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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Oil prices rose to a 10-day high Thursday after Saudi Arabia's state-owned oil company announced it was temporarily halting crude shipments through a strategic Red Sea shipping lane after Yemen's Shiite rebels attac...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Central Oklahoma residents won't get a trial this fall for a case against an oil company accused of triggering earthquakes that damaged homes and buildings. The Journal Record reports that a Cleveland County judge outlined r...

ST. LOUIS (AP) — Vandals damaged a St. Louis gas station where a black woman was allegedly kicked by two white employees during an altercation caught on video, prompting a tense standoff Thursday between police and protesters at the store. The Gas M...

LONDON (AP) — The British government says doctors will now be able to legally prescribe cannabis-based medicines, following criticism over the denial of medical treatment to severely epileptic children. Home Secretary Sajid Javid relaxed the rules T...

GENEVA (AP) — Ambassadors from the United States and China exchanged barbs at the World Trade Organization on Thursday over the countries' simmering trade dispute. The showdown between Dennis Shea and Zhang Xiangchen came at a WTO meeting in G...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is prematurely claiming he proved naysayers wrong in boosting U.S. economic growth. Speaking at events Thursday in Iowa and Illinois, Trump claimed victory in advance of Friday's government release of q...

MADRID (AP) — The leaders of France and Spain said they welcomed a trade truce between the United States and Europe called this week, but demanded action Thursday from their ally across the Atlantic to reduce tariffs and rejected negotiating a new t...

WASHINGTON (AP) — To the relief of many, the United States and Europe have agreed to avert a trade war over autos and to work toward removing other barriers to trade. Yet the truce reached Wednesday by President Donald Trump and European C...

CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas (AP) — A South Texas beef processor accused of failing to promptly pay for livestock must pay nearly $38 million to those sellers and abide by laws requiring next business-day payments. Sam Kane Beef Processors reached an a...

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KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — The Missouri county that includes Kansas City is the latest municipality to sue opioid makers, distributors and pharmacies over what it calls the "worst man-made epidemic in modern medical history." Jackson County alleges i...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Nearly 6 in 10 Hispanic adults have had a difficult time communicating with a health care provider because of a language or cultural barrier, and when they do they often turn to outside sources for help, according to a new study con...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) (THE CONVERSATION) Consider, for a moment, the paper cut. It happens suddenly and entirely unexpectedly, usually just as you are...

They look futuristic, the type of firearms that would-be assassins use in movies: 3D-printed guns made of a hard plastic that are simple to assemble, easy to conceal and tough to trace. The future is here. After spending years fighting the federal...

REDDING, Calif. (AP) — Even a lake didn't provide safe harbor from erratic California wildfires. With flames exploding around Whiskeytown Lake, an effort to save boats at a Northern California marina by untying them from moorings and pushing them t...

NEW YORK (AP) — In February 2017, weeks into the Trump administration, the National Endowment for the Humanities was reviewing a list of nominees for the National Humanities Medals, one of the top honors for creative and scholarly achievement. The pl...

NEW YORK (AP) — Can a machine that dispenses water for free also turn into a cash stream for Coca-Cola? The world's largest soda maker is testing a fountain that lets people fill reusable water bottles with free, filtered water — but also offers the...

Americans love technology, and we expect companies to deliver delightful digital experiences. Insurers aren't doing that — yet. So far, updates have been skin-deep. "If you go to a carrier's website, the look and feel is pretty good, but the f...

SALEM, Ore. (AP) — A dispute over acts of Congress in 1906 and 1937 has put the Trump administration in court — and into the unusual position of supporting a proclamation by former President Barack Obama. Contrary to President Donald Trump's num...

NEW YORK (AP) — More than a century after Albert Einstein proposed it, his theory of general relativity has passed another test. With giant telescopes pointed at the center of our galaxy, a team of European researchers observed a fast-moving star t...

TOKYO (AP) — Thirteen members of the Aum Shinrikyo doomsday cult were hanged this month for crimes committed in the 1990s, culminating in sarin nerve gas attack on the Tokyo subway that killed 13 people and sickened thousands. Some details about t...

LAS CRUCES, N.M. (AP) — Professors at New Mexico State University have received a grant worth nearly $1.5 million to study mosquitoes in the hopes of finding new ways to control their population. The National Institutes of Health is supporting the r...

PIERRE, S.D. (AP) — South Dakota's Supreme Court has rejected an appeal from a man who got a harsher prison sentence after he flipped the bird at the judge in his case. The high court on Wednesday upheld the sentence of 39-year-old Shawn Ross, who h...

NEW YORK (AP) — It's like AAA for horses. When one of the New York Police Department's horses loses a metal shoe, or they just wear out on the gritty city streets, a blacksmith shop on wheels rushes to the rescue, equipped with a 2,850-degree f...

COWETA, Okla. (AP) — The remains of a sailor from northwestern Oklahoma killed during the 1941 Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, have been identified and are being returned to his family. The American Graves Registration Service says DNA a...