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1:35 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 and The Atlantic
Matthew Yglesias / Vox:
Bernieworld's reaction to Super Tuesday's defeat, explained  —  Supporters of Sen. Bernie Sanders at a Super Tuesday night rally on March 3, 2020, in Essex Junction, Vermont.  Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images  —  A constructive pivot or a retreat into petulance?
Grace Segers / CBS News:
Elizabeth Warren drops out of presidential race after disappointing Super Tuesday finish
Discussion: Twitchy and Washington Free Beacon
Megan Garber / The Atlantic:
America Punished Elizabeth Warren for Her Competence
Discussion: Washington Post
Eli Yokley / Morning Consult:
Sanders, Biden Can Expect Near-Equal Gain From Warren's Exit
Discussion: Vox and New York Post
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
CNN:   Elizabeth Warren ends her presidential campaign
Washington Post:
Warren, Sanders allies scramble to find her an exit ramp
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 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
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
Peter Suderman / Reason:
Joe Biden Is No Moderate
Discussion: The Week
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: Raw Story and Political Wire
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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.
Discussion: Reason, UPI, The Wrap and Rolling Stone
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
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
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 …
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.
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
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
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
Lara Seligman / Politico:
Pompeo denounces probe of possible U.S. war crimes in Afghanistan  —  Secretary of State Mike Pompeo denounced a decision by the International Criminal Court to allow an investigation of U.S. personnel for war crimes in Afghanistan just days after American officials signed a peace deal …
Discussion: Associated Press and The Hill
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New York Times:
I.C.C. Allows Afghanistan War Crimes Inquiry to Proceed, Angering U.S.
Discussion: Common Dreams
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 …
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.
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 …
Ishaan Tharoor / Washington Post:
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Just The News:
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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