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CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Opposition leader Leopoldo Lopez was released from prison and placed under house arrest Saturday after more than three years in a military lockup, a shock reversal by the government that fueled hopes for a broader amnesty f...

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Al-Shabab extremists from neighboring Somalia beheaded nine civilians in an attack on a village in Kenya's southeast early Saturday, officials said, adding to growing concerns the Islamic militant group has taken up a bloody new...

TULSA, Okla. (AP) — An Oklahoma prosecutor said Saturday that he was shocked when a judge declared a mistrial in the case of a white former Tulsa police officer who fatally shot his daughter's black boyfriend because jurors had deliberated for o...

HAMBURG, Germany (AP) — President Donald Trump said Saturday the U.S. would contribute $50 million to a new World Bank fund conceived by his daughter that aims to help women entrepreneurs access capital and other support. Ivanka Trump joined World B...

BEIJING (AP) — American and German specialists saw imprisoned Chinese Nobel Peace Prize laureate Liu Xiaobo on Saturday and confirmed that he is in the final stages of terminal liver cancer, the hospital treating him said. China allowed the two d...

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — Amy Bernard and her brother kept their mother out of a nursing home as long as they could, until Parkinson's and dementia took their toll and she was seriously injured in a fall. Bernard is happy with her mother's nursing...

CINCINNATI (AP) — Amid protests and other local pressure, an Ohio prosecutor is pondering whether to try a third time to get a conviction of a former police officer in a racially charged fatal shooting case. Ray Tensing, a white man who at the t...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A South Carolina inmate broke out of a maximum-security prison using wire cutters apparently flown in by drone, officials said Friday, describing a new and devilishly hard-to-stop means of escape. Convicted kidnapper Jimmy C...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Hiring surged in June in a surprising show of U.S. economic vitality eight years into the recovery from the Great Recession. Pay gains remain weak, though, a stark reminder of one of the economy's key shortcomings. Employers a...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — A man accused of beating a former New Mexico high school student in 2008 — leaving her with minimal brain activity and partially blind and deaf — was linked to the crime through DNA evidence, court documents unsealed durin...

HOUSTON (AP) — Oil companies are shelling out more cash and signing long contracts for a limited supply of monster rigs that drill wells much faster than the older models that led the U.S. first shale boom. The Houston Chronicle reports some rig s...

WEATHERFORD, Texas (AP) — Experts say the mild Texas winter hampered this year's peach crop in parts of the state. The North Texas harvest appears to be bountiful, but growers in some other areas of the state faced challenges, the Fort Worth Star-Tel...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Oklahoma wheat farmers brought in about 100 million bushels of wheat this season, less than a year ago by more than what had been forecast. The Oklahoman reports (http://bit.ly/2uWeHrT ) the state's harvest started in s...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A lone female fungus-farming beetle inadvertently imported to Georgia may have been the source of a disease that has killed some 300 million redbay trees and threatens Florida's avocado groves, researchers from Mississippi and F...

SALEM, Ore. (AP) — At 4 a.m. on a Saturday morning in early June, three young women woke for an epic day. Melanie Atchison, Morgan Spear and Britney Norby spent an hour applying makeup and getting their matching outfits looking perfect because t...

MISSOULA, Mont. (AP) — It's not often that a business comes up with an idea that's good for the environment and saves money at the same time. But that's what Clearas Water Recovery, a Missoula tech company, believes it has done. Formed eight years a...

BUXTON, N.C. (AP) — The ground teems with evidence that John White's Lost Colony came here. A few shovelfuls of earth in a school yard or private driveway can uncover relics dating to the late 1500s, when English settlers landed on - and then m...

PITTSBURGH (AP) — Robots could grow your next salad inside an old steel mill on Pittsburgh's South Side. And the four co-founders of the robotic, indoor, vertical farming startup RoBotany could next tackle growing the potatoes for the french fries to...

AURORA, Colo. (AP) — It takes a real ass to stand up to a band of coyotes. And it takes two asses to keep the wild dogs at bay while simultaneously corralling some 130 roving eaters that have hundreds of acres of grassland to till. But such is the t...

THAXTON, Miss. (AP) — Every morning, without fail and no matter the weather, Jeremy Graham wakes up at 1:45. Before his neighbors, before most farm animals, before most of his friends and family in this small Pontotoc County community. He might h...

PITTSBURGH (AP) — While walking the corridors of the clinic, a visibly upset veterinarian takes Lori Harbert aside and confides that she must tell a longtime client that the client's dog has cancer and cannot be saved. Harbert, a social worker at t...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Seeing Amanda Fox give intravenous medication to ease the rapid heartbeat of a middle-aged man in the emergency department of Memorial Medical Center helped cement a Litchfield High School student's commitment to become a r...

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — The golfer spots a pond off in the distance. Or at least it looks like a pond. It'll have to do. Somewhere out there, 305 yards away, sits a pin tucked into a little cup. Dean Nielsen moves his face close to a course map, walks b...

VIENNA, W.Va. (AP) — American Independence Day aside, this past Tuesday marked the first day West Virginians could apply to the agriculture commissioner for a license to grow industrial hemp for commercial purposes, although several industry p...