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2:00 PM ET, March 5, 2020

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New York Times:
Elizabeth Warren, Once a Front-Runner, Will Drop Out of Presidential Race  —  Ms. Warren, a senator and former law professor, staked her campaign on fighting corruption and changing the rules of the economy.  —  BOSTON — Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts plans to drop …
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Amanda Terkel / HuffPost:
Elizabeth Warren Could Never Escape The Baggage Of Being A ‘Female Candidate’  —  She was qualified.  She persisted.  But sexism still mattered.  —  Elizabeth Warren wasn't trying to be the first female president.  —  She wanted to be president.  She wanted to cut banks down to size and relieve student debt.
Discussion: National Review and New York Times
NBC News:
Elizabeth Warren ends presidential run  —  Warren wowed crowds with her sharp intellect, her clear prognoses for complex problems, and her endless stream of policy blueprints to tackle them.  —  Sen. Elizabeth Warren is suspending her presidential campaign, a source familiar …
Discussion: Washington Post, IJR and The Atlantic
Matthew Yglesias / Vox:   Bernieworld's reaction to Super Tuesday's defeat, explained
Megan Garber / The Atlantic:
America Punished Elizabeth Warren for Her Competence
Discussion: Washington Post
Grace Segers / CBS News:
Elizabeth Warren drops out of presidential race after disappointing Super Tuesday finish
Discussion: Twitchy and Washington Free Beacon
Eli Yokley / Morning Consult:
Sanders, Biden Can Expect Near-Equal Gain From Warren's Exit
Discussion: Vox, New York Post and The Week
Molly Jong-Fast / The Daily Beast:   Elizabeth Warren is Strong. So is the Glass Ceiling.
BuzzFeed News:
Elizabeth Warren Is Ending Her Presidential Campaign
Discussion: HuffPost and Raw Story
ABC News:   Sen. Elizabeth Warren suspends her presidential run
Jacob Ogles / Florida Politics:
Latest poll of Florida primary shows Joe Biden with massive lead over Bernie Sanders  —  Even before Mike Bloomberg dropped out of the race for President, voters in Florida were consolidating behind Joe Biden.  —  More than 61% of likely Florida voters favor Biden, according to the most recent survey …
Discussion: Vox, The Gateway Pundit and The Hill
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Kevin D. Williamson / National Review:
Joe Biden: Not a Socialist, Just a Scoundrel  —  He is a vicious partisan, a coward, and a habitual liar.  —  Poor Bernie Sanders!  The youth vote failed to show up for him.  The youth vote always fails to show up — it will break your heart every time.  Senator Sanders didn't lose to Joe Biden …
Miranda Devine / New York Post:
Democrats should be wary of backing Joe Biden and his ‘senior moments’
Discussion: Washington Post
Detroit Free Press:
Free Press Editorial Board: Joe Biden is Michigan's best choice in Democratic primary
Discussion: Detroit News and The Hill
Public Policy Polling:
Democrats lead by at least 4 in 4 GOP held Senate seats  —  New PPP polls find Sara Gideon leading Susan Collins 47-43 in the Maine Senate race and Mark Kelly leading Martha McSally 47-42 in the Arizona Senate race.  Additionally a PPP poll for a private client last week found Cal Cunningham …
Dahlia Lithwick / Slate:
Roberts Denounces Schumer for Talking About Kavanaugh the Way Kavanaugh Talked About the Senate  —  On Wednesday, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer had a message for Donald Trump's two nominees to the Supreme Court as the court heard oral arguments in a landmark abortion case that threatens one of the underpinnings of Roe v. Wade.
Discussion: The Hill, Daily Kos and Washington Post
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Matt Dixon / Politico:
What does Gov. DeSantis owe Trump?  —  TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — The close relationship between Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and President Donald Trump is souring, and the bad blood is threatening to spill into the president's reelection effort in the nation's biggest swing state.
Discussion: Raw Story
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Bloomberg:
U.S. Will Miss Coronavirus Test Rollout Goal, Senators Say  — GOP senators says kits to be in mail by end of this week  — Distribution, training ‘going to take time,’ Lankford says  —  The Trump administration won't be able to meet its promised timeline of having …
Discussion: Political Wire and Raw Story
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Cindy Krischer Goodman / Sun-Sentinel:
Federal rules changed to allow more testing for coronavirus. Florida isn't going to follow them.
Discussion: CBS Miami
Team Warren:
The Fight Goes On  —  Remarks from Elizabeth Warren shared in a call with campaign staff:  —  I want to start with the news.  I want all of you to hear it first, and I want you to hear it straight from me: Today, I'm suspending our campaign for president.  —  I know how hard all of you have worked.
Sydney Ember / New York Times:
Bernie Sanders Cancels Mississippi Rally, Shifting Focus to Michigan  —  The decision suggests that the Sanders campaign is largely ceding another Southern state to Joseph R. Biden Jr. and going all-in on the Midwest instead.  —  BURLINGTON, Vt. — Senator Bernie Sanders has canceled …
Discussion: Breitbart and The Week
Rod Dreher:
Trump: Public Health Menace  —  The president in his meeting this week with his coronavirus task force (Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images)  —  This is a thing that just happened: … You just shake your head in disbelief at the utter idiocy of this man, and his reckless irresponsibility.
Discussion: news.com.au, Vox and Vanity Fair
Charles Levinson / Protocol:
Through apps, not warrants, ‘Locate X’ allows federal law enforcement to track phones  —  Federal agencies have big contracts with Virginia-based Babel Street.  Depending on where you've traveled, your movements may be in the company's data.  —  U.S. law enforcement agencies signed millions …
Tony Romm / Washington Post:
State Department blames “swarms of online, false personas” from Russia for wave of coronavirus misinformation online  —  A top State Department official said Thursday that Russia is behind “swarms of online, false personas” that sought to spread misinformation about coronavirus on social-media sites …
Discussion: Bloomberg
Kashmir Hill / New York Times:
Before Clearview Became a Police Tool, It Was a Secret Plaything of the Rich  —  Investors and clients of the facial recognition start-up freely used the app on dates and at parties — and to spy on the public.  —  One Tuesday night in October 2018, John Catsimatidis, the billionaire owner …
Discussion: The Daily Dot
Judd Legum / Popular Information:
Facebook allows Trump campaign to run deceptive Census ads  —  November's election will have an enormous impact on politics in the United States for the next four years.  But the 2020 Census, which starts in earnest in just one week, will shape the country for the next decade or longer.
Discussion: CalMatters
Wall Street Journal:
One Doctor's Life on the Coronavirus Front Lines.  ‘If We Fail, What Happens to You All?’  —  Short on supplies and sleep, medical staff are being stretched to the limit to stop a pandemic no one fully understands  —  Driving one evening in Wuhan, China, last month, Zhang Xiaochun pulled her car to the side of the road.
U.S. Department of Justice:
Tennessee Man Ordered Removed to Germany Based on Service as Concentration Camp Guard During WWII  —  A U.S. Immigration Judge in Memphis, Tennessee, has issued a removal order against a German citizen and Tennessee resident, on the basis of his service in Nazi Germany in 1945 as an armed guard …
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Reid Wilson / The Hill:
Coronavirus outbreak expands to 18 states  —  Patients in 18 states have tested positive or are presumptively positive for the spreading coronavirus as public health officials race to get ahead of the growing worldwide epidemic.  —  Officials in Nevada, New Jersey, Tennessee and Texas …
Jen Chaney / Vulture:
Super Tuesday With Steve Kornacki, MSNBC's Wonk Superman “He has not stopped.  He has not eaten.  He's only been drinking water for the past 18 hours."  —  It is 4:59 p.m. on Super Tuesday and Steve Kornacki, MSNBC's national political correspondent and trusted human calculator of votes …
Alexa Corse / Wall Street Journal:
Michigan Expects to Report Primary Results Late  —  The results of Michigan's March 10 presidential primary will likely be reported later in the evening than usual, due in part to changes which are expected to slow vote-counting, the state's secretary of state said on Thursday.
Farah Stockman / New York Times:
Told to Stay Home, Suspected Coronavirus Patient Attended Event With Dartmouth Students  —  The worker at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in New Hampshire was confirmed with the disease only after attending the mixer.  Now a second man has tested positive.
Ishaan Tharoor / Washington Post:
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Kevin Carey / New York Times:
The Bleak Job Landscape of Adjunctopia for Ph.D.s  —  Ruthless labor exploitation?  Generational betrayal?  Understanding the job crisis in academia requires a look at recent history.  —  The humanities labor market is in crisis.  Higher education industry trade publications are full …
Mike Hixenbaugh / NBC News:
Scientists were close to a coronavirus vaccine years ago.  Then the money dried up.  —  “We just could not generate much interest,” a researcher said of the difficulty in getting funding to test the vaccine in humans.  —  HOUSTON — Dr. Peter Hotez says he made the pitch to anyone who would listen.
Discussion: Daily Kos, STAT and CBS Boston
 
