Monday, February 22, 2016

Monday's Headlines: GOP candidates chart different paths ahead of Super Tuesday

Fall of the House of Bush: How last name and Donald Trump doomed Jeb; Sanders has the resources and a plan to go the distance, but will it matter?; In a small Colombian town, Zika may be revealing a more deadly side; Uber driver accused in Michigan shooting spree had alarmed his passengers;
 
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GOP candidates chart different paths ahead of Super Tuesday
Acknowledging Donald Trump's dominant standing, Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio are forming strategies to accrue delegates by targeting slivers of the states holding primaries or caucuses on March 1.
Fall of the House of Bush: How last name and Donald Trump doomed Jeb
It was a campaign launched with huge expectations and a matching war chest, but Jeb Bush's team never found a strategy to derail a bombastic billionaire rival or to overcome a wariness among voters about a third Bush in the White House.
 
Sanders has the resources and a plan to go the distance, but will it matter?
His path to the Democratic nomination, already steep, has narrowed considerably now that Hillary Clinton has re-established herself as the all-but-prohibitive front-runner.
 
In a small Colombian town, Zika may be revealing a more deadly side
Something about the virus — and researchers still don't know what it is — appears to significantly increase the risk of contracting the debilitating and sometimes fatal Guillain-Barre syndrome.
 
Uber driver accused in Michigan shooting spree had alarmed his passengers
Authorities are planning to charge Jason Brian Dalton with six counts of murder after the random attacks in Kalamazoo.
 
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The Clinton dynasty survives, while the Bush dynasty is routed
 
Americans tortured by an American ally
 
Trump relishes wrecking the GOP
 
The moment of truth: We must stop Trump
 
Yellen is wrong. Expansions do die of old age.
 
Rethink life tenure for the Supreme Court
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He was fired from the CIA and imprisoned for a leak. Now he's trying to hang on.
Jeffrey Sterling once worked to foil Iranian plans to design a nuclear weapon. Today, he's in federal prison — a symbol of the Obama administration's crackdown on leakers — and struggling to keep his demons at bay.
FBI leader on iPhone case: 'Take a deep breath and stop saying the world is ending'
Amid the ongoing controversy over whether Apple should help unlock the iPhone of a San Bernardino shooter, let the American people decide larger questions of privacy vs. security, wrote FBI Director James Comey.
Neither side was quite right on that Dolores Huerta ‘English-only’ shout-down
And no amount of Sanders' voter bile, Snopes.com posts or celebrity counter-claims is going to change that.
Western business group in China blames government for 'zombie' factories
Complacency, a lack of leadership and protectionism are keeping China from cutting the industrial overcapacity that is slowing its economy, a new report says.
Taylor Swift donates $250,000 to help Kesha in effort to escape record deal
Kesha's mother was grateful for the help given to her daughter as she tries to get out of an agreement with producer Dr. Luke, whom Kesha has accused of sexually assaulting her. 
'Downton Abbey': Edith and Mary continue their battling
It's the show's next-to-last episode, which means there's a lot of loose ends to tie up, and, of course, time for one last brawl between the sisters.
Andrew Jackson: A dark legacy
Violence — done to him and by him — dramatically influenced Jackson's leadership style. Listen to our weekly episode on the U.S. presidents and subscribe to our podcast here.
 
     
 
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