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.

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.

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.

Mitt Romney Pulls No Punches In Major Speech Trashing Donald Trump  —  In what may be an unprecedented speech by a major American political figure, former presidential nominee Mitt Romney implored his fellow Republicans on Thursday not to nominate the frontrunner Donald Trump for president.

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.

Mitt Romney: ‘Trump is a phony, a fraud’ who is ‘playing the American public for suckers’  —  How Trump threw out the GOP playbook on Planned Parenthood  —  SALT LAKE CITY — Mitt Romney, the 2012 Republican presidential nominee, plans to deliver a sharp broadside against Donald Trump today …

Trump again threatens independent bid  —  Donald Trump said Thursday he is being treated unfairly by the Republican establishment and may run as an independent.  —  “I am watching television — and I am seeing ad, after ad, after ad put in by the establishment, knocking the hell out of me …

Romney calling Trump ‘phony,’ urging Republicans to shun him  —  SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Former GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney is charging into the increasingly divisive White House race with a verbal lashing of Donald Trump and a plea for fellow Republicans to shun the front-runner for the good of country and party.

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 …

8 reasons we need to start preparing for President Trump  —  WASHINGTON — A few months ago, Hillary Clinton's campaign was salivating over the chance to take on Donald Trump — but the real-estate mogul is now positioned not only to win the GOP nomination, but also the White House.

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.

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.