 
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Jim Geraghty / National Review:
Bloomberg's Crash and Burn
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Joanne Kenen / Politico:
Trump's coronavirus musings put scientists on edge
Discussion: Raw Story and CNN
Ruby Cramer / BuzzFeed News:
Andrew Yang Is Launching A Political Group To Cement His Ideas Into The “Mainstream”
Discussion: Washington Times and New York Post
Ariane de Vogue / CNN:
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg dominates in abortion case
Discussion: HuffPost and NB Blog
Edward Luce / Financial Times:
Donald Trump is cutting the knot with Afghanistan
Lara Seligman / Politico:
Pompeo denounces probe of possible U.S. war crimes in Afghanistan
Discussion: Associated Press and The Hill
Keith Ridler / Associated Press:
Is Idaho turning a little blue? Primary might provide clues
 Earlier Items: 
Andrew Ferguson / The Atlantic:
The College President Who Simply Won't Raise Tuition
New York Times:
Coronavirus Updates: Countries Intensify Efforts to Halt Outbreaks
Discussion: The Daily Beast and SPIN
Elizabeth Vaughn / Redstate:
Awkward: Intellectual Giant Whoopi Goldberg Already Has a Job Picked Out for Jill Biden
Ned Ryun / American Greatness:
The Left's Politicization of Coronavirus Backfires—Bigly
Edward-Isaac Dovere / The Atlantic:
Here's What Barack Obama Is Thinking Now
Just The News:
Missouri case that toppled GOP governor boomerangs on Soros-backed prosecutor
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit and Instapundit
Arden Farhi / CBS News:
New White House questionnaire serves as litmus test for potential appointees
Discussion: The Hill and VICE
 

 
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Katie Robertson / New York Times:
The NYT reports Q3 digital subscribers hit 260K, for 11.9M in total, digital ad revenue rose 8.8% YoY to $81.6M, and The Athletic turned its first profit

Porter Anderson / Publishing Perspectives:
PEN America: 10,046 school books bans across 29 states were recorded from July 2023 to June 2024, up ~200% YoY; Florida had 4,500+ bans and Iowa had 3,600+ bans

Ross Raihala / Twin Cities:
Q&A with Aaron Rupar on leaving Vox to start Public Notice on Substack, watching ~400 Trump rallies to share clips with his 989K followers on X, and more

 
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