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4th District candidates talk affordability, ag and healthcare
RICHLAND — Rising costs, agricultural challenges and concerns about the future of rural healthcare dominated discu…
AP Deleg Count-Dem Regions, 4th Add,400
NORTHEAST Gabbard +- Gleiberman +- Greenstein +- Harris +-
AP Deleg Count-Dem Regions, 5th Add,400
NORTHEAST Hewes +- Koos +- Kraus +- Krichevsky +-
AP Deleg Count-Dem Regions, 10 Takes,450
NORTHEAST Buttigieg +- Sanders +- Warren +- Biden +-
Greece: Emergency powers to build migrant detention camps
Greece is planning to use emergency legal powers to create detention centers for migrants on five islands to try and speed up deportations back to Turkey, officials said Monday.
Trump's $4.8 trillion budget proposal revisits rejected cuts
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump unveiled a $4.8 trillion election year budget plan on Monday that recycles deep, previously rejected cuts to domestic programs like food stamps, Medicaid, and housing as the…
German leader Merkel's party in crisis as successor quits
BERLIN (AP) — German Chancellor Angela Merkel's designated successor unexpectedly threw in the towel Monday, plunging her conservative party into deeper crisis as it struggles to agree on its future political direc…
Irish election produces an earthquake as Sinn Fein tops poll
DUBLIN (AP) — Ireland braced for weeks of political uncertainty Monday after an earth-shaking election that saw the Irish Republican Army-linked party Sinn Fein — long shunned by its bigger rivals — take the larges…
2020 Watch: On eve of New Hampshire, is Mayor Pete for real?
MANCHESTER, N.H. (AP) — Presidential politics move fast. What we're watching heading into a new week on the 2020 campaign:
Schumer wants to protect whistleblowers amid Trump payback
WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer is calling on the nation's 74 inspectors general to protect government whistleblowers amid
Correction: Russia-Syria story
MOSCOW (AP) — In a story published Feb. 7, 2019, about a civilian airliner endangered by military action in Damascus, Syria, The Associated Press erroneously reported that a Russian Defense Ministry spokesman claim…
German Chancellor Merkel's designated successor to quit after regional vote fiasco
BERLIN (AP) — German Chancellor Merkel's designated successor to quit after regional vote fiasco.
UK calls virus "serious" health threat; will detain people
LONDON (AP) — Britain has declared the new coronavirus that emerged from China a "serious and imminent threat to public health'' and announced new measures Monday to combat the spread of the disease.
Klobuchar pushes to defy expectations in New Hampshire
MANCHESTER, N.H. (AP) — Amy Klobuchar's campaign staff initially set up 250 chairs ahead of a Sunday rally at Southern New Hampshire University. But in the moments before the Minnesota senator arrived on campus, th…
Vote prediction for Sinn Fein puts Irish politics in turmoil
DUBLIN (AP) — Ireland faced political turmoil Sunday as an exit poll from the weekend’s parliamentary election suggested that Sinn Fein, a left-wing party committed to reunification of the island, finished in a vir…
Wisconsin GOP primary pits war vet against political vet
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The Republican primary race in a special election to fill northern Wisconsin's open congressional seat pits a political veteran with deep roots in the sprawling district against a war veteran h…