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With 14 states holding primaries Tuesday, more than one-third of available delegates are on the line. Follow the latest news and updates live.

U.S. stocks jumped Tuesday after the Federal Reserve made an emergency rate cut to help shield the economy from the impact from the virus outbreak. The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 172 points, or 0.6% as of 10:10 a.m. Eastern…

At least 7 people were killed early Tuesday as two tornadoes touched down in central Tennessee, shredding about 40 buildings across the Nashville area. Authorities pleaded with people to stay indoors, at least until daybreak could reveal the dangers of…

Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar has announced she will suspend her campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination. She plans to endorse former Vice President Joe Biden.

Pete Buttigieg, who rose from being a small-town Midwestern mayor to a barrier-breaking, top-tier candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination, is ending his campaign. Three people with knowledge of Buttigieg's decision told The Associated Press he began informing campaign staff…

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The United States' top doctor has one simple request: Stop buying face masks to ward off coronavirus COVID-19. It doesn't work. U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Jerome Adams' message, posted to Twitter, was a response to face mask shortages as people…

Former Vice President Joe Biden has won South Carolina's Democratic primary. It was his first victory in three tries at the Democratic nomination, and it came during the fourth Democratic primary contest of the 2020 election season. Biden's win could…

A person has died in Washington state of COVID-19, state health officials said Saturday, marking the first such reported death in the United States. State officials issued a terse news release announcing the death, gave no details and scheduled a…

This much is true: Federal health officials said Friday they're scrambling to get coronavirus testing up and running in every state, as President Donald Trump's chief economic adviser urged Americans not to overreact to plunging financial markets. The World Health…

With worries growing about the new coronavirus in the U.S., state officials are ramping up efforts to prepare for a possible outbreak while simultaneously trying to assure the public that they are well-positioned to handle it. Governors and legislators in…

President Trump announced Wednesday that he will hold a press conference at 6:30 p.m. ET at the White House with officials from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and others to discuss the spread of the coronavirus. As of…

This breaking story will be updated. MILWAUKEE -- Milwaukee police are responding to what they are calling a "critical incident" on the Molson Coors Brewing Co. campus amid reports of a possible shooting. Conflicting reports emerged, with local media reporting…

This is a breaking news story that will be updated. Officials scrambled Tuesday to halt the spread of the burgeoning new virus, from northern Italy where troops were dispatched to enforce quarantines and schools were shuttered, to South Korea, where…

A new virus took aim at a broadening swath of the globe, with officials in Europe and the Middle East scrambling to limit the spread of an outbreak that showed signs of stabilizing at its Chinese epicenter but posed new…

This is a breaking news story that will be updated. Harvey Weinstein was convicted Monday at his sexual assault trial, sealing his dizzying fall from powerful Hollywood studio boss to archvillain of the #MeToo movement. The verdict followed weeks of…

Bernie Sanders scored a resounding victory in Nevada's presidential caucuses on Saturday, cementing his status as the Democrats' national front-runner amid escalating tensions over whether he's too liberal to defeat President Donald Trump. The 78-year-old Vermont senator successfully rallied his…

Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders on Friday condemned Russian efforts to interfere in the 2020 election. The Vermont senator issued a statement immediately after The Washington Post reported U.S. officials have told Sanders that Russia was trying to help his…

Most of the Americans monitored at the University of Nebraska Medical Center for coronavirus after evacuating a cruise ship in Japan tested positive for the virus, the Omaha World-Herald reports. UMNC said in a statement Thursday that the US Centers…

Roger Stone, a staunch ally of President Donald Trump, has been sentenced to 40 months in prison after the Justice Department backed off its original sentencing recommendation of at least seven years. This is a breaking news alert. Previous story…

A 43-year-old German man shot and killed nine people at several locations in a Frankfurt suburb overnight in attacks that appear to have been motivated by far-right beliefs, officials said Thursday. The gunman first attacked a hookah bar in central…

Japan's health ministry says 2 elderly cruise ship passengers who were hospitalized with viral infection have died. This is a breaking story that will be updated. Previous story below. About 500 passengers left the Diamond Princess cruise ship Wednesday at…

Mike Bloomberg will confront the greatest test of his presidential campaign on Wednesday when he faces five Democratic rivals in a debate in Las Vegas that could fundamentally change the direction of the party’s 2020 nomination fight. For full background,…