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Kansas nurses try to shake physician contract rule

KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) — Kansas nurse practitioners are fighting to get rid of the state requirement that they get permission to work from a physician. Kansas is one of the few states that still makes advanced practice nurses sign contracts with...

 

College graduates honor student who died stopping gunman

DENVER (AP) — Colorado School of Mines graduates are honoring a suburban Denver student who was shot and killed while tackling a gunman who opened fire at his high school. KMGH-TV reports that electrical engineering students wore stickers on their...

 

Iranian media say reformist magazine closed by authorities

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iranian authorities shut down a reformist magazine that had urged negotiations with the United States, local media reported Sunday. The weekly magazine Seda was handed a suspension order Saturday by a court in Tehran, the...

 

Saudi forces kill 8 in shootout in mostly Shiite town

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Saudi Arabia's security forces killed eight alleged terrorists in a shootout in the predominantly Shiite eastern region of Qatif, a government statement issued late Saturday said. The Interior Ministry said...

 

More than a scent: Cyprus promoting its perfume past

KORAKOU, Cyprus (AP) — Before Cyprus gained fame as the mythical birthplace of the goddess of love Aphrodite nearly three millennia ago, Cyprus was known around the Mediterranean for its perfumes, scents that the mighty queens of Egypt coveted....

 

AP Explains: Militias have patrolled US border for decades

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — An armed group in New Mexico whose leader faces federal firearms possession charges drew national attention last month for detaining asylum-seeking Central American families near the U.S.-Mexico border. It's not the first...

 

Story of state's deadliest tornadoes still chilling, vital

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Ninety years after Virginia's worst tornado outbreak — a day that claimed 22 lives and shattered several rural communities — the stories are as chilling and vital as ever. On May 2, 1929, five strong tornadoes swept through...

 

Winter wheat crop expected to rise 15 percent from last year

FARGO, N.D. (AP) — Agriculture officials say North Dakota's 2019 winter wheat crop is forecast to be up 15 percent from last year. The National Agricultural Statistics Service says in its crop production report that 3.45 million bushels of winter...

 

Trump's tariffs on China: What are they? How do they work?

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump has heightened tensions with China by escalating his tariffs on $200 billion in Chinese goods from 10% to 25%. As a tool of national policy, tariffs had long been fading into history, a relic of the 19th...

 

Winter wheat crop expected to rise 23 percent from last year

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — Agriculture officials say South Dakota's 2019 winter wheat crop is forecast to be up 23 percent from last year. The National Agricultural Statistics Service says in its crop production report that 38.9 million bushels of...

 

North Dakota Grain Growers withdrawing from national group

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — The North Dakota Grain Growers Association is withdrawing from the National Association of Wheat Growers, saying it can find better uses for its money. "Considering North Dakota consistently paid some of the highest dues out...

 

Montana ranchers share the landscape with grizzlies

LIVINGSTON, Mont. (AP) — When Malou Anderson-Ramirez, 37, was a child, her family rarely saw grizzly bears around their ranch, the Anderson Ranch, in the upper Tom Miner Basin. These days, caravans of tourists truck daily up the basin's dirt roads...

 

'Mountain of sand' spread across Nebraska farms after floods

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Nebraska landowners are seeking new solutions for a millions-year-old phenomenon. Tons of sand, sediment and silt — some in dunes as high as 10 feet — have been scattered across the eastern half to two-thirds of the state by...

 

AP FACT CHECK: Trump's fog of misinformation on trade

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump cast a fog of misinformation over the U.S. trade dispute with China, floating inaccurate numbers and skewed economic theories as big tariffs kicked in on Chinese goods. At stake in the rupture is a trading...

 

Washington to offer first 'public option' insurance in US

SEATTLE (AP) — Washington is set to become the first state to enter the private health insurance market with a universally available public option. A set of tiered public plans will cover standard services and are expected to be up to 10% cheaper...

 

Why tariff war threatens Beijing's global economic ambitions

BEIJING (AP) — China's intensified tariff war with the Trump administration is threatening Beijing's ambition to transform itself into the dominant player in global technology. The United States is a vital customer and source of technology for...

 

Bills seek special consent for pelvic exams under anesthesia

Savanah Harshbarger estimates she performed as many as 10 pelvic exams last year on patients before gynecologic surgeries, feeling for fibroid tumors or other abnormalities. The Duke University medical student said the experience was a revelation....

 

More 'heartbeat' abortion bans advancing in South, Midwest

If a new Mississippi law survives a court challenge, it will be nearly impossible for most pregnant women to get an abortion there. Or, potentially, in neighboring Louisiana. Or Alabama. Or Georgia. The Louisiana legislature is halfway toward passing...

 

Arkansas' first medical marijuana dispensary opens its doors

HOT SPRINGS, Ark. (AP) — Two and a half years after Arkansans voted to legalize medical marijuana, qualifying patients could begin buying the product Saturday morning when the state's first dispensary opened, though the celebratory mood was...

 

Strong Rio Grande tourism in New Mexico expected

RIO GRANDE DEL NORTE NATIONAL MONUMENT, N.M. (AP) — Rafting and angler guides are predicting a good season for Rio Grande tourism in New Mexico thanks to strong runoff generated by a good snowmelt this year. A healthy snow patch this winter is...

 

UT-Knoxville professor to unseal moon rocks

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — For the first time since they were collected during the Apollo 17 mission, several samples of moon rocks will be opened and examined this summer. A University of Tennessee-Knoxville professor, Molly McCanta, will be one of...

 

Missouri State OKs $2.2 million Ozarks Education Center

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (AP) — Officials at Missouri State University have approved a plan for a $2.2 million Ozarks Education Center that will be constructed on the shores of Bull Shoals Lake. The project features a classroom meeting space that can hold...

 
 By Morgan Lee    Regional    May 12, 2019

Space-tourism enters 'home stretch' toward commercial flight

SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — Billionaire Richard Branson is moving Virgin Galactic's winged passenger rocket and more than 100 employees from California to a remote commercial launch and landing facility in southern New Mexico, bringing his space-tourism...

 

AP EXPLAINS: Why send a US aircraft carrier to the Gulf?

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier strike group is being deployed to the Persian Gulf to counter an alleged but still-unspecified threat from Iran, the latest in a long line of such deployments to the...

 

Channeling maybe-yes, maybe-no Mueller: Speak, Bob, Speak!

WASHINGTON (AP) — See Bob investigate. Read Bob's report. Wait, Bob, what? For nearly two years, the nation watched and waited as special counsel Robert Mueller investigated President Donald Trump and his campaign for potential collusion with...

 

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