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MILWAUKEE (AP) — Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, is urging his state's Republican primary voters to help unite the party by voting for Ted Cruz in Tuesday's ballot. Walker will also campaign with Cruz Sunday as part of the effort to blunt Donald Trump's candidacy. Cruz says nominating Trump would be a "train wreck."
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama says Republican front-runner Donald Trump suffers from a lack of critical policy knowledge. Trump told The New York Times last week he would be open to Japan and South Korea having their own atomic arsenals as a deterrent to North Korea. Without mentioning Trump by name, Obama he "doesn't know much about foreign policy or nuclear policy or the Korean Peninsula or the world generally."
WASHINGTON (AP) — A car carrying a key leader of the al-Shabab militant group has been hit by a U.S. drone strike in Somalia. Several U.S. officials say the leader and two others were killed but officially, the pentagon says it's still assessing the results. Hassan Ali Dhoore was involved in two attacks in Mogadishu more than a year ago that killed more than 30 people, including at least three Americans.
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Internet problems at the University of Kansas test center has knocked computer-based statewide student assessments offline in Alaska and several other states. Alaska's education department says it's canceling the testing. It's on hold in more than a dozen other states. Issues arose Tuesday when a backhoe severed a major fiber cable. Service disruptions have continued since then.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Steady hiring is pushing Americans back into the job market, halting, at least temporarily, one of the economy's more discouraging trends: the sharp decline in the percentage of people either working or looking for work. That figure fell last year to a four-decade low. The Labor Department says the pickup since then suggests that nearly seven years after the recession ended, Americans are finally more confident that they can find jobs.
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