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Cruz wins Kansas, battles for Kentucky in GOP fight for delegates

Posted: 05 Mar 2016 04:07 PM PST

Supporters cheer for republican presidential candidate Donald Trump while he speaks during a campaign rally, Saturday, March 5, 2016, in Orlando, Fla. (AP Photo/Brynn Anderson)Ted Cruz claimed the first prize in Saturday's four-state round of Republican voting, triumphing in Kansas as front-runner Donald Trump tried to pad his delegate lead in the fractious race for president. Democrats in three states were choosing between Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders.


Team for Mexican drug lord 'El Chapo' launches PR blitz

Posted: 05 Mar 2016 11:32 AM PST

Jose Luis Gonzalez Meza, one of Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman's lawyers, talks to journalists as men set up a tent outside the Altiplano maximum security prison, where Gonzalez said he would hold a hunger strike in protest over the drug lord's treatment in prison, near Toluca, Mexico state, Mexico, Friday, March 4, 2016. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)MEXICO CITY (AP) — The once-secretive Mexican drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman has launched a public relations blitz, calling on his lawyers and even his common-law wife to keep his name in the news.


Taliban says rejects 'futile' Afghanistan peace talks

Posted: 05 Mar 2016 01:35 PM PST

Head of U.S. delegation Michael Mckinley listens during a meeting in KabulThe Taliban said on Saturday it would not take part in peace talks brokered by representatives of Afghanistan, Pakistan, China and the United States, casting doubt on efforts to revive negotiations. The Taliban, ousted from power in a U.S.-led military intervention in 2001, has been waging a violent insurgency to try to topple Afghanistan's Western-backed government and re-establish a fundamentalist Islamic regime. Following a meeting of the so-called Quadrilateral Coordination Group made up of representatives of the four countries in Kabul in February, officials said they expected direct peace talks between the Afghan government and the Taliban to begin in early March.


Flint crisis a campaign issue for Democrats, less so for GOP

Posted: 05 Mar 2016 12:12 AM PST

FILE - In this Feb. 7, 2016 file photo, Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton holds the hand of Flint Mayor Karen Weaver during a meeting with officials at the House Of Prayer Missionary Baptist Church in Flint, Mich. Flint, a majority-black impoverished community in a state run by Republicans, has become a dominant issue for the Democratic candidates before Tuesday's primary in Michigan, so much so that they will return to the city for the seventh Democratic debate on Sunday. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya, File)The crisis has become a hot-button issue for Democratic presidential candidates.


Musicians and media figures celebrate Murdoch-Hall wedding

Posted: 05 Mar 2016 01:21 PM PST

Rupert Murdoch, left, and Jerry Hall leave St Bride's Church after the celebration ceremony of the wedding of Rupert Murdoch and Jerry Hall in London, Saturday, March 5, 2016. (Photo by Joel Ryan/Invision/AP)LONDON (AP) — Rupert Murdoch and Jerry Hall celebrated their marriage Saturday alongside family members, media executives and music stars in a church considered the spiritual home of British journalism.


Trump rallies: Tense, racially charged, immensely successful

Posted: 04 Mar 2016 06:59 PM PST

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump holds up a child he pulled from the crowd as he arrives to speak at a campaign rally in New Orleans, Friday, March 4, 2016. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)VALDOSTA, Ga. (AP) — Among the many ways Donald Trump has redefined presidential politics, he stands alone for how he has used large, protest-ridden rallies, often bubbling with raw anger, to fuel his candidacy.


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