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Nick Gehring / bencarson.com:
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 …
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Robert Costa / Washington Post:
Ben Carson tells supporters he sees no ‘path forward’ for presidential campaign — Ben Carson, the retired neurosurgeon who briefly led the Republican presidential race before his campaign began an extended public implosion, told his supporters in a statement Wednesday afternoon that he does not see a …
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Bloomberg Business:
Romney to Lay Out Case Against Trump in Speech Thursday — The party's 2012 presidential nominee will argue against allowing the billionaire front-runner follow in his footsteps. — michaelcbender — justinsink — The rapidly intensifying effort by the Republican establishment …
Dylan Matthews / Vox:
Ben Carson is essentially ending his campaign. Here's how it all went wrong.
Ben Carson is essentially ending his campaign. Here's how it all went wrong.
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Trip Gabriel / New York Times:
Ben Carson, Seeing No ‘Path Forward,’ Signals End to Candidacy
Ben Carson, Seeing No ‘Path Forward,’ Signals End to Candidacy
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Tom Hamburger / Washington Post:
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.
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Brian Beutler / New Republic:
Donald Trump's Nomination Will Have Real, Lasting Upsides — And the only thing that can stop it now is well-intentioned, but deeply misguided, #NeverTrump liberals. — In 2008, Republicans suffered a landslide defeat after placing Sarah Palin on the ballot and setting her loose on the campaign trail …
Joshua Miller / BostonGlobe.com:
Charlie Baker won't vote for Donald Trump in November — NORTH ANDOVER — Massachusetts Republican Governor Charlie Baker, under pressure from Democrats and the news media to take a position on whether he would publicly support Donald J. Trump, should he be the GOP presidential nominee …
Lauren Fox / Talking Points Memo:
Harry Reid Savages Republicans For Making Trump
Harry Reid Savages Republicans For Making Trump
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New York Times:
The Party of Trump, and the Path Forward for Democrats
The Party of Trump, and the Path Forward for Democrats
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Julie Hirschfeld Davis / New York Times:
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 …
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Cristina Marcos / The Hill:
House to vote on filing brief in Supreme Court immigration case
House to vote on filing brief in Supreme Court immigration case
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Alexander Burns / New York Times:
Anti-Trump Republicans Call for a Third-Party Option — Spurred by Donald J. Trump's mounting victories, a small but influential — and growing — group of conservative leaders are calling for a third-party option to spare voters a wrenching general election choice between a Republican …
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Dan Balz / Washington Post:
Clinton, Trump victories foreshadow a nasty, contentious fall campaign
Clinton, Trump victories foreshadow a nasty, contentious fall campaign
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Austin American-Statesman:
Robert Morrow, new Travis GOP chair, faces party revolt
Robert Morrow, new Travis GOP chair, faces party revolt
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Sara Jerde / Talking Points Memo:
Texas County GOP Implodes Over Newly-Elected Chairman's Crude Tweets
Texas County GOP Implodes Over Newly-Elected Chairman's Crude Tweets
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Gabriel Sherman / New York Magazine:
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.
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Isaac Chotiner / Slate:
What Went Wrong for Marco Rubio
What Went Wrong for Marco Rubio
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Tré Goins-Phillips / TheBlaze.com:
'It's Unstoppable': Glenn Beck Lays Out His 2016 ‘Dream Team’
'It's Unstoppable': Glenn Beck Lays Out His 2016 ‘Dream Team’
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KFOR-TV:
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.
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Jacob Pramuk / CNBC:
Police: McClendon crashed traveling at ‘high rate of speed’ — Fmr. Chesapeake CEO killed in car crash — Former Chesapeake Energy CEO Aubrey McClendon, was killed in a car accident early on Wednesday in Oklahoma City, as announced in a police press conference.
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Howard Sheppard / WPMT FOX43:
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 …
JAMES EDWARDS:
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 …
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Ben White / Politico:
Wall Street readies big Trump assault — NEW YORK — Wall Street is getting ready to go nuclear on Donald Trump. — Terrified that the reality TV star could run away with the Republican nomination and bring his brand of anti-immigrant, protectionist populism to the White House …
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Daniel Lippman / Politico:
Democrats to Clinton: Don't laugh off Trump threat
Democrats to Clinton: Don't laugh off Trump threat
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John Nolte / Breitbart:
Kristol Lays Out Strategy to Give White House to Hillary: Trump 'Shouldn't Win'
Kristol Lays Out Strategy to Give White House to Hillary: Trump 'Shouldn't Win'
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Allison Yang / New York's PIX11:
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 …
Adam Liptak / New York Times:
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.
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Robert Barnes / Washington Post:
Supreme Court hears arguments on Texas abortion-clinics case
Supreme Court hears arguments on Texas abortion-clinics case
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Andrew Kaczynski / BuzzFeed:
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 …
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Alexandra Petri / Washington Post:
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.
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Jesse Byrnes / The Hill:
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 …
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Margaret Sullivan / New York Times:
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 …
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Nicholas Confessore / New York Times:
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.
Frank Pallotta / CNNMoney:
ESPN ‘addressing’ Curt Schilling's Hillary Clinton slam — ESPN baseball analyst Curt Schilling appeared to violate the network's guidelines when he told a radio station that Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton should be “buried under a jail.”
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