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New York Times:
Rank and File Republicans Tell Party Elites: We're Sticking With Donald Trump — From Michigan to Louisiana to California on Friday, rank-and-file Republicans expressed mystification, dismissal and contempt for the instructions that their party's most high-profile leaders are urgently handing down to them …
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Karen Tumulty / Washington Post:
Trump throws the GOP into an identity crisis … Only a year ago, Republicans were congratulating themselves on having the strongest field of presidential candidates in a generation — diverse, highly credentialed conservatives who might be the salvation of a party that lost the popular vote in five of the last six elections.
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The Moderate Voice, Politico and ABC News
Tim Mak / The Daily Beast:
Can Newt Gingrich Save GOP? — Newt Gingrich—yes, you read that right—is trying to play peacemaker between Republicans in Washington and the Trump campaign. — The Republican Party's establishment is slowly coming to terms with a tough reality: Donald Trump will be the nominee, and resistance is futile.
Damian Paletta / Wall Street Journal:
Trump Reverses His Stance on Torture — Leading GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump said he wouldn't order the U.S. military to break international laws, addressing criticism from military and legal experts that his policies regarding torture and killing the family members of terrorists would violate the Geneva Convention.
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Ryan Browne / CNN:
Donald Trump reverses position on torture, killing terrorists' families
Donald Trump reverses position on torture, killing terrorists' families
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TIME, Althouse and Washington Times
Ian Millhiser / ThinkProgressPage Array:
BREAKING: Supreme Court Reopens Clinics Closed By Anti-Abortion Law — The Supreme Court handed down a brief order Monday allowing four Louisiana abortion clinics to reopen after they were closed due to a recent decision by a conservative federal appeals court.
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Adam Liptak / New York Times:
Supreme Court Blocks Louisiana Abortion Law
Supreme Court Blocks Louisiana Abortion Law
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The Talking Dog
Chico Harlan / Washington Post:
The debilitating economic disaster Louisiana's governor left behind — BATON ROUGE, La. — Already, the state of Louisiana had gutted university spending and depleted its rainy day funds. It had cut 30,000 employees and furloughed others. It had slashed the number of child services staffers …
Andrew Blankstein / NBC News:
Knife Found on O.J. Simpson Property Inconsistent With Killings: Sources — A knife found over a dozen years ago on land where O.J. Simpson once lived appears to be inconsistent with the 1994 murders of the former football star's wife and her friend, multiple law enforcement sources told NBC News.
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Myung J. Chun / Los Angeles Times:
Knife found on O.J. Simpson property being tested by LAPD
Knife found on O.J. Simpson property being tested by LAPD
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Kenneth P. Vogel / Politico:
Behind Trump's CPAC deal gone bad — NATIONAL HARBOR, Maryland Donald Trump spent five years building a mutually beneficial relationship with the organization that hosts the annual Conservative Political Action Conference, filling its coffers with at least $150,000 in cash …
Mark Hensch / The Hill:
Brother of murdered civil rights leader endorses Trump — for president. — “I believe in him first of all because he's a businessman,” Charles Evers said, according to The Clarion-Ledger. “I think jobs are badly needed in Mississippi.” — Evers's brother, Medgar Evers, was assassinated in Jackson, Miss., in 1963.
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Agence France-Presse:
White House: Cuba has no say on Obama-dissidents meeting — Washington (AFP) - The White House on Friday said Cuba's communist government will have no say in which dissidents President Barack Obama meets during his visit to the island later this month. — “The president does intend to meet …
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Dan Snierson / EW.com:
PRESIDENT OBAMA THANKS MYTHBUSTERS FOR PROVING THAT AMERICA DID ACTUALLY LAND ON THE MOON
PRESIDENT OBAMA THANKS MYTHBUSTERS FOR PROVING THAT AMERICA DID ACTUALLY LAND ON THE MOON
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Gawker:
Voicemails Appear to Reveal Donald Trump's Cozy Relationship With the Liberal Media — Early Thursday morning, Gawker received an anonymous email with an attachment that purported to contain recordings from Donald Trump's voicemail inbox. Among the recordings were messages that appear …
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Greg Margason / Fox 59:
Joey Feek from Joey + Rory passes away after battle with cancer — ALEXANDRIA, Ind. (March 4, 2016) - Hoosier native Joey Feek of the country music duo Joey + Rory passed away Friday, her husband Rory wrote. — “My wife's greatest dream came true today,” Rory wrote. “She is in Heaven.”
