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Democrat MJ Hegar makes runoff in crowded Texas Senate race

AUSTIN, Texas - Democrat MJ Hegar, a former Air Force helicopter pilot seeking to unseat Republican U.S. Sen. John Cornyn, advanced to a runoff in May after falling short of capturing the nomination o...

Mar 3, 2020

AP source: Bloomberg to reassess after disappointing results

LOS ANGELES - Democratic presidential candidate Mike Bloomberg will reassess on Wednesday whether he should stay in the race after getting disappointing results in Super Tuesday primaries despite spen...

Mar 3, 2020

Inside the final month of Buttigieg's historic campaign

WASHINGTON - He opened February by sharing victory with one of the Democratic Party's best-known figures and ended it with a humbling defeat at the hands of another. Yet Pete Buttigieg's unlikely path...

Mar 3, 2020

4-time Iditarod champion sidelined by medical emergency

ANCHORAGE, Alaska - Emergency surgery has sidelined a four-time winner of Alaska's famed Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race days before he was set to compete in his 30th race. Jeff King withdrew Tuesday ove...

Mar 3, 2020

GOP Sen. Thom Tillis, Dem Cal Cunningham are NC Senate picks

RALEIGH, N.C. - Former Democratic state lawmaker Cal Cunningham, the primary candidate favoured by his party's leaders in the U.S. Senate, advanced Tuesday to a general election challenge against GOP ...

Mar 3, 2020

In NC, Gov. Roy Cooper and Lt. Gov. Dan Forest win primaries

RALEIGH, N.C. - Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper of North Carolina won his party's primary Tuesday and will face Republican Lt. Gov. Dan Forest in the November general election, seeking a second term. It's ...

Mar 3, 2020

Democrats: Judge extends Tennessee voting in storm-hit area

MEMPHIS, Tenn. - A judge has extended voting hours in a Nashville-area county after four Democratic presidential candidates sued to keep Super Tuesday polls open after tornado damage there, a Democrat...

Mar 3, 2020

Trump says he spoke to Taliban leader, had 'good talk'

WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump said Tuesday that he talked with a Taliban leader, days after the United States and the Taliban signed an agreement that calls for the full withdrawal of U.S. troop...

Mar 3, 2020

Tensions rise as U.S. death toll from coronavirus reaches 9

SEATTLE - Tensions over how to contain the fast-spreading coronavirus escalated Tuesday in the United States as the death toll climbed to nine and lawmakers expressed doubts about the government's abi...

Mar 3, 2020

Political programming dominates the week in television

NEW YORK - For the second straight week, politics was the dominant force in prime-time television. CBS News' coverage of the Democratic presidential debate from South Carolina last week was easily the...

Mar 3, 2020