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Donald Trump netted comfortable victories in Idaho, Missouri and Michigan on Saturday.
The former president added to his rising tally of delegates in the Republican primaries, extending his lead over his remaining challenger for the nomination, former UN Ambassador Nikki Haley.
Mr Trump appeared in Greensboro after winning Missouri’s Republican caucus, which gave him 54 delegates, and he later won the Michigan and Idaho Republican caucuses, taking all 71 available delegates across both those states.
Both Mr Trump and Ms Haley hit the campaign trail on Saturday.
The former president was in North Carolina and was later heading to Virginia, and the former South Carolina governor was also in North Carolina and she was scheduled to appear in Massachusetts ahead of Super Tuesday.
Mr Trump won about 68 per cent and 12 out of 16 delegates in the Michigan primary, while he dominated the caucuses. In all 13 congressional districts taking part, Mr Trump won between 90 and 100 per cent.
In the first, third, and tenth districts, he got all of the votes cast.
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The drugstore chains CVS Health and Walgreens plan to start dispensing an abortion pill in a few states within weeks.
CVS Health will start filling prescriptions for mifepristone in Rhode Island and neighboring Massachusetts “in the weeks ahead,” spokeswoman Amy Thibault said Friday.
Walgreens will begin dispensing the medication within a week, spokesman Fraser Engerman said. The chain will start with some locations in New York, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, California and Illinois.
Missouri doesn’t allow pregnant women to be legally divorced – why?
A Missouri lawmaker has introduced legislation to clarify that the state’s judges can grant divorces even when one spouse is pregnant.
The notion that they can’t already has sparked anger from people who see it as an antiquated policy that controls women unfairly, possibly trapping them in abusive marriages.
But divorce lawyers say the practice – which goes beyond Missouri – is not meant to be punitive for pregnant women and has some important practical benefits.
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Missouri Republican governor candidate revealed as ‘honorary’ KKK member
Photos of Darrell L McClanahan appearing to make a Nazi salute while standing in front of a burning cross resurfaced online this week, nearly two years after they were first published by the Anti-Defamation League’s (ADL) Center on Extremism.
On Thursday, the Missouri Republican Party said in a post on X it had been made aware that Mr McClanahan had filed to run for governor “despite his affiliation with the Ku Klux Klan”.
The party said this “fundamentally contradicts our party’s values and platform”, and that it had begun the process of removing him from the ballot.
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Oliver O’Connell2 March 2024 23:50
PHOTOS: Emergency personnel needed at Trump rally
Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally Saturday, March 2, 2024, in Greensboro, N.C.
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A supporter holds a sign as Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally Saturday, March 2, 2024, in Greensboro, N.C
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Emergency personnel respond as an attendee falls ill as former US President and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump participates in a ‘Get Out The Vote Rally’ campaign event at the Greensboro Coliseum Complex in Greensboro, North Carolina
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Gustaf Kilander2 March 2024 21:54
Florida House passes bill to lower minimum age to buy a gun
The Florida House of Representatives has passed a bill that would allow 18-year-olds to buy firearms, lowering the previous age minimum of 21.
The Republican-controlled state House passed the controversial measure that would permit 18-year-olds to purchase rifles and shotguns on 1 March in a 76-35 vote. The state Senate has not yet voted on the bill.
According to gun safety group Everytown, federal law mandates someone be at least 21 to buy a handgun from a licensed firearm dealer, however, it only mandates a person to be 18 to buy a long gun — including an assault weapon.
Opponents of the measure cited the 2018 Parkland shooting, in which a 19-year-old shot up Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, killing 17 people and injuring 17 others.
Democratic state Rep Robin Bartleman slammed colleagues, saying “shame on us,” over lawmakers’ decision to “renege” the 2018 law — enacted shortly after the school shooting — that increased the gun-purchasing age to 21.
Kelly Rissman2 March 2024 21:50
Trump overwhelmingly wins Michigan caucuses
Former President Donald Trump won the Michigan Republican caucuses on Saturday, taking all 39 available delegates.
The caucus handed out 39 out of 55 delegates from Michigan, with the presidential primary won by Mr Trump on Tuesday this week doling out the rest.
Mr Trump won about 68 per cent and 12 out of 16 delegates in the primary, while he dominated the caucuses. In all 13 congressional districts taking part, Mr Trump won between 90 and 100 per cent.
In the first, third, and tenth districts, he got all of the votes cast.
Kristy Whitson from Monroe County told The Detriot News that Mr Trump is the only one who can stop what she said was the country’s leftward shift.
“Do I like his personality? No. Do I like his attitude? No,” she told the paper. “But business-wise, he had the country moving.”
In the 13 caucuses, 98 per cent – 1,575 delegates – backed Mr Trump, while two per cent – 36 delegates – backed former Trump UN Ambassador Nikki Haley, according to unofficial tallies referenced by The News.
Gustaf Kilander2 March 2024 21:00
Haley boasts of new polling showing her beating Biden by a larger margin than Trump
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