says the layoffs affect less than 5% of a workforce of more than 10,000 employees

Reuters:
French judicial source: investigators searched Netflix's offices in France and the Netherlands as part of a preliminary investigation into tax fraud laundering

 
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