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PARIS (AP) — A boat that fuels itself is setting off around the world from Paris on a six-year journey that its designers hope will serves as a model for emissions-free energy networks of the future. Energy Observer will use its solar panels, wind t...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Twice rejected for U.S. visas, an all-girls robotics team from Afghanistan arrived in Washington early Saturday after an extraordinary, last-minute intervention by President Donald Trump. The six-girl team and their chaperone c...

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — When we last saw the Texas Legislature, raucous protesters opposing the new "sanctuary city" ban prompted officials to clear the House gallery and sparked a floor scuffle that ended with one lawmaker threatening to shoot another....

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) (THE CONVERSATION) “Take the stairs!” we’ve all been implored, to help maintain our health. But what if taking the stairs is painf...

LACEY TOWNSHIP, N.J. (AP) — Computer hackers, not content with mucking around with U.S. commerce and elections, have trained their sights on nuclear power plants, prompting questions about cyber security at Oyster Creek. Industry officials and f...

DURHAM, N.H. (AP) — Strawberry season in the Northeast usually lasts only four to six weeks, but New Hampshire researchers have figured out how to stretch the harvest form July to Thanksgiving. Researchers with the University of New Hampshire h...

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas has led the nation over the last 10 years in foreign purchases of its agricultural land, raising concerns about food security. Data obtained by the Midwest Center for Investigative Reporting found foreign companies and i...

RODEZ, France (AP) — Having scaled the Jura and Vosges mountains in the east and the Pyrenees in the south, the Tour de France winds into the Massif Central, the fourth of five ranges the race is riding through. The Alps are last, next week. Laissac-...

GRAND MARSH, Wis. (AP) — A Wisconsin company takes drone photos of agriculture land to help farmers improve their crops as part of a new wave of technology-based jobs in the agriculture sector. Joe Paul started the New Lisbon-based firm F...

BEULAH, N.D. (AP) — Drought in North Dakota is laying waste to fields of normally bountiful food and hay crops and searing pastures that typically would be home to multitudes of grazing cattle. Some longtime farmers and ranchers say it's the worst c...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) (THE CONVERSATION) When Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell released his new version of the Republican health care bill July 13, he r...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump has often said he doesn't want people "dying in the streets" for lack of health care. But in the United States, where chronic conditions are the major diseases, people decline slowly. Preventive care and r...

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — Descendants of hundreds of black men who were left untreated for syphilis during an infamous government study want a judge to give them any money remaining from a $9 million legal settlement over the program. The head of an o...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Two of the insurance industry's most powerful organizations say a crucial provision in the Senate Republican health care bill allowing the sale of bare-bones policies is "unworkable in any form," delivering a blow to party l...

NORTH ELBA, N.Y. (AP) — Students at a New York college are searching John Brown's Adirondack farm for artifacts linked to the 19th-century abolitionist. The State University of New York at Potsdam has been conducting an archaeology field school at t...

GREAT BEND, Kan. (AP) — A Washington attorney chosen to serve as President Donald Trump's special counsel to handle the White House's response to the Russia probes hails from Kansas. The White House announced Great Bend native Ty Cobb's hiring on S...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — A man who pleaded guilty to shooting and seriously wounding an Oklahoma police officer has been sentenced to 30 years in prison. The Oklahoman reports (http://bit.ly/2v39f7t ) that 27-year-old Cory Lee Hartsell of Midwest City p...

ADA, Okla. (AP) — Down a lonely road in rural Johnston County, there is a scenic view for as far as the eye can see. Plains and grasslands. Horses and cattle. It is rural Oklahoma at its finest here on this normally quiet, country road. But as one c...

PRAGUE, Okla. (AP) — Flathead catfish are the hardheaded, whiskered, muscle-bound, slick rulers of their watery domain, but one young Oklahoma family grows and thrives on showing Mr. Whiskers who really is the boss. Nathan Williams, 30, and his boys...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate delayed a highly anticipated vote this coming week to repeal and replace the nation's health care law after Sen. John McCain's announced absence due to surgery, an enormous setback as time dwindles for Republicans to p...

LONDON (AP) — After Roger Federer closed out a Wimbledon final that was more of a coronation than a contest with an ace, he sat in his changeover chair and wiped away tears. That is when it hit him: His wait for record-breaking No. 8 was over. U...

LONDON (AP) — British police have charged a teenager with a spate of London acid attacks, as authorities considered whether tougher sentences would curb a spike in assaults with corrosive liquids. The Metropolitan Police force said late Saturday t...

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Two cousins charged in a gruesome crime spree that ended with police unearthing the bodies of four young men buried on a family farm started off committing small crimes. But authorities don't know why the 20-year-old suspects e...

JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — Alaska legislators have voted to cut oil and gas drilling subsidies from the budget. The Juneau Empire reports (http://bit.ly/2tfVGEx ) the compromised proposal was approved late Saturday in an 18-0 vote in the Senate and a 3...