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NEW YORK (AP) — When historians look back on the top films at the box office in the summer of 2020, they may feel like they've slipped into a time warp, or maybe "Back to the Future." Over the second weekend in July, "Empire Strikes Back" — 40 yea...

NEW YORK (AP) — Broadway seamstress Amy Micallef hasn't put her talent on hold while theaters are shut. She's been making plush toys — unusual plush toys. Micallef, who has worked in the wardrobe departments of "Hamilton," "Waitress" and "Frozen," ma...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A new documentary about the life and work of "Little House on the Prairie" author Laura Ingalls Wilder puts her novels' scattered racist references in historical context, the film's producers said. Wilder's work reflects the perspe...

NEW YORK (AP) — Oscar winner Matthew McConaughey didn't want to write an ordinary celebrity book. "This is not a traditional memoir, or an advice book, but rather a playbook based on adventures in my life," McConaughey, 50, said in a statement a...

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — Republican Gov. Chris Sununu is set to race a school bus against the head of state's lottery at a drag strip in New Hampshire this weekend. Sununu will battle New Hampshire Lottery Executive Director Charlie McIntyre Saturday n...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Two county jail escapees, including a murder suspect, have been arrested after breaking out of the Oklahoma County jail in Oklahoma City early Friday by using sheets tied together to climb down the outside of the building from a...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — There are a reported 747 new coronavirus cases in Oklahoma to push the total past 36,000 along with five more deaths due to COVID-19, the disease caused by the illness, the Oklahoma State Department of Health said Friday. The c...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — President Donald Trump is routinely distorting Democratic rival Joe Biden's policy on fracking as he tries to transform it into a full-scale "disaster" for election battlegrounds. Trump's latest iteration of his falsehood: T...

TAHLEQUAH, Okla. (AP) — The Cherokee Nation is welcoming 54 first-year medical students to to the nation's first tribally affiliated medical school. The Oklahoma State University College of Osteopathic Medicine at the Cherokee Nation planned a c...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — An Oklahoma appeals court has rejected a request for a new hearing by a death row inmate convicted in the 2012 burning death of a woman he had dated. The Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals on Thursday turned down the request b...

BELLE PLAINE, Kan. (AP) — A Kansas child welfare agency determined Friday that a 3-year-old girl whose battered body was found this month died as the result of child abuse, a belated finding that comes months after the agency first received reports o...

HOLTON, Kan. (AP) — Establishment Republican leaders are scrambling to pull out a win in a tense party battle for the nomination in the Kansas Senate race, and they won't be able to count on last-minute help from President Donald Trump. Trump has s...

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Officials in a college town in conservative western Kansas are embracing a mask ordinance in hopes of making residents and incoming students feel safe, even as surrounding communities have balked at such efforts to slow the s...

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — A California man has pleaded guilty to transporting 9 pounds of fentanyl and 8 pounds of heroin across Kansas on his way to delivering the drugs in New York. Mauricio Canas, of Bermuda Dunes, California, pleaded guilty T...

SCOTT CITY, Kan. (AP) — A western Kansas mayor who had rejected wearing masks during the coronavirus pandemic says he has tested positive for COVID-19. Scott City Mayor Everett Green said in a Facebook post it is possible he contracted the virus a...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Two U.S. astronauts about to make the first splashdown return in 45 years said Friday they'll have seasick bags ready to use if needed. SpaceX and NASA plan to bring Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken back Sunday afternoon in the...

NEW YORK (AP) — A Georgia overnight camp hit by a coronavirus outbreak took many precautions, but didn't make campers wear masks or have proper ventilation in buildings, according to a government report released Friday. The camp followed d...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Briony Horgan, Purdue University and Melissa Rice, Western Washington University (THE CONVERSATION) NASA just took the next giant leap...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Rhode Island mistakenly sent more than 175 tax refund checks signed by Walt Disney and Mickey Mouse, rather than the state treasurer and controller. The Rhode Island Division of Taxation uses the signatures on test files, w...

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Money laundering is not a good idea, as a South Korean found out when he or she put banknotes in a washing machine to remove possible traces of the coronavirus. Officials say the loss was considerable. The person living i...

WASHINGTON (AP) — As Joe Biden nears the announcement of his vice presidential choice, the top contenders and their advocates are making final appeals. The campaign hasn't finalized a date for naming a running mate, but three people who spoke on c...

SAN DIEGO (AP) — A military seafaring assault vehicle that sank off the coast of Southern California is under hundreds of feet of water, putting it beyond the reach of divers and complicating rescue efforts for eight missing troops, officials said F...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump's pattern is now familiar: He makes a stunning assertion, on Twitter or impromptu. The head scratching begins. Was he serious? Was he trying to distract from other negative news? Allies are left to shrug t...

A federal appeals court Friday threw out Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's death sentence in the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing, saying the judge who oversaw the case did not adequately screen jurors for potential biases. A three-judge panel of the 1st U.S. Circuit...

CLAYTON, Mo. (AP) — After a third review failed to uncover enough evidence to charge the officer who fatally shot Black 18-year-old Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, some prosecutors and civil rights leaders agree it's time to focus on changing t...