Estimated read time: 2-3 minutes
This archived news story is available only for your personal, non-commercial use. Information in the story may be outdated or superseded by additional information. Reading or replaying the story in its archived form does not constitute a republication of the story.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz has picked Carly Fiorina as his running mate. Cruz made the announcement Wednesday at a rally in Indiana, a state he must win next week to keep his White House hopes alive. Republican front-runner Donald Trump mocked Cruz, saying "Cruz can't win, what's he doing picking vice presidents?"
WASHINGTON (AP) — A big change for the Bernie Sanders presidential campaign. It's cutting hundreds of people from its staff. Spokesman Michael Briggs says the campaign will go from a staff of more than 1,000 in January to no more than 350. The move comes after Sanders on Tuesday lost all but one Democratic primary in five northeastern states.
GENEVA (AP) — The U.N. envoy for Syria is appealing to the U.S. and Russia to help revive Syrian peace talks that sputtered to a pause Wednesday. Staffan de Mistura says a recent spike in fighting has overshadowed the talks and has put an increasingly feeble truce in "great danger." He says, "in the last 48 hours, we have had an average of one Syrian killed every 25 minutes, one Syrian wounded every 13 minutes."
HAMILTON, Ohio (AP) — A 15-year-old boy accused of shooting and wounding two students in an Ohio school cafeteria is scheduled to appear in juvenile court Thursday for a pretrial hearing on charges including attempted murder. Authorities say in February, when he was 14, James Austin Hancock allegedly took a relative's loaded gun to school and opened fire in a cafeteria, hitting two students. Two other students were injured.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Department of Education has launched a new website to help people with student loans find a repayment option that best suits their needs. The Obama administration is trying to enroll an additional 2 million people into repayment programs such as the Pay As You Earn program, which caps monthly student loan payments at 10 percent of income. The new website is StudentLoans.gov/Repay.
Copyright © The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
