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<p>Super Tuesday brought many national and local races into more clear focus and gave some candidates huge boosts while clearing the field of many others, but two races are still too close to call. As of Friday evening, 250,000, absentee and provisional ballots still remained to be counted, and it may take up to 30 days for final results to be reported</p>
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<p>(Story updated March 4, 2020 @ 10:01 am)</p>
<p>After the first US death connected to the coronavirus was reported in the state of Washington on Saturday, eight more people in Washington have died from the illness.</p>
<p>The first patient was diagnosed on Friday along with an unrelated woman in the same hospital near Seattle, and a third was reported on Sunday. Sunday also saw the first case reported in Snohomish County, Washington. That patient has now died, bringing to total deaths in the US to nine.</p>
A celebration in Barrio Logan of food, craft beer, live music, live art, and live history will honor the history of the ‘Batallón de San Patricio’ Irish soldiers that fought alongside Mexican troops in the Mexican-American War.
The Democratic political establishment has begun to jump on the growing bandwagon of former Vice-President Joe Biden on the eve of the biggest day in the primary elections season.
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<p>(Story updated March 2, 2020 @ 12:01 pm)</p>
<p>Presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg was scheduled to hold a rally at San Ysidro High School on Monday, March 2, but, instead, announced he will be suspending his campaign on Sunday.</p>
<p>The former mayor of South Bend, Indiana, 38, is the youngest of the Democratic candidates for president and is currently a distant third in the delegate count so far after four states have voted.</p>
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<p>The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has stopped President Trump’s policy of sending asylum-seeking migrants back to Mexico while they wait for their asylum applications to be reviewed.</p>
<p>That policy, which started in January 2019, has seen over 60,000 refugees stopped from entering the US after applying for asylum. The policy was a change from the traditional process of releasing asylum seekers in the US pending their cases being decided.</p>
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The Supreme Court ruled that the parents of a Mexican boy shot to death from across the by a US Border Patrol agent cannot sue for wrongful death.
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<p>A new report shows that Chula Vista commutes rank among the top 20 worst in the US. </p>
<p>Smart Assets, an online financial information site that features information on personal finances, home buying, and investing, analyzed the traffic commute times for the 100 largest cities in the US and ranked them based on their time increases over the past five years. </p>
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<p>Few political pundits expected Bernie Sanders to do so well among Latinos in last week’s Nevada caucuses where the Vermont Senator garnered 54% of the Latino vote that helped propel him comfortably into first place in the Silver State.</p>