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6:55 PM ET, March 2, 2016

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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 …
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 …
Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Ben Carson to end presidential campaign
Trip Gabriel / New York Times:
Ben Carson, Seeing No ‘Path Forward,’ Signals End to Candidacy
Jordan Rudner / The Texas Tribune:
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 …
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Tarini Parti / BuzzFeed:
Establishment Republicans Are Furious With John Kasich  —  WASHINGTON — On Tuesday night as return after return came in and Marco Rubio failed to break through, many establishment Republicans grew angrier that John Kasich was still in the race.  —  One of them was Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell …
Dan Balz / Washington Post:
The GOP has two weeks to take down Donald Trump
Isaac Chotiner / Slate:
What Went Wrong for Marco Rubio
Austin American-Statesman:
Robert Morrow, new Travis GOP chair, faces party revolt
Sara Jerde / Talking Points Memo:
Texas County GOP Implodes Over Newly-Elected Chairman's Crude Tweets
Discussion: Joe.My.God.
Tré Goins-Phillips / TheBlaze.com:
'It's Unstoppable': Glenn Beck Lays Out His 2016 ‘Dream Team’
John Nolte / Breitbart:   Kristol Lays Out Strategy to Give White House to Hillary: Trump 'Shouldn't Win'
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 …
Discussion: WGN-TV and KTLA
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.
Discussion: New York Magazine
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Lauren Fox / Talking Points Memo:
Harry Reid Savages Republicans For Making Trump
Discussion: Washington Monthly
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 …
New York Daily News:
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.
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Reuters:
Now or never: Trump's ‘wall’ talk sparks migrant rush on U.S.-Mexico border
Christina Mora / WLKY-TV:
Supporters, protesters clash at Donald Trump's Louisville rally
Discussion: Salon, New York Daily News and Fusion
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 …
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 …
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.
USA Today:
Tavis Smiley: Black America could get on Trump train  —  Hillary might look like a shoo-in with African-American voters, but don't be too sure.  —  With Hillary Clinton racking up more overwhelming victories in Super Tuesday primaries thanks to the overwhelming support of African-American voters …
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 …
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.
Todd Zywicki / Washington Post:
So far, Trump wins open primaries and Cruz wins closed ... and the calendar is starting to change toward more closed primaries  —  Following the South Carolina primary, an interesting article by Michael Harrington went around Facebook that speculated that Donald Trump's victory …
 
 
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Frank Pallotta / CNNMoney:
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Egyptian Student Who ‘Threatened Trump’ on Facebook to Be Deported
Byron Tau / Wall Street Journal:
Secret Service Says Agents Don't Eject People From Campaign Rallies Absent a Threat
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
James Hibberd / EW.com:
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Erick Erickson / The Resurgent:
Cruz is Stopping Trump. Rubio is Not.
 Earlier Items: 
Kirk Mitchell / Denver Post:
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Edward-Isaac Dovere / Politico:
Dems: Trump may get us a SCOTUS win
Discussion: ABC News
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