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Shane Goldmacher / Politico:
Top conservatives gather to plot third-party run against Trump — Three influential leaders in the conservative movement have summoned other top conservatives for a closed-door meeting this Thursday in Washington D.C. to talk about how to stop Donald Trump and, should he become the Republican nominee …
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New York Times:
Measuring Donald Trump's Mammoth Advantage in Free Media — Of all the ways Donald Trump has shocked the political system, one of the most significant is how he wins primary after primary with one of the smallest campaign budgets. — He still doesn't have a super PAC.
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Washington Post, Political Wire, The Week, Business Insider, Independent Journal Review, Hit & Run, Hot Air, National Review and The Pulse 2016
Sabrina Siddiqui / Guardian:
Rubio: Trump is ‘an embarrassment’ and Republicans will pay big in November — Speaking with the Guardian, the Florida senator - whose fate is sealed if he fails to win his home state Tuesday - said the billionaire is cultivating a party of fear — The Republican party will be consigned …
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Common Dreams and Mediaite
BuzzFeed:
Primary Updates: Rubio Vows To Press On If He Loses Florida — If the presidential race were an action movie, we'd be in the montage phase. Catch up quickly here: — Five big states — Florida, Ohio, Illinois, North Carolina, and Missouri — are voting in primaries today …
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Talking Points Memo, RedState, Hot Air, CNN, John Hawkins' Right Wing News, The Daily Caller and The Week
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Eliza Collins / Politico:
Clinton: 'We didn't lose a single person' in Libya — Hillary Clinton on Monday defended the intervention in Libya that she championed as secretary of state, telling MSNBC's Chris Matthews that the United States “didn't lose a single person.” — “Libya was a different kind of calculation.
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MSNBC, The Hill, Weekly Standard, Yahoo Politics, TPNN, RedState, Hillary Daily and Hot Air
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Abby Phillip / Washington Post:
Caught on a hot mic, Clinton speculates about Chris Christie's support for Trump — What's at stake in the Ohio GOP primary? … Catch up on the 2016 race — CHARLOTTE— It isn't often that Hillary Clinton lets her guard down about what she really thinks about the Republican presidential race.
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Politico, BuzzFeed, addictinginfo.org, Mediaite, Talking Points Memo and The Resurgent
David A. Graham / The Atlantic:
Gaffe Track: Clinton's Benghazi Amnesia
Gaffe Track: Clinton's Benghazi Amnesia
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Western Journalism and Fox News
Hadas Gold / Politico:
Trump campaign manager's behavior prompted staff concerns — Donald Trump's staff and advisers have expressed concerns about campaign manager Corey Lewandowski's quick temper and heavy-handed leadership, and some even planned a coup against him last month, sources involved in the discussions told POLITICO.
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Hadas Gold / Politico:
Breitbart sends ‘cease and desist’ letters to former staffers — Breitbart is getting litigious. — The company sent out cease and desist letters to some of the employees who left the company in the past week, multiple sources with knowledge of the letters told POLITICO.
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Talking Points Memo, The Daily Caller, Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion, Joe.My.God. and CNN, more at Mediagazer »
Jason Horowitz / New York Times:
A King in His Castle: How Donald Trump Lives, From His Longtime Butler — PALM BEACH, Fla. — Everything seemed to sparkle at the Mar-a-Lago estate here on a recent afternoon. The sun glinted off the pool and the black Secret Service S.U.V.s in the circular driveway.
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Matthew Yglesias / Vox:
Donald Trump's taste for well-done steaks is disqualifying
Donald Trump's taste for well-done steaks is disqualifying
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Lawyers, Guns & Money
Matthew Yglesias / Vox:
Donald Trump is making conservatives turn on the white working class — One of the great conceits of conservative punditry over the past 15 years has been the notion that American politics is dominated by affluent liberal snobs who disdain white working-class America and its communities.
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Boing Boing
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John Harwood / New York Times:
A Situation in Which Donald Trump Wins the White House
A Situation in Which Donald Trump Wins the White House
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The Daily Caller
Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
Can Bernie Sanders Pull Off An Upset In Ohio? — Bernie Sanders's win in Michigan last week was a massive upset relative to the pre-election polls of the state's voters, which had shown Hillary Clinton ahead by an average of 21 percentage points. In fact, Sanders may have pulled off …
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Washington Monthly, New York Magazine, Salon and Althouse
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Eliza Collins / Politico:
Jerry Springer: Republicans should pay me for copying my show
Jerry Springer: Republicans should pay me for copying my show
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Political Wire
WKMG:
Apopka polling places run out of Republican ballots — Technical issues also plague several Orange County locations — APOPKA, Fla. - Voters in Apopka said they were turned away Tuesday morning because their polling places ran out of Republican ballots. — Tweets by @AmandaNCastro
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Weasel Zippers, TPNN, BizPac Review and Western Journalism
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Kathy Frankovic / YouGov US Opinion Center News:
Trump breaks 50% in national support for the first time
Trump breaks 50% in national support for the first time
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The Daily Caller, The Gateway Pundit, The Pulse 2016, Infowars, Western Journalism, Hot Air, Scared Monkeys, Politico and Political Wire
Katherine Krueger / Talking Points Memo:
Carson: I Didn't Really Want To Endorse Trump, But He Offered Me A Position (VIDEO) — Former GOP presidential candidate Ben Carson said while he wished there was a “path” for him to endorse another candidate, he's anticipating a role in Republican Donald Trump's possible administration.
