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Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
3 takeaways from the South Carolina GOP primary — Donald Trump has swept the traditional early states in the Republican presidential nominating contest after defeating Nikki Haley on Saturday in South Carolina. — News organizations called the race shortly after polls closed …
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Adam Wren / Politico:
Republicans Are Done With Mike Pence — Except Trump's VP Contenders — Intermediaries for Elise Stefanik, Kristi Noem and Tim Scott have been asking questions about how Pence handled the vetting gauntlet in 2016. — With the GOP presidential primary over in all but name …
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Raw Story and The Guardian
David Smith / The Guardian:
‘My ultimate and absolute revenge’: Trump gives chilling CPAC speech on presidential agenda — Unbound and unhinged, ex-president vilifies immigrants before devolving into bizarre riffs, including calling himself ‘total genius’ — Donald Trump styled himself as a “proud political dissident” …
Politico:
Beyond shock and awe: Inside Trump's potential second-term agenda — From nationwide abortion bans to classroom culture wars, assaults on climate science and political weaponization of the military, his return to the White House could make Trump 1.0 seem tame.
ABC News:
South Carolina Republicans see Trump as more electable, more fit than Haley: Preliminary exit polling — Sixty-two percent also falsely think Biden didn't legitimately win in 2020. — Voters cast their ballot at Kilbourne Park Baptist Church during the Republican presidential primary in Columbia, South Carolina, Feb. 24, 2024.
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Jennifer M. Wood / The Daily Beast:
‘SNL’ Shames Terrified Republicans for Surrendering to Trump — The latest “SNL” cold open featured Jim Risch, Marco Rubio, Lindsey Graham, and Tim Scott saying out loud what everyone is already thinking. — Saturday Night Live put up its best cold open in quite a while this week …
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Elizabeth Elkind / Fox News:
Exclusive: No. 2 Senate Republican leader John Thune endorses Trump in 2024 Republican primary
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Townhall and Political Wire
Washington Post:
Trump and his allies scramble to close fundraising gap with Biden
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Raw Story and The American Conservative
Gram Slattery / Reuters:
Nikki Haley makes her case to a Republican Party that no longer exists
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The Intellectualist, Blue Virginia, ABC News and CNN
Maggie Haberman / New York Times:
Prominent Republican Seeks to Shield the Party From Paying Trump's Legal Bills
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Washington Examiner, Associated Press, The Hill, Rolling Stone, New York Post, Raw Story, PoliticusUSA, The Dispatch, RedState, The Daily Caller and Daily Kos
Olivia Rinaldi / CBS News:
Draft RNC resolution would block payment of candidate's legal bills
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Raw Story, Washington Times, Associated Press, HotAir and NBC News
David Edwards / Raw Story:
Trump's request to suspend E. Jean Carroll's $83M verdict swiftly denied by judge — U.S. District Court Judge Lewis Kaplan declined a request to grant a stay after a jury ordered Donald Trump to pay writer E. Jean Carroll over $83 million for defamation. — “Twenty-five days …
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Nick Robertson / The Hill:
Fiona Hill: Trump comparison to Navalny ‘brazen’ and ‘shameful’ — Former National Security Council adviser Fiona Hill went after former President Trump on Sunday after he compared himself to the late Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny as a political dissident.
NBC News:
Climate change is throwing the water cycle into chaos across the U.S. — As the planet continues to warm, this cycle is expected to be increasingly stretched, warped and broken. — The water cycle that shuttles Earth's most vital resource around in an unending, life-giving loop is in trouble.
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CNN:
One of the world's biggest cities may be just months away from running out of water — Mexico City CNN — Alejandro Gomez has been without proper running water for more than three months. Sometimes it comes on for an hour or two, but only a small trickle, barely enough to fill a couple of buckets.
NBC News:
Gov. Gavin Newsom's super PAC launches TV ad targeting GOP on abortion — Campaign for Democracy will run TV ads in Tennessee targeting two state bills that would restrict minors traveling out of state for abortion care. — California Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom's super PAC is launching …
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Politico, New York Post, The Hill and Sacramento Bee
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Sam Levine / The Guardian:
Newsom launches abortion ads in Republican states to fight ‘war on women’
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Los Angeles Times, Sacramento Bee, Politico and Breitbart
Abbie VanSickle / New York Times:
Justice Thomas Hires Law Clerk Accused of Sending Racist Text Messages — Crystal Clanton, who is close with the Thomas family, has said she does not remember sending the messages, which emerged in 2017. — Justice Clarence Thomas recently hired a law clerk who was previously accused …
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Lawyers, Guns & Money, Washington Post and Vanity Fair
The Hill:
Biden's frustration with the media boils over — Months out from November's high-stakes election, the White House and the Biden campaign are going public with growing frustration over how the president is being portrayed in the media. — Biden's camp is taking swings over press coverage …
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Washington Post, RedState and NewsNation
Helen Pidd / The Guardian:
Hobbycraft refused to sell paint to black man as ‘he may use it for graffiti’ — Louis Gray says he was racially profiled after trying to buy spray paint to make over his son's bicycle helmet — A black man shopping for paint with his four-year-old son says he was racially profiled …
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Metro.co.uk
Business Insider:
Congressman presses Elon Musk to provide SpaceX satellite services for US defense forces in Taiwan, report says — A Congressman is urging Elon Musk to give SpaceX Starshield access to US forces in Taiwan. — Refusal could breach SpaceX's contractual obligations with the US government, Forbes reported.
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