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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) - There's a dilemma facing GOP senators this year. Many say they'll support whoever becomes the Republican presidential nominee. But none of them are rushing to embrace Donald Trump. When Trump came to St. Louis last month for a raucous rally with thousands, Missouri Sen. Roy Blunt was more than 130…

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) - Missouri U.S. Sen. Roy Blunt says he has no plans to meet with President Barack Obama's nominee for the Supreme Court, though nearly 20 other Republican senators have said they are willing to do so. Blunt told reporters on a conference call Wednesday that he sees no need to meet…

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Country giant Merle Haggard, who celebrated outlaws, underdogs and an abiding sense of national pride in such hits as "Okie From Muskogee" and "Sing Me Back Home," died Wednesday at 79, on his birthday. Haggard's manager, Frank Mull, said the country icon died in Palo Cedro, California, of pneumonia. A masterful…

MILWAUKEE (AP) - Republican U.S. Rep. Glenn Grothman's comment to a Milwaukee TV station that Wisconsin's newly enacted voter ID law will "make a little bit of a difference" in helping the GOP in November has sparked retorts on social media. WTMJ-TV reports that a link to a video of Grothman's comment had been retweeted…

WASHINGTON (AP) - Hillary Clinton is questioning Bernie Sanders' ability to get things done. The Democratic presidential candidate's comments came after a drubbing by Sanders in Wisconsin on Tuesday. The two are pivoting to upcoming contests in New York and Pennsylvania. Clinton Wednesday is telling the Pennsylvania AFL-CIO convention in Philadelphia that people are "hungry…