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MIAMI — Florida Sen. Marco Rubio was among the Republican Party’s biggest stars when he burst onto the national stage in the tea party wave of 2010. Now, he is facing a home-state showing on Tuesday that could devastate his 2016 presidential campaign and damage his political brand for years to come.

BLOOMINGTON, Ill. — Showing no signs of trying to ease the nation’s tense political atmosphere, Republican front-runner Donald Trump is standing by his antagonistic campaign rhetoric, rejecting any responsibility for violence at his rallies and defending his supporters who have been charged with assaulting protesters.

LE BOURGET, France — Seeking to ensure that suicidal pilots can’t crash their jets, French authorities investigating last year’s Germanwings crash are urging new reporting requirements for doctors treating pilots, and new measures to keep pilots from hiding mental health issues.

SEOUL, South Korea — A champion Go player scored his first win over a Go-playing computer program on Sunday after losing three straight times in the ancient Chinese board game, saying he finally found weaknesses in the software.

ANKARA, Turkey — A car bomb went off near bus stops in the heart of Turkey’s capital on Sunday, killing at least 27 people and wounded around 75 others, officials said.
The blast occurred on the city’s main boulevard, Ataturk Bulvari, close to Ankara’s main square, Kizilay, and a park.

Today's obituaries in the Savannah Morning News.For these and past obits, click here.- Mr. Nicholas Alexander, Savannah, GA - Mr. Larry Mitchell Deal, Bloomingdale, GA- Jacqueline Donovan, Savannah/Newbury, NH- Alma Preza Guzman, Savannah, GA - Mrs. Edna V. Hall, Savannah, GA - Mildred Creamer Hitch, Savannah, GA - Sylvia Monteen Hoover, Bloomingdale, GA- Mr. Harry James Jackson, Savannah, GA 

BRANDON, Fla. — Authorities say a Florida sheriff's deputy who worked as a traffic crash investigator was killed after his car was hit head-on by a wrong-way driver, who also died in the accident.Authorities say Hillsborough County Sheriff's Deputy John Robert Kotfila Jr. had just left a hospital Saturday where he had been working on an investigation when the crash occurred on the Selmon Expressway.

NEW YORK — A tugboat crashed into a barge on the Hudson River north of New York City early Saturday, killing one crew member and leaving two missing and presumed dead.

HATTIESBURG, Miss. — As the Leaf River rose north of Hattiesburg, Mississippi, 26-year-old Rebecca Bruce and her fiancé grabbed what they could and left the shed where they live. The water was more than 2 feet deep indoors when they left, she said.

PARIS — Left-wing European leaders tried to forge a common front Saturday in the continent’s migrant crisis while right-wing and extreme right groups protested current policies toward the waves of people fleeing war and poverty.