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Trump wins delegates needed to become GOP’s presumptive nominee for third straight election 03/13/2024 12:03am • WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (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 threatened alliances abroad, will lead the GOP in a third consecutive presidential election after clinching t Standout moments from the hearing on the Biden classified documents probe by special counsel Hur 03/12/2024 05:35pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — It's a now-familiar ritual in Washington: a federal prosecutor being summoned to Capitol Hill to discuss the findings of a politically explosive investigation. Tuesday's hearing with special counsel Robert Hur, who investigated President Joe Biden's handling of classified informa Why the 'fight game' has led to a lawsuit against the Prince George's County school board 03/12/2024 04:20pm • Allegations of a "game" in which students fight with each other inside classrooms at a Prince George's County, Maryland, school, are now the subject of a lawsuit by a mother who said that her daughter was hurt in a fight caught on video last month. Some students are engaging in "The Fight Game," Editorial Roundup: United States 03/12/2024 03:35pm • Excerpts from recent editorials in the United States and abroad: March 11 The Washington Post on Biden, taxes and the middle class Like most presidential budgets before it, President Biden’s fiscal 2025 tax and spending blueprint is more of a political statement than an actual legislative proposal Small biz advocacy group wins court challenge against the Corporate Transparency Act 03/12/2024 02:43pm • NEW YORK (AP) — The National Small Business Association has successfully challenged a law designed to combat money laundering but that small businesses contend is too burdensome. A federal court in Alabama on March 1 ruled that the Corporate Transparency Act is unconstitutional. The law requires b Reputed gang leader acquitted of murder charge after 3rd trial in Connecticut 03/12/2024 11:28am • HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — A Connecticut man who denies having led a violent Hartford gang has been acquitted of a murder charge and freed following a third trial that resulted from the state Supreme Court overturning his conviction. Donald Raynor, now 38, broke down in tears when the state court jury Georgia readies to resume executions after a 4-year pause brought by COVID and a legal agreement 03/11/2024 01:40pm • ATLANTA (AP) — An execution scheduled for next week would be the first in Georgia in more than four years. The state is trying to move past an agreement made amid the coronavirus pandemic that effectively halted lethal injections. Willie James Pye, 59, is set to be put to death March 20. He was co The diaries of presidents offer history in the raw — even the naked — and may have secrets to tell 03/10/2024 10:48am • WASHINGTON (AP) — Just before dawn one summer day in Washington, the president of the United States stripped naked on a rock by the river, plunged in and saw a dead man float to the surface. We know this about John Quincy Adams because he kept a diary for the ages. So have many presidents, from Ge New Hampshire troopers fatally shoot armed man during foot pursuit with a police dog, official says 03/09/2024 04:36pm • ROCHESTER, N.H. (AP) — Police in New Hampshire shot and killed a man during a foot chase after he was taken down by a police dog and pulled a weapon Friday evening, the state attorney general said. New Hampshire State Police troopers killed Joseph Russell, 36, during the pursuit that began while t Nathan Hochman advances to Los Angeles County district attorney runoff against George Gascón 03/08/2024 08:01pm • LOS ANGELES (AP) — Former federal prosecutor Nathan Hochman has advanced to a runoff against Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascón, one of the country’s most progressive prosecutors. Gascón and Hochman will compete in November in the race to lead an agency that prosecutes cases i The NYPD is using social media to target critics. That brings its own set of worries 03/08/2024 06:56pm • NEW YORK (AP) — The first “NYPD: Most Wanted” video was meant to be intimidating. Over a pounding soundtrack, the montage cuts among stock images and body-camera footage of actual police raids. A fake gun discharges. Real officers break down a door, barking orders at a man asleep on a couch. A A West Virginia bill to remove marital exemption for sexual abuse wins final passage 03/08/2024 05:14pm • CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — Certain sexual assaults against a spouse would be criminalized in West Virginia for the first time under a bill passed Friday by the Republican-dominated House of Delegates. The bill would remove marriage as a defense to first- and third-degree sexual assault. The House pa Sex abuse survivors dispute Southern Baptist leadership and say federal investigation is ongoing 03/08/2024 03:21pm • The status of a federal investigation into a leading Southern Baptist agency’s handling of sexual abuse is unclear. But this much is clear — survivors of abuse and their advocates remain deeply skeptical of leaders' intentions to address the scandal in the nation's largest Protestant denominatio Two former Texas deputies have been acquitted in the death of a motorist following a police chase 03/08/2024 01:50pm • Two former Texas deputies have been acquitted in the death of a Black motorist who was shot several times with a stun gun following a police chase that was filmed by the now-canceled real-time police TV series “Live PD.” A Travis County jury on Thursday found former Williamson County deputies Za Transcript of President Joe Biden's State of the Union address 03/08/2024 01:31pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — Transcript of President Joe Biden’s as-delivered State of the Union address on March 7, 2024, as provided by the White House. It includes interactions with the audience and White House corrections to Biden’s remarks in brackets: Good evening. Good evening. If I were smart, I