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LONDON (AP) — The family of a young black man who died following a London police chase appealed for peace Saturday, a day after street protests over his death turned violent. Relatives held a vigil outside an east London police station for 2...

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran's elite Revolutionary Guard said Saturday a U.S. Navy aircraft carrier fired a warning shot in an "unprofessional" confrontation with Iranian vessels, the official IRNA news agency reported. IRNA quoted a statement from t...

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Despite four months of deadly protests and the threat of U.S. sanctions, Venezuela on Saturday found itself 24 hours away from a consolidation of government power that appeared certain to drag the OPEC nation deeper into a...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — A federal judge has blocked Arkansas from enforcing four new abortion restrictions, including a ban on a common second trimester procedure and a fetal remains law that opponents say would effectively require a partner's c...

LEWISTON-WOODVILLE, N.C. (AP) — Tucked away in northeastern North Carolina is Bertie County —a rural, primarily black community in one of the state's poorest areas with many of its fastest-shrinking towns. There are plenty of pothole-marked roa...

CHICAGO (AP) — Chicago now gives at-risk inmates the overdose-reversing drug naloxone upon their release from jail and Los Angeles is poised to follow suit, putting the antidote in as many hands as possible as part of a multifaceted approach to c...

PYONGYANG, North Korea (AP) — The Latest on North Korea's launch of its second intercontinental ballistic missile (all times local): 3:55 p.m. South Korea says it plans to hold talks with the United States on increasing the warhead limit for South K...

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea's rapidly accelerating nuclear weapons program is beginning to pose a grave challenge for liberal South Korean President Moon Jae-in, whose dovish proposals for engagement have been met by silence and two i...

KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) — A man convicted of fatally shooting his boss outside the University of Kansas Hospital in Kansas City, Kansas, has been ordered to spend life in prison. As part of his sentence Friday in Wyandotte County, 48-year-old W...

SANDISFIELD, Mass. (AP) — Twenty-two people have been arrested on trespassing charges during an ongoing protest at a natural gas pipeline project in western Massachusetts. State police say the demonstrators refused orders Saturday to leave a r...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — A New Mexico startup is betting on automakers to develop hydrogen cars and wants to provide material for them as nations and companies scramble to bring pollution-free vehicles to drivers. The Albuquerque-based Pajarito P...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Members of the Oklahoma House plan to return to the state Capitol for a series of mid-summer budget meetings where Republicans and Democrats will use different strategies to find a way to achieve a stable state budget. D...

DAYTON, Wash. (AP) — A proposed $184 million pulp mill in southeast Washington plans to take straw, a waste product from wheat and alfalfa farms, and convert it into pulp for paper and packaging products. Columbia Pulp says construction is e...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — A 115-year-old desert tortoise that disappeared from its garden at a New Mexico senior living community was returned. The Albuquerque Journal reports (http://bit.ly/2w9xGQb ) the tortoise, Diablo, was returned Friday to M...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) (THE CONVERSATION) What do a swollen sprained ankle and a new pregnancy have in common? Believe it or not, they’re both closely tied t...

NEW YORK (AP) — Police say a Manhattan couple apparently distraught over their finances jumped from the man's ninth-floor Madison Avenue office window and died. Fifty-three-year-old chiropractor Glenn Scarpelli and his wife Patricia Colant, 50, w...

The health care law of the land has survived for now, but it needs help — and it needs it soon. Soaring prices and fewer choices may greet customers when they return to the Affordable Care Act's insurance marketplaces this fall, in part because i...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Hall of Fame outfielder Lou Brock says he is free of cancer more than three months after the 78-year-old St. Louis Cardinals great announced he had been diagnosed with a type of blood cancer. Brock said in a statement F...

BALTIMORE (AP) — Ollie Matson was an Olympic sprinter, a Hall of Fame football player and a devout family man. After scoring 63 touchdowns during a stellar 14-year NFL career, Matson struggled in retirement before dying in 2011 at age 80 of d...

MIAMI (AP) — For Cookie Gilchrist, brain damage accumulated during a football career that took him directly from high school to the NFL in the 1960s. For his son Scott, the damage happened all at once when he fell 40 feet from scaffolding at his h...

Nearly a decade after Wally Hilgenberg's death, his widow can still hear his voice telling her he loves her, at the push of a button. It's programmed into a stuffed bear he gave her shortly before succumbing to ALS in 2008. That's how Mary...

UNDATED (AP) — "They're just bones, until we can figure out who lived in these bones," said George Leader as he stood next to the remains of an elderly woman, carefully arranged in anatomical order on a sheet of plywood. The professor from The Colleg...

HELENA, Mont. (AP) — A mental health survey shows Montana students are experiencing more mental health issues than ever before. The Independent Record (http://bit.ly/2tMMtiY ) reports the 2017 Montana Youth Risk Behavior Survey released Thursday s...

MEDFORD, Ore. (AP) — Medford resident Betsy Whispell was on her annual wind-surfing vacation on the Oregon Coast last year when a friend she hadn't seen in a year noticed that her face, hands and feet had grown abnormally large. "I was wearing a wets...

VANCOUVER, Wash. (AP) — Kelli Rowe tried Bikram yoga one time a few years ago. It wasn't an enjoyable experience, thanks largely to the man on a nearby mat whose stomach wasn't agreeing with exercise in a 105-degree room. Little did Rowe know that j...