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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — New Mexico Attorney General agents have raided the office of a southwestern New Mexico district attorney who is facing calls to resign after a suspected DWI traffic stop that critics say she was allowed to leave after...

HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) — Texas on Wednesday put to death an inmate convicted of killing two men over phony a drug deal, the first U.S. execution of 2017. Christopher Wilkins, 48, was declared dead at 6:29 p.m., 13 minutes after a lethal injection o...

BOSTON (AP) — Exxon Mobil has been ordered to hand over documents related to a state investigation into whether it misled the public about the impact of fossil fuels on the climate. Wednesday's decision by a Suffolk Superior Court judge is a win fo...

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas is flirting with losing major sporting events like North Carolina did, Dallas civic leaders warned Wednesday as they urged Republican lawmakers to stand down on a proposal that would require transgender people to use...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Department of Justice says Missouri counties are now eligible to receive federal funds for prescription drug monitoring programs to combat the opioid epidemic. U.S. Sen. Claire McCaskill of Missouri announced Wednesday...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Donald Trump's choice as secretary of state, former Exxon Mobil CEO Rex Tillerson, denied Wednesday that he had pressed the U.S. to avoid sanctioning Russia over foreign-policy disputes. The record, though, is not so clear. The...

PHOENIX (AP) — The Arizona Supreme Court will consider whether to overturn a lower court ruling allowing the state to allow an identical cattle brand to be used by two ranchers. The court agreed Tuesday to hear an appeal from Eloy rancher David...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A California lawmaker is taking steps he hopes will combat fake news. Assemblyman Jimmy Gomez introduced a bill Wednesday to help high schools teach students to tell real news from fake. The Los Angeles Democrat said...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Wednesday seemed willing to put more bite into a law that requires public schools to help learning-disabled students. Most of the justices indicated during arguments that school districts must offer more than...

SAO PAULO (AP) — For more than 30 years, the bones of Josef Mengele, a German doctor who conducted horrific experiments on thousands of Jews at Auschwitz, lay unclaimed inside a blue plastic bag in Sao Paulo's Legal Medical Institute. Dr. Daniel...

VICTORIA, British Columbia (AP) — Canada's Pacific Coast province of British Columbia on Wednesday approved the expansion of Kinder Morgan's Trans Mountain pipeline from the Alberta oil sands that would allow oil exports to Asia. British Columbia...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Former Texas Gov. Rick Perry says he has stepped down from the boards of two energy companies that are developing the controversial Dakota Access Pipeline project. Perry, who is President-elect Donald Trump's choice for energy...

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — The front lines of the battle against the $3.8 billion Dakota Access pipeline are shifting away from the dwindling encampment in North Dakota, with main opposing groups asking for activism to be spread around the U.S., a call...

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — A woman accused of bilking investors in a North Dakota oil patch company she owned with a man who was convicted in a murder-for-hire scheme has reached a plea deal with prosecutors. Sarah Creveling is charged in federal court...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A Tennessee woman accused of trying to end her pregnancy with a coat hanger has pleaded guilty to a felony and was released after more than a year in jail. Anna Yocca, 32, pleaded guilty this week to attempted procurement...

HOUSTON (AP) — Federal officials say a Houston company is recalling more than 3,500 pounds of chicken breast product due to mislabeling and undeclared allergens. The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspection Service says the...

EASTON, Pa. (AP) — A man is on trial on charges he scared an elderly woman so much during a home invasion robbery that she had a heart attack that night and died two months later. Quadir Taylor, 29, of Easton, acknowledges he helped others rob...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — It turns out the moon is older than many scientists suspected: a ripe 4.51 billion years old. That's the newest estimate, thanks to rocks and soil collected by the Apollo 14 moonwalkers in 1971. A research team reported...

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — More than 100 countries don't keep accurate counts of births and deaths. More than 70 don't have robust data on poverty. There's a dearth of accurate, comparable figures on the number of disabled children in almost every...

PARIS (AP) — The first self-sufficient boat powered only by emission-free energy will start a six-year trip around the world in the spring. Energy Observer, a former multi-hull race boat converted into a green vessel equipped with solar panels,...

NEW YORK (AP) — Facebook is launching a journalism project aimed at strengthening its ties with media organizations to help them expand their audiences, come up with new products and generally promote trusted news in today's "post-truth" era. The...

LONDON (AP) — Technology has made stopping terrorist attacks harder, and it is legal to kill militants overseas if they pose an immediate or otherwise unstoppable threat, Britain's top law officer said Wednesday. Attorney General Jeremy Wright...

JOLIET, Ill. (AP) — A teenage girl who slipped into an abandoned Illinois prison for an urban adventure ended up serving a short sentence when she accidentally locked herself inside a cell. Illinois State Police say two teenage girls entered the...

DENVER, Pa. (AP) — A police officer responding to a crash wound up driving a surgeon, an assistant and a donated liver to a Philadelphia hospital for an emergency transplant. East Cocalico Township police Sgt. Darrick Keppley says he came upon a...