Articles from the March 5, 2020 edition


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  • Report: Russian social accounts sow election discord - again

    AMANDA SEITZ and BARBARA ORTUTAY|Mar 5, 2020

    Four years after Russia-linked groups stoked divisions in the U.S. presidential election on social media platforms, a new report shows that Moscow's campaign hasn't let up and has become harder to detect. The report from University of Wisconsin-Madison professor Young Mie Kim found that Russia-linked social media accounts are posting about the same divisive issues — race relations, gun laws and immigration — as they did in 2016, when the Kremlin polluted American voters' feeds with messages about the presidential election. Since then, how...

  • Black voters power Joe Biden's Super Tuesday success

    KAT STAFFORD and HANNAH FINGERHUT|Mar 5, 2020

    DETROIT (AP) — Joe Biden's presidential campaign spent the past month on the verge of collapse after disappointing finishes in the overwhelmingly white states that launched the Democratic primary. As he watched the turmoil unfold from Gadsden, Alabama, Robert Avery thought the race would change dramatically when it moved into the South. "He knows us, he cares about us," the 71-year-old community organizer said. "People have given us no credit as to knowing what's going on or being involved, and that's the furthest thing from the truth." It turn...

  • Amid tornado devastation, surviving homes beacons of hope

    Travis Loller|Mar 5, 2020

    COOKEVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — In the early hours of Tuesday morning, Darrell Jennings walked out his front door and heard screaming. A tornado had just torn through his quiet Tennessee neighborhood, and the house next door, along with numerous others, had been leveled to its foundations. Except for a few broken windows, however, the Jennings' house was still standing. It quickly became a shelter for those who were suddenly left with nothing. The next-door neighbors, who had miraculously survived, straggled over. Others joined them. "It's like we wer...