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BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — A Louisiana private investigator accused of trying to illegally obtain Donald Trump's tax returns before last year's U.S. presidential election has been arrested for violating conditions of his pretrial release, prosecutors sa...

PALO ALTO, Calif. (AP) — Google CEO Sundar Pichai has canceled an internal town hall meant to address gender discrimination after employee questions for management began to leak online. Pichai said in an email to staff that several Google e...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Message to President Donald Trump and congressional Republicans: Stop trying to scuttle the Obama health care law, and start trying to make it more effective. That's the resounding word from a national poll released Friday by the n...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Hard-line conservatives began an uphill fight Friday to force a fresh House vote this fall on erasing much of President Barack Obama's health care law without an immediate replacement, the latest instance of Republican rifts in w...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — A tiger cub who was rejected by her mother at the Philadelphia Zoo can be seen bonding with her adoptive mother and brothers in Oklahoma via live-streaming video. The Oklahoma City Zoo launched the "Tiger Cub Cam " Thursday, s...

Louisville says the NCAA "abused" its authority when it disciplined the school for a sex scandal that could result in the loss of its 2013 national basketball championship. The school also says in a 68-page appeal released Friday that the governing...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) (THE CONVERSATION) State and local lawmakers have put policies in place to address and prevent bullying. Many schools too have...

CASTLE ROCK, Colo. (AP) — A 17-year-old Colorado girl who pleaded guilty to plotting to shoot students and teachers at her school has been sentenced to five years in juvenile detention. Sienna Johnson was sentenced Friday after earlier pleading g...

SAN ANTONIO (AP) — An ex-high school English teacher in San Antonio accused of throwing lewd parties for boys must serve 10 years in prison after pleading guilty to child sex abuse-related counts. Prosecutors in San Antonio say Jared Anderson was s...

LAS VEGAS (AP) — More than half the country has a school choice program that enables families to use public money to send their children to private school. The programs vary by name, structure and eligibility requirements, but most are geared t...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) (THE CONVERSATION) Since the inauguration of Donald Trump, the news cycle has been dominated by stories of White House controversy: a...

DECATUR, Ala. (AP) — A judge says Alabama's law barring any school employee from having sex with any student is overbroad and unconstitutional. Morgan County Circuit Judge Glenn Thompson dismissed charges Thursday against 44-year-old Carrie Witt, a...

HOUSTON (AP) — The number of rigs exploring for oil and natural gas in the U.S. decreased by five this week to 949. A year ago, just 481 rigs were active. Houston oilfield services company Baker Hughes said Friday that 768 rigs sought oil and 181 e...

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — The FBI has raided a Catholic Worker House in Des Moines looking for property of two women accused of damaging an oil pipeline that crosses Iowa and three other states. The Des Moines Register reports that about 30 armed a...

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Asian stock markets slumped on Friday following overnight losses on Wall Street as U.S. President Donald Trump's bellicose remarks prompted investors to unload shares in companies that have been on the rise in recent m...

ULYSSES, Kan. (AP) — The vicar of the southwest sounds like the next Masterpiece Theater mystery. However, the title belongs to Mother Carolyn Ballinger - a real vicar - who went from being a clinical psychologist in Seattle to becoming an E...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Ryan Wash, a fiery debater from Kansas City's urban core whose unconventional style helped him win an unprecedented two national debating championships, is getting the big screen motion picture treatment. And, boy, do we m...

COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — Matt Little bought an old, motorized wheelchair online, detached it from its base, hooked it up to a remote controller and attached it to a lawn mower. Now, he has a remote control lawnmower. In his first test, the motor c...

OSAWATOMIE, Kan. (AP) — A slight echo carries your footfalls as you walk the aisles of what used to be Moon's grocery store. Some dry goods remain on the shelves, but most are bare. The coolers stand empty. No cars in the parking lot. The last g...

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Cattle grazing will continue at a south-central Idaho national monument known for its ancient lava flows following a challenge by an environmental group, federal officials announced this week. The U.S. Bureau of Land Management i...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Latest on a former U.S. Customs and Border Protection employee charged with sexually assaulting a woman at Los Angeles International Airport (all times local): 12:40 p.m. U.S. Customs and Border Protection says it will not t...

DALLAS (AP) — Drew Demler is digging in a box of dirt in the middle of Fair Park. The Dallas Morning News reports he is harvesting potatoes — big, small, misshapen, one that even looks like a snowman — in a hotter-than-deep-fried parking lot just...

BURLINGTON, Wis. (AP) — Downward dog meets jumping goat. Yoga classes are popping up across the nation that include the playful goats. At a recent class at Oak Hollow Acres farm in Burlington, Wisconsin, Bear Foot Yoga Healing instructor Megan M...

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — The Texas Legislature has approved requiring physicians and clinics to report complications from abortions performed statewide, and impose fines on those who don't. Final passage came Friday in the state Senate, sending the b...

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — The state Supreme Court, ruling in the case of a private school student who became ill and suffered brain damage on a trip to China, said on Friday that schools must warn and protect students from the risk of insect-borne d...