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WASHINGTON (AP) — Dealing with an issue that could affect elections across the country, Supreme Court justices wrestled Wednesday with how far states may go to craft electoral districts that give the majority party a huge political advantage. But e...

ATLANTA (AP) — Women running for governor in Wisconsin and Maryland breastfeed their infants in campaign videos. Another in Georgia tells voters that "the folks who have held the office of governor don't look like me." The record number of women e...

DETROIT (AP) — A Detroit-area man whose murder conviction was thrown out after he spent 45 years in prison was exonerated Wednesday and won't face a second trial. Richard Phillips, 71, was upbeat, saying the criminal justice system "works — it jus...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Omarosa Manigault Newman once predicted that "every critic, every detractor will have to bow down to President Trump." The question now for the former White House aide and "Apprentice" contestant is whether that applies to her, t...

NEW YORK (AP) — Americans still love Labrador retrievers, but the nation's flirtation with French bulldogs has reached new heights. Labs remain the country's most popular purebred dog for a 27th year, while German shepherds and golden retrievers h...

WASHINGTON (AP) — It's a double cosmic conundrum: Lots of stuff that was already invisible has gone missing. Astronomers have found a distant galaxy where there is no dark matter. Dark matter is called "dark" because it can't be seen. It is the m...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump tweeted Wednesday that the Second Amendment "WILL NEVER BE REPEALED" and called on voters to elect more Republicans in this fall's congressional elections because the GOP "must ALWAYS hold the Supreme Court."...

NEW YORK (AP) — Some 60 companies including such leading brands as Subway, Sprint and the NFL are joining forces to help each other follow you around online. Adobe, a company better known for Photoshop and PDF files, says the new Device Co-op i...

BEIRUT (AP) — A journey that before the war in Syria was just a 15-minute drive from Damascus now took well over an hour, clambering over giant ramparts of dirt and rubble. Visiting his house in the town of Harasta for the first time in six years, Da...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A blinding national spotlight is shining on the family of Stephon Clark, the 22-year-old unarmed black man killed by Sacramento police last week. "You don't know what it's like until you experience it," Clark's uncle, Curtis...

BEIJING (AP) — With smiles and firm handshakes, North Korea and China used a surprise summit this week to show that despite recent tensions, Pyongyang still has a powerful backer and Beijing will not be sidelined in discussions about the fate of i...

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — Gaza's embattled Hamas rulers are imploring people to march along the border with Israel in the coming weeks in a risky gambit meant to shore up their shaky rule, but with potentially deadly consequences. Beginning Friday...

NEW YORK (AP) — Facebook is giving its privacy tools a makeover as it reels from criticisms over its data practices and faces tighter European regulations in the coming months. The changes won't affect Facebook's privacy policies or the types of data...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Still angry about the budget deal he signed last week, President Donald Trump has floated the idea of using the Pentagon budget to pay for his long-promised border wall with Mexico, despite the fact that such spending would l...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration's decision to ask people about their citizenship in the 2020 census set off worries among Democrats that immigrants will dodge the survey altogether, diluting political representation for states that tend t...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump fired Veterans Affairs Secretary David Shulkin Wednesday in the wake of a bruising ethics scandal and a mounting rebellion within the agency, and nominated White House doctor Ronny Jackson to lead it. A N...

PARIS (AP) — The silent decorum of a march to honor an 85-year-old woman who survived Nazi horrors only to be stabbed to death last week in an alleged anti-Semitic attack was shattered Wednesday, with crowds shouting "Nazi! Nazi!" and other i...

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Duke's Marvin Bagley III, Arizona's Deandre Ayton and Oklahoma's Trae Young are certain high NBA draft picks, one of them could easily be the top overall selection. Still, that doesn't make any of them the best player in college...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The Oklahoma Board of Health has named a former top official of the state attorney general's office to lead the Department of Health. The board Wednesday named former First Assistant Attorney General Tom Bates as interim h...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The Oklahoma Board of Corrections will ask state lawmakers for nearly $9 million to get through the next three months. The board voted unanimously Tuesday to request the funds after Corrections Director Joe Allbaugh warned of t...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation confirmed Wednesday that it is looking into a lawsuit's allegations that a middle school student was sexually assaulted and threatened by classmates over 18 months and that school o...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — A hero of the anti-tax movement is criticizing Oklahoma House Republicans for approving a major tax increase and urging citizens to challenge incumbents who voted for the plan. Former U.S. Sen. Tom Coburn said Wednesday the H...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — An Oklahoma woman is receiving $187,500 in taxpayer funds to settle a lawsuit that alleges an off-duty police officer pointed a gun at her and threatened to kill her. Documents show that the Oklahoma City Council has approved t...

HARTSHORNE, Okla. (AP) — Police in southeastern Oklahoma say a 19-year-old motorist has been fatally shot inside his vehicle. The Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation says Timothy Brown died Tuesday after being shot outside his home in H...

COLEMAN, Okla. (AP) — Authorities say a 72-year-old woman died after she was swept away in floodwaters in southern Oklahoma. The Oklahoma Highway Patrol says Lutreca Bates' vehicle stalled Tuesday morning after she drove into a creek near Coleman, a...