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Judge overseeing Georgia election interference case dismisses some of charges against Trump

ATLANTA (AP) - The judge overseeing the Georgia election interference case has dismissed some of the charges against former President Donald Trump, but others remain. Fulton County Superior Court Judg...

Mar 13, 2024

Russia is ready to use nuclear weapons if threatened, Putin tells state media

President Vladimir Putin said that Russia is ready to use nuclear weapons if there is a threat to Russian statehood, sovereignty, or independence. Speaking in an interview with Russian state televisio...

Mar 12, 2024

An explosion in a building outside Beijing kills 1 person and injures 22

BEIJING (AP) - Rescuers were responding to a suspected gas leak explosion Wednesday in a building in northern China that has killed one person and injured 22, authorities said. The explosion came earl...

Mar 12, 2024

Trump wins delegates needed to become GOP’s presumptive nominee for third straight election

WEST PALM BEACH, Florida (AP) - Donald Trump, whose single turbulent term in the White House transformed the Republican Party, tested the resilience of democratic institutions in the U.S. and threaten...

Mar 12, 2024

Dallas Seavey wins 6th Iditarod championship, most ever in the world’s most famous sled dog race

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) - Dallas Seavey overcame killing a moose and receiving a time penalty to win the Iditarod on Tuesday, a record-breaking sixth championship in the world's most famous sled dog ra...

Mar 12, 2024

Mississippi holds primaries for 4 seats in the US House and 1 in the Senate

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - Mississippians voted in party primaries for all four of the state's U.S. House seats and one U.S. Senate seat. Polls were closing at 7 p.m. CDT Tuesday. If runoff elections are n...

Mar 12, 2024

President Joe Biden has won enough delegates to clinch the 2024 Democratic nomination

WASHINGTON (AP) - President Joe Biden, who took office aiming to steady a nation convulsed by the coronavirus pandemic and the Jan. 6 insurrection, clinched a second straight Democratic nomination Tue...

Mar 12, 2024

Biden and Trump could clinch nominations in Tuesday's contests, ushering in general election

WASHINGTON (AP) - President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump secured victories in Georgia on Tuesday as they sought to clinch their parties' presidential nominations in a slate of low-profi...

Mar 12, 2024

Pentagon to give Ukraine $300 million in weapons even as it lacks funds to replenish US stockpile

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Pentagon will rush about $300 million in weapons to Ukraine after finding some cost savings in its contracts, even though the military remains deeply overdrawn and needs at least...

Mar 12, 2024

A Russian military transport plane with 15 people on board has crashed on takeoff, officials say

MOSCOW (AP) - A Russian military transport plane with 15 people on board crashed on Tuesday while taking off from an air base in western Russia, the Defense Ministry said. It said the Il-76 aircraft w...

Mar 12, 2024