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Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie denounced former President Donald Trump in a speech Thursday night and said the GOP must rid itself of him and his cult of personality. Christie, in a speech at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, Calif., did not mention Trump’s name. But there was no question about who he was referring to as he described the Republican Party being dragged into a moment of “peril.” He also directly confronted Trump’s insistence that he somehow won the 2020 election — a baseless conspiracy theory the former president and his allies have been promulgating...

Tea party protesters jeer Marco Rubio, CBO By: Jose DelReal June 19, 2013 01:03 PM EDT A large gathering of tea party supporters met outside of Capitol on Wednesday to express their frustrations over immigration legislation moving forward in Congress — including boos for Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) and other lawmakers working on the bill. “Marco Rubio has not read his own bill!” said Robert Rector, a senior researcher for the Heritage Foundation. “This bill is at its core amnesty,” Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa), who organized the event, told the sympathetic crowd. “We’re here to today… to take this debate...

Chalmers H. "Slick" Goodlin, a test pilot who took the X-1 aircraft to near-supersonic speeds but became a footnote in aviation history when he lost his cockpit seat — and the right to shatter the sound barrier for the first time — to a young Chuck Yeager, has died. He was 82. Goodlin, who flew military planes for three countries, died of cancer Oct. 20 at his home in West Palm Beach, Fla., his family announced. After 26 test flights in the X-1, Goodlin was on the brink of making the first supersonic flight when he resigned over a contract...