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By AMELIA THOMSON-DEVEAUX, LINLEY SANDERS and JOSH BOAK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Donald Trump appears close to invincible in the Republican primaries and caucuses, but despite his commanding victories, the front-runner’s strength among general election voters remains unclear. AP VoteCast shows that Trump, the former president, has galvanized the core of the GOP electorate
Continue ReadingBy DASHA LITVINOVA Associated Press Associates of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny said Monday that talks were underway shortly before his death to exchange him for a Russian imprisoned in Germany. “Alexei Navalny could have been sitting here now, today. It’s not a figure of speech,” Maria Pevchikh, who lives outside Russia, said in a
Continue ReadingBy Kaitlan Collins, Daniel Strauss and Avery Lotz, CNN (CNN) — Republican National Committee Chair Ronna McDaniel will officially step down from her position on March 8, days after Super Tuesday. “I have decided to step aside at our Spring Training on March 8 in Houston to allow our nominee to select a Chair of
Continue ReadingBy Catherine E. Shoichet, CNN Washington (CNN) — On a Tuesday evening in the nation’s capital, a clock chimes loudly just as Harold Holzer is about to make a point. “There’s Lincoln, echoing,” Holzer says. The quip draws laughs from a crowd packed into the parlor of a historic home to hear what Holzer has
Continue ReadingBy Clare Foran, Lauren Fox, Morgan Rimmer and Ted Barrett, CNN (CNN) — There is still no clear path to avert a partial government shutdown at the end of the week, with just four days until Congress runs into a key funding deadline. Lawmakers had hoped to release the text of a bipartisan spending deal
Continue ReadingBy ILLIA NOVIKOV Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — A Ukrainian army spokesman says Kyiv’s troops have withdrawn from a village in the east of the country, as Russian forces make their advantages in manpower and ammunition tell on the battlefield at the start of the war’s third year. The official said Monday the latest
Continue ReadingBy MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s first moon lander responded to a signal from Earth, suggesting it has survived a second freezing weeks-long lunar night, Japan’s space agency said Monday. JAXA called the signal, received late Sunday night, a “miracle” because the probe was not designed to survive the lunar night, when
Continue ReadingBy JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak says a Conservative lawmaker was wrong to say the mayor of London is controlled by Islamists. Sunak also denied the governing party tolerates anti-Muslim prejudice. Sunak is under pressure to condemn Islamophobia after the comments by Lee Anderson. The Conservative Party’s group
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By SYLVAIN PLAZY and LORNE COOK Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — Angry farmers are clashing with police in Belgium as European Union agriculture ministers are meeting to discuss their concerns. Riot police at concrete barriers and barbed wire fences on Monday used water cannons to defend the EU’s headquarters. The farmers are angry at red
Continue ReadingBy BABAR DOGAR Associated Press LAHORE, Pakistan (AP) — The eldest daughter and close aide of Pakistan’s former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has become the country’s first-ever female chief minister in eastern Punjab province amid boycott by her rivals. Mariam Nawaz was elected on Monday with a 220 votes. She promised she would equally serve
Continue ReadingBy GIADA ZAMPANO and VALERIA FERRARO Associated Press CROTONE, Italy (AP) — Survivors and family members of victims of a tragic shipwreck a year ago that killed 94 migrants, including 35 minors, just a few meters off Italy’s southern coast, returned for three days of commemorations ending Monday, calling for truth and justice. A torchlight
Continue ReadingBy The Associated Press The Russian authorities have sought a prison sentence of nearly three years for a veteran human rights advocate who spoke out against the war in Ukraine. The prosecution demanded that Oleg Orlov, 70, be convicted of “repeatedly discrediting” the Russian army and sentenced to two years and 11 months in prison,
Continue ReadingNAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — A French journalist has been detained in Ethiopia while visiting the country for a recent African Union summit. A publisher says Antoine Galindo, a Paris-based correspondent for the Africa Intelligence website, was detained in the capital Addis Ababa last Thursday by plainclothes security officers. According to Indigo Publications, Galindo had arrived
Continue ReadingBy Arit John and Dianne Gallagher, CNN Dearborn, Michigan (CNN) — Layla Elabed isn’t ready to think about November. In 2020, the Palestinian American activist and longtime Michigan Democrat backed Joe Biden for president. But like many Arab Americans, she feels betrayed by his response to Israel’s military campaign in Gaza and the rising civilian
Continue ReadingBy Ivana Kottasová and Kaitlan Collins, CNN Kyiv, Ukraine (CNN) — Former US President Donald Trump will be “against Americans” if he chooses to support Russia over Ukraine, President Volodymyr Zelensky told CNN Sunday, in a stark warning as his country enters a third year of full-scale war. Speaking to CNN’s Kaitlan Collins in Kyiv as the war
Continue ReadingBy MICHAEL LIEDTKE AP Technology Writer Technology is so pervasive and invasive that it’s polarizing people, producing feelings of love and loathing for its devices, online services and the would-be visionaries behind them, according to a longtime Silicon Valley reporter. Kara Swisher unwraps how we got to this point in her incendiary memoir, “Burn Book,”
Continue ReadingBy MICHAEL LIEDTKE AP Technology Writer Technology is so pervasive and invasive that it’s polarizing people, producing feelings of love and loathing for its devices, online services and the would-be visionaries behind them, according to a longtime Silicon Valley reporter. Kara Swisher unwraps how we got to this point in her incendiary memoir, “Burn Book,”
Continue ReadingBy JAN M. OLSEN Associated Press COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Denmark has joined Sweden in closing its investigation into the 2022 explosions that damaged the Nord Stream gas pipelines. Copenhagen police and the Danish security service said Monday in a joint statement they concluded there was deliberate sabotage but not the sufficient grounds to pursue
Continue ReadingBy BASSEM MROUE and MELANIE LIDMAN Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — The Israeli military says its air force has struck targets of the militant Hezbollah group deep inside Lebanon. At least two Hezbollah members were killed. Monday’s statement by the Israeli military came as residents in the northeastern city of Baalbek reported hearing explosions. The
Continue ReadingBy YURAS KARMANAU Associated Press TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — Belarusian authorities have announced preliminary results from parliamentary and local elections in which only candidates loyal to the country’s authoritarian leader were allowed to compete. The opposition had called for a boycott. Sunday’s vote further cemented the 30-year rule of President Alexander Lukashenko, who declared his
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