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WASHINGTON (AP) — Conservative leaders have met privately in Washington to develop a plan to stop Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump from getting the GOP nomination. Trump was dominant in primaries this week. Tea party activist Mark Meckler compares the Republican establishment to a cornered and wounded animal that is "terrified, irrational and flailing wildly."
WASHINGTON (AP) — Michigan Republican Gov. Rick Snyder and Republicans on a House panel have shifted the blame for dangerous lead levels in Flint, Michigan's tap water to the Environmental Protection Agency. But EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy says Flint was under state management when the city's water source was switched to the corrosive Flint River. Democratic lawmakers called for Snyder to resign.
PHOENIX (AP) — A jury in Phoenix has convicted an Arizona man of conspiring to provide support to the Islamic State terrorist group. Abdul Malik Abdul Kareem was convicted of bankrolling, motivating and arming two Islamic State followers who were killed in an attack last spring at a Prophet Muhammad cartoon contest in suburban Dallas.
ROCHESTER, N.Y. (AP) — A New York pizza shop owner who admitted he tried to recruit people for the Islamic State group has been sentenced in Rochester to 22 1/2 years in prison. Mufid Elfgeeh (MOO'-fihd ELF'-gee) pleaded guilty in December to attempting to provide material support to a terrorist organization. He's accused of trying to recruit three people to fight for IS in Syria.
LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Health officials have confirmed that a western Michigan resident died after contracting a bloodstream infection matching a Wisconsin outbreak that has killed 17 people since November. There have been 48 cases of the infection, known as Elizabethkingia (ee-LIZ'-ah-beth-kin-GEE'-ah). The infections have been centered in Milwaukee and surrounding counties.
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