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PARIS (AP) — France has proof that the Syrian government launched chlorine gas attacks and has crossed a line that could prompt French airstrikes, President Emmanuel Macron said Thursday. Macron did not specify whether France is planning military act...

Organizers are encouraging gun rights supporters to bring unloaded rifles to rallies at state capitols across the U.S. this weekend, pushing back against a wave of student-led gun violence protests that some see as a threat to the Second Amendment....

The first large-scale, national study of transgender children, including some as young as 3, is poised to expand thanks to a five-year, $1 million grant awarded Thursday by the National Science Foundation to the professor leading the project....

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — The presidents of Israel and Poland joined thousands of others Thursday for a Holocaust remembrance event at the former Nazi death camps of Auschwitz and Birkenau, hoping to put recent tensions behind them. Presidents Reuven R...

LONDON (AP) — The international chemical weapons watchdog on Thursday confirmed Britain's finding that a former Russian spy and his daughter were poisoned with a nerve agent, as Russia continued to deny suggestions that it was behind the attack. I...

CHERRY HILL, N.J. (AP) — A public employee pension crisis for state governments has deepened to a record level even after nearly nine years of economic recovery for the nation, according to a study released Thursday, leaving many states vulnerable i...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Russia collusion probe. The Stormy Daniels allegations. Escalating tension with Moscow. The tempests that have buffeted the White House for months merged into a maelstrom this week and threatened to engulf President Donald Trump...

BEIJING (AP) — China's government on Thursday denied President Xi Jinping's promise of market-opening measures this week was aimed at settling a tariff dispute with Washington and said negotiations are impossible under "unilateral coercion" by the Un...

BOULDER, Colo. (AP) — The murder trial has begun for a man accused of killing and dismembering his ex-girlfriend. The Daily Camera reports that attorneys made their opening statements Thursday morning to a jury of 16 people in the case of 3...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Investigators say a woman's obituary helped federal agents capture her fugitive son nearly four decades after he escaped from an Oklahoma prison. The U.S. Marshals Service says 58-year-old Stephen Michael Paris was arrested w...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — An Oklahoma judge who approved probation for a man who admitted raping a 13-year-old Texas girl at a church camp is seeking four more years on the bench. Marshall County District Judge Wallace Coppedge filed to run Wednesday, The...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Drought is tightening its grip across the American Southwest as extreme conditions spread from Oklahoma to Utah, according to new federal data released Thursday. On the southern high plains, Oklahoma remains ground zero for t...

STILLWATER, Okla. (AP) — An education board has accepted an Oklahoma State University football coach's donation for improved school security. The Stillwater Public Schools Board of Education approved Mike Gundy's proposed donation on Tuesday. The m...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Massive teacher protests at the Oklahoma state Capitol have done more than put political pressure on lawmakers: The situation has forced school districts, churches, community organizations and parents to improvise to take care o...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Gov. Mary Fallin has appointed a former member of her cabinet to the University of Oklahoma Board of Regents. Fallin says in a news release that Natalie Shirley will serve a seven-year term on the board that oversees OU, C...

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — The Kansas police officer who fired the shot that killed a man during a hoax emergency call will not face criminal charges, a prosecutor announced Thursday. District Attorney Marc Bennett said there was reasonable concern at t...

KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) — The suspect in the fatal shooting of an Indian immigrant last year in a Kansas City suburb may plead guilty to a federal hate crime charge. The Kansas City Star reports 52-year-old Adam Purinton, of Olathe, on Wednesday f...

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Security concerns have been raised over a new Kansas website that collects vehicle owner information. The Wichita Eagle reports that the state launched the site iKan on March 29. It's used to perform vehicle registration r...

LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — A 38-year-old Lawrence man who sent hundreds of emails to someone he thought was a 14-year-old girl has been convicted of soliciting sex. The person he was communicating with was a sheriff's deputy. Prosecutors say when M...

OLATHE, Kan. (AP) — A man left partially paralyzed when gunfire erupted as he and three others were robbing a suburban Kansas City gun shop has been sentenced to life in prison for killing the shop's owner. The Kansas City Star report that 2...

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Authorities say a man who reported that he was rough housing with his 6-month-old son when the child stopped breathing has been arrested in the boy's death. The Wichita Eagle reports that the man was booked into jail Tuesday n...

WELLINGTON, Kan. (AP) — The Wellington Police Department is investigating the death of a 7-month-old girl. Police Chief Tracy Heath said Thursday the baby's father took her to a Wichita hospital on April 1 after she quit breathing. The girl died o...

LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — University of Kansas officials say construction of a new multimillion-dollar indoor practice facility for football team will start soon. The university is planning a $26 million indoor practice area as part of a $300 million r...

KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) — Authorities say a 27-year-old man has been charged in a triple homicide in a Kansas City, Kansas, duplex. MonDale Douglas made his first appearance Monday on three counts of first-degree murder in the April 2 shooting d...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Authorities say an Albuquerque high school student has been arrested and accused of carrying a loaded revolver and ammunition on school grounds. A Bernalillo County Sheriff's Office spokeswoman says the 15-year-old boy who a...