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Josh Israel / ThinkProgressPage Array:
Ben Carson: I Didn't Want To Endorse Trump, But He Promised Me A Position
Ben Carson: I Didn't Want To Endorse Trump, But He Promised Me A Position
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Jennifer Hansler / ABC News:
House of Representatives Bill Would Recognize Magic as ‘National Treasure’ — A bill to recognize magic as a “rare and valuable art form and national treasure” was introduced into the House of Representatives Tuesday. — The bill claims that magic “has not been properly recognized …
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Daniel Strauss / Politico:
Pete Sessions pushes to get magic recognized as national treasure
Pete Sessions pushes to get magic recognized as national treasure
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Boing Boing and AMERICAblog NewsAMERICAblog …
Shawnmcginnis / KTLA:
Palos Verdes Girl Paralyzed After Doing Backbend Refuses to Give Up Hope She'll Dance Again — Five-year-old Eden Hoelscher suffered a traumatic spinal injury while doing a backbend on the living room floor of her Palos Verdes home right before Christmas. — The injury left …
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WNEP-TV, New York's PIX11 and KFOR-TV
Patrick Howell O'Neill / The Daily Dot:
Donald Trump's volunteer contract forbids all criticism of Trump for life — Donald Trump's campaign requires volunteers to sign a contract that forbids them from criticizing the Republican presidential front-runner, his family members, any Trump businesses or products, or his campaign.
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Mother Jones, Mediaite, AMERICAblog NewsAMERICAblog …, Fusion and The Week
Jasmine Norwood / WTVR-TV:
Baby's body found wedged under driver's seat — RICHMOND, Va. — The mother of the Richmond infant found dead in a RV last fall was denied bond during a court hearing Tuesday. — Sabrina Malick, 29, was arrested and charged with second degree murder and felony child neglect in connection with her son Brendon Newton's death.
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New York's PIX11, WREG-TV and KTLA
Scott Feinberg / Hollywood Reporter:
Ang Lee, George Takei Among 25 Academy Members Protesting Oscars' Asian Jokes — “We found a lot of people who said, 'We're not going to accept this sort of joke anymore,' especially right after Cheryl Boone Isaacs gave that speech about diversity,” one of the signatories tells THR.
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Los Angeles Times, Slantpoint, Variety, Mashable and The Verge
Guardian:
Do giant gas bubbles explain the mystery of the Bermuda Triangle? — Age: 52 years. — Appearance: Then all of a sudden ... disappearance! — Location: Between Miami, Puerto Rico and Bermuda (approx). — What is it? Well, according to Vincent Gaddis, who first coined the phrase …
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WNEP-TV and Daily Mail
Deanna Boyd / Fort Worth Star-Telegram:
Video appears to show police officer pepper-spraying motorcyclists — Officer has been placed on administrative duties Bikers accuse officer of trying to cause wreck Police had received calls about cyclists driving recklessly — FORT WORTH — An officer has been pulled from patrol …
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Raw Story, Longview News-Journal, RT, The Scoop Blog, The Daily Caller, fox8.com and Associated Press
Jordan Fabian / The Hill:
Obama denounces rise of ‘vulgar and divisive’ politics of Trump — President Obama on Tuesday decried the rise of “vicious” politics in comments aimed at Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump — Speaking at a St. Patrick's Day luncheon at the Capitol, the president warned that …
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Bloomberg Business:
Obama May Counter Trump on Immigrants With Supreme Court Pick — Indian-born Srinivasan could be first Asian-American justice — Obama may announce U.S. Supreme Court nomination this week — President Barack Obama's U.S. Supreme Court nomination may prove to be his sharpest repudiation yet …
Nolan D. McCaskill / Politico:
Priebus: Every GOP candidate will back nominee — Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus on Tuesday said he expects every GOP presidential candidates to maintain his pledge to support the eventual nominee. — “I think that all of these candidates are true to their word …
Charles Thompson / PennLive.com:
Suspended Pa. Supreme Court Justice J. Michael Eakin resigns from bench in email scandal — Suspended Pennsylvania Supreme Court Justice J. Michael Eakin tendered his resignation from the state's high court Tuesday, ending a six-month fight for survival in an angry court of public opinion.
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