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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

Special counsel Hur is set to testify before a House committee over handling of Biden documents case

WASHINGTON (AP) - The special counsel who impugned the president's age and competence in his report on how Joe Biden handled classified documents after his years as vice president is set to be questio...

Mar 12, 2024

Food charity says aid ship bound for Gaza has set sail from Cyprus

JERUSALEM (AP) - An international charity says its aid ship bound for Gaza has set sail from Cyprus. Associated Press live footage showed the ship being towed out of the harbor in Cyprus. World Food K...

Mar 12, 2024