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NBC News:
First Read: Where Have All the Popular Candidates Gone? — First Read is a morning briefing from Meet the Press and the NBC Political Unit on the day's most important political stories and why they matter. — Where have all the popular candidates gone? — Almost a year since …
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Philip Rucker / Washington Post:
Inside Rubio's collapse: A fateful decision that helped unravel his campaign … MIAMI — Marco Rubio had suffered three electoral thumpings in a row when the Florida senator and his image-makers abruptly shifted strategy. The aspirational candidate, whose presidential campaign was built …
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Politico, CNN, New York Times, Talking Points Memo, Political Insider blog, Slantpoint, New York Magazine, Althouse, The Pulse 2016, Daily Kos, The Week, The Right Scoop, Hot Air and Eschaton
Suffolk University:
Suffolk University Poll: Trump Leading GOP Field in Sunshine State
Suffolk University Poll: Trump Leading GOP Field in Sunshine State
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Politico and Talking Points Memo
Ed O'Keefe / Washington Post:
Trump, Rubio close in Fla. primary, Washington Post-Univision News poll shows
Trump, Rubio close in Fla. primary, Washington Post-Univision News poll shows
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Hot Air and Naked Politics
Karen Langley / Pittsburgh Post-Gazette:
For John Kasich, a battle over signatures to appear on Pa. primary ballot
For John Kasich, a battle over signatures to appear on Pa. primary ballot
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Washington Post and National Review
Nick / Third Base Politics:
Team Kasich: No, we didn't file enough valid signatures to qualify for the Pennsylvania ballot
Team Kasich: No, we didn't file enough valid signatures to qualify for the Pennsylvania ballot
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RedState and The Resurgent
Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
How Donald Trump can still be stopped, according to the folks in charge of doing it
How Donald Trump can still be stopped, according to the folks in charge of doing it
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RedState, Politico, The Daily Caller and US News
Michelle Fields / Breitbart:
In Her Own Words — On Tuesday night, I went to cover Donald Trump's press conference at the Trump National Golf Club in Jupiter, Florida. I was looking to cover the event like I have covered many live political events for Breitbart News, including an uneventful Trump press conference in Palm Beach the week before.
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Lloyd Grove / The Daily Beast:
Breitbart Rolls Over After Reporter ‘Grabbed’ By Trump Aide — Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump and his outsider juggernaut seem to be doing much more than reinventing the rules of politics and terrifying the Washington establishment. — The reality television billionaire might …
Rebecca Savransky / The Hill:
Reporter on ‘jarring’ physical altercation with top Trump aide: ‘I was shaken’
Reporter on ‘jarring’ physical altercation with top Trump aide: ‘I was shaken’
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James Hohmann / Washington Post:
The Daily 202: Four reasons Hillary Clinton lost the Democratic debate — THE BIG IDEA: — During their two-hour debate in Miami last night, Hillary Clinton attacked Bernie Sanders for siding with both the Castro brothers and the Koch brothers. — The Democratic front-runner attacked …
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Pamela Engel / Business Insider:
Jorge Ramos asks Hillary Clinton: Will you drop out of the race if you get indicted?
Jorge Ramos asks Hillary Clinton: Will you drop out of the race if you get indicted?
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Scared Monkeys
Jorge Ramos / New York Times:
Transcript of the Democratic Presidential Debate in Miami
Transcript of the Democratic Presidential Debate in Miami
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Mother Jones, Common Dreams, The Week and The National Interest
Washington Post:
Transcript: The Post-Univision Democratic debate, annotated
Transcript: The Post-Univision Democratic debate, annotated
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New York Times, Mother Jones, Hit & Run, Refinery29, Western Journalism, MichelleMalkin.com, John Hawkins' Right Wing News, Advocate, NPR and TalkLeft
Bloomberg Business:
Clinton Rebuffs Questions About E-Mails in Debate With Sanders
Clinton Rebuffs Questions About E-Mails in Debate With Sanders
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The Week, Politico and Yahoo Politics
Tkurzweil / KTLA:
Video Shows Mid-Air Passenger Brawl Aboard LAX Bound Spirit Airlines Flight — Cellphone video captured a brawl that broke out between passengers aboard a Spirit Airlines flight from Baltimore to Los Angeles Wednesday. — The video showed a group of women throwing punches and pulling each other's hair …
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Washington Post, Fox 59 and WHNT-TV
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Los Angeles Times:
Complaint over loud ‘boom box’ music leads to 5-woman brawl on Spirit Airlines flight — Five women fought aboard a Spirit Arlines flight that later landed in Los Angeles. — The two intoxicated women blasted music from a “boom box” on board the Spirit Airlines flight Wednesday morning from Baltimore to Los Angeles.
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CBS Los Angeles, Consumerist, CBS Baltimore and The San Diego Union …
Jeffrey Goldberg / The Atlantic:
The Obama Doctrine — Friday, August 30, 2013, the day the feckless Barack Obama brought to a premature end America's reign as the world's sole indispensable superpower—or, alternatively, the day the sagacious Barack Obama peered into the Middle Eastern abyss and stepped back from the consuming void …
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The Times of Israel, Infowars, Hot Air, Fusion, Jewish Telegraphic Agency, NBC News, Politico, The Week and Washington Free Beacon
Camille Paglia / Salon:
I was wrong about Donald Trump: Camille Paglia on the GOP front-runner's refreshing candor (and his impetuousness, too) — But his fearlessness and brash energy also seem necessary and rare — I'm dying for an update from you on Donald Trump. Last summer you called him “not a president” and a “carnival barker.”
