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12:20 PM ET, March 6, 2016

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CBS News:
Battleground Tracker poll: Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton lead in Michigan  —  Donald Trump holds the lead heading into the final days before the Michigan primary, looking to extend his overall delegate lead after a string of Super Tuesday wins.  Trump is at 39 percent, Ted Cruz is in second place …
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Mark Murray / NBC News:
Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton Hold Big Leads in Michigan: Poll  —  Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton are leading their competitors by double digits in Michigan's March 8 primary, according to a new NBC News/Wall Street Journal/Marist poll.  —  In the Republican race, Trump gets support …
Discussion: Political Wire
Colin Campbell / Business Insider:
‘I want Ted one-on-one’: Donald Trump calls on Marco Rubio to drop out of race  —  Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump said Saturday that rival Marco Rubio should drop out of the race.  —  “I think it's time for Marco to clean the deck.  I really do.
Discussion: Hot Air and Althouse
Alexandra Jaffe / NBC News:
Rubio on Losses: ‘The Map Only Gets Better for Us’  —  SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — Marco Rubio brushed off his disappointing night Saturday after another round of losses and insisted his fortunes would shift on March 15, when states award their delegates on a winner-take-all basis.
Michael Goodwin / New York Post:
Don't panic, GOP — Donald Trump can beat Hillary
Discussion: Infowars
Jonathan Easley / The Hill:
Rubio downplays poor Super Saturday showings
Discussion: Politico and Talking Points Memo
Manuela Tobias / Politico:
Sanders wins Kansas
Jennifer Epstein / Bloomberg Business:
Clinton Backs Rescinding Tax Breaks for Moving Jobs Overseas
Discussion: Taylor Marsh
Anne Gearan / Washington Post:
Sanders keeps raising millions — and spending them, a potential problem for Clinton
Associated Press:
Cruz wins Kansas, battles for KY in GOP fight for delegates
Jonathan Easley / The Hill:   Cruz takes two Super Saturday contests, Trump said to win La.
Manuela Tobias / Politico:
Cruz crushes Trump in Kansas
Discussion: Yahoo Politics, Hit & Run and ABC News
David Remnick / New Yorker:
American Demagogue  —  Nearly three decades ago, Howard Kaminsky, of Random House, called on the real-estate developer and self-marketing master Donald Trump at his office on Fifth Avenue.  Kaminsky brought along a cover design for “Trump: The Art of the Deal,” its author's literary début.
Discussion: Politico and Althouse
TMZ.com:
Nancy Reagan — Dead at 94  —  DEAD AT 94  —  EXCLUSIVE  —  Nancy Reagan has died ... TMZ has learned from a close family member.  —  The former first lady was living in Bel Air and has been in failing health in recent years.  —  Mrs. Reagan married Ronald in 1952 and went on to became …
Discussion: Just Jared and fox13now.com
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Elisha Fieldstadt / NBC News:
Former First Lady Nancy Reagan Dead at 94  —  Former first lady Nancy Reagan has died, according to a spokeswoman with the Reagan Library.  She was 94.  —  The cause of death was congestive heart failure, according to her rep Joanne Drake.  “Mrs. Reagan will be buried …
Discussion: Fox News Insider and The Week
David McCabe / The Hill:
Limbaugh on Trump: Much bigger upside than downside  —  Conservative talk radio host Rush Limbaugh said Sunday that there's a “much bigger upside than downside” in the Republican presidential candidacy of real estate developer Donald Trump  —  “I think with the case of Trump …
Ross Douthat / New York Times:
The Elements of Trumpism  —  MAYBE Donald Trump is doing us a favor.  —  The United States has long been spared a truly authoritarian element in our politics.  Since Southern apartheid was crushed and far-left terrorism died away, we've had very little organized political violence …
Douglas Rivers / YouGov US Opinion Center News:
Civil War in the G.O.P.  —  Mitt Romney has some sway in the Republican Party - but not with Trump voters  —  On Thursday, Mitt Romney fired the first shot in the Republican civil war.  In a speech at the University of Utah, Romney denounced Donald Trump as a “phony” and a “fraud” with …
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Timothy Egan / New York Times:   The Beast Is Us  —  You heard the word “scary” used a lot this week, that and much more.
A. Hope Jahren / New York Times:
She Wanted to Do Her Research.  He Wanted to Talk ‘Feelings.’  —  Honolulu — OVER the past two decades as a professor, I've grown thousands of plants, studying how their biology shifts in response to our changing environment.  Soon I'll begin to design and build my fourth laboratory …
Discussion: Althouse
Rosalind S. Helderman / Washington Post:
Clinton, on her private server, wrote 104 emails the government says are classified … Hillary Clinton wrote 104 emails that she sent using her private server while secretary of state that the government has since said contain classified information, according to a new Washington Post analysis …
Daily Mail:
German swimming pool where two migrant sex attacks have been carried out says it has been forced to segregate men and women  —  A German water park that has been the scene of two sex attacks by migrants have announced plans to segregate men and women.  —  The plan will involve banning men …
Nicholas Kristof / New York Times:
Donald the Dangerous  —  IS there any scarier nightmare than President Donald J. Trump in a tense international crisis, indignant and impatient, with his sweaty finger on the nuclear trigger?  —  “Trump is a danger to our national security,” John B. Bellinger III, legal adviser …
Orlando Sentinel:
Trump rally draws thousands to UCF  —  Thousands have filed into the CFE Arena at the University of Central Florida to hear presidential frontrunner Donald Trump.  The event has also sparked protests and criticism from two local lawmakers who back fellow candidate Marco Rubio. … Privacy Policy
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Kristinn Taylor / The Gateway Pundit:   MASSIVE, MASSIVE CROWD to See Trump in Orlando - 10,000+ Pack CFE Arena
Frances Langum / Latest from Crooks and Liars:
WATCH: CPAC Attendees Boo And Walk Out On Ted Cruz  —  CPAC is a mess.  —  The conservative movement loves to call themselves insurgents but they can't spoon it up when it comes to half their audience supporting Donald Trump.  —  A sizable number of attendees at a Ted Cruz speech booed …
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Elianayjohnson / National Review:
Lindsey Graham Warms Up to Ted Cruz
 
 
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Maureen Dowd / New York Times:
Chickens, Home to Roost
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New York Times:
Donald Trump Considered Path to Presidency Starting at Governor's Mansion in New York
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Daniel Boffey / Observer:
Russia ‘stoking refugee unrest in Germany to topple Angela Merkel’
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‘Casper the ghost-like’ octopus discovered on Pacific Ocean floor
Daily Mail:
NHS to harvest babies' organs: ‘Ghoulish’ …
FiveThirtyEight:
Republicans:  — Kansas — Called for Cruz, who won by 25 percentage points.
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Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Sanders: GOP debates sound like ‘6th-grade food fight’
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John Kasich campaign aide fired after domestic violence arrest
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Eliza Collins / Politico:
Bergdahl's lawyers request to interview Trump
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Obama to Meet With Financial Regulators Ahead of New Rule
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