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SALT LAKE CITY, Utah — Former GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney thinks "Donald Trump is a phony, a fraud" and that he's "playing the American public for suckers," according to prepared remarks provided by Romney to CNN. Romney, the party’s nominee in 2012, will urge Americans "to make the right choices" and not support the GOP front runner during a speech he'll give today at 11:30 a.m. ET at the University of Utah’s Hinckley Institute of Politics Forum.

It's a Sad Day in Bushville: Jeb's Family and Friends Rally Around Him After He Pulls Out of GOP Race. Shortly after Jeb Bush announced his departure from the presidential race Saturday evening, brother George W. Bush issued a statement congratulating his younger sibling on his efforts – and for remaining above the fray in an unprecedented election cycle. "Tonight I talked to my brother and congratulated him on his campaign for the Presidency," the 43rd president said in a statement obtained by PEOPLE. "I told Jeb how proud I am of him and his staff for running a campaign...

Fox News Channel correspondent Geraldo Rivera has been given a one-way ticket back to Kuwait City. A spokesman for the cable news network said yesterday that Rivera has "volunteered" to return to Kuwait from the 101st Airborne Division in Iraq, where he had been reporting on the war. But the Pentagon already had said the controversial talk show host turned foreign correspondent was going to be removed from the troop after revealing too many details about its location in a Sunday night report. Rivera was allowed to report from Iraq yesterday while his case was reviewed by military officials. Though...