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UNITED NATIONS — A U.N. Security Council vote on the toughest sanctions on North Korea in two decades has been postponed until this morning at Russia’s request, the United States and France said Tuesday.

WASHINGTON — After an Oval Office sit-down on Tuesday did nothing to move Republican Senate leaders off their hard line against a Supreme Court nomination, Democrats pulled out another weapon in the heated election-year fight: Donald Trump.

WASHINGTON — The U.S. government calls it a “vicious guard dog” that hurts national security. Apple says it’s critical to protecting consumer privacy against increasingly sophisticated hackers.

Family of wounded S.C. deputy issues thanks
CHARLESTON, S.C. — The family of a Berkeley County sheriff’s deputy who was shot and wounded thanked the public for the outpouring of love and support.
Cpl. Kimber Gist’s family released a statement Monday thanking everyone who has helped and provided everything from support to food and lodging, local media outlets reported. The statement also thanked a passer-by who helped Gist after the shooting last week.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Astronaut Scott Kelly closed the door Tuesday to an unprecedented year in space for NASA, flying back to the planet and loved ones he left behind last March.

WASHINGTON — Republican Donald Trump and Democrat Hillary Clinton swept through the South on Super Tuesday, claiming victory in their parties’ primaries in delegate-rich Georgia, Tennessee, Alabama and Virginia. The front-runners appeared ever more likely to end up in a general election showdown.

ATLANTA — Donald Trump added Georgia to his string of Republican primary v

GOP LEADERS: NO PLACE FOR BIGOTRY
The two top Republican leaders in Congress denounced Donald Trump on Tuesday for his slow-moving disavowal of former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell blasted Trump’s “seeming ambivalence about David Duke and the KKK” as Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wis., warned that anyone who wants the Republican presidential nomination must reject racism.

Chatham County wasn’t feeling the Bern on Tuesday.
Keeping in line with the rest of the state, Hostess City Democrats appear to favor seeing former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in the White House next year, according to preliminary results.

Chatham County Republicans appear to have boarded the Trump train.
GOP frontrunner Donald Trump, who handily won his party’s primary in Georgia, was also the favorite among Republican voters in Chatham County on Tuesday.