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BANGKOK (AP) — Armed with machetes and rifles, a ragtag band of insurgents comprised of members of Myanmar's Muslim Rohingya minority launched unprecedented attacks last week, triggering fighting with security forces that has left more than 100 p...

BEIJING (AP) — Escalating efforts to repatriate one of the ruling Communist Party's most wanted exiles, Chinese police have opened an investigation on a new allegation, rape, against New York-based billionaire Guo Wengui, who has been releasing what...

BEIJING (AP) — A handful of Americans left Pyongyang on Thursday on a flight to Beijing, a day before the start of a U.S. ban on American citizens going to North Korea. Among those on the flight from the North Korean capital were aid workers who h...

MOSCOW (AP) — Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has warned U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson that potential new sanctions against North Korea would be "dangerous." Lavrov and Tillerson spoke by phone late Wednesday, several hours after U...

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Harvey's devastation is testing two Texas leaders whose personal styles are as divergent as their politics. Houston Democratic Mayor Sylvester Turner is a former longtime state lawmaker who made a career of impassioned d...

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Rylee Driscoll was a student at Rocky Mountain High School in Meridian when fellow students began harassing her online. It started with an old-fashioned rumor that she was "the rudest person ever." The criticism quickly blew up on...

GARDEN CITY, Kan. (AP) — Police say a 16-year-old was arrested at Garden City High School after he tried to grab a school resource officer's gun. Police Capt. Randy Ralston says the incident occurred Wednesday afternoon when school resources o...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — A black man suspected of fatally shooting five white men, all but one of them along south Kansas City hiking and biking trails, threatened three years ago to shoot up a school and "kill all white people," according to court r...

HOUSTON (AP) — What's left of Harvey is making its way into Kentucky and Tennessee, while rescuers are scouring Houston homes for anyone who didn't make it out of the floodwaters there. Here are some things happening on the ground: THE FORECAST It's...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — An energy company has been formally sentenced to a $4.2 million penalty in connection with a 2012 offshore oil platform fire that killed three workers. Houston-based Black Elk Energy agreed to the penalty in May and pleaded g...

DALLAS (AP) — Drivers lined up at gas pumps in parts of Texas Thursday as more stations ran out of gas and prices rose steeply in response to Hurricane Harvey's impact on Gulf Coast refineries. At least two major pipelines — one that ships gasoline a...

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper has signed executive orders to ensure gasoline gets in and through the state, and that motorists don't get ripped off at the pump. Cooper on Thursday signed an executive order declaring a state o...

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Protests are ratcheting up against Enbridge Energy's plan to replace its Line 3 crude oil pipeline from Canada to Wisconsin, and against a separate aging Enbridge pipeline under the waterway linking Michigan's upper and lower p...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The Trump administration illegally delayed an Obama-era rule intended to increase royalty payments to taxpayers from oil, gas and coal extraction on federal lands, a judge ruled. U.S. Magistrate Judge Elizabeth Laporte, h...

NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. stocks rose again Thursday as investors were pleased with a report that showed spending by U.S. consumers grew in July, along with wages and salaries. Health care and technology companies lead the way and the Nasdaq composite c...

VIENNA (AP) — The top U.N. official monitoring Iran's nuclear program on Thursday rejected Tehran's claim that its military sites were off-limits to inspection, saying his agency needs access to all "relevant locations" if suspicions arise of p...

The Houston that was battered by Hurricane Harvey is an economic powerhouse whose influence reaches far beyond its region, leading many to worry about when its economy be able to stand up again. Houston produces the plastic used in everything from...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Energy Secretary Rick Perry said Thursday he is releasing 500,000 barrels of crude oil from an emergency stockpile in a bid to prevent gasoline prices from spiking in the wake of disruptions caused by Harvey. Perry said he's a...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — A natural gas pipeline break in downtown Oklahoma City has resulted in the evacuation of six buildings, forcing an estimated 500 people to leave the area. Oklahoma City Fire Lt. Ray Lujan says a 6 inch, medium sized line was b...

COPPELL, Texas (AP) — Retail gasoline prices in Texas and across the country spiked by at least a dime following disastrous Hurricane Harvey. AAA Texas on Thursday reported the average price at the pump statewide was $2.26 per gallon. That's 12 c...

SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — New Mexico's state government is bracing for a financial hit from flooding in Texas as Houston-area oil and natural gas businesses likely struggle to make royalty and tax payments. State Land Commissioner Aubrey Dunn on W...

BERLIN (AP) — Former German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder is vowing to go ahead with a plan to join the board of directors of Russian oil giant Rosneft, a move that has drawn criticism ahead of his country's election. Schroeder was close to Russian P...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Relatives of a 7-year-old boy who suffered horrific abuse before being killed by his stepmother and father and fed to pigs have filed a lawsuit alleging social service workers in Kansas and Missouri knew the boy was being t...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — A former research executive who was sued by Oklahoma State University after being accused of fraud has been charged with making a false statement to secure a federally guaranteed bank loan. Daniel Keogh, 47, was charged Monday w...

MANHATTAN, Kan. (AP) — Research at the Kansas Wheat Innovation Center could revolutionize farming not just in Kansas but around the world. Scientists there use advanced breeding techniques to isolate sought-after qualities. Different than genetic m...