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Anthony Brooks / WBUR:
WBUR Poll: Sanders Opens Substantial Lead In Mass., Challenging Warren On Her Home Turf — With Super Tuesday just days away, a new WBUR poll finds Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders well ahead of Sen. Elizabeth Warren in her home state of Massachusetts. — The poll shows Sanders is the choice …
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National Review and The Hill
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Joe Cunningham / Redstate:
Even In Massachusetts, It's Clear Elizabeth Warren Is Done
Even In Massachusetts, It's Clear Elizabeth Warren Is Done
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WBUR
Politico:
Joe Biden's campaign isn't dead yet
Joe Biden's campaign isn't dead yet
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NBC News, Washington Post, FiveThirtyEight, The Daily Beast, The Hill and Breitbart
Shane Goldmacher / New York Times:
Elizabeth Warren Gets Giant Lift From Persist PAC
Elizabeth Warren Gets Giant Lift From Persist PAC
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National Review
Dana Blanton / Fox News:
Fox News Poll: Sanders knocks Biden out of first, majority thinks Trump wins
Fox News Poll: Sanders knocks Biden out of first, majority thinks Trump wins
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courthousenews.com, The Hill, No More Mister Nice Blog, POLITICUSUSA and Raw Story
Stephanie Murray / Politico:
Warren at risk of losing her home state
Warren at risk of losing her home state
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CANNONFIRE and Mother Jones
Michael Gerson / Washington Post:
No, Bernie Sanders isn't authentic. Just like Trump.
No, Bernie Sanders isn't authentic. Just like Trump.
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Slate, CNN and The Daily Caller
John Wagner / Washington Post:
Election 2020 live updates: Democrats make final arguments in South Carolina
Election 2020 live updates: Democrats make final arguments in South Carolina
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The Hill and The National Interest
Washington Post:
U.S. workers without protective gear assisted coronavirus evacuees, HHS whistleblower says — Officials at the Department of Health and Human Services sent more than a dozen workers to receive the first Americans evacuated from Wuhan, China, the epicenter of the coronavirus outbreak …
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Stephen Collinson / CNN:
Trump seeks a ‘miracle’ as virus fears mount — Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump is hoping for a “miracle” that will make the coronavirus disappear but tanking stock markets and signs the disease is stalking America are delivering their verdict on his scattershot management of the crisis.
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The American Independent, National Review and Vanity Fair
David Brooks / New York Times:
No, Not Sanders, Not Ever — He is not a liberal, he's the end of liberalism. — A few months ago, I wrote a column saying I would vote for Elizabeth Warren over Donald Trump. I may not agree with some of her policies, but culture is more important than politics. She does not spread moral rot the way Trump does.
Steve Contorno / Tampa Bay Times:
What's on Mike Pence's schedule as coronavirus point man? A fundraiser in Florida. — The $25,000-per-plate GOP event featuring the vice president is in Longboat Key. — The country's new point man on coronavirus response, Vice President Mike Pence, is expected to travel to Florida on Friday — but not on a public health mission.
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Paul Krugman / New York Times:
When a Pandemic Meets a Personality Cult — The Trump team confirms all of our worst fears. — So, here's the response of the Trump team and its allies to the coronavirus, at least so far: It's actually good for America. Also, it's a hoax perpetrated by the news media and the Democrats.
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NewNowNext, The Intellectualist, Snopes.com, CNN and Washington Post
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Alexander Heffner / USA Today:
Trump's terrible coronavirus response hands 2020 Democrats a chance to show they can lead
Trump's terrible coronavirus response hands 2020 Democrats a chance to show they can lead
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Colorado Times Recorder, New Republic and Media Matters for America
Kyle Cheney / Politico:
House seeks interviews with prosecutors who quit Stone case after Trump's intervention — House Democrats are seeking interviews with the four career prosecutors who quit the case of Roger Stone, a longtime confidant of President Donald Trump, after Trump and Justice Department leaders intervened to demand a lighter jail sentence.
