Who's running for president in 2024? Meet the candidates — and the ones who've dropped out
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Washington — The 2024 Republican presidential primary campaign effectively ended a day after Super Tuesday, when former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley dropped her bid for the White House, leaving former President Donald Trump to claim the nomination and challenge President Biden in his quest for reelection to a second term.
The Iowa caucuses kicked off the nominating process on Monday, Jan. 15, when thousands of Republicans braved the bitter cold to gather and select their choice of a nominee. Former President Donald Trump placed first in Iowa, with Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis taking a distant second and former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley close behind him.
Two days before the New Hampshire primary, on Jan. 21, DeSantis announced he was dropping his presidential bid and supporting Trump, leaving just Haley and Trump in the race for the GOP nomination.
Washington — The Supreme Court on Friday said it will consider the constitutionality of the Federal Communications Commission's Universal Service Fund, agreeing to review a lower court decision that upended the mechanism for funding programs that provide communications services to rural areas, low-income communities and schools, libraries and hospitals.
Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin launched six space tourists on a high-speed dash to the edge of space and back Friday, giving the passengers — including a husband and wife making their second flight — about three minutes of weightlessness and an out-of-this world view before the capsule made a parachute descent to touchdown at the company's west Texas flight facility.