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ST. LOUIS (AP) — Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens appeared in court Thursday as jury selection got underway in a criminal trial accusing him of taking a compromising photo of a woman with whom he has acknowledged having an affair. The Republican governor...

HUNTINGDON, Pa. (AP) — A 114-year-old Pennsylvania woman who was the oldest person in the United States has died, according to a funeral home. The Robert D Heath Funeral Home in Mount Union said that Delphine Gibson died Wednesday. Lessie Brown, o...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Multiple failures led up to the deadly Niger attack last October, but top military leaders said Thursday that none directly caused the overwhelming enemy ambush that killed four American service members and sent others fighting a...

KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — Tens of thousands of Tanzania's ethnic Maasai people are homeless after the government burned their houses to keep the savannah open for tourism benefiting two foreign safari companies, a U.S.-based policy think tank charged T...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Attorney Michael Cohen's simultaneous relationship with Donald Trump and several blue chip companies that paid him for insight into the new president strikes legal experts as unusual and has triggered questions about client c...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrats on the House intelligence committee have released more than 3,500 Facebook ads that were created or promoted by a Russian internet agency, providing the fullest picture yet of Russia's attempt to sow racial and political d...

BEIRUT (AP) — Israeli forces unleashed a heavy bombardment against Iranian military installations in Syria on Thursday in what Israel called retaliation for an Iranian rocket barrage on its positions in the occupied Golan Heights, the most serious mi...

BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraqi forces in coordination with U.S.-backed Syrian forces have captured five senior Islamic State group leaders, the U.S.-led coalition said Thursday in a statement. The arrest was a "significant blow to Daesh," coalition s...

CANNES, France (AP) — At the Cannes Film Festival on Thursday, filmmaker Ryan Coogler reflected on the historic sensation of "Black Panther" and the changes he hopes it might effect on the movie business. Noting that Hollywood theories can't be c...

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Villagers said it started with a loud rumble, then houses collapsed one by one under an approaching wall of water. "We took our children and rushed to higher ground," farmer Joseph Maina told The Associated Press. Their home w...

SINGAPORE (AP) — With the Demilitarized Zone on the Korean Peninsula out of contention, the small nation of Singapore is a natural choice for the historic summit between U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, analysts s...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The House on Thursday approved an election-year bill to revive the mothballed nuclear waste dump at Nevada's Yucca Mountain despite opposition from home-state lawmakers. Supporters say the bill would help solve a nuclear-waste s...

LONDON (AP) — Britain acknowledged Thursday that its intelligence agents played a role in the kidnapping and torture of an opponent of the late Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi and the man's wife — a rare admission of wrongdoing by British spies. Att...

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Malaysia's former authoritarian leader Mahathir Mohamad, who in a stunning political comeback led opposition parties to their first election victory in six decades, was sworn in as prime minister on Thursday, cementing a...

TULSA, Okla. (AP) — An Oklahoma teenager convicted in the fatal stabbings of five family members is set for sentencing Thursday, when jurors will consider whether he should spend the rest of his life behind bars. Michael Bever was 16 when he and his...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Three judges have ordered the Trump administration to continue a program that has shielded hundreds of thousands of young immigrants from deportation. Now, a lawsuit filed last week in Texas seeks to shut down the Deferred Action f...

FARMINGTON, N.M. (AP) — Two women accused of kidnapping and molesting a 14-year-old Oklahoma boy were tracked via cellphone and other means to a home in New Mexico where the boy was found in a car that pulled into the driveway, authorities said. K...

HARRAH, Okla. (AP) — The ex-wife of an Oklahoma man facing animal cruelty charges after allegedly killing his teenage daughter's two dogs to punish her for not doing the dishes said Thursday both of the couple's children were stunned by the incident....

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — A Republican Oklahoma legislator facing accusations from colleagues that he wore military service decorations that he didn't earn, including a Purple Heart, has been removed from the membership rolls of a national veterans g...

TULSA, Okla. (AP) — A white ex-volunteer deputy who served time in prison for shooting an unarmed black man was recently seen drinking at an Oklahoma bar in apparent violation of the conditions of his probation, which prohibit him from consuming alco...

EDMOND, Okla. (AP) — An Oklahoma couple has listed their four-bedroom, four-bath home for $1 in hopes of gaining high interest. The Oklahoman reports that Dan and Sharla Bradley listed the more than 4,000-square-foot (371-square-meter) home on F...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals has overturned the life without parole sentence of a killer who was a juvenile at the time of the crime. The court ruled Thursday that a district court was wrong not to vacate the s...

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — The American Civil Liberties Union made public on Thursday a letter that seeks to force Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach to fix what it says are inaccuracies on public notices posted on state and county websites regarding v...

WELLINGTON, Kan. (AP) — Wellington police say they're investigating the death of a 7-month-old girl as a homicide. Police Chief Tracy Heath said Jesslinn Kinslee Hulett died last month of blunt force trauma. KAKE-TV reports the baby's father took h...