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KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Malaysia's government said Saturday that it has approved a new attempt by a private company to find the wreckage of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, nearly four years after its disappearance sparked one of aviation's b...

THURMONT, Md. (AP) — President Donald Trump, shelving comparisons about the size of a "nuclear button," said Saturday he is open to talking with the North Korean leader he's called "Little Rocket Man" and hopes some progress results from upcoming t...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Lynn Tran and Richard Hazen built a Florida beachfront treehouse that would be the envy of any child. It's got two levels, hammocks and windows looking out on the Gulf of Mexico. But the hangout has cost the couple a handsome s...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — This week's announcement that the U.S. Justice Department was ditching its hands-off approach to states that have legalized marijuana initially sent some in the industry into a tailspin, just days after California's $7 billion r...

NEW YORK (AP) — About 100 million people faced a new challenge after the whopping East Coast snowstorm: a gusty deep freeze, topped Saturday by a wind chill close to minus 100 on New Hampshire's Mount Washington that vied for world's coldest p...

CHERRY HILL, N.J. (AP) — In New Jersey and California, top Democratic officials want to let people make charitable contributions to the state instead of paying certain taxes. In Connecticut and New York, officials are exploring a switch from i...

Legendary astronaut John Young, who walked on the moon and later commanded the first space shuttle flight, has died, NASA said Saturday. Young was 87. The space agency said Young died Friday night at home in Houston following complications from...

THURMONT, Md. (AP) — Emerging from closed-door meetings with Republican leaders, President Donald Trump on Saturday held out the prospect of a deal with Democrats on the fate of young immigrants brought to the country illegally as children but a...

WINTER HAVEN, Fla. (AP) — Florida authorities are sharing the details of an unusual 911 call on New Year's Eve, from a man who said he wanted to report himself drunk-driving. Polk County Sheriff's officials say the dispatcher kept him talking w...

ROME (AP) — At least eight migrants died and 86 others were rescued Saturday from a smugglers' rubber dinghy after it starting sinking in the Mediterranean Sea off Libya, the Italian coast guard said. A search was ongoing to find any more possible s...

SHELBURNE, Vt. (AP) — Police say a man in Vermont has used a machete to attack a woman in her 70s as she delivered meals to a motel being used as emergency housing for the homeless. WCAX-TV reports 32-year-old Burlington resident Abukar Ibrahim is a...

SAN DIEGO (AP) — The Trump administration has proposed spending $18 billion over 10 years to significantly extend the border wall with Mexico, providing one of its most detailed blueprints of how the president hopes to carry out a signature c...

LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — A Kansas lawmaker wants to make it a crime to abandon a firearm in a public place, a measure spurred in part by a scare on the University of Kansas campus. The Lawrence Journal-World reports that Democratic Rep. Boog H...

SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — New Mexico Gov. Susana Martinez and leading lawmakers proposed increases in state spending Friday on public school education, Medicaid, public safety agencies and economic development incentives for the coming fiscal year, a...

Lawmakers and others in Democratic-leaning states have been howling over the past year about actions by the Trump administration and congressional Republicans that they say have undermined states' rights. That includes promoting concealed carry...

Mississippi State University's arboretum is looking for gardeners who know where milkweed's growing wild and want to help monarch butterflies. Crosby Arboretum director Pat Drackett hopes gardeners around Mississippi will both experiment with seed...

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — What to do with a new $71 million minor league baseball stadium during the winter? If you're the Hartford Yard Goats, the Double-A affiliate of the Colorado Rockies, you turn to real goats. Time for goat yoga class. Talk a...

DIAMOND, Mo. (AP) — A Missouri park that tells the life story of George Washington Carver is commemorating the 75th anniversary of the agriculture pioneer's death with a weekend of activities. The Joplin Globe reports that activities began Friday a...

COLFAX, Wis. (AP) — America's dairy land is undergoing a bit of a revolution, and it has nothing to do with the words on Wisconsin's license plate or even the size of farms. It's about the cows — specifically who's minding the animals in the bar...

WINONA, Minn. (AP) — The various types of berries Blue Fruit Farm offers are so unique that owners Jim Riddle and Joyce Ford have turned the tables, teaching local extension about growing them. "There's just not much university research on a...

DALLAS (AP) — Deb Eberhart couldn't sleep and was easily moved to tears as she worked to coordinate repairs to her Houston home in the months after flooding from Hurricane Harvey besieged it with 3 feet (0.91 meters) of water. She clenched her jaw so...

FARMINGTON, N.M. (AP) — A public school teacher in a New Mexico town situated near the country's largest American Indian reservation has developed a braille code for the Navajo language. Carol Green, who began developing vision problems as a child a...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) (THE CONVERSATION) The news was bad. Mimi, a woman in her early 80s, had been undergoing treatment for lymphoma. Her husband was being...

VANCOUVER, Wash. (AP) — Sasha Thomas' family has textured dots and stickers placed around the house to help identify various appliances, railings and other items. His father placed them in their home so he can determine how to best help his c...

PALMYRA, Wis. (AP) — Among a collection of gleaming belt buckles, one shines a little brighter for Tori Sue Olson. Its proof she survived. On that silver buckle, embossed in gold and black letters, are these words: National Barrel Horse Association W...