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BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — Welcome back to Margaritaville: Singer Jimmy Buffett's childhood home on Thursday backed off a short-lived ban on the sale of pitchers of the drink he made famous. The Alabama Alcoholic Beverage Control Board announced an e...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A NASA spacecraft circling Jupiter is revealing the up-close beauty of our solar system's biggest planetary storm. Juno flew directly over Jupiter's Great Red Spot on Monday, passing an amazingly close 5,600 miles (...

LONDON (AP) — All these years later, Wimbledon still brings out the best in Venus Williams. With her latest display of gutsy serving and big hitting, Williams beat Johanna Konta 6-4, 6-2 on Thursday to reach her ninth title match at the All E...

WASHINGTON (AP) — More than 400 people have been charged with taking part in health care fraud and opioid scams that totaled $1.3 billion in false billing, Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced Thursday. Sessions called the collective action t...

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — The New Hampshire Attorney General's Office is launching a criminal investigation into allegations of sexual assault and misconduct at an elite prep school. The investigation into St. Paul's School in Concord follows the r...

ST. LOUIS (AP) — Two claims of sexual violence at St. Louis' Washington University and another at a ministry school in Springfield, Missouri, are under federal investigation. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch (http://bit.ly/2tMyE6A ) reports the U.S. D...

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — The Virginia Supreme Court has ruled in favor of the company developing the Atlantic Coast Pipeline in a lawsuit against a woman who sought to keep surveyors off her property. Hazel Palmer owns land in Augusta County along the r...

MEXICO CITY (AP) — The United States and Mexico are looking to boost energy ties as the two countries prepare for the renegotiation of the North American Free Trade Agreement, officials said Thursday. U.S. Energy Secretary Rick Perry, who met in M...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Petroleum exploration has largely ceased in federal waters off Alaska but an Italian multinational oil and gas company has received permission to move ahead with modest drilling plans on leases sold in 2005. The federal B...

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — The Trump administration rejected North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum's request for a "major disaster declaration" to help cover some of the estimated $38 million cost to police protests of the Dakota Access pipeline, a spokesman for...

BASTROP, Texas (AP) — Authorities say about 50,000 gallons (189,000 liters) of crude oil spilled after a contractor accidentally cut an underground pipeline in Central Texas. A spokesman for Magellan Midstream Partners, Bruce Heine (hyn), says the c...

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico has assigned 21 exploration and production contracts for oil and gas fields that hold potential reserves of 435 million barrels of crude equivalent. The blocks went to six investor consortiums made up mainly of Mexican c...

PARIS (AP) — The International Energy Agency says the rate of compliance by OPEC countries to their agreed production cuts fell sharply in June, one reason why oil prices dropped to 2017 lows in recent weeks. In a monthly update, the Paris-based a...

CARSON CITY, Nev. (AP) — Nevada moved Thursday to reduce supply problems at recreational marijuana stores that have faced overwhelming demand for newly legal pot and the possibility of their shelves going empty. Regulators approved emergency rules t...

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Farmers in the U.S. West face a creepy scourge every eight years or so: Swarms of ravenous insects that can decimate crops and cause slippery, bug-slick car crashes as they march across highways and roads. Experts say this year co...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — The Missouri Department of Agriculture has lifted a temporary halt to the use and sales of products labeled for agricultural use that contain the herbicide dicamba, saying it's satisfied by new safeguards involving the c...

SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — New Mexico Department of Health officials have reported the second hantavirus death this year in the state. They say a 53-year-old woman from McKinley County died while a 35-year-old woman in Lincoln County was hospitalized w...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Republican-led House narrowly rejected a measure on Thursday that sought to strike an Obama-era practice of requiring the Pentagon to pay for gender transition surgeries and hormone therapy. Democrats described the proposal a...

TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — U.S. regulators approved a new psoriasis drug from Johnson & Johnson Thursday, giving people with the itchy and painful condition another treatment option. Johnson & Johnson said that in one patient study, about seven in 10 p...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration should review the safety and effectiveness of all opioids, and consider the real-world impacts the powerful painkillers have, not only on patients, but also on families, crime and the demand for heroin. That's...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — An Oklahoma lawmaker who is holding an interim study on a ballot question that would legalize medical marijuana wants to discuss what policies the state would implement if the initiative passes. Republican Rep. John Paul J...

FERGUSON, Mo. (AP) — Police in the St. Louis suburb of Ferguson are using new technology to improve transparency with the public nearly three years after an officer fatally shot an unarmed black teenager. KSDK-TV (http://on.ksdk.com/2tQehUB ) r...

NEW YORK (AP) — Moon dust that Neil Armstrong collected during the first lunar landing was displayed Thursday at a New York auction house — a symbol of America's glory days in space now valued at $2 million to $4 million. The late astronaut bro...

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — A group of North Dakota high school students have uncovered rare fossils estimated to be from an era shortly after dinosaurs went extinct. The fossils discovered during a dig Wednesday include the jaw of a 60 million-year-old m...

KALAMAZOO, Mich. (AP) — A union has filed a grievance in response to Western Michigan University's hiring of goats to clear 15 acres (6.07 hectares) of woodland on campus. Kathi Babbit is the chief steward of the American Federation of State, C...