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Donald Trump wins big at South Carolina GOP primary

By Michael D. Regan and Jill Colvin and Thomas Beaumont, Associated Press

Donald Trump scored his second straight Republican presidential primary win, rolling to victory in South Carolina on Saturday as voters seething about Washington and politicians helped propel the billionaire businessman past GOP establishment candidates.

The latest: 2016 presidential election updates from South Carolina, Nevada

By Michael D. Regan and Associated Press

The Latest on the 2016 presidential election and two crucial contests Saturday: South Carolina's Republican primary and Nevada's Democratic caucuses.

Photos: Thousands pay respects to late Justice Scalia at D.C. funeral mass

By Shawn Paik

Thousands of mourners paid their respects in Washington D.C. on Saturday to remember the late U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia who died last week.

What to expect as the South Carolina primary and Nevada caucuses unfold

By Calvin Woodward, Associated Press

On the Republican side, the presidential hopes of Jeb Bush, Ben Carson and John Kasich may hang in the balance.

Record number of Americans apply to be astronauts, NASA says

By Michael D. Regan

A record number of potential astronauts applied for NASA's space program, eclipsing a number that had been set nearly 40 years ago.

What happens when Wal-Mart leaves small towns behind

By Christopher Booker, Connie Kargbo

The Winnsboro, South Carolina, Wal-Mart Super Center was one of three in the state to shutter its doors last month, joining more than 150 stores nationwide. For 18 years it had served as the town’s center of commercial operations and…

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Poll shows income gap, Wall Street major issues for Democrats

By Ken Thomas, Emily Swanson, Associated Press

A poll by The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research shows that most Democrats consider income inequality a very important issue and half of them think tougher regulations of the financial markets imposed after the 2008 financial crisis did…

GOP House primaries to test establishment popularity

By Alan Fram, Associated Press

Next month, GOP House members in a crescent curving from Texas to Illinois face the first congressional primaries in this incumbent-bashing, anti-establishment season of billionaire Donald Trump and Ted Cruz, the leading Republican presidential contenders.

Cruz attends Scalia mass, as GOP candidates set focus on South Carolina

By Associated Press

Ted Cruz has taken time away from campaigning in South Carolina to attend the funeral Mass in Washington for the late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia.

Watch Justice Antonin Scalia's funeral Mass

By Sam Hananel, Jessica Gresko, Associated Press

One of Scalia's nine children, the Rev. Paul Scalia, was to lead the Mass on Saturday at the nation's largest Roman Catholic church, the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception. It can hold at least 3,500 people.