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RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Thousands of teachers filled the main street of North Carolina's capital Wednesday demanding better pay and more funding for public schools, hoping to achieve what other educators around the country accomplished by pressuring l...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Questioned intently by a Senate committee, President Donald Trump's son struck a firmly unapologetic tone, deflected many queries and said he didn't think there was anything wrong with meeting a Russian lawyer at Trump Tower in h...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Amid fresh uncertainty over his planned summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, President Donald Trump said Wednesday that he is committed to pressing for the country to abandon its nuclear program as part of any meeting. N...

TULSA, Okla. (AP) — A Tulsa mother stabbed her eldest daughter 50 to 70 times, struck her head with a pickaxe then set their home on fire, before fleeing the scene with the youngest of her three daughters, according to police. Taheerah Ahmad, 39, w...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Former Secretary of State Rex Tillerson took a veiled shot at President Donald Trump on Wednesday, warning that a growing national crisis of ethics and integrity has put American democracy at risk. In remarks to graduates of the V...

BERLIN (AP) — Like most everyone else with a taste for fairytales, Germans love the spectacle of a royal wedding. But since the country's last emperor, Wilhelm II, was forced to abdicate in 1918, Germans haven't had a monarchy of their own to fuss o...

LONDON (AP) — Divorce has bedeviled Britain's royal family for centuries. It has created problems not only when Prince Charles and Princess Diana ended their marriage in the most bitter fashion in 1996 but also when other royals — Princess Mar...

BERLIN (AP) — A Berlin museum has returned ancient wooden masks, an idol and other spiritually significant artifacts plundered from graves by an explorer to indigenous Alaskans, ending an odyssey in which many of the items were thought forever l...

WASHINGTON (AP) — In President Donald Trump's former life as a casino owner, he might have cheered this week's ruling from the Supreme Court that struck down a federal law that barred every state but Nevada from allowing betting on most sporting e...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Last minute preparations are underway as Muslims around the world stocked up on groceries and dates Wednesday for evening meals to break dawn-to-dusk fasting during the month of Ramadan. Saudi Arabia and other Musli...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Oklahoma's director of child services says she's resigning because of the stress of her job and the pressure of implementing a 2012 legal agreement. The Oklahoman reports that Jami Ledoux announced her resignation Tuesday as t...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — An Oklahoma City trust has approved $1.7 million worth of incentives for Amazon in exchange for job creation and capital investment at the company's new order-fulfillment center. The Journal Record reports that the Oklahoma C...

ELKHART, Kan. (AP) — Wildlife experts say a male, juvenile bear found dead in southwest Kansas might have been driven into the state by drought conditions in surrounding states. The bear died Monday in an accidental crash on Highway 56 near E...

TAHLEQUAH, Okla. (AP) — Recovering addict Judith Anderson figures if she hadn't entered a program that caught and treated the hepatitis C she contracted after years of intravenous drug use, she wouldn't be alive to convince others to get checked o...

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Some Kansas lawmakers expressed discomfort with the Commerce Department's operations and authority to reward companies without proving the value of taxpayer investments. The department crafted an economic incentives package in 201...

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — The stepmother of a 5-year-old Wichita boy who has been missing since February was found not guilty of child endangerment in an unrelated case involving her own daughter. A jury deliberated for less than an hour before r...

LEAVENWORTH, Kan. (AP) — A 20-year-old Kansas man has admitted being part of a group that shot and killed several cows in Leavenworth County. Leavenworth County Attorney Todd Thompson says Christopher Wright, of Overland Park, pleaded no contest W...

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — A sheriff's sergeant didn't expect while running errands at work to save four people from a car that had crashed in a Wichita creek, but he says he's happy he did. The Wichita Eagle reports that Sedgwick County Sgt. Clayton B...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Harry Truman is headed back to Washington. A statue of Truman, the nation's 33rd president who ended World War II after authorizing the use of atomic bombs against Japan, is set to be displayed in the U.S. Capitol next y...

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Democratic candidate Joshua Svaty has picked a former Army helicopter pilot and current local school board member as his running mate in the Kansas governor's race. Svaty introduced Katrina Lewison of Manhattan as his choice f...