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MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Lie, cheat or steal at Rhodes College, and the case could make its way to the student-run Honor Council. The group reviews infractions like cheating and plagiarizing and can levy a range of punishments, up to expulsion. In 1...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — After almost two years circling an ancient asteroid hundreds of millions of miles away, a NASA spacecraft this week will attempt to descend to the treacherous, boulder-packed surface and snatch a handful of rubble. The d...

Ever since Russian agents and other opportunists abused its platform in an attempt to manipulate the 2016 U.S. presidential election, Facebook has insisted — repeatedly — that it's learned its lesson and is no longer a conduit for mis...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Liam Neeson's thriller "Honest Thief" stole the top spot at the box office in yet another quiet weekend of moviegoing. The Open Roads Films movie brought in $3.7 million in its U.S. debut. The film, starring Neeson as a n...

MIAMI, Fla. (AP) — A Carnival Cruise Line ship rescued two dozen people, including two children, from a sinking boat 37 miles (about 60 kilometers) off the Florida coast, the cruise line reported Saturday. It was not immediately clear why the s...

WAVERLY, Iowa (AP) — Dale "Toons" Santoiemma finds his Great Danes "strangely hilarious." So do his nearly 22,000 followers on Facebook and about 8,000 Instagram fans. "It's a Dane Thing" -- that's what Santoiemma calls the daily Great D...

The biggest news in the latest Associated Press college football poll was what didn't change. Clemson remained No. 1 in the Top 25 on Sunday, overwhelmingly ahead of No. 2 Alabama. The Tigers received 54 first-place votes to the Crimson Tide's...

ADA, Okla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct 19, 2020-- Released today, the September 2020 LegalShield Law Index™, a suite of leading indicators of the economic and financial status of U.S. households and small business, saw its two main real estate indices r...

INDEPENDENCE, Kan. (AP) — Police have arrested a teen in the Friday deaths of two men in southwestern Kansas. The Kansas Bureau of Investigation and Independence police served an arrest warrant Sunday night at the Labette County Jail to James G...

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Leaders of a Topeka high school are considering how the community can respond to a report from its student newspaper that the man the school is named for was a prominent member of the Ku Klux Klan in the early 20th century. S...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The president of the Oklahoma State Medical Association is renewing the group's call for a statewide mask mandate as the number of people hospitalized due to the coronavirus has reached record levels. OSMA President George M...

TULSA, Okla. (AP) — Excavation work began Monday at two locations in a Tulsa cemetery for victims of a race massacre nearly 100 years ago that left hundreds dead and decimated an area that was once a cultural and economic mecca for African A...

TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — A new hand-dug tunnel has been found near the U.S. border in Nogales. Tucson Sector agents said the tunnel was discovered Saturday night by video surveillance. Agents located the tunnel's 2-feet-by-2-feet exit about a h...

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — A Lincoln company focused on fighting wildfires using drones has been awarded more than $1 million in federal and state grants, it announced. Drone Amplified has been awarded a National Science Foundation Small Business I...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Early voting began Monday in Arkansas for the November general election, and lines were reported at several locations around the state. Secretary of State John Thurston hasn't predicted how many of the state's 1.8 million r...

Stocks gave up some of their recent gains Monday as hopes faded on Wall Street that Washington will come through with badly needed aid for the economy before Election Day. The S&P 500 dropped 1.6%, its worst day in more than three weeks. The...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department announced charges Monday against Russian intelligence officers in a string of global cyberattacks that targeted a French presidential election, the Winter Olympics in South Korea and American businesses. T...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Pentagon has raised to $95.8 billion the estimated cost of fielding a new fleet of land-based nuclear missiles to replace the Minuteman 3 arsenal that has operated continuously for 50 years, officials said Monday. The e...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Elizabeth Cantwell, University of Arizona (THE CONVERSATION) Imagine parallel parking a 15-passenger van into just two to three parking...

PHOENIX (AP) — Sunbathers understand the benefits of applying sunscreen, but in America's hottest big city the same concept is being tested at street level in the hope of bringing some lasting relief from the relentless Arizona sun. A team from A...

NEW YORK (AP) — What has more letters than the alphabet? That's easy: The post office. That joke — sponsored by the letter A — is a highlight of the first original podcast from "Sesame Street," featuring music, interactive games and Muppets galore. "...

DANBURY, Conn. (AP) — Comedian John Oliver made a secret trip to Connecticut last week to help cut the ribbon on a sign naming a sewage treatment plant in his honor. Danbury's City Council voted earlier this month to rename the sewage plant "The J...