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LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — A fight over the name of Josh drew a crowd from around the country to a Nebraska park Saturday for a heated pool-noodle brawl. It all started a year ago when pandemic boredom set in and Josh Swain, a 22-year-old college student f...

MARICOPA, Ariz. (AP) — Authorities in Arizona have arrested a man who police believe severed his finger while slashing his neighbor's car tires after an argument. Maricopa Police Department spokesman Hal Koozer said Kevin Johnson was arrested and i...

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — TikTok has restored an account featuring a young Wichita man with a debilitating skin condition after celebrities blasted the video-sharing site for banning it. The Wichita Eagle reports that Big Bang Theory star Kaley Cuoco a...

A piece of copper that was struck by the U.S. Mint in Philadelphia in 1794 and was a prototype for the fledgling nation's money was auctioned off for $840,000, considerably more than expected, an official said. Heritage auctions spokesman Eric...

WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — The systematic killing and deportation of more than a million Armenians by Ottoman Empire forces in the early 20th century was "genocide," the United States formally declared on Saturday, as President Joe Biden used that preci...

BANYUWANGI, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesia's navy on Saturday declared its missing submarine had sunk and cracked open after finding items from the vessel over the past two days, apparently ending hope of finding any of the 53 crew members alive. M...

BOSTON (AP) — A very strange thing happened on the internet the day President Joe Biden was sworn in. A shadowy company residing at a shared workspace above a Florida bank announced to the world's computer networks that it was now managing a c...

LOMBRIVES CAVE, France (AP) — Ever wonder what it would feel like to unplug from a hyperconnected world and hide away in a dark cave for 40 days? Fifteen people in France did just that, emerging Saturday from a scientific experiment to say that t...

Even as the Derek Chauvin case was fresh in memory — the reading of the verdict in a Minneapolis courtroom, the shackling of the former police officer, the jubilation at what many saw as justice in the death of George Floyd — even then, blood flo...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — The International Space Station's population swelled to 11 on Saturday with the jubilant arrival of SpaceX's third crew capsule in less than a year. It's the biggest crowd up there in more than a decade. All of the astrona...

NEW YORK (AP) — A 61-year-old Chinese American man was attacked by a man who kicked him repeatedly in the head in East Harlem, police said. The man was collecting cans when he was attacked from behind, knocked to the ground and kicked in the head sho...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden's opening months in office have been a whirlwind of activity during the pandemic and the start of an economic recovery. He is facing a sharp increase in the number of migrant children at the U.S.-Mexico b...

By Associated Press Garima Vyas always wanted to live in a big city. She thought about New York, long the destination for 20-something strivers, but was wary of the cost and complicated subway lines. So Vyas picked another metropolis that's increasin...

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Ron Johnson is in an uncomfortable class of his own. The Wisconsin Republican is the only senator in his party facing reelection next year in a state that backed Democrat Joe Biden in the 2020 presidential race. But rather t...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Latest on the Oscars (all times local): 2:45 p.m. The preparations are done and the arrivals have begun for a most unusual Oscars. Paul Raci, up for best supporting actor Sunday, and Diane Warren, up for best original song, w...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — University researchers say Oklahoma has the 5th fewest new COVID-19 cases per capita over the past two weeks, university researchers reported Sunday. According to Johns Hopkins University researchers, Oklahoma has had 3,745 n...

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden says the U.S is determined to help India as it grapples with a surge in coronavirus cases. In a tweet Sunday, Biden said, "Just as India sent assistance to the United States as our hospitals were strained early in t...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The Oklahoma leader of the Young Democrats of America said Monday he's launching a veto referendum on a bill signed by Oklahoma's governor that seeks to crack down on protesters by increasing penalties for blocking roadways a...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The latest data from the U.S. Census Bureau released Monday shows Oklahoma has gained nearly 200,000 residents over the last 10 years, but not enough to gain another U.S. House seat. The data shows Oklahoma's total population i...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt signed three anti-abortion bills into law on Monday, including ones to criminalize the procedure in certain cases and cost providers their medical licenses for performing them. The Republican-controlled...

WASHINGTON, N.C. (AP) — A North Carolina man was charged with an open count of murder in the death of an Oklahoma man at a bar last weekend, a sheriff's office said. The Beaufort County Sheriff's Office said in a news release that deputies d...

NEOSHO, Mo. (AP) — An Oklahoma man was sentenced to 18 years in prison Monday for his role in a case where shots were fired at a Seneca, Missouri, police officer's vehicle during a pursuit. Kenneth C. Nelums, 61, of Picher, Oklahoma, was sentenced a...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Oklahoma health officials announced Monday plans to resume distribution of the one-shot Johnson & Johnson vaccine following rare cases of blood clots potentially linked to the vaccine. The decision comes following a r...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — University researchers say Oklahoma has the 5th fewest new COVID-19 cases per capita over the past two weeks, university researchers reported Sunday. According to Johns Hopkins University researchers, Oklahoma has had 3,745 n...

COFFEYVILLE, Kan. (AP) — Coffeyville police are investigating a shooting death in the southeast Kansas town. Officers were called a shooting Monday morning. Witnesses told police the victim, Christopher Temple, 46, has been taken by private v...