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(THE CONVERSATION) In 1997, a student I taught while I was a Fulbright scholar in Turkey came to visit our home in Cleveland. Asked what sites he might want to visit, he immediately suggested nearby Kent State. On May 4, 1970, students protesting...

NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) — Police have charged 23 Yale University graduate students with misdemeanors for blocking New Haven streets during a protest against sexual harassment at the university. Authorities say protesters caused the closure of three m...

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — When transgender wrestler Mack Beggs won a girls' state championship, his victory drew jeers and complaints that his steroid therapy treatment had given him an unfair advantage against girls who risked injury just by getting o...

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — An appeals court has upheld the conviction of a man accused of sex trafficking in the Williston area. A federal jury in 2015 found Keith Graves guilty on five counts of sex trafficking by force or coercion, and distribution o...

WASHINGTON (AP) — As farmers fret over President Donald Trump's criticism of international trade agreements, Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue is trying to reassure them by creating a top post to oversee trade and foreign agricultural affairs. T...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Missouri lawmakers sent Gov. Eric Greitens a measure Thursday that would limit how much money people could receive for medical costs in injury lawsuits, the latest in a series of proposals that Republican supporters hope w...

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — The path for Texas to enact its version of a North Carolina-style bathroom bill is poised to get far tougher as the Republican-controlled state House closes in on a key midnight Thursday deadline to approve legislation. A proposa...

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — The Texas House has approved a bill removing ectopic pregnancy surgery from the state definition of abortion. Ectopic pregnancies occur when an egg is fertilized but attaches itself somewhere other than a woman's uterus. Such c...

KIEV, Ukraine (AP) — Television journalist Julia Kirienko was sheltering with Ukrainian soldiers and medics two miles (three kilometers) from the front when their cellphones began buzzing over the noise of the shelling. Everyone got the same text m...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Microsoft will try to make Windows 10 more versatile with a wave of new features for creating memories, exploring virtual scenery and hopscotching from personal computers to mobile devices. The added bells and whistles will r...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump has signed an executive order aimed at modernizing and improving the nation's computer networks. Trump's homeland security adviser Tom Bossert says the order will help keep the U.S. safer from cybersecurity r...

KIEV, Ukraine (AP) — The formidable surveillance power of cell site simulators has put them at the forefront of privacy debates in the U.S. and Europe. Now The Associated Press has found evidence that the devices are sending threatening text m...

LAS VEGAS (AP) — A man who police suspect killed two sleeping homeless men in Las Vegas pleaded not guilty Thursday to attempted murder in an unusual case charging him with trying to kill a mannequin that police posed as a decoy near the scene of t...

WESTFIELD, N.J. (AP) — A love letter lost in the walls of a New Jersey home reached a World War II veteran 72 years after it was written. Melissa Fahy and her father found the letter in a gap under the stairs while renovating her Westfield home. T...

GARDEN CITY, N.Y. (AP) — A suburban New York college lacrosse team has replaced its warm-up music with a recording of a portion of a speech by President Donald Trump. An Instagram video of the Adelphi University team was posted Wednesday showing p...

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — The Norwegian government has reversed a 40-year-old ban to allow 19 kinds of reptiles to be held as pets. Norway's Agriculture and Food Ministry which also handles laws concerning domestic animals published a list T...

ROCKY RIVER, Ohio (AP) — Police in suburban Cleveland say a half-naked man intentionally crashed his car into a closed convenience store to get beer, injuring himself and a store employee. Rocky River police say the 45-year-old driver was wearing n...

MOBILE, Ala. – Oklahoma Baptist claimed its first national championship in men's tennis Friday with a 5-1 win over Campbellsville. The Bison finish at 26-5, a record for most wins in a season. OBU ends the year on a 15-match win streak. "This guys t...

MOBILE, Ala. – Oklahoma Baptist claimed its first national tennis championship Friday with a 5-1 win over Indiana Wesleyan, completing the program's best season. Rouxanne Janse van Renbsurg earned Tournament Outstanding Player honors and Peter M...

MCPHERSON, Kan. – Oklahoma Baptist made the most of two hits, claiming a 3-1 win over host Central Christian in the NCCAA Central Region Tournament Thursday. The Bison fell behind 1-0 in the third but Zane Gelphman scored on a wild pitch and A...

TALIHINA, Okla. (AP) — A 70-year-old dementia patient at a state-run veterans home died from choking on a plastic trash bag, an autopsy confirmed. Leonard Smith, 70, was a living in a special-needs unit at the Oklahoma Veterans Center in Talihina, th...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — An Oklahoma Senate budget committee has killed legislation that would authorize a major expansion of tribal gambling in Oklahoma to help fill a projected $878 million hole in next year's state budget. Members of the Senate J...

OWASSO, Okla. (AP) — Forecasters say a tornado that hit near Tulsa on Thursday had a preliminary ranking of EF1 with wind speeds of 90 mph to 100 mph. The National Weather Service in Tulsa says more surveys are underway Friday to determine whether a...

KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) — Carl Long was forced to strip the logo of a Colorado-based marijuana vaping company from his car Friday after NASCAR said it violated rules governing sponsorship and paint schemes. The logo for Colorado-based Veedverks was p...

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas legislators hoped Friday to make progress on a plan to boost spending on public schools after they advanced a bill that would provide a modest amount of new revenue by closing a few tax exemptions. A special House c...