Today in History Today is Sunday, March 10, the 70th day of 2024. There are 296 days left in the year. Daylight saving time returns at 2 a.m. local time. Today’s highlight in history: On March 10, 1969, James Earl Ray pleaded guilty in Memphis,...
MOSCOW (AP) — Nikolai Ryzhkov, a former Soviet prime minister who presided over botched efforts to shore up the crumbling national economy in the final years of the USSR, has died. He was 94. During his six-year tenure, Ryzhkov worked to implement Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev's...