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Sahil Kapur / Bloomberg Business:
Cruz Serves Up Spoilers on Contested Convention and Rubio's Florida Hopes — The Texas senator flatly rejected the idea of a contested convention on Friday at CPAC, warning that it would lead to a “manifest revolt.” — Ted Cruz flatly rejected the idea of a contested convention on Friday …
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Althouse
Nick Gass / Politico:
Ben Carson announces campaign is over — Ben Carson is suspending his bid for the presidency, the retired neurosurgeon announced Friday, speaking at the Conservative Political Action Conference in National Harbor, Maryland. — “Even though I might be leaving the campaign trail …
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Niall Stanage / The Hill:
Debate fatigue sets in for GOP — There are two more Republican presidential debates left on the schedule — and that is more than enough for party insiders, who fear that the insult-rich clashes are becoming deeply damaging to the GOP's image. — In their minds, Thursday's debate in Detroit was a nadir.
Christian Datoc / The Daily Caller:
During a monologue Friday about Donald Trump's Thursday night debate performance, radio host Glenn Beck said that if he “had a knife, the stabbing just wouldn't stop.” — Beck's co-host, Stu Burguiere, told The Daily Caller Friday — after this article's publication — that …
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Weasel Zippers, The Gateway Pundit and Politico
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J.D. Durkin / Mediaite:
No, Glenn Beck Did Not Say He Would Have Stabbed Trump at Last Night's GOP Debate
No, Glenn Beck Did Not Say He Would Have Stabbed Trump at Last Night's GOP Debate
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Infowars and Joe.My.God.
Elizabeth Harrington / Washington Free Beacon:
Biden's One-Night Visit to Mexico City Cost $538,528 for Hotels Alone — Vice President Joe Biden's hotel tab for his recent one-night stay in Mexico City cost taxpayers more than $500,000. — Biden, who attended an annual economic summit with Mexican leaders, stayed at the luxury Intercontinental Presidente Hotel.
Jim Hoft / The Gateway Pundit:
VIDEO=> Trump Supporters Walk Out on Ted Cruz at CPAC — So this happened. — Trump supporters today walked out on Senator Ted Cruz during his CPAC speech. — This happened during Cruz's lecture at CPAC. … The post VIDEO=> Trump Supporters Walk Out on Ted Cruz at CPAC appeared first on The Gateway Pundit.
Lynnley Browning / Bloomberg Business:
Sanders Tax Plans Seen Raising $15.3 Trillion Over 10 Years — Broad tax increases would hit top earners hardest, report says — Proposals could reduce incentives to invest, study finds — Senator Bernie Sanders's proposals for sweeping tax hikes on businesses and individuals …
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Samantha Allen / The Daily Beast:
Catholic Prep School: No Transgender Students — A Rhode Island school says it won't accept or enroll transgender students. — Catholic Rhode Island private school Mount Saint Charles Academy is open to everyone—so long as they're not transgender. — The latest edition …
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Gregg Zoroya / USA Today:
New VA hotline chief has a history of dropped calls from veterans — A former Air Force officer chosen to fix the VA's problem-plagued suicide hotline has been running other agency phone banks that have a poor record of service, dropping as many as one in five calls from veterans, according to internal data provided to USA TODAY.
Hot Air:
Cruz tries to take out Rubio in Florida, opens 10 campaign offices across the state — The Texas senator has opened 10 campaign offices in the Sunshine State ahead of the March 15 primary, volunteers told the Miami Herald. The campaign confirmed the new offices Friday …
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Patricia Mazzei / Naked Politics:
Ted Cruz makes play for Florida
Ted Cruz makes play for Florida
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Natasha Korecki / Politico:
In Illinois, a Rubio-Kasich rift as GOP battles to stop Trump — CHICAGO — The anyone-but-Trump money movement may be particularly strong in Illinois, with the Ricketts family at its center, but there's no sign that establishment Republicans here will band together to defeat the billionaire frontrunner.
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Chicagoist and New York Magazine
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South Florida / Sun-Sentinel:
Why we can't endorse Trump, Rubio, Cruz or Kasich
Why we can't endorse Trump, Rubio, Cruz or Kasich
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Florida Politics
Demetri Sevastopulo / Financial Times:
Trump show too juvenile for Jerry Springer — When one of the bickering men on stage stated that there was nothing diminutive about parts of his anatomy, viewers could have been forgiven for thinking they were watching the latest episode of The Jerry Springer Show.