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COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — A European Union official says 40 countries now have been affected by a Europe-wide contaminated egg scandal, including 24 EU members and 16 non-members. Vytenis Andriukaitis, the official in charge of health and food s...

TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — A technology company will pay $3.5 million and change how it sells laptop computers as part of a settlement reached with federal officials and 32 states. The agreement with Lenovo announced Tuesday settles allegations that the f...

NEW YORK (AP) — Technology companies and executives of other industries criticized the Trump administration for its plan to undo protections for hundreds of thousands of young immigrants and called on Congress to help them. President Donald Trump s...

BERGER, Mo. (AP) — Thirteen million pounds of hazardous waste has been illegally stored in a building in an eastern Missouri flood plain for nearly four years, according to federal and state documents obtained by the St. Louis Post-Dispatch . The n...

PARIS (AP) — France is set to arm drones that are currently used exclusively for surveillance and intelligence, a first for the French military, the defense minister said Tuesday. Florence Parly said the decision will initially apply only to the s...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Digital maps that dodge traffic jams are saving time for millions of motorists, but they're also turning some neighborhood streets into headache-inducing escape routes from congested highways. The unsettling side effects of t...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Hurricane Irma, with its record strong winds, is lashing the Caribbean but where will it go from there? Forecasters turn to computer simulations to try to predict a storm's path and how strong it will be. Different computer models ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Two scientists who paved the way for widely used vaccines and another who discovered key players in cell growth have been awarded prestigious medical research awards. The Albert and Mary Lasker Foundation also announced Wednesday t...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Scientists assessing long-term efforts to eradicate invasive ants on the Channel Islands off the Southern California coast have enlisted a four-legged expert to make sure a project to kill off the destructive pests has s...

LISBON, Portugal (AP) — Two international institutions with long records of fighting blindness are sharing a €1 million ($1.2 million) eyesight prize from a Portuguese foundation. The Lisbon, Portugal-based Champalimaud Foundation's annual Vis...

LITITZ, Pa. (AP) — Police officers in a small Pennsylvania town are evidently afraid of a certain homicidal clown. The Lititz police department on Tuesday posted photos of red balloons a prankster tied to a pair of sewer grates. A red balloon is t...

BELFAST, Maine (AP) — A group of Mainers says Passy Pete the Lobster has predicted six more weeks of summer at an annual ceremony. The crustacean has been fished out of the Passagassawakeag River for the past three years in a tradition modeled a...

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — A boy whose body was found encased in concrete in a Wichita rental home is believed to be the son of a woman named in an order seeking to protect him from abuse, police said Tuesday. Wichita police Lt. Jeff Gilmore told r...

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach says a delayed end to a program protecting young immigrants brought to the U.S. illegally as children is still a "good day for the rule of law." The Wichita Eagle reported Kobach's comment i...

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Republican candidate Jim Barnett says he'll pursue a regional approach to economic development that relies on help from local leaders if he's elected governor next year. Barnett had a news conference Tuesday in Topeka to o...

MANHATTAN, Kan. (AP) — The nation's most efficient passer during the first true weekend of the college football season was not Heisman Trophy winner Lamar Jackson, top NFL prospects Sam Darnold and Josh Rosen, or even one of the highly touted quarter...

LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — Police have arrested a suspect in a deadly shooting at a Lawrence motel. The Lawrence Journal-World reports that the 19-year-old is in custody in Kansas City after being treated at hospital for a gunshot wound. The shooting h...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The Roman Catholic Church's beatification of an Oklahoma priest killed during a mission in Guatemala more than three decades ago will be broadcast live on the Global Catholic Network. The Rev. Stanley Rother is scheduled to be b...

TULSA, Okla. (AP) — Police arrested a 40-year-old man on a murder complaint in connection with two hit-and-run crashes that investigators believe targeted homeless people in Tulsa. Jeremy Thacker was arrested Tuesday on complaints of first-degree m...

NORMAN, Okla. (AP) — Oklahoma tight end Mark Andrews' mere presence on the field is creating problems for the opponent. At 6-foot-5 and 254 pounds, the two-time All-Big 12 selection is coming off career highs of seven catches and 134 yards in last S...

WARR ACRES, Okla. (AP) — Authorities say two people are dead in a suspected murder-suicide in central Oklahoma. Police in the Oklahoma City suburb of Warr Acres say a man was found fatally shot at an apartment complex on Monday night. Police say l...