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The Associated Press surveyed voters in three of the six states that held Democratic presidential contests Tuesday. Here’s a snapshot of voters in Michigan, Missouri and Mississippi — who they are and what matters to them — based on preliminary ...

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The government has a palette of options it can use to shore up an economy imperiled by anxiety over the coronavirus outbreak. They start with the “middle-class” payroll tax cut that President Donald Trump is suggesting and include quicker, more ...

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A part-time janitor charged with fatally shooting a supervisor inside a crowded suburban St. Louis community center stopped taking medication to treat his bipolar disorder weeks before opening fire after he was sent home for using profanity, according to search ...

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NBC News analyst Claire McCaskill is talking about some of the shows, on which she appears— “Morning Joe,” with Rachel Maddow or Nicolle Wallace’s hours— when a questioner slips in a little test: What’s your favorite? She bats it away ...

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For years, Dionisio Romero has relied for his livelihood on a magenta-colored dragon fruit that is wildly popular in Asia, planting dozens of the spindly trees at his farm near Ecuador’s Pacific coast. But as the coronavirus wreaks economic havoc ...

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The mayor of Kansas City struggled to vote in the Missouri presidential primary after a poll worker mistakenly transposed his first and last names while searching for him in the voter rolls. Mayor Quinton Lucas, a Democrat, made a video ...

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The Washington Post is encouraging its staff to work at home and the Los Angeles Times is restricting air travel, two illustrations of how news organizations compelled to cover the coronavirus outbreak are balancing the need to keep employees safe. ...

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Joe Biden decisively won Michigan’s Democratic presidential primary, seizing a key battleground state that helped propel Bernie Sanders’ insurgent candidacy four years ago. The former vice president’s victory there, as well as in Missouri, Mississippi and Idaho, dealt a serious ...

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The German agribusiness giant Bayer AG has temporarily closed two locations in Missouri and two in New Jersey due to concerns that an employee may have contracted the new coronavirus. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports Bayer learned Sunday an employee ...

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A Missouri man charged in the fatal shooting of his 14-year-old classmate almost 30 years ago pleaded not guilty this week to first-degree murder. William Christopher Niemet, 43, of Fulton, is charged in the death of Greg Jones, whose body ...

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Tax season can be a windfall or a wipeout for your budget. Which camp you fall into likely depends on whether you get a refund — or a tax bill — from the IRS. If you find that you owe ...

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