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Today in History: March 15, Julius Caesar is assassinated 03/15/2024 12:00am • Today in History Today is Friday, March 15, the 75th day of 2024. There are 291 days left in the year. Today’s highlight in history: On March 15, 44 B.C., Roman dictator Julius Caesar was assassinated by a group of nobles that included Brutus and Cassius. On this date: In 1493, Italian explorer In Mexico, a once glittering lake is being sucked dry by development, drought and lawlessness 03/14/2024 08:22pm • VALLE DE BRAVO, Mexico (AP) — Once a glittering weekend getaway for wealthy residents of Mexico City, Valle de Bravo has been reduced to a shrinking, increasingly polluted patch of mud flats and water by a combination of drought, water transfers to the capital, bad planning and lawlessness. Resid February retail sales up 0.6%, yet fissures emerge in what has been a driving force for US economy 03/14/2024 05:26pm • NEW YORK (AP) — Americans picked up their spending a bit in February after pulling back the previous month. But last month’s gain was weaker than expected, and January’s decline was revised even lower, suggesting that many are growing more cautious with their money. Retail sales rose 0.6% last Germany shakes up squad before Euro 2024 with 6 new faces, Kroos recall 03/14/2024 11:19am • BERLIN (AP) — Germany coach Julian Nagelsmann has shaken up the squad before the home European Championship by gathering six new players for warmups against France and the Netherlands. Nagelsmann also included the 34-year-old Toni Kroos in his 26-man squad on Thursday, confirming the Real Madrid s US could end legal fight against Titanic expedition 03/14/2024 08:00am • NORFOLK, Va. (AP) — The U.S. government could end its legal fight against a planned expedition to the Titanic, which has sparked concerns that it would violate a law that treats the wreck as a gravesite. Kent Porter, an assistant U.S. attorney, told a federal judge in Virginia Wednesday that th Savannah plans a supersized 200th anniversary celebration of its beloved St. Patrick's Day parade 03/13/2024 12:26am • SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — There was no green beer, no pickup trucks towing parade floats or throngs of tourists in gaudy green outfits. Instead, just a few dozen of Savannah's early Irish immigrants marched a half-mile from a hotel near the riverfront to attend a special service at what then was the ci President Joe Biden has won enough delegates to clinch the 2024 Democratic nomination 03/12/2024 07:42pm • 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 Tuesday and set up an all-but-certain rematch with the predecessor he blames for destabilizing the co U.S. airport nasal swabbing expanding to Chicago and Miami 03/12/2024 04:41pm • NEW YORK (AP) — The nation's top public health agency is expanding a program that tests international travelers for COVID-19 and other infectious diseases. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention program asks arriving international passengers to volunteer to have their noses swabbed and ans Why texting your children at school could sabotage their learning 03/12/2024 01:15pm • Parents texting their children who are in school aren't just staying in touch — they're sabotaging their children's learning and development, according to doctors. Although most schools allow a student to carry a cellphone for an emergency, and some teachers require students to place their phon Biden's budget proposal for a second term offers tax breaks for families and lower health care costs 03/11/2024 10:27pm • MANCHESTER, N.H. (AP) — President Joe Biden on Monday released a budget proposal aimed at getting voters' attention: It would offer tax breaks for families, lower health care costs, smaller deficits and higher taxes on the wealthy and corporations. Unlikely to pass the House and Senate to become l Housing Secretary Fudge resigning. Biden hails her dedication to boosting supply of affordable homes 03/11/2024 03:32pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — Housing and Urban Development Secretary Marcia Fudge announced Monday that she would resign her post, effective March 22, saying she was leaving “with mixed emotions.” A former mayor of Warrensville Heights, Ohio, and later an Ohio representative in Congress, Fudge, 71, se 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 Today in History: March 11, massive earthquake and tsunami in Japan kill nearly 20,000 03/11/2024 12:00am • Today in History Today is Monday, March 11, the 71st day of 2024. There are 295 days left in the year. Today’s highlight in history: On March 11, 2011, a magnitude-9.0 earthquake and resulting tsunami struck Japan’s northeastern coast, killing nearly 20,000 people and severely damaging the Fu The US is springing forward to daylight saving. For Navajo and Hopi tribes, it's a time of confusion 03/09/2024 08:08pm • TUBA CITY, Ariz. (AP) — Melissa Blackhair is not eager to spring forward Sunday. “I’m dreading it. I just don’t want to see how much we have to adjust," Blackhair said while sitting in her home office in Tuba City on the Navajo Nation, the only area in Arizona that follows daylight saving t Today in History: March 9, The Notorious B.I.G. is shot and killed at 24 03/09/2024 12:01am • Today in History Today is Saturday, March 9, the 69th day of 2024. There are 297 days left in the year. Today’s highlight in history: On March 9, 1997, rapper The Notorious B.I.G. (Christopher Wallace) was killed in a still-unsolved drive-by shooting in Los Angeles at age 24. On this date: In