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Texas Sen. Ted Cruz on Friday challenged the premise of Donald Trump's promise to "make America great again," and asked if Trump knows how America ever became great in his closing pitch to South Carolinians. Speaking in Myrtle Beach, Cruz launched into an extended diatribe about what he perceived as Trump's lackluster position on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. He followed it up with a list of Cruz's campaign promises and a stinging rebuke of Trump's singular message. "We will see the economy explode, small businesses grow, young people coming out of school with three, four, five job opportunities. Wages going up....

Hillary Clinton isn't the only presidential candidate dealing with legal problems. Yahoo News is reporting on multiple lawsuits being dealt with by Donald Trump, including a class action suit whose lead plaintiff claims that Trump has been threatening her with financial ruin. The accusation was made in a motion by the woman - Tarla Makaeff, a California yoga instructor - to withdraw as lead plaintiff, asserting she has been "put through the wringer" by Trump and his lawyers and forced to "suffer daily with the fear that she could be bankrupted by Trump." Exactly what Trump said in his December...

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump reacted strongly to Pope Francis' criticism of his immigration policies as "not Christian" this afternoon, calling Francis' questioning of his faith "disgraceful." But today's battle comes after Trump himself has spent days repeatedly questioning the faith of his biggest rival, Ted Cruz. "I've never seen anybody that lied as much as Ted Cruz," Trump said at a press conference Monday. "And he goes around saying he's a Christian. I don't know, you're going to have to really study that." At a Tuesday rally in North Augusta, South Carolina, Trump said Cruz "holds up the Bible...