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OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The Oklahoma House approved a bill on Thursday to suspend the medical license of doctors who perform abortions, setting up a likely court challenge if the measure is signed into law. The House voted 71-21 for the bill, almost ent...

Global tourism takes major hit as virus halts Chinese travel This should have been a good year for global tourism, with trade tensions gradually easing, certain economies growing and banner events like the Summer Olympics taking place in Tokyo. But...

NEW YORK (AP) — After President Donald Trump spoke live for more than an hour Thursday about his impeachment acquittal, one television network anchor apologized to viewers for a presidential obscenity, while another said it was like watching someone...

DETROIT (AP) — For the first time, the U.S. government's highway safety agency has approved a company's request to deploy a self-driving vehicle that doesn't need to meet the same federal safety standards for cars and trucks driven by humans. The N...

BERKELEY, Calif. (AP) — The Walt Disney Co. has apologized to a California school that was charged a $250 licensing fee after showing the company's 2019 remake of "The Lion King" during a fundraiser. Emerson Elementary School in Berkeley was b...

Audible best-sellers for week ending January 31st Fiction: 1. Cut and Run: A Light-Hearted Dark Comedy by Ben Acker and Ben Blacker, narrated by Meg Ryan, D'Arcy Carden, Sam Richardson, Rachel Bloom, Ed Begley, Jr., Thomas Lennon, Eugene Cordero and...

ONTARIO, Calif. (AP) — Nearly two dozen neglected dogs that were so malnourished they ate small tree branches to survive were removed from a Southern California home, authorities said. The dogs — mostly Labrador retrievers and spaniel breeds age...

SAPULPA, Okla. (AP) — An Oklahoma officer has been placed on leave after fatally shooting a knife-wielding man who charged at him, authorities said Friday. According to investigators, 38-year-old Michael Green acted strangely and threatened to h...

MOORE, Okla. (AP) — A man was charged with manslaughter Friday in the deaths of two suburban Oklahoma City high school cross-country athletes whom he hit with his truck as they ran on a sidewalk just a day after his own son was killed in a traffic a...

PAWHUSKA, Okla. (AP) — An Oklahoma man admitted in court to 2015 slaying of a man whose body was found on an oil lease. Jeremy Keith Reece, of Pawhuska, admitted Thursday that he shot and burned Rick Holt, leaving him in a shallow grave in Osage C...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — A group that wants to change how Oklahoma's legislative and congressional district lines are drawn has refiled an initiative petition in hopes of bringing the issue before voters. People Not Politicians refiled a new version o...

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Republican lawmakers in Kansas failed to get a proposed anti-abortion amendment to the state constitution on the ballot Friday, and abortion opponents responded by moving aggressively to block a Medicaid expansion plan backed b...

BELEN, N.M. (AP) — A New Mexico couple is facing charges for illegally importing exotic animals, including a mountain lion and kangaroo, for film productions. Kip and Chelsey Lewis are facing multiple charges of unlawful importation of a n...

BRANDON, Fla. (AP) — A Florida man and his furry "accomplice" were taken into custody by authorities who said the man shoplifted from a store. Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office said Logan Wilson was arrested Wednesday and charged with petit t...

BANGKOK (AP) — A soldier in northern Thailand shot multiple people on Saturday, killing at least 10, and was holed up at a popular shopping mall, police said. A police officer contacted by phone in the city of Nakhon Ratchasima said the soldier h...

BEIJING (AP) — The rate of increase in new cases of the virus in China rose again after a brief respite, as the death toll rose to 772 on the mainland and countries around the world enforced stricter measures to contain its spread. A U.S. citizen d...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Exacting swift punishment against those who crossed him, an emboldened President Donald Trump ousted two government officials who had delivered damaging testimony against him during his impeachment hearings. The president took r...

MANCHESTER, N.H. (AP) — Three days before the critical New Hampshire Primary, seven Democratic presidential candidates debated, with many of them fighting to survive in the race to challenge President Donald Trump. Here are some key takeaways. MAYOR...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Democratic presidential contenders stretched beyond the facts on policy and sometimes on their own records Friday in their New Hampshire debate. Amy Klobuchar called out Pete Buttigieg for an evolution on health care that he d...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Suicides in the active-duty Air Force surged last year to the highest total in at least three decades, even as the other military services saw their numbers stabilize or decline, according to officials and unpublished preliminary d...

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — When Marília de Barros Silva heard reports that the widely popular Brazilian soccer club Flamengo was signing a player for almost 17 million euros ($18.6 million), she felt sadness — but also resentment. For a year, she has...

SAN DIEGO (AP) — A federal judge has prohibited U.S. immigration authorities from relying on databases deemed faulty to ask law enforcement agencies to hold people in custody, a setback for the Trump administration that threatens to hamper how it car...

WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. hiring jumped last month, and many more people were encouraged to look for work, showing that the economy remains robust despite threats from China's viral outbreak, an ongoing trade war and struggles at Boeing. The strong j...

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