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States scramble to prepare ahead of food stamps rule change

CHICAGO - Having food stamps offers Richard Butler a stability he's rarely known in his 25 years. He was in state custody at age 2, spent his teen years at a Chicago boys' home and jail for burglary, ...

Mar 04, 2020

Bloomberg out, Biden resurgent after Super Tuesday victories

WASHINGTON - New York billionaire Mike Bloomberg suspended his presidential campaign Wednesday and Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren was reassessing her candidacy, as the winnowing process in the De...

Mar 04, 2020

It's up again for stocks as Wall Street's wild ride extends

NEW YORK - Stocks jumped Wednesday morning and clawed back much of their sharp losses from the day before as Wall Street's wild, virus-fueled swings extend into a third week. Health care stocks led th...

Mar 04, 2020

Iran says 92 dead amid 2,922 cases of the new coronavirus

TEHRAN, Iran - Iran says the new coronavirus has killed 92 people amid 2,922 confirmed cases across the Islamic Republic. Health Ministry spokesman Kianoush Jahanpour announced the new figures at a ne...

Mar 04, 2020

Lawyer says award-winning Iran filmmaker summoned to prison

TEHRAN, Iran - A lawyer for Iranian filmmaker Mohammad Rasoulof, who just won the Berlin Film Festival's Golden Bear, says he's been summoned to serve a one-year prison sentence. Nasser Zarafshan told...

Mar 04, 2020

1 murder charge, 3 deaths loom over Durst as trial opens

LOS ANGELES - The last time Robert Durst was on trial for murder, he testified that he had dismembered his elderly neighbour's body, put it in garbage bags and tossed them in the Gulf of Mexico. He wa...

Mar 03, 2020

Democrat MJ Hegar makes runoff in crowded Texas Senate race

AUSTIN, Texas - Democrat MJ Hegar, a former Air Force helicopter pilot seeking to unseat Republican U.S. Sen. John Cornyn, advanced to a runoff in May after falling short of capturing the nomination o...

Mar 03, 2020

AP source: Bloomberg to reassess after disappointing results

LOS ANGELES - Democratic presidential candidate Mike Bloomberg will reassess on Wednesday whether he should stay in the race after getting disappointing results in Super Tuesday primaries despite spen...

Mar 03, 2020

Inside the final month of Buttigieg's historic campaign

WASHINGTON - He opened February by sharing victory with one of the Democratic Party's best-known figures and ended it with a humbling defeat at the hands of another. Yet Pete Buttigieg's unlikely path...

Mar 03, 2020

4-time Iditarod champion sidelined by medical emergency

ANCHORAGE, Alaska - Emergency surgery has sidelined a four-time winner of Alaska's famed Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race days before he was set to compete in his 30th race. Jeff King withdrew Tuesday ove...

Mar 03, 2020