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How to select and delete a column of text in emacs?

I have this text 1 A 2 B 3 C I want to remove the first column to make it A B C Ok so I need to make a rectangle. Reading about rectangles I see "To specify a rectangle for a command to work on,...
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kill rectangle not working on Mac (missing file/library)

I just upgraded to emacs 26.2 using homebrew on my MAC (update: I had actually done a global "brew update" and assumed it had also updated emacs) and now kill-rectangle with C-x r k no longer works, ...
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Kill rectangle with cua-mode support

There are many nice column editing features in CUA mode. After hitting Ctrl+RETURN, binded to cua-set-rectangle-mark, you get some help in the minibuffer: But I can't find the shortcut to cut/kill ...
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