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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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Meet the woman funding the effort to stop Trump — 16k Shares — Keen observers of the political landscape may have discerned this bit of information: The Republican establishment sort of hates its presidential front-runner Donald Trump. But very few of the party's moneyed elite …
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Rubio inherits establishment support but is on a narrow path to stop Trump — LAS VEGAS — Mainstream Republican donors and elected officials flocked to Sen. Marco Rubio (Fla.) on Monday amid a growing sense that he is the last best chance to prevent Donald Trump from running away with the Republican presidential nomination.
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House GOP leader thinks he could work with Donald Trump
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Now I Am Being Serious, Deadly Serious: Stopping The Trump Disgrace
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Rubio gets new wave of establishment endorsements
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Exclusive: Bob Dole Endorses Marco Rubio in 2016 Race
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Clinton, Trump Now on Parallel Glide Paths to Nomination
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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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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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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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Marco Rubio has awkward confrontation with Rafael Cruz, Cruz staffer in hotel lobby


Ted Cruz just fired a top aide for spreading a bogus story about Marco Rubio
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Ted Cruz Dumps Spokesman Who Circulated Video Falsely Showing Rubio Denigrating Bible
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Rubio Needs To Move Aside For Cruz, Not Vice Versa
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Majority of Public Wants Senate to Act on Obama's Court Nominee — Most opponents reject hearings no matter whom Obama nominates — In the high-stakes battle over replacing Justice Antonin Scalia on the Supreme Court, a majority of Americans (56%) say the Senate should hold hearings …
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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 …


Joe Biden Argued for Delaying Supreme Court Picks in 1992 — WASHINGTON — As a senator more than two decades ago, Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. argued that President George Bush should delay filling a Supreme Court vacancy, should one arise, until the presidential election was over …
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Game over: Joe Biden says in 1992 that the president shouldn't name a SCOTUS nominee …
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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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Pew survey: More Americans say Apple should unlock terrorist's iPhone
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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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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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Hot Mic Captures Trump Asking ‘Morning Joe’ Hosts For No ‘Too Hard’ Questions (AUDIO)
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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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Pentagon to Send Congress Plan for Closing Guantánamo
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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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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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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 …

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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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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