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WASHINGTON (AP) — He's facing significant political hurdles and opposition in Congress, but President Barack Obama says he's going to make one last effort to shut down the detention center at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba. He wants to transfer the remaining detainees there to a facility in the United States, although the plan he's releasing today doesn't specify where that would be. Obama says keeping the facility open is "contrary to our values" and that it "undermines our standing in the world."
LAS VEGAS (AP) — Republican presidential hopeful Marco Rubio is criticizing the president's effort to close the detention facility in Guantanamo Bay. Speaking in Las Vegas, hours ahead of the Nevada Republican caucuses, Rubio said the plan "makes no sense." He warned that Obama might return the land to Cuba, and said, "We're not giving back an important naval base to an anti-American communist dictatorship." Rubio adds that the Guantanamo prisoners don't belong on U.S. soil.
UNDATED (AP) — Texas Sen. Ted Cruz is toughening his position on whether the more than 11 million immigrants living in the country illegally should be found and deported. He now tells Fox News that anyone living in the U.S. illegally should be sought out and deported. That marks a shift for Cruz who said last month while campaigning in Iowa that he opposed dispatching a special force to deport undocumented immigrants. Instead, Cruz said then they would be caught through existing law enforcement agencies.
UNDATED (AP) — The lone outside group making a concentrated effort to stop Donald Trump from becoming the Republican presidential nominee is circulating a memo in hopes of netting new big donations - or encouraging the four remaining GOP candidates to take on Trump more directly. Our Principles is a super political action committee that spent $3.5 million on commercials and other voter outreach in Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina.
PHOENIX (AP) — Phoenix authorities say a girl who was critically wounded in a shooting and house fire has died, raising the death toll from the violence to five, including the gunman. They say those killed were all related, and the gunman was shot by police. Officers dodged bullets and donned breathing gear to enter the burning home to help the victims while the shooter was still alive.
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