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Bethania Palma Markus / Raw Story:
WATCH: Trump throws a tantrum after man confronts him for swearing around children
David Brody / blogs.cbn.com:
Brody File Exclusive: Ted Cruz Says Donald Trump's Voters Have “relatively low information” And Are “not that engaged”
Brody File Exclusive: Ted Cruz Says Donald Trump's Voters Have “relatively low information” And Are “not that engaged”
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Right Wing Watch, CNN, Politico, Daily Kos, The Gateway Pundit, BuzzFeed and Mother Jones
Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
Former Trump U salesman in new ad: 'I couldn't sleep at night'
Former Trump U salesman in new ad: 'I couldn't sleep at night'
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Yahoo Politics
Justin Wm / Washington Post:
Trump protester sucker-punched at North Carolina rally, videos show — Multiple videos show a protester at a Donald Trump rally in North Carolina being sucker-punched by a Trump supporter. — The videos, which appeared on social media early Thursday and are shot from different perspectives …
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Caitlin Cruz / Talking Points Memo:
Video Appears To Show White Trump Supporter Sucker-Punch Black Protester (VIDEO)
Video Appears To Show White Trump Supporter Sucker-Punch Black Protester (VIDEO)
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The Huffington Post
Jordan Fabian / The Hill:
Obama zeroes in on court pick — President Obama is zeroing in on a Supreme Court nominee. — The president has reportedly begun to interview potential replacements for the late Justice Antonin Scalia. And in the last day, two contenders had taken their names out of consideration …
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Politico, Washington Post, Grist and Hot Air
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Seung Min Kim / Politico:
Senate GOP polling shows upside to SCOTUS blockade — Senate GOP leaders are making the case to their members this week that their decision to ignore President Barack Obama's Supreme Court nominee is not just a principled stance, but a politically beneficial one, too.
Caitlin MacNeal / Talking Points Memo:
GOP Senator: Of Course We'd Consider SCOTUS Nom If Obama Were Republican!
GOP Senator: Of Course We'd Consider SCOTUS Nom If Obama Were Republican!
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Hullabaloo and AMERICAblog NewsAMERICAblog …
Cale Ahearn / WPMT FOX43:
Man attempts taxi robbery with police car behind him — READING, Pa. — Taxi surveillance cameras recorded a masked man robbing a terrified taxi driver at gunpoint - but the robber forgot to look behind him. — Waiting behind the cab was Berks County Deputy Sheriff Terry Ely …
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New York's PIX11 and KTLA
Theodore Schleifer / CNN:
Donald Trump: ‘I think Islam hates us’ — Washington (CNN)Donald Trump said Wednesday that he thinks “Islam hates us,” drawing little distinction between the religion and radical Islamic terrorism. — “I think Islam hates us,” Trump told CNN's Anderson Cooper, deploring the “tremendous hatred” …
Gallup:
Obama's Job Approval at Highest Level Since May 2013 — WASHINGTON, D.C. — President Barack Obama earned a 50% job approval rating for the week ending March 6, his highest weekly average since May 2013. — Obama's current 50% weekly average exceeds the 46% he averaged in his seventh year in office …
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Politico and Politicus USA
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Caitlin Cruz / Talking Points Memo:
Obama's Approval Rating Hits Almost Three-Year High
Obama's Approval Rating Hits Almost Three-Year High
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Balloon Juice
Joe Holden / WPXI-TV:
BREAKING: 5 dead, 3 hurt in Wilkinsburg mass shooting — WILKINSBURG, Pa. — Five people are dead and three people are hurt after a mass shooting in Wilkinsburg Wednesday night, Allegheny County police said. — Emergency dispatchers confirmed that police and seven ambulances were called to Franklin Avenue just before 11 p.m.
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Darrell Sapp / Pittsburgh Post-Gazette:
Five people killed in mass shooting in Wilkinsburg; gunmen at large
Five people killed in mass shooting in Wilkinsburg; gunmen at large
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Fox News, Western Journalism and NPR
Veronica Rocha / Los Angeles Times:
‘Hot Felon’ Jeremy Meeks released from federal prison and gets job offers — Jeremy Meeks, right, known as the “hot felon,” was released from prison Tuesday. — A convicted felon whose handsome booking photo went viral was released from federal prison this week, and he is now entertaining job offers.
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Independent Journal Review, KFOR-TV, Fox 59 and theGrio
Luke Rosiak / The Daily Caller:
Union Officials Admit They Let Veterans Die Rather Than Talk To Republicans — 'Who knows what kind of lives could've been saved' — Illegal Alien Released Due To Paperwork Mix-Up Allegedly Slaughters Five In Kansas City And Missouri — Alleged killer was in police custody in September
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BizPac Review and Weasel Zippers
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Richard Pollock / The Daily Caller:
Claim: Hillary Grand Jury Looking Into Political Corruption
Claim: Hillary Grand Jury Looking Into Political Corruption
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Infowars and BizPac Review
McKay Coppins / BuzzFeed:
Sources: Mike Lee To Endorse Ted Cruz — MIAMI — Utah Sen. Mike Lee will endorse Ted Cruz for president on Thursday afternoon, a source with knowledge of Lee's plans told BuzzFeed News. — Lee was one of five senators — three of whom are running for president — not to vote on a Senate bill …
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Talking Points Memo and The Resurgent