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Demonstrators carry posters and flags during a Peoples Vote anti-Brexit march in London, Saturday, March 23, 2019. The march, organized by the People's Vote campaign is calling for a final vote on any proposed Brexit deal. This week the EU has granted Britain's Prime Minister Theresa May a delay to the Brexit process. (AP Photo/Tim Ireland)
March 23, 2019 - 3:37 pm

Anti-Brexit Marchers Flood Into London, Demand New Vote

LONDON (AP) — Anti-Brexit protesters flooded into central London by the hundreds of thousands on Saturday, demanding that Britain's Conservative-led government hold a new referendum on whether Britain should leave the European Union. The "People's Vote March" snaked from Park Lane and other...
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French President Emmanuel Macron speaks during a media conference at the conclusion of an EU summit in Brussels, Friday, March 22, 2019. European Union leaders gathered again Friday after deciding that the political crisis in Britain over Brexit poses too great a threat and that action is needed to protect the smooth running of the world's biggest trading bloc. (AP Photo/Geert Vanden Wijngaert)
March 22, 2019 - 9:07 am

The Latest: Richard Branson Warns Over No-Deal 'disaster'

BRUSSELS (AP) — The Latest on Brexit (all times local): 5:05 p.m. Virgin Group founder Richard Branson says Britain is "dangerously close" to the "full-scale disaster" of leaving the European Union without an agreement. In a blog post released Friday, Branson argues that Britain is facing a...
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In this Feb. 10, 2019, file photo Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., talks with Deanna Miller Berry in Denmark, S.C. Several Democratic presidential candidates are trying to make a play for rural voters. Booker has traveled to small towns in South Carolina and New Hampshire and told voters that he hears some of the same concerns from them that he hears in his hometown of Newark, N.J. (AP Photo/Bill Barrow
March 22, 2019 - 3:00 am

Booker Nets 1St 2020 Endorsement From S. Carolina Lawmaker

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Democratic presidential candidate Cory Booker has netted the first endorsement from a sitting lawmaker in the early-voting state of South Carolina. State Rep. John King tells The Associated Press that he's backing the senator from New Jersey in part because he feels Booker's...
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European Council President Donald Tusk, right, and European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker participate in a media conference at an EU summit in Brussels, Thursday, March 21, 2019. Worn down by three years of indecision in London, EU leaders on Thursday were grudgingly leaning toward giving the U.K. more time to ease itself out of the bloc. (AP Photo/Olivier Matthys)
March 22, 2019 - 1:35 am

Eu Shows United Front On Brexit, Loss Of Confidence In May

BRUSSELS (AP) — European Union leaders took back control of the Brexit process from Britain's prime minister, saying Friday they believe the risks are too great and that action is needed to protect the smooth running of the world's biggest trading bloc. In a move that underlined their loss of...
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From left, Greenville, Miss. Mayor Errick Simmons, 2020 Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Elizabeth Warren and Mable Starks, former CEO Mississippi Action for Community Education, tour Central Avenue from Poplar Street in Greenville, Miss., Monday March 18, 2019. The group discussed dilapidated and affordable housing in the rural communities. (Bill Johnson/The Democrat-Times via AP)
March 18, 2019 - 7:07 pm

The Latest: Warren Supports Elimination Of Electoral College

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — The Latest on Democratic presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren (all times local): 9:05 p.m. Elizabeth Warren supports the elimination of the electoral college, the most pointed instance of the Democratic presidential candidate opposing the polarizing mechanism the nation...
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Former Texas congressman Beto O'Rourke speaks to local residents during a meet and greet at the Beancounter Coffeehouse & Drinkery, Thursday, March 14, 2019, in Burlington, Iowa. O'Rourke announced Thursday that he'll seek the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)
March 14, 2019 - 7:01 pm

The Latest: O'rourke: Us Must Reckon With Systematic Racism

BURLINGTON, Iowa (AP) — The Latest on Democratic presidential candidate Beto O'Rourke (all times local): 8:40 p.m. Democratic presidential candidate Beto O'Rourke says it is important to confront the truth about how black people have been treated in the U.S. At a house party in Muscatine, Iowa, on...
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In this March 3, 2019, photo, Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., smiles as he kicks off his 2020 presidential campaign at Navy Pier in Chicago. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh)
March 07, 2019 - 3:18 am

Sanders' 2016 Backers In New Hampshire Holding Back For Now

MANCHESTER, N.H. (AP) — New Hampshire has been good to Bernie Sanders, delivering him a 22-point victory in 2016 that was one of his biggest blowouts that year. But as he launches his second campaign for the presidency, there are early signs that he doesn't have a lock on the nation's first primary...
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FILE - In this July 26, 2016 file photo, former Attorney General Eric Holder speaks during the second day of the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia. Holder says he’s not running for president in 2020. In a Monday opinion piece in The Washington Post, Holder, a Democrat, says he’ll focus on redistricting, the process of reconfiguring electoral districts. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
March 04, 2019 - 5:43 am

Holder Rules Out 2020 Run, Says He'll Focus On Redistricting

WASHINGTON (AP) — Former Attorney General Eric Holder says he's not running for president in 2020. Holder, a Democrat, said in a Monday opinion piece in The Washington Post that he'll focus on redistricting, the process of reconfiguring electoral districts. Holder served under President Barack...
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February 22, 2019 - 12:10 pm

California Gop Gathers To Chart A Course After 2018 Defeats

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — The 2018 election left California Republicans in dismal shape, with no statewide officeholders, just seven of 53 U.S. House seats, less than a quarter of all state legislative seats and third-place status in voter registration behind independents and Democrats. Now the...
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February 20, 2019 - 5:29 am

Ruling Party Endorses Uganda's Museveni For 6Th Term

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — The highest decision-making body of Uganda's ruling party has endorsed longtime president Yoweri Museveni to be its nominee for president in the 2021 elections. The National Resistance Movement Central Executive Committee said Wednesday on the party's twitter account that...
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