FORT BRAGG, N.C. (AP) — Several soldiers and a Navy SEAL testified Wednesday about the risky, all-out efforts to find Bowe Bergdahl after the soldier's 2009 disappearance in Afghanistan. Troops and commanders went without sleep. Shirts and socks d...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — All incoming flights to the United States will be subject to new security screening procedures before takeoff, including both American citizens and foreigners possibly facing security interviews from airline e...

WASHINGTON (AP) — An immigrant teen in federal custody who was seeking an abortion over the Trump administration's objections had the procedure Wednesday after a U.S. appeals court ruled in her favor, her lawyers said. The 17-year-old had fought f...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Some Americans could see a lot more drones flying around their communities as the result of a Trump administration test program to increase government and commercial use of the unmanned aircraft. President Donald Trump gave the g...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Scientists are altering a powerful gene-editing technology in hopes of one day fighting diseases without making permanent changes to people's DNA. The trick: Edit RNA instead, the messenger that carries a gene's instructions. "If yo...

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — Spurred by the chemical industry, President Donald Trump's administration is retreating from a congressionally mandated review of some of the most dangerous chemicals in public use: millions of tons of asbestos, flame r...

MOSCOW (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin hasn't said if he will stand for a fourth term. But with the election a little more than four months off, the presidential race is a mélange of hypotheticals with one conclusion: None of the po...

BANGKOK (AP) — U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis is visiting the Korean Peninsula at a momentous juncture in the faltering effort to persuade Pyongyang to halt and dismantle its nuclear weapons program. Ominous questions hang in the air. Is d...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House is welcoming a congressional measure killing the ability of millions of Americans to band together to sue bank or credit card companies to resolve financial disputes in a major win for Wall Street. The Senate narrowl...

BEIJING (AP) — Key members of China's Communist Party were determined at the national congress, which is held every five years and concluded this week. On Wednesday, members of the party's highest body, the Politburo Standing Committee were a...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. military believes someone in a Niger village may have tipped off attackers to the presence of U.S. commandos and Nigerien forces in the area, setting in motion the ambush that killed four Americans, a senior defense o...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Oklahoma House Democratic leader Scott Inman announced Wednesday he is dropping out of the governor's race and plans to resign from his House seat early next year, citing the strain of the campaign on his personal life. "The s...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Oklahoma City and Tulsa school districts are intervening in a lawsuit by the Oklahoma Public Charter School Association against the state Board of Education over inequities in funding. The Oklahoma City Public Schools has r...

TULSA, Okla. (AP) — A judge has removed a manslaughter case from a white former Oklahoma police officer's record after she asked to have it expunged. District Judge William LaFortune ruled Wednesday that all documents in former Tulsa officer Betty J...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — A Republican-backed plan to increase taxes on cigarettes, fuel and alcohol to help patch the budget and pay for teacher raises has been shot down in the Oklahoma House. House members voted 54-44 on Tuesday for the proposal, w...

WOODWARD, Okla. (AP) — The U.S Geological Survey reports three small earthquakes in Oklahoma. The two largest quakes each have a preliminary magnitude of 3.1. The first was recorded at 8:50 p.m. Tuesday near Woodward, about 150 miles (241 k...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The Oklahoma Supreme Court says a state law designed to deter the filing of frivolous medical malpractice lawsuits is unconstitutional. The Oklahoman reports that the Tuesday decision is the third time the court has struck d...

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Sexual harassment is "rampant" at the Kansas Statehouse, an ex-Democratic legislative leader's former chief of staff said Wednesday, adding that she once was asked for sex by a lawmaker. Abbie Hodgson, the former staffer, also s...

PRATT, Kan. (AP) — Two 20-year-old Missouri hunters have been sentenced to 60 days in county jail and ordered to pay $18,200 in fines for poaching deer in Kansas. Pratt County Attorney Tracey Beverlin said in a news release that Hunter Bottcher, o...

KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) — The federal public defender says the U.S. attorney's office in Kansas has violated court orders amid a court-appointed official's investigation into the recording of attorney-client meetings at the Leavenworth Detention C...

LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — A Lawrence activist who was banned from one building at the University of Kansas for making students and staff feel unsafe has been hired to teach students on another part of campus. Caleb Stephens was banned from the u...

LEAVENWORTH, Kan. (AP) — Leavenworth police say remains found last year have been identified as a man who has been missing since 2009. Police Chief Pat Kitchens said DNA evidence proved the skeleton was the remains of William Creech. Leavenworth p...

OLATHE, Kan. (AP) — Authorities say a former Kansas foster parent has been sentenced to more than 25 years in prison for sexually assaulting some of the children in his care. Forty-eight-year-old Sean Murphy, of Edgerton, was sentenced Wednesday f...

EUDORA, Kan. (AP) — An eastern Kansas man has been charged in a shooting at a bar that left one dead. The Lawrence Journal-World reports that 36-year-old Danny W. Queen of Eudora has been charged with one count of first-degree murder in the death o...

LENEXA, Kan. (AP) — Authorities say human remains have been found in a suburban Kansas City storage unit. Lenexa police said in a news release that the discovery was made Tuesday night as officers were checking on a report that people had been s...