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Rick Tyler / Facebook:
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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Nolan D. McCaskill / Politico:
Cruz fires top staffer for promoting false story about Rubio and the Bible — Ted Cruz on Monday asked for the resignation of top aide Rick Tyler, who he accused of a “grave error of judgment” for promoting a false story that questioned Marco Rubio's faith.
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David Wright / CNN:
Cruz spokesman apologizes for ‘inaccurate’ Rubio video — Ted Cruz's national spokesman apologized to Marco Rubio for a false report he posted to his social media account — (CNN)Ted Cruz's national spokesman apologized late Sunday for a video distributed by the campaign that falsely depicted Marco Rubio dismissing the Bible.
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Ellie Schroeder / thedp.com:
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 …
Jeff Stein / Vox:
Ted Cruz just fired a top aide for spreading a bogus story about Marco Rubio
Ted Cruz just fired a top aide for spreading a bogus story about Marco Rubio
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Byron Tau / Wall Street Journal:
Ted Cruz Dumps Spokesman Who Circulated Video Falsely Showing Rubio Denigrating Bible
Ted Cruz Dumps Spokesman Who Circulated Video Falsely Showing Rubio Denigrating Bible
D.C. McAllister / The Federalist:
Rubio Needs To Move Aside For Cruz, Not Vice Versa
Rubio Needs To Move Aside For Cruz, Not Vice Versa
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Washington Post, Hot Air and RedState
Kyle Cheney / Politico:
GOP to Kasich: Get out — FAIRFAX, VA — The Republican establishment has a message for John Kasich: get out, and get out of Marco Rubio's way. — A string of elected officials, GOP insiders and prominent donors officially threw their support behind Rubio on Monday, calling him their last chance to take down Donald Trump.
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Sean Sullivan / Washington Post:
What state will Marco Rubio win? — LAS VEGAS — Mainstream Republican donors and elected officials are swiftly flocking to Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) amid a growing sense that is he is the last best chance to prevent Donald Trump from running away with the Republican nomination.
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Jesse Byrnes / The Hill:
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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Fredreka Schouten / USA Today:
Meet the woman funding the effort to stop Trump
Meet the woman funding the effort to stop Trump
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Jonathan Karl / ABC News:
Exclusive: Bob Dole Endorses Marco Rubio in 2016 Race
Exclusive: Bob Dole Endorses Marco Rubio in 2016 Race
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Associated Press, Business Insider, Independent Journal Review, Politico and The Hill
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
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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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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David Pierson / Los Angeles Times:
Pew survey: More Americans say Apple should unlock terrorist's iPhone
Pew survey: More Americans say Apple should unlock terrorist's iPhone
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The Verge
Andy Cush / Gawker:
Hot Mic Captures Trump Chatting With Morning Joe Hosts: “You Had Me Almost As a Legendary Figure” — The comedian and radio show host Harry Shearer has audio of what sure sounds like a casual off-the-air exchange between Donald Trump and Morning Joe co-hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski.
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Washington Post, Hot Air, Mediaite and Mother Jones
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Sara Jerde / Talking Points Memo:
Hot Mic Captures Trump Asking ‘Morning Joe’ Hosts For No ‘Too Hard’ Questions (AUDIO)
Hot Mic Captures Trump Asking ‘Morning Joe’ Hosts For No ‘Too Hard’ Questions (AUDIO)
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RedState and Hullabaloo
Senator Claire McCaskill:
I very recently learned that I have breast cancer. — I very recently learned that I have breast cancer. It was detected through a regular mammogram. It's a little scary, but my prognosis is good and I expect a full recovery. I will be in St Louis for the next 3 weeks receiving treatment.
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Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Judge seems skeptical of call to block voter proof-of-citizenship requirement — A federal judge sounded skeptical Monday about a request from voting and civil rights' groups to block a federal official's decision to embrace requirements in three states that new voters submit proof that they're U.S. citizens.
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Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Feds back court ban on proof of citizenship for voter registration
Feds back court ban on proof of citizenship for voter registration
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Talking Points Memo
James Rothwell / Telegraph:
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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Raw Story, Metro.co.uk, Independent Journal Review and The Daily Caller
Isaac Arnsdorf / Politico:
Sheldon Adelson and the missing $100 million — It's one of the biggest mysteries in Republican circles: why has Sheldon Adelson who spent upwards of $100 million during the last presidential campaign suddenly stopped pouring huge sums of money into politics?
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Guardian
New York Times:
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 …
Julian Hattem / The Hill:
CIA leaker: Clinton ‘given a pass’ for emails — A former CIA officer serving jail time for leaking documents to the New York Times accused federal officials of setting a double standard by apparently refusing to aggressively prosecute Hillary Clinton — Clinton was “a high ranking official …
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Hot Air, Washington Post and LawNewz
Mike Opelka / TheBlaze.com:
High School Student's Art Project Goes Viral — When You See It Up Close, You'll Know Why — Indiana High school student Jacob Feazel's art project required 4,466 tiny toy army men, between 20-30 cans of spray paint and over eleven days of work to create a very special American flag.
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David Sims / The Atlantic:
The High-Def Majesty of Planet Earth Returns — Anyone who's visited an American Best Buy in the last 10 years has almost certainly seen widescreen TVs playing images of sweeping vistas from around the world—from gleaming snowcaps to the subterranean world of caves to vibrant jungle canopies.
Thomas Gibbons-Neff / Washington Post:
Report: U.S. aircraft carriers ‘unchallenged primacy may be coming to a close’ — The United States' aircraft carriers have always been an almost untouchable deterrent, steel behemoths capable of projecting the full weight of the U.S. military wherever they deploy.
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Washington Free Beacon
Kristina Wong / The Hill:
Pentagon poised to submit plan for closing Guantanamo Bay — The Pentagon is poised to submit a plan to Congress for closing the Guantanamo Bay detention facility, a spokesman said Monday. — Navy Capt. Jeff Davis said the administration will meet the Tuesday deadline for submitting …
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Caitlin MacNeal / Talking Points Memo:
Attorney Claims Scalia's Votes In Pending Cases Should Still Count — With no apparent sarcasm, an Arizona attorney on Sunday proposed that the late Justice Antonin Scalia's votes in cases pending before the Supreme Court should still count even though he died before the court issued its rulings.
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