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Conservatives: Court nominee must be stopped at all costs — Conservative leaders are sending a blunt message to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell — : The Supreme Court is more important than your majority. — McConnell's (R-Ky.) top priority since becoming majority leader last year …
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Scalia's legacy: A court transformed
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I want to apologize to Senator Marco Rubio for posting an inaccurate story about him here earlier today. The story showed a video of the Senator walking past a Ted Cruz staffer seated in the lobby of a hotel reading his Bible. The story misquoted a remark the Senator made to the staffer.
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Marco Rubio has awkward confrontation with Rafael Cruz, Cruz staffer in hotel lobby — Note from the Editor: We have been receiving lots of questions about the contents of this video, and some have disagreed with our transcript. We stand by our original transcript, but the video …
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Cruz spokesman apologizes for ‘inaccurate’ Rubio video
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Rubio Needs To Move Aside For Cruz, Not Vice Versa
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I Will Not Vote For Donald Trump. Ever. — When I wrote in National Review that I was against Donald Trump, I said and have maintained since his entry into the race that if Donald Trump is the Republican nominee, I would support him. No longer. — Donald Trump believes the federal government should fund Planned Parenthood.
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Now I Am Being Serious, Deadly Serious: Stopping The Trump Disgrace — Several years ago I penned a piece on then Presidential candidate, Ron Paul, someone who had no chance at the time of being President, but who had captured the affections of far too many discerning people.
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House GOP leader thinks he could work with Donald Trump — House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) on Monday suggested that the Republican presidential race is now down to Donald Trump — “I see it more as Trump-Rubio,” McCarthy said during an interview on MSNBC's “Morning Joe” …
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Trump has a stranglehold on the GOP nomination. So why isn't he getting credit?
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We Could Not Look the Survivors in the Eye if We Did Not Follow this Lead — The San Bernardino litigation isn't about trying to set a precedent or send any kind of message. It is about the victims and justice. Fourteen people were slaughtered and many more had their lives and bodies ruined.
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More Support for Justice Department Than for Apple in Dispute Over Unlocking iPhone — Slight partisan differences in views of issue — As the standoff between the Department of Justice and Apple Inc. continues over an iPhone used by one of the suspects in the San Bernardino terrorist attacks …
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FBI Director Comments on San Bernardino Matter
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Exclusive: San Bernardino victims to oppose Apple on iPhone encryption
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Why Bernie Sanders's campaign makes me worry about how he'll manage the White House — Of late, Bernie Sanders has been under assault from the technocratic wing of the Democratic Party. The charge? His campaign has circulated economic projections that show stunning — and rather implausible — benefits from Sanders's agenda.
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Kathleen Sebelius endorses Hillary Clinton for Democratic presidential nomination
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Hitler ‘had tiny deformed penis’ as well as just one testicle, historians claim — Hitler suffered from a condition called hypospadias which left him with an abnormally small manhood, according to historians Jonathan Mayo and Emma Craigie — It has long been suspected that Hitler's conquest …
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The Obama Administration Wants to Make Sure Non-Citizens Vote in the Upcoming Election — Several well-funded organizations — including the League of Women Voters and the NAACP — are fighting efforts to prevent non-citizens from voting illegally in the upcoming presidential election.
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Feds back court ban on proof of citizenship for voter registration
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How Jeb Bush Spent $130 Million Running for President With Nothing to Show for It — When Jeb Bush formally entered the presidential campaign in June, there was already more money behind him than every other Republican candidate combined. When he suspended his campaign on Saturday night in South Carolina …
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Fall of the House of Bush: How last name and Donald Trump doomed Jeb
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Donald Trump leads polls in 10 of next 14 voting states — Donald Trump is leading in 10 of the 14 states set to vote in Republican primaries or caucuses over the next two weeks. — Recent polls show that Trump is ahead in Nevada, Alabama, Alaska, Georgia, Massachusetts, Tennessee, Virginia, Oklahoma, Minnesota and Louisiana.
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Clinton, Trump Now on Parallel Glide Paths to Nomination — Ask not for whom the fat lady sings. — MarkHalperin — Only suckers bet on presidential politics or professional wrestling, especially in this most tumultuous campaign cycle in recent memory.
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Donald Trump consults with Rudy Giuliani as he builds political kitchen cabinet — Fresh off back-to-back victories in the Republican presidential race, Donald Trump is moving to expand his tight-knit campaign by building a political kitchen cabinet that includes former New York mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani.
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Margaret Sullivan joins The Post as media columnist — Announcement from Liz Seymour, executive features editor: — I am thrilled to tell you that Margaret Sullivan, the public editor of the New York Times, will be joining The Post later this year as our media columnist.