(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) (THE CONVERSATION) Millions of Americans head outdoors in the summer, whether for a day at a nearby lake or a monthlong road trip. For...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The House has voted to repeal a tax on some medical devices that has helped finance President Barack Obama's health care overhaul. Revoking the 2.3 percent tax has been a longtime goal for Republicans and some Democrats from s...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is exaggerating the progress he's made on his campaign promise to provide veterans with quick medical treatment from private doctors if they're dissatisfied with Department of Veterans Affairs care. S...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — A medical marijuana trade group unveiled a sample bill it hopes Oklahoma lawmakers meeting this week will use as a starting point to create regulations for the cannabis market. New Health Solutions Oklahoma announced its model b...

TORONTO (AP) — Canadian investigators said Tuesday there was no link to "national security" in the mass shooting that killed two people and wounded 13 as they continued to probe the life of the 29-year-old gunman for clues to what prompted the r...

New research shows more promise for using AIDS treatment drugs as a prevention tool, to help keep uninfected people from catching HIV during sex with a partner who has the virus. There were no infections among gay men who used a two-drug combo pill...

TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — A new treatment for pain caused by endometriosis was approved Tuesday by U.S. regulators. The common condition involves abnormal tissue growth from the uterus that can cause severe pain and infertility. Drugmaker Abbvie said t...

U.S. newspapers are battered and broken, and this week's layoffs at the New York Daily News serve as the latest blow. But while local newsgathering has taken a hit, some observers think it's poised for a digital comeback. Media company Tronc Inc....

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Allowing inmates to stare at computer tablet screens for hours each day may be just the ticket for creating calm, orderly cellblocks, prison officials say. But tablets, growing in popularity in prisons nationwide, also can h...

WASHINGTON (AP) — One of the star products of President Donald Trump's Made in America showcase this year, NASA's Orion crew capsule, will ride through space thanks to Europe. With its four solar-array wings, the European Service Module supplies prop...

*WASHINGTON (AP) — The House speaker dismissed the actions of a U.S. president as merely "trolling." And the nation's attorney general knocked America's university students as a bunch of sensitive "snowflakes." These terms are hardly new. But P...

NEW YORK (AP) — Facebook is blocked in China but it's still setting up a subsidiary in the world's most populous country. The company says it wants to set up an "innovation hub" in Zhejiang to support Chinese developers, innovators and startups. I...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — It's being billed as a landmark ruling that could reshape New Mexico's education system and how it gets funded. Some advocates and policy experts say Native American students are among those who could benefit the most as t...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Now's the time to catch Mars in the night sky. Next week, the red planet is making its closest approach to Earth in 15 years. The two planets will be just 35.8 million miles (57.6 million kilometers) apart next Tuesday. A...

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Fire-lookout towers perched atop remote, craggy peaks across the U.S. West may seem like quaint reminders of an era before satellites, smartphones and jet-propelled air tankers. Indeed, some of the structures are more than 100 y...

NILES, Ohio (AP) — Police in Ohio say two men on a motorcycle, with the passenger holding a large, boxed fish tank, have been arrested after an officer passed them while responding to a pet store's report of a stolen aquarium. The Niles police F...

HERSHEY, Pa. (AP) — Heavy rain and flash flooding made it appear a river of chocolate was running through the middle of Hersheypark. The Pennsylvania amusement park reopened Tuesday after it and ZooAmerica closed due to flooding on Monday. Three d...

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — The butter sculpture at this year's Ohio State Fair brings a bit of Christmas in July with a dairy display of key elements from the 1983 film "A Christmas Story," which was partly filmed in Cleveland. In addition to the t...

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Before 14-year-old Guatemalan Samuel Cazun left a Kansas nonprofit to be reunited with his father, he gave staff members the sketches of their faces he had drawn to help them remember him. Of the dozens of migrant children h...

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Authorities say three men have been arrested in a double homicide in Topeka. The Topeka Capital-Journal reports that a 19- and 31-year-old were booked into the Shawnee County Jail on suspicion of two counts of first-degree m...

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Community members in a Wichita neighborhood attended a candlelight vigil this week on the birthday of a 2-year-old child who was beaten to death this spring. The Wichita Eagle reports that Anthony Bunn would have turned 3 on M...

SHAWNEE, Kan. (AP) — The FBI has opened a hate crime investigation into the stabbing death of a Kansas woman whose relatives allege the suspect is a white supremacist. Ronald Lee Kidwell, 47, is charged with second-degree murder in the slaying of 43-...

TULSA, Okla. (AP) — An Oklahoma judge has ordered four former Oklahoma high school football players accused of sexual assault to go to trial. A trial was ordered Tuesday after a preliminary hearing where Tulsa County Special Judge April Seibert r...

TULSA, Okla. (AP) — A judge on Tuesday postponed sentencing for a 19-year-old Oklahoma man convicted of fatally stabbing his parents and three siblings after the defendant addressed the court and prosecutors read a letter from the adoptive mother of...