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North Korea fires ballistic missile amid rising animosities

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - North Korea has launched a ballistic missile toward its eastern waters on Wednesday, South Korean and Japanese officials said, days after North Korean leader Kim Jong Un vowe...

May 03, 2022

Indiana GOP lawmakers hold off many hard-right challengers

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - Frustrated Indiana conservatives fell short in several primary races Tuesday in their drive to push the Republican-controlled state Legislature further to the right and saw one of ...

May 03, 2022

In Ohio, US House rematch again tests progressive clout

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - A rematch pitting one of the left's rising stars against a new House incumbent backed by the more moderate Democratic establishment is providing another key litmus test of the pr...

May 03, 2022

Election 2022: JD Vance wins Ohio's GOP Senate primary

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - Bestselling author JD Vance has won Ohio's contentious and hyper-competitive GOP Senate primary, buoyed by Donald Trump's endorsement in a race widely seen as an early test of th...

May 03, 2022

Georgia GOP Senate debate focuses on Herschel Walker absence

ATLANTA (AP) - Tuesday's debate among Georgia Republican Senate candidates was predictably defined by the man who wasn't there - Herschel Walker. If the race wasn't dominated by Walker's football cele...

May 03, 2022

Ohio's GOP elections chief beats conservative foe in primary

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - Ohio's Republican incumbent elections chief Frank LaRose, endorsed by former President Donald Trump, won Tuesday's primary against conservative challenger John Adams, who questio...

May 03, 2022

Ohio Gov. Dewine wins GOP nomination for 2nd term in office

TOLEDO, Ohio (AP) - Republican Gov. Mike DeWine on Tuesday won his party's nomination for a second term in office, overcoming conservative anger of his strict pandemic policies and notable rifts with ...

May 03, 2022

Execution of Missouri man just the 5th in US this year

A Missouri man who killed a couple during a robbery at their rural home more than a quarter of a century ago was put to death Tuesday, becoming just the fifth person executed in the United States this...

May 03, 2022

Prosecutors charge 3 with murder in Sacramento mass shooting

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) - Prosecutors have filed murder charges in a mass shooting that rocked California's capital city a month ago. District Attorney Anne Marie Schubert said Tuesday that Smiley Mar...

May 03, 2022

Oklahoma governor signs Texas-style ban on most abortions

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) - Oklahoma's Republican Gov. Kevin Stitt signed a Texas-style abortion ban on Tuesday that prohibits abortions after about six weeks of pregnancy, part of a nationwide push in GOP-l...

May 03, 2022