DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — International chemical weapons inspectors Tuesday entered Douma, the Syrian town that was the site of a suspected poison gas attack that led to Western airstrikes against the Syrian government, state media reported. The team f...

NEW YORK (AP) — In a striking shift from recent years, major legislation curtailing LGBT rights has been completely stymied in state capitols around the country this year amid anxiety by Republican leaders over igniting economic backlash if they a...

NEW YORK (AP) — The decision to award rapper Kendrick Lamar the Pulitzer Prize for music represents a historic moment for hip-hop and American music, according to two of the music jurors who picked the album "DAMN." as a finalist. "It's big for h...

NEW YORK (AP) — Notorious Mexican drug lord and escape artist Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman is having psychological problems that could hinder his ability to fight U.S. drug-trafficking charges, his lawyer and wife said Tuesday. "We have noticed that h...

LONDON (AP) — In a medical first, a French surgeon says he has performed a second face transplant on the same patient — who is now doing well and even spent a recent weekend in Brittany. Dr. Laurent Lantieri of the Georges Pompidou Hospital in Par...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens, already facing a felony charge related to an extramarital affair, could soon face another felony count after the state's attorney general cited evidence Tuesday suggesting that Greitens' use o...

WASHINGTON (AP) — A closely watched medicine made from the marijuana plant reduces seizures in children with severe forms of epilepsy and warrants approval in the United States, health officials said Tuesday. British drugmaker GW Pharmaceuticals i...

PATTAYA, Thailand (AP) — A Russian sex guru and his followers, one of whom claims to have evidence of Moscow's interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election, were acquitted Tuesday by a court in Thailand on charges of violating labor laws but s...

BERLIN (AP) — Fragments of a meteorite that fell to Earth about a decade ago provide compelling evidence of a lost planet that once roamed our solar system, according to a study published Tuesday. Researchers from Switzerland, France and Germany e...

France's Macron: EU must reform to fight rising nationalism STRASBOURG, France (AP) — French President Emmanuel Macron compared political divisions in Europe to a new type of civil war as he warned Tuesday of the need to counter growing n...

LONDON (AP) — The nerve agent used on former Russian spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia was delivered in liquid form, British officials said Tuesday, as they revealed it will take months to clean up the toxic trail the poison left around t...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — A Tulsa attorney is challenging the candidacy of Republican Attorney General Mike Hunter, claiming Hunter is not eligible to seek the office because he purchased a home and lived in Virginia within the last ten years. R...

TULSA, Okla. (AP) — An Oklahoma judge has ruled that the governor's office and a public safety agency violated the state Open Records Act when they didn't respond to a newspaper's request for records in a timely manner. The case involves requests f...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Authorities in Oklahoma County have launched an investigation into the death of an inmate. The Oklahoma County Sheriff's Office said Tuesday that 63-year-old Richard Holt died at an Oklahoma City hospital on Saturday. A...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The U.S. Supreme Court has rejected the final appeal of an Oklahoma death row inmate convicted in the 2004 death of a security guard. The Oklahoman reports that justices declined to review Wade Lay's case on Monday. The 5...

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The push for legalized marijuana has moved into Utah and Oklahoma, two of the most conservative states in the country, further underscoring how quickly feelings about marijuana are changing in the United States. If the two m...

HAYS, Kan. (AP) — Authorities say a Kansas man has died in a farming accident. The Reno County Sheriff's Office says 34-year-old Daniel Bruce Smith had been working with another individual Monday to set steel posts into the ground with a skid s...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Wildfires that have killed two people in western Oklahoma are nearing conditions not seen in at least a decade because of the mixture of high temperatures, low humidity and heavy winds, the National Weather Service said Monday. W...

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — State officials are reminding Kansans that recent rain and snow did not significantly reduce fire danger in the state. The National Weather Service issued red flag fire warnings through 9 p.m. Tuesday and said the fire danger w...

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A Kansas man charged with first-degree murder in a 5-year-old child's shooting death now faces an additional murder count in a separate shooting. The Topeka Capital-Journal reports that 21-year-old Jessie Hughes was charged in D...

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A New Jersey man who sent fake invoices for school books to hundreds of Kansas schools has been banned from doing business in the state. The Kansas Attorney General's office said Tuesday that Robert Armstrong, of Franklinville, N...

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas Secretary of State and candidate for governor Kris Kobach has pledged to roll back recent tax increases and to veto any future tax hikes if he becomes governor. Kobach said at a Tuesday news conference that current tax r...

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas Gov. Jeff Colyer has signed an education funding bill despite a multi-million dollar flaw in the bill's language. Because of an accounting error, the bill calls for a $454 million spending increase, which is $80 million l...

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — A man charged in the killing of a 3-year-old Kansas boy and hiding the body in concrete will be tried on six criminal counts. Stephen Bodine was bound over for trial Tuesday on two counts of first-degree felony murder, two c...

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Authorities have arrested a 14-year-old Kansas boy accused of shooting his 13-year-old brother in the chest while they played video games at home. Officer Charley Davidson says the younger brother was taken to a Wichita h...