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SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — New Mexico has made progress in reducing greenhouse gases and adapting to the effects of climate change, but work remains, state officials said. A state climate change task force released its second annual climate report Friday,...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Hundreds of new Oklahoma laws usually take effect every year, but this year there will be only about 60 because legislators were not able to meet as much due to the coronavirus pandemic. All new laws will become operative on S...

KALISPELL, Mont. (AP) — As the unpredictable nature of the coronavirus pandemic continues to affect every industry differently, sawlog prices in Montana are reaching record levels, said F.H. Stoltze Land and Resource Manager Paul McKenzie. "The p...

NEW YORK (AP) — Dunkin' doughnuts and coffee is being combined with Buffalo Wild Wings and Arby's sandwiches. Inspire Brands Inc. said Friday that it is acquiring Dunkin' Brands Group Inc. for $11.3 billion, including the Dunkin' Brands' debt that I...

MEDELLIN, Colombia (AP) — "Don't WORRY!" reads the cryptic note scribbled on a scrap of perforated paper smuggled out of a dank, basement cellblock. "Han Solo always wins!" The weeks-old message is all the family of Matthew Heath has to pin its h...

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (AP) — NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center is holding an online event to highlight the role of historically Black institutions in space missions. The virtual gathering will be held Tuesday to put a spotlight on the way h...

ST. GEORGE, Utah (AP) — Blake Wellard holds a middle-aged cactus in his hand, its long tendrilous roots dangling a foot and a half below the clod of desert dirt in which they are, purposefully, still enmeshed. The freelance botanist, as Wellard calls...

LONDON (AP) — Sean Connery, the charismatic Scottish actor who rose to international superstardom as the suave secret agent James Bond and then abandoned the role to carve out an Oscar-winning career in other rugged roles, has died. He was 90. C...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Actor Sacha Baron Cohen, who stars in "Borat Subsequent Moviefilm," donated $100,000 to the church of a woman who believed she was taking part in a documentary but instead was being featured in the mockumentary comedy film. J...

HOUSTON (AP) — As rapper Bun B finished his late-night set during a drive-in concert to promote eight 24-hour polling places in and around Houston, he urged fans to go out into the night — and early morning — to vote. "It feels good to see my peopl...

The Latest on Week 8 in the NFL (all times EST): ___ 2:20 p.m. The Miami Dolphins struck for two long touchdowns in a span of barely a minute against the Los Angeles Rams, and neither play involved Tua Tagovailoa. Andrew Van Ginkel scored on a...

DENVER (AP) — Shawn McWilliams held a gun inside a dark room at a new armory in Denver's historically Black Five Points neighborhood, explaining the importance of practice to a group of mostly new gun owners, all of them Black. "If you just got y...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — A man was fatally shot in northeastern Kansas City, Missouri, on Sunday. Kansas City Police Department Spokeswoman Officer Donna Drake said the shooting was reported near the intersection of Independence and Monroe avenues s...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Calvin Schermerhorn, Arizona State University (THE CONVERSATION) As a political battle over the Supreme Court's direction rages in...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Oklahoma health officials reported 1,349 new cases of COVID-19 Sunday and eight more deaths from the disease caused by the new coronavirus. That raised the state's totals to 124,111 case and 1,345 deaths since the outbreak s...

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Louisiana shoppers will see state sales taxes suspended for two days in November, under a bill passed by lawmakers in their latest special session and signed into law by Gov. John Bel Edwards. House Speaker Clay S...

CASPER, Wyo. (AP) — The morning of Sept. 17, as Scott Butler clambered over fallen log after fallen log and around dead trees as far as he could see, he thought about how only a fire could create the renewal long needed. The Savage Run Wilderness, ne...

DALLAS (AP) — The Texas Supreme Court on Sunday denied a Republican-led petition to toss nearly 127,000 ballots cast at drive-thru voting places in the Houston area. The state's all-Republican high court rejected the request from GOP activists and c...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. economy is expected to rebound from a disastrous spring. Paralyzed by the coronavirus, economic output collapsed at a 31.4% annual pace from April through June — the worst such plunge on records dating to 1947. Growth is...

SAN DIEGO (AP) — The head of the agency handling citizenship and visa applications was surprised when he faced blowback for cutting a reference to the U.S. being a "nation of immigrants" in its mission statement. The son of a Peruvian immigrant a...

What happens on election day will to some degree determine how much hotter and nastier the world's climate will likely get, experts say. The day after the presidential election, the United States formally leaves the 2015 Paris agreement to fight...

DETROIT (AP) — Low-income senior citizens in southeastern Michigan are receiving electronic tablets, digital training and tech-enabled health care services through a collaboration between the city of Detroit, businesses and nonprofits. The p...

ALBANY, Ga. (AP) — Southwest Georgia's largest city may invest in technology that detects gunshots and immediately alerts police. The police chief and city attorney of Albany have asked city commissioners to consider the potential gunshot d...

SAN ILDEFONSO PUEBLO, N.M. (AP) — The beginning of the end of one of the longest-running water rights cases is underway. But the end is still at least eight years away and some loose ends need to be tied, including securing funding to complete a $...

IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — It was a perfect morning for British royalty. Welsh corgis — Queen Elizabeth's favorite dog breed — and their part-corgi brethren romped Sunday through the damp grass of Hunter's Run park as their owners, bundled for the first...