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SALEM, Ore. (AP) — It may be several months late, but farmers and ranchers in the Klamath Project finally know just how much water is available for the 2018 irrigation season — pending an injunction requested by the Klamath Tribes to protect end...

LAS CRUCES, N.M. (AP) — The value of New Mexico's pecan crop inched up in 2017 to more than $220 million as production reached a record high. Statistics released Tuesday by the U.S. Department of Agriculture show pecan production in the arid state t...

WASHINGTON (AP) — House Speaker Paul Ryan scheduled a long-awaited showdown vote on a broad Republican immigration bill for Wednesday, but is showing little confidence that the package will survive. Underscoring the legislation's weak prospects in h...

MIAMI, Okla. (AP) — A notoriously polluted stream in northeast Oklahoma got a dose of effluent that turned part of the stream black and killed fish along the stretch. The Tulsa World reports that the Oklahoma Department of Environmental Quality, t...

One of the world's most dreaded viruses has been turned into a treatment to fight deadly brain tumors. Survival was better than expected for patients in a small study who were given genetically modified poliovirus, which helped their bodies attack...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The number of migrant children in custody after being separated from their parents barely dropped since last week, even as Trump administration said it's doing everything possible to expedite family reunification. Health and H...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Dozens of Democratic lawmakers demanded explanations Tuesday from the Department of Health and Human Services after charges that immigrant teenagers were handcuffed and beaten in federal custody. Seventy-seven House members s...

Foster care advocates say the government won't likely be able to reunite thousands of children separated from parents who crossed the border illegally, and some will end up in an American foster care system that is stacked against Latinos and other...

WASHINGTON (AP) — As President Donald Trump was heading to Singapore for a historic summit with North Korea's leader, a State Department diplomatic security agent who was part of the advance team reported hearing an unusual sound he believed was simi...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) (THE CONVERSATION) Cryptocurrencies like bitcoin are based on systems that are supposed to be inherently protected from fraud. Yet the...

CHICAGO (AP) — Ayrial Miller is clearly annoyed. Her mother is sitting with her on the couch in their Chicago apartment, scrolling through the teen's contacts on social media. "Who's this?" asks Jennea Bivens, aka Mom. It's a friend of a friend, A...

LAKEWOOD RANCH, Fla. (AP) — Florida authorities say they've charged a teen with dumping a live alligator in a convenience store earlier this month. The Bradenton Herald reports that the 17-year-old boy was issued a misdemeanor citation Friday c...

MADRID (AP) — Can dogs perform CPR? Probably not, but a video posted by police in Madrid sure makes it seem so. In a video posted on Facebook, Poncho the dog springs into action when his partner falls to the ground and pretends to be unresponsive. T...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Police in Anchorage, Alaska, are on the lookout for a squirrel that made off from their parking lot with a doughnut. In a video posted on the department's Facebook page on Sunday, the squirrel is seen with what appears to b...

Alfalfa County deputies investigated a tip about an underage drinking party near Byron on May 19. The party was reported to be at the “flats.” Deputy T.J. Rockenbach is from the Byron area so he knew that referred to the salt flats located three mil...

WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge in Virginia rejected a bid by President Donald Trump's former campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, to throw out charges in the special counsel's Russia investigation, clearing the way for a much-anticipated trial to sta...

The beautifully restored Bell Hotel received serious basement water damage after heavy rains early Sunday morning over-filled a large area dug for street improvements at Fifth and Barnes. Owner John and Amy Ryerson were distraught at the damage. He s...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Bipartisan legislation introduced Tuesday calls for stringent congressional oversight of U.S. nuclear diplomacy with North Korea and any deal President Donald Trump strikes with Kim Jong Un. It comes two weeks after Trump met Kim a...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Seventeen states, including New York and California, sued the Trump administration Tuesday to force it to reunite the thousands of immigrant children and parents it separated at the border, as the legal and political pressure on t...

DETROIT (AP) — Maryam Bahramipanah is torn between staying with her husband, who came to Michigan from their native Iran, and returning home to see her mother, who suffered a stroke. With the U.S. Supreme Court's decision Tuesday to uphold P...

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — The chief executive of the nation's largest shelters for migrant children said Tuesday he fears a lack of urgency by the U.S. government could mean it will take months to reunite thousands of immigrant children with their parents...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump sought Tuesday to avoid blame for Harley-Davidson's decision to move some motorcycle production overseas and threatened to tax the manufacturer "like never before!" as punishment for the planned production s...

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A conservative Texas suburb voted Tuesday to sever ties with a 500-bed immigration detention center that activists say is currently housing some mothers who don't know the whereabouts of their children. The outcome is a v...

EL PASO, Texas (AP) — They came from Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador, with children in tow. Some were fleeing violence. Others were looking for a better life. They didn't know they would be separated from their children after crossing the U...

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — The image of an immigrant child clinging to her mother has been removed from a mural near the Brown v. Board of Education National Historic site in Topeka. Michael Toombs, the artistic director overseeing the project, said "we a...