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Several groups are trying to derail Trump's march to the presidential nomination.(Photo: Patrick Semansky, AP)
[h=2]Trump, everything you own in the box to the left[/h]He's the leading candidate in the Republican 2016 presidential field, but for some, Donald Trump's<span style="color: Red;">*</span>just not conservative enough. The anti-tax Club for Growth Action announced Monday it will air $2 million worth of ads in Illinois that attack<span style="color: Red;">*</span>Trump’s previous support for Democrats and their positions (taxes, health care, bailouts, to name a few).<span style="color: Red;">*</span>Groups opposing Trump in Florida are also spending a pretty penny to stop the real estate mogul from winning the delegate-rich state. Florida and Illinois hold their primaries March 15. Some more bad news for the candidate: a shrinking margin in Michigan, which is Tuesday's biggest delegate prize.<span style="color: Red;">*</span>In other political<span style="color: Red;">*</span>news:<span style="color: Red;">*</span>Michael Bloomberg is so scared a three-way race could lead to a Trump win,<span style="color: Red;">*</span>he has decided not to run.<span style="color: Red;">*</span>
[h=2]Maria Sharapova fails a drug test and disses a Los Angeles carpet[/h]It could be a while before Maria Sharapova returns to the tennis court. The five-time major winner revealed Monday that she tested positive for Meldonium at the Australian Open in January. Sharapova said she was prescribed the drug for a magnesium deficiency and was unaware it was added to the banned-substance list Jan. 1. She admitted to making a “huge mistake” at a news conference that some had speculated would be a retirement announcement.<span style="color: Red;">*</span>"I know many of you thought I was retiring," Sharapova<span style="color: Red;">*</span>said, "But if I was ever going to announce my retirement it would not be in this downtown Los Angeles hotel with this fairly ugly carpet." Got it.
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Tennis star said the drug's name is Meldonium and it had been prescribed by a doctor for a magnesium deficiency. USA TODAY Sports
[h=2]Supreme Court Monday: Rotten for Apple;<span style="color: Red;">*</span>sweet for lesbian mom[/h]Two big rulings Monday<span style="color: Red;">*</span>at the Supreme Court. 1.<span style="color: Red;">*</span>Apple<span style="color: Red;">*</span>overcharged you for<span style="color: Red;">*</span>e-books<span style="color: Red;">*</span>in 2010, and now the tech giant<span style="color: Red;">*</span>has to pay $450 million to make it right. The justices refused to hear Apple’s appeal of a ruling that said it had conspired with five major publishers to illegally raise prices on e-books in a<span style="color: Red;">*</span>challenge to Amazon’s dominance in the marketplace.<span style="color: Red;">*</span>2.<span style="color: Red;">*</span>In a big ruling for same-sex couples, the high court said Alabama has to recognize the adoption that an Alabama woman and her partner were granted in Georgia. Adoption rights for same-sex couples are<span style="color: Red;">*</span>one of the major issues remaining after last year's ruling that<span style="color: Red;">*</span>legalized<span style="color: Red;">*</span>same-sex marriage.
[h=2]Marine-turned-baker charged with cooking up murder-for-hire plot[/h]Friends and customers in Indiana<span style="color: Red;">*</span>know Laura Anne Buckingham as a friendly baker<span style="color: Red;">*</span>who used<span style="color: Red;">*</span>locally grown ingredients in her "weird" breads. So they were shocked when they heard the<span style="color: Red;">*</span>story that has more twists than a hot pretzel:<span style="color: Red;">*</span>The former Marine was charged<span style="color: Red;">*</span>in Tennessee<span style="color: Red;">*</span>in a murder-for-hire plot aimed at taking out her<span style="color: Red;">*</span>ex-boyfriend who is the father of her child. Court documents say Buckingham was worried about losing custody,<span style="color: Red;">*</span>so she asked her new boyfriend if he could make the ex “go away.” The new beau went to police, who had the ex stage his own death to fool Buckingham into thinking her plan had succeeded.<span style="color: Red;">*</span>Buckingham was arrested Feb. 24. She's<span style="color: Red;">*</span>being held on $150,000 bond<span style="color: Red;">*</span>and has pleaded not guilty.
[h=2]#MustRead: Black babies<span style="color: Red;">*</span>die at a rate more than twice that of white babies[/h]The numbers<span style="color: Red;">*</span>are heartbreaking:<span style="color: Red;">*</span>More than 23,000 babies a year die in the U.S.<span style="color: Red;">*</span>before their first birthdays. Mothers who received little or no prenatal care are about 40% more likely to have a child who dies in infancy.<span style="color: Red;">*</span>Despite a 13% drop in the national infant mortality rate over nearly a decade, there remains a stubborn gap between the rates for black Americans and other racial groups as well as between some Southern states and the rest of the nation.
Just in: A Nashville jury awarded television broadcaster Erin Andrews $55 million<span style="color: Red;">*</span>in a civil case over a nude video.
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Peyton said goodbye to the NFL today. Watch his emotional farewell below.
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Some of the best sound bites from Manning's emotional news conference. USA TODAY Sports
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