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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.
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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 …
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Washington Post, IJR and The Atlantic
Will Weissert / Associated Press:
Warren ends 2020 presidential bid after Super Tuesday rout
Warren ends 2020 presidential bid after Super Tuesday rout
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KTLA, The Gateway Pundit and Associated Press
Megan Garber / The Atlantic:
America Punished Elizabeth Warren for Her Competence
America Punished Elizabeth Warren for Her Competence
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Washington Post
Grace Segers / CBS News:
Elizabeth Warren drops out of presidential race after disappointing Super Tuesday finish
Elizabeth Warren drops out of presidential race after disappointing Super Tuesday finish
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Twitchy and Washington Free Beacon
Eli Yokley / Morning Consult:
Sanders, Biden Can Expect Near-Equal Gain From Warren's Exit
Sanders, Biden Can Expect Near-Equal Gain From Warren's Exit
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Vox, New York Post and The Week
Molly Jong-Fast / The Daily Beast:
Elizabeth Warren is Strong. So is the Glass Ceiling.
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 …
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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 …
Washington Post:
Bernie Sanders's political movement faces a reckoning after Super Tuesday setbacks
Bernie Sanders's political movement faces a reckoning after Super Tuesday setbacks
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Politico, Fox News, One America News Network, Breitbart, Associated Press and The Hill
Miranda Devine / New York Post:
Democrats should be wary of backing Joe Biden and his ‘senior moments’
Democrats should be wary of backing Joe Biden and his ‘senior moments’
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Washington Post
Quint Forgey / Politico:
Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer endorses Biden ahead of state's primary
Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer endorses Biden ahead of state's primary
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National Review, The Hill, BuzzFeed News and The Daily Beast
Detroit Free Press:
Free Press Editorial Board: Joe Biden is Michigan's best choice in Democratic primary
Free Press Editorial Board: Joe Biden is Michigan's best choice in Democratic primary
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Detroit News and The Hill
Jack Holmes / Esquire:
The Bernie Sanders Youth Revolution Was Nowhere to Be Found on Super Tuesday
The Bernie Sanders Youth Revolution Was Nowhere to Be Found on Super Tuesday
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Raw Story, The Daily Caller, California Globe, Vox and HuffPost
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 …
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Washington Monthly, The American Independent, POLITICUSUSA, Political Wire and The Intellectualist
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.
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The Hill, Daily Kos and Washington Post
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Chandelis Duster / CNN:
Schumer says he used the wrong words following Supreme Court backlash
Schumer says he used the wrong words following Supreme Court backlash
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Vox, Redstate, The Daily Caller and Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
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.
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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 …
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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.
Federal rules changed to allow more testing for coronavirus. Florida isn't going to follow them.
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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.
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Talking Points Memo, Reason, UPI, Rolling Stone and The Wrap
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 …
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.
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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 …
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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 …
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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.
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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 …
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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 …
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KUT, The Tennessean and The Nevada Independent
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 …
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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:
Democracy is in decline around the world — and Trump is part of the problem — Want smart analysis of the most important news in your inbox every weekday, along with other global reads, interesting ideas and opinions to know? Sign up for the Today's WorldView newsletter.
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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.
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