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The Daily Beast
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The Daily Beast:
Trump Spends 45 Minutes With ‘Deep State’ Play Actors Amid Coronavirus Mayhem — Meanwhile, the man he tapped to run point on the virus, VP Pence, took to a conservative activists conference and had meetings with pro-Trump media luminaries. — NATIONAL HARBOR, MD — One day after briefing …
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Columbia Journalism Review, The Week, Progress Pond, The Intellectualist, Raw Story, Political Flare and Occupy Democrats
Washington Post:
Trump says he can bring in coronavirus experts quickly. The experts say it is not that simple. — The White House official charged with leading the U.S. response to deadly pandemics left nearly two years ago as his global health security team was disbanded.
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Letters from an American and New York Times
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Daily Sabah:
Turkey will no longer stop Syrian migrant flow to Europe, official says — Turkey has decided to no longer stop Syrian refugees from reaching Europe by land and sea, a senior Turkish official told Reuters on Thursday, in anticipation of the imminent arrival of refugees from Syria's Idlib where nearly a million have been displaced.
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Foreign Exchanges
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Carlotta Gall / New York Times:
Airstrike Hits Turkish Forces in Syria, Raising Fears of Escalation
Airstrike Hits Turkish Forces in Syria, Raising Fears of Escalation
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National Review, Foreign Policy, Slate, Washington Post, UPI, Reuters, Al Jazeera and TheBlaze
Catherine Rampell / Washington Post:
With coronavirus, Trump's lies and his reassurances backfire — It mattered when the White House press secretary, in his first day on the job, lied about President Trump's inaugural crowd size. — It mattered when Trump said that wind turbines cause cancer.
Ben Jacobs / GEN:
Michael Bloomberg's North Carolina Game Is Seriously Unlike Anything Else — The Super Tuesday state is the former New York mayor's best shot at primary delegates — and he knows it — eeing the Bloomberg presidential campaign up close, there is no easy way to describe it.
Pat Rynard / Iowa Starting Line:
Final Iowa Caucus Results: Pete Buttigieg Wins — The final Iowa Caucus results are finally final: Pete Buttigieg has won (still). — This evening, the Iowa Democratic Party released the results of the recount requested by Bernie Sanders and Pete Buttigieg's campaigns for 23 precincts.
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Iowa Democrats, Outside the Beltway and The Hill
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Hannah Dreier / ProPublica:
When the Billionaire Family Behind the Opioid Crisis Needed PR Help, They Turned to Mike Bloomberg — Bloomberg gave media advice to the Sacklers and recommended his longtime mayoral spokesman to them. The relationship could shadow his presidential bid. — Long celebrated …
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National Review
Dan Vergano / BuzzFeed News:
New York Is Making Its Own Coronavirus Test After The CDC's Tests Have Repeatedly Failed — Washington, D.C. — Federal health officials met with state and city public health labs on Wednesday to fix a crippling lack of options to diagnose the novel coronavirus, a shortfall driven by botched CDC testing kits.
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Chicago Boyz, STAT, Gothamist, Davis Enterprise, Politico and The American Conservative
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Nihar Kabinittal / ABC News:
FDA reports 1st drug shortage due to novel coronavirus outbreak — The FDA said the issue continues to be “an evolving and very dynamic” one. — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced it's been alerted to the first manufacturing shortage of an unnamed drug, due to a viral coronavirus outbreak …
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Roger Stone lashes out in Florida testimony — Take a look inside a Roger Stone Deposition — Roger Stone looked like a man on edge, under extreme stress and struggling to contain pent-up fury. — The GOP provocateur was just days away from finding out his fate from a criminal case …
Rana Ayyub / TIME:
Narendra Modi Looks the Other Way as New Delhi Burns — Ayyub is an Indian journalist and the author of Gujarat Files: Anatomy of a Cover Up — Two days before the anti-Muslim riots began in Delhi this week, a member of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's cabinet said Muslims should have been sent …
David Lauter / Los Angeles Times:
Bernie Sanders holds 2-1 lead in California, poll shows — Sen. Bernie Sanders has taken a commanding lead in California's Democratic presidential race, ahead of his nearest rival by 2 to 1 and on track to win a majority of the huge trove of delegates at stake in the state's March 3 primary …
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The Hill
Ryan Lizza / Politico:
Coming to a podcast near you: Hillary Clinton — Hillary Clinton is starting a podcast. — The former first lady, secretary of State, and 2016 Democratic presidential nominee is planning to launch a new audio program in late spring, just in time for her to have a powerful new megaphone during the 2020 election.
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