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WASHINGTON (AP) — In a historic groundswell of youth activism, hundreds of thousands of teenagers and their supporters rallied across the U.S. against gun violence Saturday, vowing to transform fear and grief into a "vote-them-out" movement and t...

LONDON (AP) — In Paris, the Eiffel Tower went dark. In London, a kaleidoscope of famous sites switched off their lights — Tower Bridge, Big Ben, Piccadilly Circus, the London Eye. That scene was repeated over and over across the world on Sat...

HOUSTON (AP) — Large-scale projects long considered essential to easing Houston's flooding woes went to the top of the area's to-do list after Hurricane Harvey inundated large swaths of the nation's fourth-largest city. Seven months later, local o...

LONDON (AP) — Britain's information regulator said Saturday it was assessing evidence gathered from a raid on the office of data mining firm Cambridge Analytica, part of an investigation into alleged misuse of personal information by political c...

BEIRUT (AP) — Hundreds of members of a rebel group and their relatives boarded Saturday 17 buses in preparation to leave eastern Ghouta to opposition-held areas north of the country Saturday as part of an agreement to evacuate the second of three poc...

ZAGREB, Croatia (AP) — Thousands of Croatian far-right supporters marched Saturday in downtown Zagreb to protest an international convention they said indirectly legalizes gay marriages and gives rights to transgender people. The protesters sang p...

PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — President Donald Trump released an order Friday night banning most transgender troops from serving in the military except under "limited circumstances," following up on his calls last year to ban transgender individuals f...

BEIJING (AP) — China's newly appointed economic czar told U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin on Saturday that Beijing is ready to defend its interests after President Donald Trump announced plans to slap tariffs on nearly $50 billion in C...

IDAHO FALLS, Idaho (AP) — In the 1950s young women were wearing poodle skirts, pinning up their hair and enjoying the start of rock 'n' roll. But when it came time for childbirth they also were experiencing a state akin to the Twilight Zone — tha...

MELROSE, Minn. (AP) — Isaak Hinnenkamp wasn't going to become a farmer. That's what he said growing up in Melrose on a legacy dairy farm. Hinnenkamp, 34, left for college and stayed away for several years. But he came back to his family's farm and t...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — An inspector general's report says two construction projects at the Oklahoma City Veterans Affairs Medical Center are $10.8 million over budget and several years behind schedule. The Oklahoman reports that the VA report r...

TULSA, Okla. (AP) — Police in Tulsa say the discovery of a man's badly beaten body is being investigated as a homicide. Tulsa Police Cpl. Scott Anderson says the body of the man was discovered about 7:30 a.m. Saturday after a second man flagged d...

MEDFORD, Oklahoma (AP) — Two small earthquakes have shaken parts of northern Oklahoma. The U.S. Geological Survey says a magnitude 3.0 earthquake was recorded at about 3:20 a.m. Saturday about 8 miles (13 kilometers) south-southeast of Medford in G...

LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — A man who is fighting deportation from Kansas to his native Bangladesh acknowledges he made mistakes years ago while trying to stay in the U.S. and hopes immigration officials will let him remain in the country he calls home. S...

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — If Democrat Carl Brewer were Kansas governor, lawmakers might be discussing legalizing marijuana to raise extra money for public schools as they struggle to agree on a plan for satisfying a state Supreme Court mandate on e...

LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — A new diversion program in Kansas is working to keep women with addictions out of jail by helping them get clean. The Douglas County Women's Substance Use Disorder Prosecutor-Led Diversion and Treatment Program started this m...

WELLINGTON, Kan. (AP) — A small-town Kansas woman is gaining national attention for her rainbow hair art. Ursula Goff has more than 102,000 followers on Instagram who get to see photos of hairstyles she made that include dyed polka dots, mosaic desig...

HOISINGTON, Kan. (AP) — A man has been charged with first-degree murder in the death of his girlfriend's 2-year-old daughter in central Kansas. Barton County authorities say 25-year-old Chaz Stephens was also charged Friday with child abuse, p...

PARKLAND, Fla. (AP) — The march approaching Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, snaked for two miles Saturday, with thousands of students, teachers, parents and supporters chanting in favor of tighter gun laws they believe w...

HELENA, Mont. (AP) — Students and gun-control advocates in Montana and Wyoming joined protesters who rallied across the nation Saturday, galvanized by the students-turned-advocates who survived last month's Florida school shooting. At least nine Marc...

Thousands of people protested gun violence and called for safer schools and gun control during protests Saturday in New Mexico's major cities. Cities in New Mexico where March For Our Lives protests were held included Albuquerque, Santa Fe and Las...

PHOENIX (AP) — High school students who helped organize a March For Our Lives rally in Phoenix told a crowd of thousands Saturday they need to vote and cast out officeholders who won't act on gun control. "Guess what? We can vote them out. Vote t...

ATLANTA (AP) — Tens of thousands of protesters flooded the streets of Atlanta on Saturday as they pushed for stronger gun-control measures in response to last month's school shooting in Parkland, Florida and other mass shootings. Led by students i...

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Thousands of students marched in demonstrations against gun violence across Connecticut as part of a nationwide movement inspired by high school students in Parkland, Florida. Connecticut cities including Hartford, Stamford a...

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — Students led a rally at West Virginia's Capitol to call for stricter gun laws in the wake of the Florida school shooting. Media reports say participants at the Saturday rally in Charleston held signs that said "Protect k...