Official Statement by Dr. Ben Carson  —  I have decided not to attend the Fox News GOP Presidential Debate tomorrow night in Detroit.  Even though I will not be in my hometown of Detroit on Thursday, I remain deeply committed to my home nation, America.  I do not see a political path forward …

GOP strategist Castellanos: Time to rally around Trump, ‘too late to ask mommy to step in and rewrite rules’  —  Even as major Republican donors coalesced Wednesday around a last-ditch effort to halt Donald Trump's march toward the GOP presidential nomination, resignation was setting in among some onetime Trump critics.

White House Said to Be Vetting Appeals Court Judge for Supreme Court Seat  —  WASHINGTON — The White House is vetting Jane L. Kelly, a career public defender turned federal appellate judge, as a potential nominee for the Supreme Court, as President Obama closes in on a decision that could reshape …

More Bad News for Marco Rubio: He Just Lost the Support of Fox News  —  “We can't do the Rubio thing anymore,” Roger Ailes told a network host.  —  In his role as the donor class's darling, Marco Rubio has enjoyed support from the Republican's media arm, Fox News.

Police: Former CEO of Chesapeake Aubrey McClendon killed in car wreck  —  OKLAHOMA CITY - Police officers confirm that a man killed in a car wreck early Wednesday morning is the former CEO of Chesapeake Aubrey McClendon  —  On Wednesday, firefighters were called to a car wreck on Midwest Blvd., between Memorial and 122nd St.

86-year-old woman accidentally hangs herself with medical alert necklace  —  CUMBERLAND COUNTY, Pa. - An 86-year-old Cumberland County woman is dead after she trips and is accidentally hanged by her medical alert necklace.  It happened on February 15.  —  County Coroner Charles Hall …

Travis County GOP Apoplectic Over New Chairman … The newly elected chair of the Republican Party in the county that includes the Texas Capitol spent most of election night tweeting about former Gov. Rick Perry's sexual orientation and former President Bill Clinton's penis …

Political Cesspool Host James Edwards Reports From Inside Donald Trump's Press Pen  —  I attended a Donald Trump rally in Memphis on Saturday night as a fully credentialed member of the media and enjoyed the unique experience of being able to air a live broadcast of The Political Cesspool Radio Program …

Democrats to Clinton: Don't laugh off Trump threat  —  It's time to stop pointing and laughing at the Republican primary.  For all the GOP front-runner's flaws, many veteran Democrats are beginning to conclude, Donald Trump is a canny operator who just might end up in the White House if they're not careful.

Family mourns transgender woman who died after eating seeds from ‘suicide tree’  —  CALUMET CITY, Ill. — A mother of a 22-year-old transgender woman is warning other parents to beware of a deadly seed from an Asian plant called the “suicide tree.”  —  Two weeks ago, Natosha Anderson found …

Supreme Court Appears Sharply Divided as It Hears Texas Abortion Case  —  WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Wednesday appeared sharply and perhaps evenly divided in its first major abortion case in almost a decade, one that has the potential to revise constitutional standards and to affect millions of women.

Trump On His Trump U Blog: “Outsourcing Jobs... Not Always A Terrible Thing”  —  “Outsourcing Creates Jobs in the Long Run.”  —  John Moore / Getty Images  —  In his speech after his victory on Super Tuesday Republican frontrunner Donald Trump said he'd stop American jobs from moving overseas …

Chris Christie's wordless screaming  —  Is Chris Christie okay?  —  I believe that Donald Trump was talking, tonight, and that he, in fact, held an entire press conference.  But it was impossible to hear him over Chris Christie's eyes.  —  Chris Christie spent the entire speech screaming wordlessly.

KING: As violence erupts at Super Tuesday Trump rally, it's only a matter of time before someone gets killed at future events  —  On Monday, 30 black students attending a Donald Trump rally at Valdosta State University in rural Georgia were forcefully ejected — simply for being black.

How Trump's ‘Off the Record’ Remarks Crept Out  —  A reader, Ken Fitzpatrick, read about what has been called a secret recording of Donald Trump's meeting in January with the Times editorial board.  On that recording, an article by Buzzfeed's editor in chief Ben Smith suggests …

Murdoch: GOP ‘would be mad’ not to unify around Trump if he's nominee  —  Media mogul Rupert Murdoch argued Wednesday that Republicans would be “mad” not to rally around Donald Trump  —  should the businessman become the GOP presidential nominee.  —  Murdoch, who suggested earlier this week …

Beneath Hillary Clinton's Super Tuesday Wins, Signs of Turnout Trouble  —  Hillary Rodham Clinton set out 10 months ago to inspire and energize the Democratic Party, hoping to bring together the rising American electorate of black, brown, young and female voters into a durable presidential coalition.