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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Gunfire erupted as Iranian security forces confronted protesters early Sunday amid demonstrations over water scarcity in the country's south, violence that authorities said wounded at least 11 people, mostly p...

HOBBS, N.M. (AP) — A New Mexico city in the heart of the state's booming oil and gas country has approved tens of thousands of dollars of incentives to help subsidize the development of more single-family homes. The Hobbs News-Sun reports the city c...

TONGANOXIE, Kan. (AP) — A city in eastern Kansas is still seeing political changes after plans for a massive chicken processing plant caused uproar last year. The $300 million Tyson project planned for the outskirts of Tonganoxie was canceled a...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — State and federal agencies have formed a new task force that's focused on crimes related to the opioid epidemic in Oklahoma. Oklahoma City television station KWTV reports the newly-formed Western Oklahoma Opioid Enforcement T...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The government's top health official could barely conceal his discomfort. As Health and Human Services secretary, Alex Azar was responsible for caring for migrant children taken from their parents at the border. Now a Democratic s...

COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — While opioid related deaths continue to increase in Missouri, the growth rate is slowing down, according to a new report. The Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services found that there was a 4.7 percent increase in o...

BLUEFIELD, W.Va. (AP) — Dr. Patrice Harris is a Bluefield native, a West Virginia University graduate, and she is now the first African-American woman elected as president of the American Medical Association. Harris will become the 174th president o...

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexicans were voting Sunday in a potentially transformative election that could put in power a firebrand vowing to end politics and business as usual in a country weary of spiraling violence and scandal-plagued politicians. F...

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Some innovative solar cars will be in Omaha in July for the start of a 1,700-mile race to Oregon. This year's American Solar Challenge will begin in Omaha on July 14 and head west along parts of the Oregon Trail. Teams of c...

SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — A bark beetle epidemic wiped out swaths of pinon trees around Santa Fe more than a decade ago, and now new research predicts that warming winters could spell more trouble. The Santa Fe New Mexican reports scientists at Los A...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Tuition will increase at 21 of Oklahoma's 25 higher education institutions. The Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education on Thursday approved tuition and fees for each of the state's colleges and universities. Only the U...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — An international credit rating service says an Oklahoma Supreme Court decision that voided an initiative petition to overturn tax hikes to fund public education is "credit positive" for the state's school districts. The high c...

LAWTON, Okla. (AP) — Futsal is not a sport most Americans are even familiar with. However, one Lawton man is trying to change that, in Southwest Oklahoma at least. Mark E. Brown is the president of the Oklahoma Futsal Association and the S...

LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — The University of Kansas Natural History Museum is celebrating the 125th anniversary of a panorama with special exhibits and programs. The wildlife panorama includes a painted backdrop and 121 taxidermy animals native to N...

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — A man who had been asked to leave an Idaho apartment complex because of bad behavior returned the next day and stabbed nine people, including six children, at a toddler's birthday party, police said. Timmy Kinner showed up late S...

OTTAWA, Ontario (AP) — Canada began imposing tariffs Sunday on $12.6 billion in U.S. goods as retaliation for the Trump administration's new taxes on steel and aluminum imported to the United States. Some U.S. products, mostly steel and iron, face 2...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States has a plan that would lead to the dismantling of North Korea's nuclear weapons and ballistic missile programs in a year, President Donald Trump's national security adviser said Sunday, although U.S. intelligence r...

PITTSBURGH (AP) — The day after Antwon Rose Jr. was shot through the cheek and elbow and in the back, killing the 17-year-old honors student, young black people swarmed the East Pittsburgh police station. Over the next several days, outraged p...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Ready or not, change is coming to the House Democrats. Across the country, a new generation is making its way to Washington. It's not just that some of the Democrats, like 28-year-old Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, are young and p...

BERKELEY HEIGHTS, N.J. (AP) — President Donald Trump intends to delay signing a revised version of the North American Free Trade Agreement until after the fall midterm elections, a move aimed at reaching a better deal with Canada and Mexico. Trump s...

PARIS (AP) — A notorious French criminal serving 25 years for murder made an audacious escape from prison Sunday after several heavily armed men landed a helicopter in a courtyard, freed him from a visiting room and carried him away. It was the s...

NEW DELHI (AP) — Police in India's capital said they found 11 bodies at a home under mysterious circumstances on Sunday, including 10 that were blindfolded and hanging. The victims were all from the same family and most had lived in the home where t...

MAE SAI, Thailand (AP) — Rescue divers cleared a key hurdle Sunday in the increasingly desperate search for 12 boys and their soccer coach who went missing in a cave in northern Thailand more than a week ago, officials said. A team led by Thai n...