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Merkel's party fends off far-right challenge in state vote

by Frank Jordans
| June 6, 2021 10:30 AM

BERLIN (AP) — Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservatives handily batted away a challenge from the far right in a state election Sunday that was seen as the last big test for Germany's political parties before a national vote in September.

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