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Seema Mehta / Los Angeles Times:
Harry Reid endorses Joe Biden for president; Amy Klobuchar also plans to back him — Former Sen. Majority Leader Harry Reid endorsed Joe Biden's presidential bid on Monday, saying the former vice president's resume and stability make him the best candidate to beat President Trump.
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Eli Yokley / Morning Consult:
Democratic Primary Voters Flock Back to Biden After South Carolina Victory — Former VP pulls within striking distance of Sanders in national poll — Getty Images / Morning Consult illustration by Samantha Elbouez — 26% of Democratic primary voters nationwide are backing former Vice …
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The B|E note, OpenSecrets.org, NBC News, Paste, Slate and National Review
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.
CNN:
Buttigieg mulls Biden endorsement — Washington (CNN)Pete Buttigieg is weighing whether to endorse Joe Biden after exiting the Democratic presidential race late Sunday night and later speaking on the phone with the former vice president and former President Barack Obama.
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Redstate, Talking Points Memo, New York Times and Breitbart
New York Times:
Amy Klobuchar Drops Out of Presidential Race and Plans to Endorse Biden — Ms. Klobuchar made her decision hours before Super Tuesday. She shocked the primary field with a third-place finish in New Hampshire, but ultimately could not compete with better-funded rivals.
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Politico, Townhall, Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion, Daily Kos, Raw Story, CANNONFIRE, Task & Purpose and Jezebel
Amy Wang / Washington Post:
Amy Klobuchar drops out of presidential race, will endorse Joe Biden
Amy Klobuchar drops out of presidential race, will endorse Joe Biden
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One America News Network, Outside the Beltway and Daily Kos
David Leonhardt / New York Times:
Bernie or Biden. Period.
Bernie or Biden. Period.
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Slate, FiveThirtyEight and Common Dreams
San Francisco Chronicle:
Bernie Sanders: My running mate will back Medicare for All
Bernie Sanders: My running mate will back Medicare for All
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Washington Post, Sabato's Crystal Ball, Political Wire, No More Mister Nice Blog, Bloomberg and The B|E note
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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Associated Press, The Hill, Politico, NBC News and The Daily Beast
Jenna Portnoy / Washington Post:
McAuliffe and others trapped in elevator before Biden event in Richmond
McAuliffe and others trapped in elevator before Biden event in Richmond
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The Hill
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
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, Breitbart, Rolling Stone and The Daily Caller
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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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Associated Press, Fox News, ABC News, Vox, UPI, POLITICUSUSA, The Week and One America News Network
Robert Barnes / Washington Post:
Supreme Court will once again consider fate of Affordable Care Act
Supreme Court will once again consider fate of Affordable Care Act
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SCOTUSblog, Raw Story and Althouse
Max Abelson / Bloomberg:
Can We Get a Vaccine Early? How the Rich Are Preparing for Coronavirus — Langone dials hospital experts, others hunt supplies or meds — One investor may fly to Idaho with or without family. A doctor in a Colorado ski town is soothing wealthy clients who want a cure.
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.
NBC News:
FEMA preparing for possible coronavirus emergency declaration — “To me this is another indication that the president and the White House are finally aware of the gravity of the situation,” said former FEMA official Michael Coen. — WASHINGTON — The Federal Emergency Management Agency …
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VICE, The Week and New York Post
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
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, CNN and VICE
Julie Bykowicz / Wall Street Journal:
Orin Kramer, Major Buttigieg Fundraiser, Shifts to Biden — The hedge-fund founder is one of several prominent Buttigieg backers who have decided to support Biden — Orin Kramer, an influential Democratic fundraiser and hedge-fund founder who spent the past year helping Pete Buttigieg …
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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 …
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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New York Post, The Week, Marketplace and Variety
Moe Tkacik / Bustle:
Rebekah Neumann's Search For Enlightenment Fueled WeWork's Collapse — When Rebekah Paltrow showed up at Dechen Thurman's 8 a.m. meditation class for the first time, Thurman saw someone a lot like himself. Her last name advertised shared lineage with an ultrafamous blonde movie star.
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
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 American Spectator and The Gateway Pundit
New York Times:
No Politics Till the 7th Date? How Journalists Try to Stay Impartial — Times reporters and editors take careful measures in their personal lives to remain objective in their work. … Ever since a young publisher named Adolph S. Ochs bought The New York Times in 1896, its mission has been …
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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The Gateway Pundit
Jonathan Cohn / HuffPost:
Elizabeth Warren Announces Plan For Swift Federal Action On Coronavirus — She wants free tests and treatment, and paid leave for patients and caregivers. — Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) on Monday will lay out a detailed plan for swift federal action to combat the coronavirus outbreak.
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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ImmigrationProf Blog, Reason, Politico and CNN
Lara Seligman / Politico:
Cracks start to show in Taliban peace deal — Signs began to show Monday that key pillars of the agreement to negotiate an end to the Afghanistan war were starting to buckle, just hours after the United States signed what was billed as a historic agreement with the Taliban.
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Politico:
Azar in the crosshairs for delays in virus tests — Even as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention takes blame for testing delays that may have led to hundreds of Americans being quietly infected with the coronavirus, officials inside the health department and the White House …
New York Times:
How Bloomberg Buys the Silence of Unhappy Employees — Every year, Mike Bloomberg's company pays hundreds of fired employees to not say anything bad. — Every year, hundreds of departing employees at Bloomberg L.P. are presented with a choice: Either leave the company empty-handed or accept …
CNN:
Coronavirus crisis underlines eight of Trump's failings as a leader — How drive-through testing could limit coronavirus contagion — Peter Bergen is CNN's national security analyst, a vice president at New America, a professor of practice at Arizona State University and he has reported …