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What to watch as the midterms begin with Tuesday's primaries
WASHINGTON (AP) — After months of speculating, pontificating and spinning, the midterm election season begins in earnest Tuesday. The primary results in Texas, North Carolina and Arkansas will provide some of the first concrete evidence for what voters want as President Donald Trump's second term approaches the halfway mark.Republicans insist that Trump's most recent election gave them a vast mandate for their agenda. Democrats want to prove them wrong, and they have pointed to a smattering of recent victories as clues that they can make a comeback in Washington.
The... Read More
Bill Clinton faces grilling from lawmakers over his connections to Jeffrey Epstein
WASHINGTON (AP) — Former President Bill Clinton is testifying Friday before members of Congress investigating convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, answering for his connections to the disgraced financier from more than two decades ago.The closed-door deposition in Chappaqua, New York, will mark the first time a former president has been compelled to testify to Congress. It comes a day after Clinton's wife, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, sat with lawmakers for her own deposition.
Bill Clinton has also not been accused of any wrongdoing. Yet lawmakers... Read More
US stocks slump and oil prices jump as worries about AI, inflation and possible war hit Wall Street
NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. stocks are sinking Friday as Wall Street gets back to hunting and punishing companies that could be made losers by the artificial-intelligence revolution. A surprisingly discouraging update on inflation also hurt the market.The S&P 500 fell 0.8% and is staggering toward the finish of what would be just its second losing month in the last 10. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was down 569 points, or 1.2%, as of 9:35 a.m. Eastern time, and the Nasdaq composite was 1.2% lower.
A report showing that inflation at the U.S. wholesale level was at 2.9%... Read More
Israel's top court allows aid groups to keep working in Gaza as Israeli strikes kill 4 there
TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Israel's top court on Friday moved to allow international aid groups to keep operating in the Gaza Strip and other Palestinian territories as Israeli strikes killed at least four people across the war-torn enclave.The Supreme Court's order, which followed a petition from 17 aid groups, effectively halted an earlier Israeli government decision that barred aid groups for refusing to comply with Israel's new rules.
Israel had announced it will ban 37 aid groups by March 1 for not abiding by rules introduced last year that require aid groups to... Read More
Sweden intercepts suspected Russian drone during visit by French aircraft carrier
STOCKHOLM (AP) — Sweden's military has intercepted a suspected Russian drone off the south of the country as a French aircraft carrier was docked in the port of Malmö, officials said.The armed forces said Thursday that a Swedish naval ship observed the suspected drone during a patrol in the Öresund strait, which divides Sweden from Denmark. They said that unspecified countermeasures were taken to disrupt the drone, and that contact with it was then lost.
The French nuclear-powered aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle is in the southern Swedish city of Malmö this... Read More
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- US stocks slump and oil prices jump as worries about AI, inflation and possible war hit Wall Street
- Scouting America will alter its policies to maintain support from the US military, Pentagon says
- The Latest: Bill Clinton is questioned about Epstein ties as Trump stumps in Texas
- Pakistan is in 'open war' with Afghanistan after latest strikes, defense minister says
- UN nuclear watchdog says it's unable to verify whether Iran has suspended all uranium enrichment
- Trump heads to Texas, where 3 supporters are battling it out in the Senate Republican primary
- Bill Clinton faces grilling from lawmakers over his connections to Jeffrey Epstein
- US advises embassy staff in Israel to leave now if they want, as risk of war hangs over Middle East
- Brussels orders probe of Mandelson's Epstein ties while EU trade rep
- 19 deputies of China's legislature, including 9 military officers, removed before annual meeting
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