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(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) (THE CONVERSATION) When will cars powered by gas-guzzling internal combustion engines become obsolete? Not as soon as it seems, even...

DENVER (AP) — The Trump administration asked three federal judges from the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Thursday to hold off on a decision regarding a major federal fracking rule implemented by the Obama administration. In March, Trump m...

HOUSTON (AP) — Wind farms on the Gulf Coast are becoming important contributors to wind energy in Texas. Although the generating capacity and wind speeds on the Gulf are lower than those on west Texas wind farms, Gulf wind is more reliable during p...

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Republican Gov. Sam Brownback said Thursday that he wishes Kansas had preserved part of an income tax break he championed as a boon for small businesses and defended the now-repealed policy that critics said did not work. Brownbac...

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — The economies of Nebraska, Iowa and South Dakota logged the worst performance in the U.S. in the beginning of 2017, with economic output declining in all three states, according to a report from a federal commerce bureau. Data f...

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Drought conditions worsened in several states over the past week from extreme heat and weeks with little rain, raising the prospect that grocery staples such as bread and beans could cost more as the region that produces t...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) (THE CONVERSATION) Editor’s note: The following is a roundup of archival stories about concussions, including advice on how to r...

KAILUA-KONA, Hawaii (AP) — Federal regulators have approved a Hawaii macadamia nut company's request to claim the nuts can help reduce the risk of coronary heart disease under certain circumstances. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration's approval co...

ST. LOUIS (AP) — Pat McGee noticed her daughter had not returned to the oral surgeon's waiting room shortly before her surgery was supposed to start. She walked to the nearest bathroom and found Jessica McDaniels, 32, outside the stall, crying. P...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump paints a rosy picture of an improved Department of Veterans Affairs under his watch where accessing electronic medical records is "so easy and so good" and health care is freely available without any d...

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran successfully launched its most advanced satellite-carrying rocket into space, the country's state media reported Thursday, in what is likely the most significant step yet for the launch vehicle. A confirmed launch of the "Sim...

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — Authorities in Florida say they arrested a man who robbed a bank, stripped naked and ran down the street throwing stolen money — a spectacle that he somehow thought would jump-start his career as a comedian. Instead, the...

SPRING HILL, Fla. (AP) — Mary Boone of Spring Hill, Florida, did not have a good night's sleep. Awakened by a loud bang around 3:30 a.m. Thursday, she looked outside and saw the driveway buckling under her car. She says she hurried out to move it, b...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) (THE CONVERSATION) If you want to understand President Donald Trump’s voter fraud commission, it helps to study what happened in K...

MANHATTAN, Kan. (AP) — A suspected serial rapist who remains on the loose after attacking 13 women in two Kansas college towns has been tied to another case, authorities announced Thursday. Police in Riley County and Lawrence said during a joint n...

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Jeff Colyer is preparing to become Kansas' next governor after nearly a decade helping fellow conservative Republicans shape health care policy by drawing on his background as a plastic surgeon who squeezed in medical relief missi...

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — For nine months Matt Bain has wandered a seeming endless labyrinth of blonde-colored stone. He's walked narrow rock ridges with vertical sides, and stared up at free-standing spires that rise more than 100 feet with tops only a...

MEDICINE LODGE, Kan. (AP) — Don Gerstner saw it as a sign from God. At age 87, he considered retiring from his carpentry trade. He thought about it a few times before, but the phone always kept ringing. So when his home and barn burned to the g...

SALINA, Kan. (AP) — Salinan Sean Fischer has adored cars "since I was old enough to say the word car," he said. His favorite type of car is the one that not everybody else has. That's why it's no surprise that he owns one of the rarest muscle cars e...

BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (AP) — Authorities say they are investigating whether the death of a couple's baby in California is related to the death of their older child in Kansas in 2015. Gage and Debra Roberts were charged with second-degree murder T...

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Closing homeless shelters and reports on homeless counts show that Wichita's homeless population is declining. The Wichita Eagle reports that data collected in the annual point-in-time homeless counts show chronic homeless in W...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Owners of an Oklahoma hotel and other businesses engaged in a human trafficking scheme that lured workers from the Philippines promising good wages but instead paid them less than the minimum wage, according to a lawsuit. T...

LONDON (AP) — Charlie Gard, the terminally ill British baby at the center of a legal and ethical battle that attracted the attention of Pope Francis and U.S. President Donald Trump, died Friday. He was one week shy of his first birthday. Charlie's pa...

PYONGYANG, North Korea (AP) — North Korea on Friday test-fired its second intercontinental ballistic missile, which flew longer and higher than the first according to its wary neighbors, leading analysts to conclude that a wide swath of the U.S., i...

WASHINGTON (AP) — John McCain seemed poised to be the savior of the GOP health bill when he returned to the Capitol despite a brain cancer diagnosis. He turned out to be the executioner. The longtime Arizona senator stunned pretty much everyone F...