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Pete Williams / NBC News:
Supreme Court will take up challenge to Obamacare's individual mandate — The decision to take up the lawsuit in the new term that starts in October means the program will continue for at least another year and any ruling will come after Election Day. — The Supreme Court said Monday …
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Susannah Luthi / Politico:
Supreme Court will hear major challenge to Obamacare — The Supreme Court on Monday said it will take up a Republican challenge to Obamacare, in a move that boosts Democrats who want to highlight the lawsuit's threat to health care coverage during campaign season.
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New York Times, Townhall and The Daily Caller
Robert Barnes / Washington Post:
Supreme Court will once again consider fate of Affordable Care Act — The Supreme Court will hear a third challenge to the Affordable Care Act, this time at the request of Democratic-controlled states that are fighting a lower court decision that challenged the constitutionality of the law.
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Tobias Hoonhout / National Review:
Supreme Court Agrees to Hear Case on Whether Obamacare Is Unconstitutional
Mark Sherman / Associated Press:
Supreme Court justices reject appeal over bump stock ban
Supreme Court justices reject appeal over bump stock ban
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NBC News
William Kristol / The Bulwark:
The Simple Answer — Don't overthink your Super Tuesday vote. — “They say the world has become too complex for simple answers. They are wrong. There are no easy answers, but there are simple answers.” — You are a normal American. You don't like demagogues of the right or the left.
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Jenna Portnoy / Washington Post:
McAuliffe and others trapped in elevator before Biden event in Richmond
Nihar Kabinittal / ABC News:
Bloomberg's biggest test: winning votes on Super Tuesday
Bloomberg's biggest test: winning votes on Super Tuesday
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Tyler Olson / Fox News:
Super Tuesday guide: The states, the stakes, who's in contention and more
Super Tuesday guide: The states, the stakes, who's in contention and more
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Washington Post and KHOU-TV
Richard Salame / The Guardian:
Texas closes hundreds of polling sites, making it harder for minorities to vote — Guardian analysis finds that places where black and Latino population is growing by the largest numbers experienced the majority of closures and could benefit Republicans — Last year, Texas led the US south …
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Washington Monthly
Daniel Kreps / Rolling Stone:
Public Enemy Fire Flavor Flav After Bernie Sanders Rally Spat — “We thank him for his years of service and wish him well” — Public Enemy announced they are permanently “moving forward” without Flavor Flav, firing one of hip-hop's most memorable hypemen after more than 35 years.
John Myers / Los Angeles Times:
Californians who already voted for Buttigieg or Steyer grapple with desire for a do-over — There may be plenty of second chances in life, but there are very few when it comes to voting — a bitter pill to swallow for those Californians who voted for any of the presidential candidates …
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New York Times:
Pete Buttigieg Drops Out of Democratic Presidential Race
Pete Buttigieg Drops Out of Democratic Presidential Race
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Hiroko Tabuchi / New York Times:
How a Trump Insider Embeds Climate Denial in Scientific Research — An official at the Interior Department embarked on a campaign that has inserted misleading language about climate change — including debunked claims that increased carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is beneficial …
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The Hill, The American Independent and CNN
Elizabeth Cohen / CNN:
CDC hasn't revealed information to doctors that would help coronavirus patients — (CNN)As new cases of coronavirus arise daily in the United States — including several announced over the weekend and one death — the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has failed …
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George Packer / The Atlantic:
The President Is Winning His War on American Institutions — When Donald Trump came into office, there was a sense that he would be outmatched by the vast government he had just inherited. — The new president was impetuous, bottomlessly ignorant, almost chemically inattentive …
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Raw Story
New York Times:
Coronavirus Updates: First 2 Deaths in United States Amid Uptick in Cases — Cases in the United States skyrocketed by 35 percent over the weekend. States from coast to coast reported new cases, including the first two deaths at the same hospital in Washington State.
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Nick Miroff / Washington Post:
Ken Cuccinelli's appointment to top immigration job was unlawful, court rules, invalidating policy memos he signed — A federal judge ruled Sunday that President Trump's appointment last year of Ken Cuccinelli to be head of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services was a violation of federal vacancy laws …
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Marty Steinberg / CNBC:
Jack Welch, former chairman and CEO of GE, dies at 84 — Jack Welch was a railroad conductor's son who rose to chairman and CEO of General Electric. — During the 20 years he led the conglomerate, its market value grew from $12 billion to $410 billion.
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Timothy Bella / Washington Post:
Trump retweets video of him defeating his critics after second confirmed coronavirus death reported in U.S. — Shortly after health officials in Washington state confirmed the second U.S. death from the novel coronavirus in as many days, President Trump retweeted an animated video Sunday night …
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The Root
New York Times:
2nd Death Near Seattle Adds to Signs Coronavirus Is Spreading in U.S. — Officials see growing indications that the virus has been spreading undetected for weeks. A cluster of cases at one nursing home have made Kirkland, Wash., a focus of concern. — KIRKLAND, Wash. …
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The Seattle Times, Florida Politics, KRON4, fox8.com, Popular Science and New York Post
Daniel Greenfield / Front Page Magazine:
An Obama Holdover in an Obscure Government Arm Helped Cause the Country's Coronavirus Crisis — Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Center, is an investigative journalist and writer focusing on the radical Left and Islamic terrorism.
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The Gateway Pundit
Edward-Isaac Dovere / The Atlantic:
The Sanders and Biden Families Have Been Cashing In for Years — Donald Trump has set a new bar for presidential self-dealing. But two of the Democratic front-runners have their own, lower-level history of mixing family and politics. — Since the 1970s, Senator Bernie Sanders …
Leah Nylen / Politico:
Bad news for Silicon Valley: William Barr is taking control of antitrust probes — Attorney General William Barr has spent months taking greater control of the Justice Department's antitrust probes into the big tech companies, a development that could increase the peril for major players like Google and Facebook.
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Ben Smith / New York Times:
Why the Success of The New York Times May Be Bad News for Journalism — In his debut, our new media columnist says The Times has become like Facebook or Google — a digital behemoth crowding out the competition. — The first time I met A.G. Sulzberger, the publisher of The New York Times, I tried to hire him.
CNN:
Obama tells Biden he won't endorse anybody yet — (CNN)In former President Barack Obama's conversation with Joe Biden after the South Carolina primary — the first congratulatory call the former president has been able to make to his former vice president during the 2020 campaign …
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Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
Republicans plot blue-state invasion in November — National Republicans are launching a multi-million-dollar field effort in four blue states, a move that comes as Democrats express mounting concern that a Bernie Sanders nomination could doom them in critical down-ballot contests.
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The Daily Caller
Axios:
CDC lab for coronavirus test kits may have been contaminated — The Trump administration has ordered an independent investigation of the lab.
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Politico, The Intellectualist, Coronadaily and Raw Story
Andy Puzder / Fox News:
On coronavirus vaccine, Sanders' socialism would hinder private sector innovation we need — If there's one thing we should all be able to agree on it's that the potential impact of the coronavirus is too important to politicize. That doesn't mean our political leaders should remain silent …