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Shane Goldmacher / Politico:
Rubio's path to an outright win has vanished — Marco Rubio's path to the Republican nomination short of a contested convention has narrowed to nearly nothing as his campaign and allies reboot their strategy to prepare for months of guerrilla warfare to deny Donald Trump a clean, pre-convention victory.
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Full transcript: Mitt Romney's remarks on Donald Trump and the 2016 race — Below are Mitt Romney's full remarks on Donald Trump and the 2016 presidential race, as prepared for delivery. Romney delivered his remarks at the University of Utah. — I am not here to announce my candidacy for office.
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First on CNN: Team Romney explores blocking Trump at RNC — Washington (CNN)Mitt Romney has instructed his closest advisers to explore the possibility of stopping Donald Trump at the Republican National Convention, a source close to Romney's inner circle says.
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Read Mitt Romney's Speech About Donald Trump — Former Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney made the case against Donald Trump in Utah Thursday. — Former Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney made the case against Donald Trump in Utah Thursday.
Nolan D. McCaskill / Politico:
Romney to Republicans: Never Trump — Mitt Romney opened a new front in the Republican Party's civil war on Thursday, going after Donald Trump in a salt-the-earth speech that eviscerated the Republican front-runner as lacking the temperament, business record and substantive policies to occupy the White House.
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Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
Gushing Romney Accepts Trump Endorsement — In some ways Mitt Romney's emergence as Twitter elder snarksman of the Republican party is stranger than Donald Trump's emergence as frontrunner. His speech today is obviously meant to be a weightier affair, a graver denunciation of Trump and Trumpism.
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Michelle Conlin / Reuters:
Exclusive: Koch brothers will not use funds to try to block Trump nomination — The Koch brothers, the most powerful conservative mega donors in the United States, will not use their $400 million political arsenal to try to block Republican front-runner Donald Trump's path to the presidential nomination …
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STATEMENT BY SASC CHAIRMAN JOHN McCAIN ON STATE OF THE REPUBLICAN PRESIDENTIAL PRIMARY CAMPAIGN
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Chris Cillizza / Washington Post:
Mitt Romney is doing Donald Trump a BIG favor by attacking him
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Shane Goldmacher / Politico:
Romney speech shows why Trump is winning
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Mitt Romney:
My remarks on the state of the 2016 presidential race
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Sara Jerde / Talking Points Memo:
Trump Hits Back At Romney: He Would've Dropped To His Knees For Me In '12
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Washington Post:
Mitt Romney: ‘Trump is a phony, a fraud’ who is ‘playing the American public for suckers’
Olivier Knox / Yahoo Politics:
Mitt Romney tells Donald Trump voters they're ‘suckers’
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Nolan D. McCaskill / Politico:
Trump again threatens independent bid
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Eliza Collins / Politico:
Trump punches back at ‘choke artist’ Romney
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Caitlin MacNeal / Talking Points Memo:
Mitt Romney Pulls No Punches In Major Speech Trashing Donald Trump
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War on the Rocks:
Open Letter on Donald Trump from GOP National Security Leaders
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Eli Stokols / Politico:
Kasich vows to win Ohio, fight on to convention
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Oliver Darcy / TheBlaze.com:
Sean Hannity Goes Scorched Earth Against Marco Rubio
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Timothy Cama / The Hill:
Chief justice rejects plea to block air pollution rule — Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts rejected a plea Thursday to block a contentious air pollution rule for power plants, in a big victory for the Obama administration. — Roberts's order came despite his court's 5-4 decision …
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Dahlia Lithwick / Slate:
The Women Take Over — In oral arguments for the Texas abortion case, the three female justices upend the Supreme Court's balance of power. — When the Supreme Court last heard oral arguments in a landmark abortion case, it was April 1992, the case was Planned Parenthood v Casey, and Sandra Day O'Connor was the lone female justice.
David French / National Review:
The Abortion Industry Survives by Endangering Women's Lives
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Skagit Valley Herald / Goskagit.com:
Man accidentally kills himself while taking photos with gun — A 43-year-old Concrete man died Sunday after accidentally shooting himself in the face with what he thought was an unloaded gun. — The man and his girlfriend were at a residence in the 46000 block of Baker Loop Road taking photos …
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Peter Beinart / The Atlantic:
The Violence to Come — What will happen to American politics if, as now appears likely, the Republican Party nominates Donald Trump? Here's one bet: It will get more violent. — The United States is headed toward a confrontation, the likes of which it has not seen since 1968 …
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Jennifer Steinhauer / New York Times:
Charles Grassley Faces Formidable Challenger in Iowa Senate Race — WASHINGTON — With Senator Charles E. Grassley under attack for his handling of the Supreme Court nomination process, a formidable Democratic challenger will run against him this November, the most significant sign yet …
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Dan Tuohy / UnionLeader.com:
DeLemus supporters sing ‘God Bless America’ at court appearance — New Hampshire Union Leader — Federal agents have arrested Jerry DeLemus, a local Tea Party leader who stood with Cliven Bundy's armed resistance at his ranch in Nevada in 2014, in connection with the standoff and alleged assault.
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Tony Schinella / Portsmouth, NH Patch:
Tea Party Activist, Trump Supporter Jerry DeLemus Arrested
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Dawn Ennis / Advocate:
She Is Cait, and I Am Not: Face to Face with Jenner — Winding my way 'round deadman's curves at unsafe speeds all the way up a Malibu mountaintop to meet Caitlyn Jenner, I asked myself: who would live here except a recluse? Cut off from the rest of the world, high above it all …
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Kyle Olson / The American Mirror:
Podesta ‘encourages’ journalists to ask Hillary about UFOs — Democrat operative John Podesta is so obsessed with what the government knows about aliens and UFOs, he has actually asked reporters to question his candidate on the fringe subject. — The shocking revelation comes from an interview …
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Geoff Earle / New York Post:
8 reasons we need to start preparing for President Trump
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Rebecca Blackwell / Associated Press:
Mexican Govt: We ‘Categorically’ Refuse To Pay For Trump's Border Wall — WASHINGTON (AP) — The Mexican government has made his first direct response to Donald Trump's pledge to build a wall along the two countries' border — and make Mexico pay for it. — Mexican Treasury Secretary Luis Videgaray …
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Alexandra Alper / Reuters:
Mexico says won't pay for Trump's ‘terrible’ border wall
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Monique Morrissey / Economic Policy Institute:
The State of American Retirement: How 401(k)s have failed most American workers — Overview — Today, many Americans rely on savings in 401(k)-type accounts to supplement Social Security in retirement. This is a pronounced shift from a few decades ago, when many retirees could count on predictable …
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New York Times:
Tech Rallies to Apple's Defense, but Not Without Some Hand-Wringing — It is a remarkable moment for the technology industry, with many different companies and organizations rallying around a single company — Apple — in a major legal case against the United States government over privacy and security.
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FBI investigating if Clinton aides shared passwords to access classified info — EXCLUSIVE: The FBI is investigating whether computer passwords were shared among Hillary Clinton's close aides to determine how sensitive intelligence “jumped the gap” between the classified systems …
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John Branch / New York Times:
Brandi Chastain to Donate Her Brain for C.T.E. Research — SAN JOSE, Calif. — The retired soccer player Brandi Chastain remains best known for scoring the winning shootout goal in the 1999 World Cup final against China and for the jersey-shedding celebration that followed.
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