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Authorities review video of small-town Texas church attack

SUTHERLAND SPRINGS, Texas (AP) — Authorities have reviewed video from inside the small-town Texas church where a gunman killed more than two dozen people, including footage that shows the assailant shooting victims in the head during Sunday s...

 

Sheep can recognize Baaaa-rack Obama's face, new study shows

LONDON (AP) — A new study shows that sheep have the ability to recognize human faces from photographs on computer screens. The Cambridge University study published Wednesday also shows that sheep can recognize the faces of their human handlers w...

 

US tightens travel rules to Cuba, blacklists many businesses

WASHINGTON (AP) — Americans seeking to visit Cuba must navigate a complicated maze of travel, commerce and financial restrictions unveiled Wednesday by the Trump administration, part of a new policy to further isolate the island's communist g...

 

Boy with rare disease gets brand new skin with gene therapy

LONDON (AP) — Doctors treating a critically ill boy with a devastating skin disease used experimental gene therapy to create an entirely new skin for most of his body in a desperate attempt to save his life. Two years later, the doctors report the b...

 

Collusion question remains after first Mueller indictments

WASHINGTON (AP) — For months, commentators and officials describing special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into ties between the Trump campaign and Russia have used words such as "collusion" and "coordination" to summarize the complicated f...

 

Woman charged with murder warned against forced marriage

BASTI LASHARI, Pakistan (AP) — Aasia Bibi had warned her parents time and again that if they forced her to marry her cousin, a man she disliked, she would be capable of going to any length to exit the union. She was already in a relationship, she s...

 

Transgender woman wins Virginia House seat, making history

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — A transgender candidate defeated an incumbent Virginia lawmaker who sponsored a bill that would have restricted which bathrooms she could use. Democrat Danica Roem, a former journalist, is set to make history as the first openly...

 

Trump warns North Korea: 'Do not try us'

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — President Donald Trump delivered a sharp warning to North Korea Wednesday, telling the rogue nation: "Do not underestimate us. And do not try us." In a speech delivered hours after he aborted a visit to the heavily f...

 

A look at the winners and losers of the top US races

Democrats swept Virginia and New Jersey's governor's races, incumbents came out on top in several big-city mayoral races and voters in Maine said they wanted to join 31 other states in expanding Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act. A rundown of...

 

Oklahoma authorities investigate fire death case

LINDSAY, Okla. (AP) — Oklahoma authorities are investigating the death of a man who was hit by an officer's Taser and caught on fire after allegedly dousing himself with gasoline and taking out a lighter. McClain County Sheriff Don Hewett says t...

 
 By CLIFF BRUNT    Sports    November 9, 2017

Oklahoma QB Baker Mayfield tunes out Heisman talk

NORMAN, Okla. (AP) — Many pundits across the nation have declared Oklahoma quarterback Baker Mayfield the front-runner for the Heisman Trophy. It makes sense — he passed for a school-record 598 yards and tossed five touchdown passes in last wee...

 

Oklahoma commission approves plan for roads and bridges

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The Oklahoma Transportation Commission has approved a work plan that calls for repairing or replacing nearly 400 county bridges and improving hundreds of miles of county roads over the next five years. About $926 million in f...

 

Preliminary magnitude 3.7 earthquake in central Oklahoma

COVINGTON, Okla. (AP) — The U.S. Geological Survey reports an earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 3.7 has been recorded in central Oklahoma. The quake struck at 5:47 a.m. Wednesday near Covington, about 55 miles (89 kilometers) north of O...

 

President Trump approves Kansas disaster declaration

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — President Donald Trump has approved a disaster declaration for Johnson and Wyandotte counties for heavy damage from storms in late July. The declaration from the president orders federal assistance to supplement state and local r...

 

House approves bill to expand hydropower

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Republican-controlled House has approved a bill aimed at speeding up hydroelectric power projects in the U.S. The bill, sponsored by Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers of Washington state, would define hydropower as a renewable e...

 

Prosecutors scrutinize investor who served as Trump adviser

Federal prosecutors want to know more about efforts billionaire investor Carl Icahn may have made while he was an adviser to President Donald Trump to change the renewable fuel credits system that was costing one of his companies millions of...

 

Arkansas panel backs ban of controversial herbicide

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — An Arkansas regulatory panel has voted to ban the use of an herbicide for part of next year after the weed killer drew complaints from farmers across several states who say it has drifted onto their crops and caused w...

 

Morocco launches first spy satellite, gets strategic boost

MARRAKECH, Morocco (AP) — Morocco has launched its first observation satellite, to be used for military activities, surveillance of its borders and coastline and monitoring desertification in the region. The Mohammed VI-A satellite was launched W...

 

Loans aimed at power grid improvements in rural New Mexico

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Members of state's congressional delegation say more than $32 million in rural development loans will help increase access to affordable electricity in parts of eastern and northern New Mexico. The loans are being offered t...

 

Woman who threw girl, 5, in front of train deemed insane

MOUNT HOLLY, N.J. (AP) — A New Jersey woman who threw a 5-year-old girl in front of an approaching train in what she described as an attempted sacrifice has been found not guilty of attempted murder by reason of insanity. A judge made the ruling W...

 

In election glow, Dems see health care as a winning issue

WASHINGTON (AP) — Emboldened by election wins, Democrats are starting to see a political edge in health care, particularly widening Medicaid access for more low-income people. In Virginia, Democrat Ralph Northam promised a vigorous push as g...

 
 By THOM COLE    Regional    November 9, 2017

The 'feminization of gambling'

SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — Chris Danner, like a lot of slot machine players, started gambling to win money. Eventually, she played the slots to escape. When seated in front of a slot machine, Danner thought only of winning a big jackpot. She forgot a...

 

Ryan: Election losses pressure GOP to deliver on taxes

WASHINGTON (AP) — House Speaker Paul Ryan said the Republican drubbing in Tuesday night's elections "just puts more pressure on making sure we follow through" on the party's drive to overhaul the tax code. Ryan's comments Wednesday came as the House...

 

Arkansas got execution drug made by resistant manufacturer

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — One of the three drugs Arkansas planned to use in a lethal injection this week was made by a New York company that says it won't sell its products if it fears they'll be used in executions, court documents released W...

 

Polish government asks citizens to multiply like rabbits

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — The Polish government is encouraging citizens to go forth and multiply like rabbits. The health ministry of Poland, which has one of the lowest birth rates in Europe, has put out a short video praising rabbits for producing m...

 

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