Bob Lee, Cash App founder, stabbed to death; tornado tears through Missouri, and more …

Cash App Founder Bob Lee , Victim of Fatal Stabbing , in San Francisco.

Police said they responded to a report of a stabbing and found him, called medics to the scene and started aid.

“Bob was a dad, the former CTO of Square where he created Cash App & CTO of Mobile Coin.

Tricia Cotham announces she is switching affiliation to the Republican Party at a news conference Wednesday, April 5, 2023, at the North Carolina Republican Party headquarters in Raleigh, N.C.

A Democratic state lawmaker in North Carolina announced Wednesday that she is jumping to the Republican Party, giving the GOP veto-proof majorities in both the state’s legislative chambers that should make it easier to enact conservative policies over the opposition of Gov.

A Democratic-backed Milwaukee judge has won the high stakes Wisconsin Supreme Court race, ensuring liberals will take over majority control of the court for the first time in 15 years with the fate of the state’s abortion ban pending.

A Kansas proposal with some of the nation’s broadest bathroom restrictions and a ban on transgender people changing their driver’s licenses has cleared the Republican-controlled Legislature.

But the meeting at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in California also was drawing rebuke from China, which announced patrols Wednesday in the Taiwan Strait.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy won new pledges of military and economic cooperation  on a state visit to staunch ally Poland, and he also said that Kyiv’s troops battling in the eastern city of Bakhmut could pull out if they face a threat of being encircled by Russian forces.

Federal officials have announced the first $196 million of grants in a $1 billion program to repair and replace aging and sometimes leaking natural gas pipelines across the country.

Camilla, who until now has been described as queen consort, is given equal billing on the ornate medieval style invitations that will be sent to more than 2,000 guests and were unveiled on Tuesday.

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